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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2011-09-13 04:01 am
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A question I did not anticipate asking while taking the bus

"Why is there a boat blocking the road?"
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[identity profile] murasaki-1966.livejournal.com 2011-09-13 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Please answer this question. Inquiring minds wish to know.

[identity profile] mjlayman.livejournal.com 2011-09-13 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
Now, around here, boats are on roads because of the flooding. And some of the roads are gone, so who knows where those boats went.

[identity profile] pauldormer.livejournal.com 2011-09-13 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
I was once on a bus that was delayed because of an aircraft on the road in front. No, it hadn't made an emergency landing. It was a WWII plane on a trailer being taken to a museum somewhere, and it was having difficulty navigating the narrow roads in Guildford.

[identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com 2011-09-13 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
It got jealous of all the cars clogging up the waterways?

[identity profile] runningbadger.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com) 2011-09-13 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
That's nothing. I had to take evasive action when a garden shed appeared in the middle lane of the A3 with all three lanes doing 60.

It had been tied to the roof of a Landrover, but not very well.

I'm glad I didn't need to explain it to an insurance company. "So, you drove into a shed. Had you been drinking, sir? Ah, I see, the shed was in the middle of a dual carriageway. Had you been smoking, sir?"

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2011-09-13 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Seiche, eh?

[identity profile] armb.livejournal.com 2011-09-13 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Round here, it's because the wider road that it wouldn't block has low bridges that it wouldn't get under. They have police escorts telling people to move over to let them through.
Why the boatyard was built so far inland, I have no idea. I assume when it started it was building boats small enough to fit on the river, rather than ones delivered to the ocean on large trucks.
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