The Visitors Bureau will hate me for this, but I gotta dispel the notion that Hawai’i is nothing but surf and sand.
Photo by Ryan Ozawa
Yesterday about 2:00pm a nitwit driving a trailer with an excavator on board inadvertently took out the bottom section of a freeway overpass. This was the result.
Here are the professional photographers’ pix.
Here are the shots the victims/amateurs took. If you look at the times of some of those photographs, you’ll notice that a couple were taken fully 12 hours after the accident.
Wow! I hope no one was almost on empty!
Holy cow!
A month or so ago, a truck went through the rail of a bridge over te Willamette, here in Portland. It was the Markum, which is one of the I-5 bridges – traffic was backed up for over fifteen to twenty miles – from morning ruch hour until nearly 11:00 pm, with some sitting in traffic for up to 6 hours before they were able to get just a couple miles to get off the highway. What amazes me is that such accidents don’t happen more often.
Wow. And it’s an army truck, too, so the press doesn’t even get to pillory the idiot who drove into the bridge.
What do ‘ewa and mauka mean?
Ewa = West; mauka = toward the mountains
Diamond Head = East; makai = toward the sea