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On a lighter note

Two ladders fell off two different vehicles on two separate St. Louis highways this morning.

Mattresses 26

Ladders 18

They're still falling

No virus shut down is going to stop people from attaching a ladder or mattress to their cars or trucks. Update:

Mattresses 26

Ladders 16

The jump in mattresses may have something to do with college students leaving town.

A day when just a mattress or ladder seems bearable

Lots of things fall off vehicles, especially mattresses and ladders, but we occasionally see a lone garbage bag flying off a truck and into traffic, a lone dresser on the shoulder and on and on. But yesterday was the piece d' resistance in road fall. A semi overturned in the eastbound lanes of 64/40 right under the overpass downtown. It as a mess to clean up since the soybeans got coupled with diesel fuel.

It took hours to get it cleaned up and instead of grousing about how drivers (especially big trucks) drive around the curves in and out of downtown, I have to mention how surprised I was to see the tv news close-ups of the soybeans. It may have been the camera angle, but each individual soybean showed in the video and they looked huge, if not golf ball sized, at least as big as marbles.

I never knew soybeans were rather big.

They keep falling

Mattresses 22

Ladders 11

Seems more people seem to think driving with mattresses unsecured is going to work.

20 and over, get pulled over

Now this new speed enforcement effort is one for the books. Police have begun an effort to cut down on speeders on 270 mainly because of a coming road work project. They want drivers to get used to the idea of slowing down in the work zones.

Here's the weird part of all this though. They will put most of their efforts into stopping people doing 20 miles over the speed limit. If you're going over 80mph you'll be stopped. If you ever drive on 270 or even 170 on the Missouri side you know cars are flying. So they want to slow people down and will still allow you do go 80?!

Get clocked at 81 and you'll be stopped. Isn't 80 much too fast in a 60mph zone? This seems out of whack to me.

Gloomy Tuesday

Mattresses 20

Ladders 11

Catching up on the tally

I got behind recently in adding to the tally of mattresses and ladders which fall on St. Louis highways.

Mattresses 19

Ladders 9

I have no idea why mattresses are falling so frequently at this point in the year.

Well, it's Monday...

Mattresses 14

Ladders 5

A new item hits the road

On Wednesday, yesterday:

Mattresses 12

Ladders 5

Also yesterday a sewing machine in the road on Jamieson

And, that 5th ladder was the first ladder sighting in 19 days.

Now people are dumping mattresses

A traffic update this morning. Five mattresses were seen along one of the roads in North County. There was some thought that these may not just have fallen off a truck, but were dumped. Who knows? But the new tally now stands at:

Mattresses 10

Ladders 3