If you were a weary traveler heading home on Route 250 last night at 6:23pm, it looked like you best find a detour. This wind-fallen tree blocked the busy thoroughfare about a mile or two east of Miller School Road, a few hundred yards east of the Greenwood Motel and the Foxchase subdivision.
Goodbye, Bo Diddley
A year and a half after performing at the Paramount in November 2006, rock n’ roll pioneer Bo Diddley has died. (2)
Snap o' the Day: Route 250
If you were a weary traveler heading home on Route 250 last night at 6:23pm, it looked like you best find a detour. This wind-fallen tree blocked the busy thoroughfare about a mile or two east of Miller School Road, a few hundred yards east of the Greenwood Motel and the Foxchase subdivision. (3)
Snap o' the Day: they're giving 'em away
Tad Abbey and Jeff Sweatman, deejays from 106.1 The Corner, implore listeners to come to the Downtown Mall yesterday afternoon in front of the Hook office (a sponsor) to pick up the latest of the FM station’s free music sampler CDs. (0)
Snap o' the Day: digging for Bavaro Hall
The old Curry School parking lot continues to get shredded this morning as construction accelerates on the latest addition to the Emmet Street landscape, the UVA education school’s $37 million Bavaro Hall. 2:57pm addendum: While the Hook was handing out free CDs today on the Downtown Mall, local citizen Tom McQueeney strolled up to relate that the late Wally Bavaro, for whom the building is named, pulled him off a gymnasium floor during a brawl between two rival high school teams back in Boston many years ago. And Bavaro, McQueeney adds, was on the opposing team. (0)
Local Tibetans pray for Chinese
While we’re talking about China’s travails trying to host the 2008 Olympics in the aftermath of devastating earthquakes, we should mention that local Tibetans are having a prayer vigil for Chinese earthquake victims Friday night between 8 and 10 on the Downtown Mall at 2nd Street NE, and according to a press release, the Chinese Students and Scholars Society of UVA will attend. (1)
That ain’t nothing compared to what I came across in Nelson County late last summer. An old dead tree fell in such a way that the top section of it was hanging about 3 feet above the pavement of the left lane of 29. One limb, about 4 inches in diameter was protruding out like a spear towards oncoming traffic. If anybody had hit it, it most likely would have punctured the windshield and struck the driver right in the face or chest. I used my car (and emergency flashers) to block the left lane and possibly prevent a fatality. Even so, two idiots went around my car and moved right back into the left lane immediately. One came within feet of planting this limb through their windshield. Most drivers had slowed down enough and were observant enough to see why I was blocking the left lane. For whatever reason, it took law enforcement 30 minutes to arrive and take control of the situation. When I first stopped it was light outside. By the time a trooper finally got there it was dark. There was no doubt in my mind that somebody was going to be seriously hurt or killed by this limb.
Sick of: Have you considered creating a TV show? They could call it “Redneck Encounters with Trees”
BTW, Cool photo!
Hey Taylor, you’re damn good! I most certainly did have a red neck after leaving Nelson County that particular day! We had been at a friend’s house for a cookout and in their swimming pool most of the afternoon. :)