Posted September 1, 200618 yr Digging through my archives, looking for something else, I got reminded of this: It happened about 6 a.m. on a July Friday morning in 1983, just across the street from my house. I was accustomed to hearing wrecks on the curve, usually the sound of brakes and skidding, followed by a loud "wham!" and sometimes screaming as someone hit a tree in the park or on the riverbank at high speed. Those usually happened around closing time on weekends. This time, it was just a strange thump-thump-thump followed by silence. By the time I got to the window, a couple of drivers had stopped, and the truck driver was reaching the top of the riverbank, looking like a drowned rat. I think he must have gone to sleep and driven straight off the curve and down the steep bank into the river, and the noise was the tractor mowing off trees on the way down. The truck was hauling some sort of caustic cleaning compound deemed hazardous, and it took a couple of days for the hazmat crew to remove the cargo and then fish the truck out of the river.
September 1, 200618 yr Very cool...you need to dig through your archives more often! I love the stuff you find!
September 2, 200618 yr Very cool...you need to dig through your archives more often! I love the stuff you find! The digging continues. I've been invited to take part in the art show/sale that's part of next weekend's West Central historic home tour, and I'm trying to come up with some stuff of local interest. For the next few days I have to stay focused (pun intended) on cranking out a bunch of prints and preparing a display, and after that I'll start putting up some oldies-but-goodies on my web site and posting them to the forums.
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