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Tally up

Mattresses 103

Ladders 100

One of each has fallen in the past 12 hours

Week's tally start

We've had a jump in mattresses and ladders falling onto local highways since I last posted. The last report was mattresses 97 and ladders 93. Now it stands at:

Mattresses 100

Ladders 98

WHOOPS  A new ladder on the middle lane 44 at Antire.

Mattresses 100

Ladders 99

New week, new tally 2019

Near Wentzville on I-70 EB a mattress on the road. And, over the weekend, a bent up ladder on 364 at Highway K in O'Fallon.

Mattresses 97

Ladders 93

Tally

It's been hard to concentrate recently so I've been off my game paying attention to things. So here is a catch up on the tally.

Mattresses 96

Ladders 92

Big tally jump

Mattresses 94

Ladders 86

Regulations I'd get behind

This morning traffic was jammed up on 55/70 westbound in the Collinsville area for 3 miles because a tractor trailer jackknifed. Some of the local news video of this showed it was between 159 and 157.

This is at least the third overturned semi in the St. Louis area this week. One overturned on the ramp to the Poplar Street Bridge from 55. Another overturned, caught fire and dumped 1000's of pounds of melting chocolate onto the road   I know I am going to repeat myself today, but these trucks will continue to have this happen on the highways because they are just too big. They are too long, too high, and too wide and anyone who is behind or on the side of one of them has to know this is true.

It's tricky at best for trucks this big to maneuver sharp curves or sudden stoppages. Why with all the regulations we have for every product on the market can't we regulate these enormous trucks to a smaller, more manageable size? I mean, seriously, if we have regulations on how laundry soap is packaged for safety, why not these semi's?

Tally going up

A ladder this morning at 44 and Hampton and a mattress at 44 and 141 and yesterday afternoon another ladder at 270 and Zumbehl

Mattresses 88

Ladders 84

Can hardly keep up with the tally

We are now up to:

Mattresses 86

Ladders 82

Update: Another mattress this morning on ramp from Big Bend to 270. That makes it Mattresses 87 Ladders 82

It's happening more often than I can keep up with day by day. This morning a ladder on 70 WB at 170

Last evening's rush our saw a ladder on 70 WB near Cave Springs

Another thing can I say, amusing? maybe not, is a washing machine this morning on 370 WB near New Town.

Current tally

It's getting hard to keep up with the falling mattresses and ladders

Now it's

Mattresses 84

Ladders 78

A mattress storm

It might not be rain, but it is raining this morning. The past ten days have seen 5 mattresses and 5 ladders fall on local highways. Best guess as to why? There is lots of work being done in construction and pickup trucks are driving from place to place with ladders some of which have been too hurridly secured. And, college people are moving in bringing mattresses to their off campus housing.

Mattresses 81

Ladders 77