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Not only did St. Louis morning commuters have to deal with snow, several other things fell onto the roads as well.
A ladder somewhere in South City, a mattress on 367, and a 5 foot by 5 foot snow boulder in left lane on 364 at 94.
Mattresses 127
Ladders 99
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The long promised University City trolley finally made a test run yesterday and wouldn't you just know, hit the mirror of a vehicle parked on Delmar. After that incident, the official word went out that if you are going to park on Delmar, you must follow these rules:
"In order for the system to perform safely and effectively for its passengers and to avoid negative traffic conditions, vehicles parking on Delmar Boulevard should park firmly against the curb with all parts of the vehicle (including mirrors) within the striped parking lanes."
Firmly against the curb....There will be a lot of people getting out of their cars after parking and taking a look to see if the car and mirror are securely inside the lanes and firmly against the curb. If not, then back in the car to try again.
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A recliner fell onto the center lane of 255 on the Illinois side this morning. I can't imagine how this could happen and how awful it must have been to be driving along and suddenly come across it. And, who's job is it to go into traffic and move the thing.
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Today has been sunny and quite warm. Lots more people out walking or sitting on the sand.
One of the shoreline things we come across all the time when we're out walking is gelatinous masses which look awful. Squiggly gelatin lumps in circular forms, often with the red design inside. We do not want to step on any of them. We had no idea what they were and finally asked a more veteran Gulf Shores person. He told us they were dead jellyfish.
Ugh.
What caught my eye when we walked down the beach to the public pier was all the signs indicating what you cannot do. Sort of like we've had to do at the seminary.
And you know what? Everyone obeys these signs, unlike seminary bikers and dog walkers.
This public pier is massive, most likely hurricane reinforced in recent years.
Later this afternoon we're going to climb the pier and walk to the end.
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We're on day 3 of our time in Gulf Shores. The sun has almost never made an appearance, but it really hasn't mattered. The dark skies, white caps, mild temperatures are all just as good.
Yesterday this view from our balcony was purple sky.
This morning fog
As per his habit, Dale can't make it through a day without studying something.
We went to Lulu's, a local favorite for dinner last night, fun talking with people at other tables, all of whom are visiting from other parts of the country. The food was plentiful to say the least.
One gorgeous sunset.
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MoDOT announced this morning that they have opened a third lane on the Poplar as well as the northbound Route 3 ramp to westbound 64 to the Poplar. This should help even though they're still working. Looking at my KMOV traffic app on Live Traffic I can see the westbound traffic headed to the Poplar is heavy but better than it has been while the traffic heading to the Musial is heavy. This could mean the bridge news did not get to most commuters this morning.
I'm still taking bets that as soon as MoDOT finally finishes their bridge work, IDOT will decide to start closing lanes on the east end to resurface or something else. It never ends there.
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Two stories on the hazards on the roads popped up this morning.
"FedEx truck caught on video speeding through St. Peter's neighborhood." There is a photo attached to the story which does look like that FedEX van is going pretty fast. But this doesn't surprise me after any number of experiences on the road with FedEX trucks and deliveries. I even posted about them a few weeks ago.
The second:
"Giant industrial spool rolls down highway as cars try to dodge it." The photos in this story are pretty scary, but the frustrating part of this is how poorly written it is. For instance, "Commuters trekking home on Interstate 10 in Texas Thursday night encountered a rather unusual sight — a large industrial spool barreling down the highway." Thursday night it says, commuters going home. But then the next few lines say: "The loose spool was spotted by drivers in Houston around 11:30 a.m. near Wayside according to the Houston Chronical."
So which was it? Night time or late morning? It seems it was late morning as a later posting by TxDOT at 1:23 said:
"Heavy truck incident on I-10 East Freeway WB at Wayside has moved. The spool has been loaded on flatbed truck. Mainlanes open but traffic moving slowly in the area."
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In the last 24 hours two ladders fell on St. Louis roadways
Mattresses 118
Ladders 91
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Southbound 55 at Richardson Road, a mattress
Mattresses 118
Ladders 89
I saw a story recently about a driver who caught a sheet of plywood which fell off a truck in front of him and struck his car squarely in the windshield. Horrifying. Miraculously the driver wasn't injured. Picture at the link. Be careful while on the roads near people with stuff strapped to their vehicle. You just never know.
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