Fiery Crash Collapses California Freeway

[Capt Jack]

much better to be reading it from there than experiencing it first hand I would think.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Mousey Girl

I have a feeling the driver is going to be hurting for a while. They are saying now that he was going faster than the posted speed limit.

Every driver in NoCal exceeds the speed limit. And if you don't join them, they get all pissy at you. I remember when the 580/680 interchange was mid-construction back in the 90's, and there was this one spot where the road did an S-curve while dipping down to go beneath an underpass. If you didn't take that bit at the same speed as you had the previous straight stretches, you were an impediment to the rest of the traffic. (Scared me to death, I'll tell you, and I impeded traffic many times there!)

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Every driver in NoCal exceeds the speed limit. And if you don't join them, they get all pissy at you.

Northern California does NOT have an exclusive on this - you see it all the time in Southern California.

And on the I-5 in the middle of the night too.

[Capt Jack]

one would think that a reasonable exception to this 'nothing exceeds like excess' rule would be the one whose a$$ is on the line driving around with 10,000 gallons of explosives a mere foot or two behind him.

aparrently not.

[Alex]

Yeah, but when you drive 10,000 gallons around every day, five days a week, 50 weeks a year, you probably get over that "oh my god" feeling after a while.

[NirvanaMan]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

What I want to know is how the hell you get a cab driver to pick you up in West Oakland at 4 in the morning with a giant fireball in the background.

Cross-dress. Go ahead and try it. Be sure to show a little leg. Them cabbies love that sorta thing.

[NirvanaMan]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I've sine it a billion times and I'm not a local *shrug*

I think it was even in an Alpine or Magnavox commercial a number of years back.

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I've sine it a billion times and I'm not a local *shrug*

But did you cosine it? That's what I want to know.

Me, I'm working on a tangent.

[CoasterMatt]

I just want to say for the record, I was nowhere near that bridge at the time of the accident, and damn - I missed a 200ft. tall FIREBALL!?!?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

I just want to say for the record, I was nowhere near that bridge at the time of the accident, and damn - I missed a 200ft. tall FIREBALL!?!?

My thoughts exactly