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i forgot to mention this but last sunday when i drove across new york state I saw eight red-tailed hawks, including two that nearly hit cars in front of me. I also saw something FUCKING ENORMOUS gliding in across the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge bit where the Thruway goes through it– I don’t want to say it was definitely a fucking eagle? but it was definitely a fucking eagle.
Driving back across new york state today, I saw zero red-tailed hawks, but holy shit, the police. The highway’s turn-arounds were studded with staties* like the girls’ toddler section at Target is studded with rhinestones, it was unreal.
Also for only maybe the second time I can remember, the signs that say “TRAFFIC UPDATE WHEN FLASHING” were flashing, and I turned my radio to 1610 AM, which took some doing (when is the last time you used your AM band? Same) and there was a backup ahead, but I real quick poked Google Maps and it said it was still faster to stay on the Thruway than any other route, so I toughed it out. And in fact there was a slowdown, stop-and-go for like, three minutes, but it was at that point all just rubbernecking.
Because in the center median there was an entire semi, tractor and trailer both, lying on its side, facing backward toward oncoming traffic. Also, dusted with snow on the upper side. Which makes me wonder how goddamn long the thing had been sitting there, and also how it got there.
I used voice recognition to text my dude, and told him of the traffic delay, summing it up as “Tractor trailer, past tense”, which amazingly, he understood.
(Not nearly as dramatic as the time I crawled through stop-and-go traffic until I came upon the charred skeleton of a former tractor, with the trailer unhitched and clearly physically shoved backward about fifteen feet, to spare the cargo.)
i forgot to mention this but last sunday when i drove across new york state I saw eight red-tailed hawks, including two that nearly hit cars in front of me. I also saw something FUCKING ENORMOUS gliding in across the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge bit where the Thruway goes through it– I don’t want to say it was definitely a fucking eagle? but it was definitely a fucking eagle.
Driving back across new york state today, I saw zero red-tailed hawks, but holy shit, the police. The highway’s turn-arounds were studded with staties* like the girls’ toddler section at Target is studded with rhinestones, it was unreal.
Also for only maybe the second time I can remember, the signs that say “TRAFFIC UPDATE WHEN FLASHING” were flashing, and I turned my radio to 1610 AM, which took some doing (when is the last time you used your AM band? Same) and there was a backup ahead, but I real quick poked Google Maps and it said it was still faster to stay on the Thruway than any other route, so I toughed it out. And in fact there was a slowdown, stop-and-go for like, three minutes, but it was at that point all just rubbernecking.
Because in the center median there was an entire semi, tractor and trailer both, lying on its side, facing backward toward oncoming traffic. Also, dusted with snow on the upper side. Which makes me wonder how goddamn long the thing had been sitting there, and also how it got there.
I used voice recognition to text my dude, and told him of the traffic delay, summing it up as “Tractor trailer, past tense”, which amazingly, he understood.
(Not nearly as dramatic as the time I crawled through stop-and-go traffic until I came upon the charred skeleton of a former tractor, with the trailer unhitched and clearly physically shoved backward about fifteen feet, to spare the cargo.)
