Here Comes the Irony!

[Phaedrus]

Being a bit of a statistics buff, stuff like this always freaks me out.

<!--StartFragment --><TR valign="top"><TD align="left" colspan=""></TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TD width="100%">Storm Causes Morning Headaches

[font=ARIAL, SANS SERIF]by Benjamin Yelle and Erika Cohen[/font]

[font=ARIAL, SANS SERIF]The Keene Sentinel[/font]



<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR vAlign=top><TD align=left>[font=ARIAL, SANS SERIF]The Monadnock Region’s first real snowstorm of the year send several vehicles sliding off roads and caused a handful of crashes, but few injuries were reported this morning.


In a odd twist, a United Parcel Service driver was on his way to deliver parts to Cheshire Medical Center in Keene when his van was in a serious crash involving two tractor-trailer trucks on Route 9 at Chesterfield Hill, police said.

The driver’s name and severity of his injuries were unavailable this morning.

The driver was taken to Cheshire Medical Center by ambulance with a head injury, but the hospital couldn’t do some of the tests he needed because one of its machines was down, police said.
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[font=ARIAL, SANS SERIF]And the parts to fix that machine were in the man’s wrecked truck on Route 9.
Instead of sending the driver to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, someone was sent to get the parts out of the truck, they were installed, and the machine was put to work, police said.

The crash was reported at 12:03 this morning. Route 9 over Chesterfield Hill was closed for more than an hour, police said.

“Everything had to be towed,” Keene police Cpl. Eliezer Rivera said.

That wasn’t the only United Parcel Service truck that had problems on Chesterfield Hill. This morning at about 7, a UPS tractor-trailer truck was spinning its wheels, trying to get up the hill, one of several trucks to get stuck there. The hill was closed off and on throughout the morning.

Minor crashes were reported across the region, beginning Sunday at 4:22 p.m. The Winchester Fire Department responded to a rollover accident on Route 119 near the Richmond line, but no none had to be taken to the hospital.

Crashes were also reported in Hancock, Spofford, Swanzey and Westmoreland Sunday night. None resulted in hospitalizations.

One person was injured in a crash on Route 10 in Winchester Sunday at 7:09 p.m.

Kathryn Redfield of 320 Fullam Hill Road, Fitzwilliam, was taken to Cheshire Medical Center with arm pain and trouble breathing after the crash, said Acting Winchester Police Chief Gary A. Phillips. Redfield was a passenger in a 2002 Dodge Durango driven by her husband, Scott, which went off the road.

The weather-related calls “haven’t stopped since we got here” this morning, Phillips said, but most were for slide-offs and other minor accidents.

Snowy, slick conditions on Route 10 near Manning Hill caused Phillips to close the road there.

“Cars were off the road everywhere,” he said.

Rivera said Keene police had received only two accident calls this morning, both for minor crashes.

“So far, so good,” he said.

Many drivers reported slow but not too slippery rides on Routes 101 and 9, but tractor-trailer trucks had it tougher, slowing down many commuters.

About 2 inches of snow was on the ground by 9:30 a.m., and the flakes were expected to continue throughout the morning. Douglas Graham of the N.H. Department of Transportation said his crews began plowing Sunday at 6 p.m.

Bitter cold made it more difficult to clear roads, he said. With the temperature only 7 degrees at 9:15 a.m., it was too cold to use salt, since it won’t melt the snow at that temperature, he said.

Graham, the highway maintenance engineer for the Monadnock Region, said his best advice to people is to “take their time.”

The snowy weather delayed the start of classes at most area schools. Monadnock Regional, Fall Mountain Regional, Hinsdale, Winchester, Stoddard, Keene and other N.H. School Administrative Unit 29 schools all had two-hour delays.

Across the state, more than 130 schools were delayed or closed. State police reported multiple accidents on both Interstates 93 and 89.

Much colder air is expected to follow the storm. The National Weather Service issued a wind-chill advisory that extends until Tuesday morning at 6 for southwestern and south-central New Hampshire. Winds of 15 to 25 mph with higher gusts and temperatures from 5 below to 5 above are expected to produce serious wind chills tonight.

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Phaedrus

 

[JinnRikki]

Geesh I hope they never get 3 inches. And one word for them ..sand.

 

[Marco]

"and the parts to fix that machine were in the man's wrecked truck on Route 9"


Good start to another episode of The Twilight Zone.

 

[Phaedrus]

Man, I need to start an "Irony" thread to go with my dumbåss thread, astronomy thread etc.

From the asia Times Online:

<!--StartFragment --> Iran's judiciary has threatened Internet journalists with torture and prison if they do not renounce accusations that authorities abused members of the electronic media and dissidents who were rounded up months ago.

Full story here.

Reminds me of that old child-rearing chestnut, "You better stop that crying boy, or I'll give you something to cry about!"


Phaedrus

 

[Phaedrus]

In today's Touched by an Irony, we learn about an Amish boy who was killed ... by a power line.

No kidding.

Imagine all the mileage the fruities will get out of this back at the butter farm.


Phaedrus

 

[Marco]

I can just see another sermon at the amish church, preaching about that "evil electricity".......

I could handle some of the day to day life of the simple amish.....except I'd have to come home to cable tv, and computer, and a refridgerator....these things are about like air....you gotta have 'em......