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And now for something completely different:
Begun in 2020 as Pandemic Quarantine Diary, and now it's whatever strikes my fancy.
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And now for something completely different:
Yesterday morning, at about 11:15 I began driving to Tabby's Place. Four miles later, I saw a line of cars and their red tail lights on the part of Route 309 that connects to I-78. Fortunately, the long line hadn't reached the Cedar Crest exit, and neither had I.
Shortly before, a 20-year-old guy on a motorcycle had been boxed in the middle lane behind a semi slowly climbing a hill. The motorcyclist tried zipping into the fast lane to get around it, but clipped the semi and rebounded into an Escalade that was already there. All this at high speed.
One news report said the accident had been reported at about 9:45, and a different source said the young man was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:15.
When I took the Cedar Crest exit, I stopped in the parking lot of a medical building and checked local news sources plus a map/traffic app. After collecting those facts, I understood that the road would be closed for some time (in the end, it was two hours), and turned around and went back home.