Horrible crash in Lakewood CO, I70 closed both directions. 12 vehicles 4 semi huge fire

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  1. mjd4277

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    Well technically, the truck was a hot shot!
    HOT enough that his brakes were SHOT!! Lol
     
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  3. LoneCowboy

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    also (on a more serious note) it's been a crazy snowy winter here (#### globull warming, where did it go?) and it's been cold.

    it's very possible that that gravel is still frozen down below and not thick and syrupy like it should be.
     
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  4. tucker

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    It was hot here today
     
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  7. x1Heavy

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    They cannot stay high enough long enough to be of real value.

    HOWEVER, it is of value for a little while and shows what is possibly the way to bypass all these hills and trees. One must wonder what the future might hold when a drone could patrol the airspace around your individual property and see if there is a tornado coming.

    If you had a drone able to follow your particular vehicle as you scooted with the tornado as necessary for a hour or more...

    Also some tornados like the last big Moore event is simply black. Turned the city to night before tearing it apart. The helicopter that tracked that one on live tv when I watched it stayed 2 miles away. Winds were 306. The highest ever captured to date.
     
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  9. x1Heavy

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    The earth would have to melt all the ice for that to be a problem.

    Im not particularly the sort to be interested in such a disaster, it is moving slow enough that we should adapt to it. Instead of say growing crops like grain in the wide open farm now in say Iowa... we should build a tower of sufficient floor space to grow the same crops in the necessary amounts under a protected heated and cooled space. We will need many towers. So that way even if it's a thousand degrees outside, those crops can grow nicely and harvested to be made into food.
     
  10. Bud A.

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  11. x1Heavy

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    That's textbook.

    Also there is that blue tint or haze which to me is final warning beyond just haze or white.

    One must imagine how much inertial energy it takes to kick a 40 ton weight straight up 300 feet. Im assuming that ramp is 4 feet of pea gravel all the way up.
     
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