Raining in August, Serious
Middle of August and it's still raining. This is getting ridiculous now, wet piled upon wet, maybe two or three rainless days in the last couple of months. St Swithin's Day, forget it, this is beyond that - it was raining well before then. Roll on August 24th then. Stupid monks...should have listened to the dude. Here in Wales they're used to the rain, but enough already!
The apparent trend back towards people taking holidays in the UK will have been stopped in its (muddy) tracks I guess, but then there's the credit crunch, so maybe not.
Came across an excellent Banana/North Dakota news story last week:
Bismarck Tribune 08-09-2008:
Banana truck crashes into buffalo
BRANDON, Iowa (AP)
A truck hauling bananas crashed after hitting a buffalo in eastern Iowa, spilling crates of bananas on the road. Authorities the truck driver was not hurt but the buffalo was killed.The truck hit the buffalo on Interstate 380 near Brandon at about 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, then rolled and slid into the southbound lane, where it was hit by a car.There were actually two buffaloes on the highway, Benton County Sheriff Randy Forsyth said Thursday. The truck was passing a car. The car sideswiped one bison that was on the shoulder of the road while the truck hit the other one that was on the highway.
"Two buffaloes had gotten loose from somewhere. I don't know where they belong. It doesn't look like (deputies) found the owners," he said.The driver of the car escaped injury.Forsyth said the initial call was about two bulls on the highways. Officials didn't know they were buffaloes until a deputy arrived at the scene, he said.The one hit by the truck was killed and was in the median. The buffalo hit by the car apparently survived and ran off.
Forsyth didn't know how many bananas the truck was hauling except "it was a ton" of them. He also said he didn't know who owned the truck, where it was coming from and where it was going.KCGR-TV of Cedar Rapids said the truck was headed to Fargo, N.D., from Mississippi.The sheriff said the driver was Stephen Beauclair of Davenport."At first I thought it was a steer, a longhorn steer or something because I seen the horns, but that's all I seen," Beauclair told KCRG.Forsyth said the Iowa Department of Transportation was called to clean up the bananas.A message left Thursday for Benton County Deputy John Lindaman, who investigated the accidents, wasn't immediately returned.
The apparent trend back towards people taking holidays in the UK will have been stopped in its (muddy) tracks I guess, but then there's the credit crunch, so maybe not.
Came across an excellent Banana/North Dakota news story last week:
Bismarck Tribune 08-09-2008:
Banana truck crashes into buffalo
BRANDON, Iowa (AP)
A truck hauling bananas crashed after hitting a buffalo in eastern Iowa, spilling crates of bananas on the road. Authorities the truck driver was not hurt but the buffalo was killed.The truck hit the buffalo on Interstate 380 near Brandon at about 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, then rolled and slid into the southbound lane, where it was hit by a car.There were actually two buffaloes on the highway, Benton County Sheriff Randy Forsyth said Thursday. The truck was passing a car. The car sideswiped one bison that was on the shoulder of the road while the truck hit the other one that was on the highway.
"Two buffaloes had gotten loose from somewhere. I don't know where they belong. It doesn't look like (deputies) found the owners," he said.The driver of the car escaped injury.Forsyth said the initial call was about two bulls on the highways. Officials didn't know they were buffaloes until a deputy arrived at the scene, he said.The one hit by the truck was killed and was in the median. The buffalo hit by the car apparently survived and ran off.
Forsyth didn't know how many bananas the truck was hauling except "it was a ton" of them. He also said he didn't know who owned the truck, where it was coming from and where it was going.KCGR-TV of Cedar Rapids said the truck was headed to Fargo, N.D., from Mississippi.The sheriff said the driver was Stephen Beauclair of Davenport."At first I thought it was a steer, a longhorn steer or something because I seen the horns, but that's all I seen," Beauclair told KCRG.Forsyth said the Iowa Department of Transportation was called to clean up the bananas.A message left Thursday for Benton County Deputy John Lindaman, who investigated the accidents, wasn't immediately returned.
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