WOW!

Hope it didn't tear up the lottery ticket in his pocket.

 

I swear , it seems this same thing happened years ago.

 

Didn't that happen last year? We were all marveling about the pickup the guy was driving.

 

Per the page linked above

Posted: Jan 17, 2015 1:43 PM CST

So, yeah. Last year

 

Yep last year

 

It's still pretty cool he stayed intact. Has anyone done any follow-up stories on him?

 

He slipped on a banana peel in his kitchen and broke his neck. Tragically, he didn't make it.
































( I keed, I keed)

 

I hate it when the news media blames black ice for an accident. Black ice has never caused an accident. Stupid driving when black ice is likely is the cause.

 

That stretch of Oregon has a unique weather phenomenon that occurs regularly and catches many off guard.

They have very "heavy dews" and very cold temps that can drop 10 degrees in the matter of an hour at times, freezing the dew faster then traffic can keep it off, and light traffic at times and you will come up on an area of roadway with a thin layer of ice ... no fog, no snow melt/freeze, no freezing rain just a thin layer of ice out of nowhere. it may be 2 miles, or it may be 20 miles. Maybe you'll know it the hard way, maybe you won't know it at all.

I've walked across the street in Baker at 06:00 to eat at the restaurant across from the truck stop. Clear weather the last few days, main drag road through town was completely dry the evening before but that morning it was slick as snot to walk on and looked like there was no ice.

Just beware between La Grande to Huntington on clear, cold nights, especially pre-dawn hours.

But that's in addition to normal freezing rain setups that also happen in that region several times a year.