So much potential for a perfect headline. All wasted. Boo.

Well, this report is obviously an exaggeration. I seriously doubt there are 60 vehicles in the whole of New Hampshire.

/I blame cyclists

FTA: "Snow was seen on the highway, but officials did not immediately identify a cause."

Hoping one of the vehicles was an animal control truck full of dogs that escaped, and all turned out to be rabid.

/Not really, but it would make a good King story.

elvisaintdead: FTA: "Snow was seen on the highway, but officials did not immediately identify a cause."

Well, there's my nightmare fuel for the next week.

Near the smoldering, twisted metal that moments ago was transporting the U-Mass Women's Hockey Team, a lone figure walked. His worn cowboy boots punched through the filthy ice which had formed over the snowdrift by the highway, the crunching sound muffled by the screams and wails of those still trapped inside their cars. A smile played along the man's face, making the ragged creases in his weather-beaten skin all the more defined. This scene was but a distraction, a stepping stone towards his final masterpiece. The people of Derry would know him soon enough, perhaps even learn his name. But for now, he was merely The Walking Dude...

I paused at "women's hockey team" and then did a full stop at "group of boy scouts," hoping the headline would get better. It didn't.

I leave here seriously disappointed.

any bets on what state the vehicle is from that started the pileup?

Wrong state, subby. Derry, Maine is Stephen King's Derry.

Derry, New Hampshire is the home of Robert Frost, who came to this fork in the road and took it, as did all the drivers on I-93 this morning.

submitter: Officials cannot identify a cause

How about "stupid Yankees driving in snow and ice"? Duh.

oldebayer: Hoping one of the vehicles was an animal control truck full of dogs that escaped, and all turned out to be rabid.

/Not really, but it would make a good King story.

Geez, that sucks! Why don't you make it so that ... so that the truck driver goes home and he shoots his father, then he runs away an', and he joins the Texas Rangers. How about that?...

Tommyknockers, man.

The Langoliers?

/got nuthin...

Came for the scariest image from my childhood. Left satisfied... I guess.

I put my money on some A-hole with 4x4.

I can't count the number of times I hear these people talk about how they drive, "Cuz they got 4 wheel drive"...but fail to realize it's not getting moving that's an issue it's the need to stop where problems arise.

/go watch any jeep commercial (airing during the winter)

No major injuries and from the look of it not much damage. I would've liked to watch this happen. It must have seemed like slow motion. When I saw the story I pictured more of a scene from Final Destination then just a really big fender bender.

The man is a menace.

Was it the Shining?

Women's hockey team? There's your problem right there. Women were driving.

Not a single NH driver mentioned in the article ... all Masshole snow gawkers.

At least a thinny didn't open up in the area.



That would have been really bad.

"Another bus, transporting the University of Massachusetts women's hockey team, was also involved in the crash. Some of the women inside the bus wrote on a dry-erase board "We are OK" as a car blocked the door of the bus, preventing anyone from getting out."

Bah. Not much of a hockey team. Any self-respecting player would just throw a teammate against a window and break the glass.

notmtwain: Derry, New Hampshire is the home of Robert Frost, who came to this fork in the road and took it, as did all the drivers on I-93 this morning.

*snickering like this*

It's always the Masshole bus driver going too fast for conditions.
Remember kids, just because you are in control, DOES NOT mean that the others are.

/See it every storm.

you cain't get there from here.

Subby cannot write an accurate headline.

brigid_fitch 2009-01-11 02:18:55 PM
Near the smoldering, twisted metal .....


Pure Awesome!

mrtoadswildride: I put my money on some A-hole with 4x4.

I can't count the number of times I hear these people talk about how they drive, "Cuz they got 4 wheel drive"...but fail to realize it's not getting moving that's an issue it's the need to stop where problems arise.

/go watch any jeep commercial (airing during the winter)

I'll take it a step beyond.
Jackasses doing 90 in a 4X4 with summer or mud tires.
"I have 4wd, I'll be fine"
*hanging upside down in seatbelt*
"whoa, how'd this happen?"

brigid_fitch: Near the smoldering, twisted metal that moments ago was transporting the U-Mass Women's Hockey Team, a lone figure walked. His worn cowboy boots punched through the filthy ice which had formed over the snowdrift by the highway, the crunching sound muffled by the screams and wails of those still trapped inside their cars. A smile played along the man's face, making the ragged creases in his weather-beaten skin all the more defined. This scene was but a distraction, a stepping stone towards his final masterpiece. The people of Derry would know him soon enough, perhaps even learn his name. But for now, he was merely The Walking Dude...

I'm re-reading The Stand, so I got a real kick out of this reply.

FTA: Derry Fire Chief Jack Webb said the most common injuries were broken ankles and legs. None were life-threatening

Just the facts, Chief.

Haunted lamp?

Mr. Gaunt watches from his window...

Walk ins. They always cause traffic accidents up there.

Except that King's town is Derry, Maine, not NH

I would call this the storm of the century to cause such misery on the snow covered green mile. In desperation,the shining youth will grab their needful things from Dolan's Cadillac, take the long walk away from the blood and smoke to safety. The rescue crews and other regulators are likely operating at on a skeleton crew until four past midnight, but everything's eventual. Hopefully the survivors, including Dolores Claiborne, and the girl who loved Tom Gordon, will make it to Kingdom Hospital. Tommyknockers.

Transubstantive: Came for the scariest image from my childhood. Left satisfied... I guess.

FINE.

Bango Skank?

/all hail the Crimson King

brigid_fitch: Near the smoldering, twisted metal that moments ago was transporting the U-Mass Women's Hockey Team, a lone figure walked. His worn cowboy boots punched through the filthy ice which had formed over the snowdrift by the highway, the crunching sound muffled by the screams and wails of those still trapped inside their cars. A smile played along the man's face, making the ragged creases in his weather-beaten skin all the more defined. This scene was but a distraction, a stepping stone towards his final masterpiece. The people of Derry would know him soon enough, perhaps even learn his name. But for now, he was merely The Walking Dude...


Could it be.... Marten? or Maybe Randall Flagg?


/Commala-Come-Come!

notmtwain: Wrong state, subby. Derry, Maine is Stephen King's Derry.

Derry, New Hampshire is the home of Robert Frost, who came to this fork in the road and took it, as did all the drivers on I-93 this morning.

Full of win.

I'm glad I just took Rt 3 home instead of 93.

And it probably was some asshole in a 4x4 who caused it; every snowstorm there's always some tool in his 4x4 blasting up the left hand lane like he's farking Steve McQueen.

Probably from Mass too.

/and black
//and gay
///and a Republican
////maybe just a TFer

59 shiatheads tailgaiting.
That is all.

keithjg: any bets on what state the vehicle is from that started the pileup?

I bet it a was red, white, and blue plate...

Zeiss_Ikon: 59 shiatheads Massholes tailgaiting.
That is all.

FTFY

The silver lining? Those people will need new cars. The economy is saved!

PacManDreaming
submitter: Officials cannot identify a cause

How about "stupid Yankees driving in snow and ice"? Duh.

I was basically gonna say morons who don't bother examining the road ahead and stare idly at the car they're tailgating. For Fark's Sake, Americans need to learn how to drive more like the Finns.

Insomnia. Yeah.

We all float down here

All these chronic correctors forgot to mention Derry, Maine doesn't exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_(Stephen_King)

Rhymes with Squee: All these chronic correctors forgot to mention Derry, Maine doesn't exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_(Stephen_King)

Yes, but the Wiki article also states that Derry, just like Castle Rock, Chamberlain, Little Tall Island and Jerusalem's Lot are fictional towns created by Stephen King.