Humbly blogging from Bend...
On short notice I decided to take a trip to Bend this weekend. I performed the usual rituals one must do this time of year and got up early to do trip checker on the ODOT website. Having discovered that Santiam was clear, I decided to take my usual route---I5 to 22 and then on to 20 at the junction at the top of the pass.
The trip was actually going pretty smoothly. There were a few patches of what looked like frost where the sun hadn't melted things, but mainly the roads were dry. This is why I found it a little odd that on the downslope, just after the summit, all traffic came to a standstill. Oddly, where my car ended up in the line, I had excellent cell service and so I called my mom to let her know I would be later than planned and not to worry. She then took the liberty of finding out what was holding up traffic.
Here is the answer. Just terrible. I was not too far away from the crash site so I was only stranded up there for about an hour. I've never seen so many delayed cars but the saddest part was that as I drove by, I could see the uninjured people sitting in the back of an open SUV, and they were smiling, even as a body lay covered in a tarp just a few yards away...
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When I roadtripped to San Antonio last fall we got trapped in a standstill in Austin for about 2 hours. After about a half hour one of the guys says "I better see a bad accident of a dead body to explain this..."
The reason for the traffic jam? Hobo tried to run across I-35.... As we were passing the scene, what is seen? A dead body covered by a blue tarp. The wind caught it a little and you could tell he was hit... The legs were at a wholly unnatural angle.
But the hobo must have really needed to cross RIGHT THERE because not 100 yards away there was a crosswalk.....
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