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Lost load snarls traffic in Falls
A steel cylinder weighing more than a herd of elephants tumbled off a truck here Thursday and snarled traffic all day, prompting state officials to halt all such future shipments. Bound for a wind farm in Iowa, the 55-foot section of windmill fell onto the road shortly before 10 a.m. as startled onlookers watched in the center of the village's downtown business district. The colossal cargo came to a rest at Main St. and Appleton Ave., both state highways, where it blocked traffic throughout the day until about 9:25 p.m. and left downtown merchants cut off from their customers.
May 24, 2007
by Scott Williams
in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Menomonee Falls - A steel cylinder weighing more than a herd of elephants tumbled off a truck here Thursday and snarled traffic all day, prompting state officials to halt all such future shipments.
Bound for a wind farm in Iowa, the 55-foot section of windmill fell onto the road shortly before 10 a.m. as startled onlookers watched in the center of the village's downtown business district.
"It just went 'thud,' " eyewitness Joyce Block said.
The colossal cargo came to a rest at Main St. and Appleton Ave., both state highways, where it blocked traffic throughout the... [continue via Web link]
Bound for a wind farm in Iowa, the 55-foot section of windmill fell onto the road shortly before 10 a.m. as startled onlookers watched in the center of the village's downtown business district.
"It just went 'thud,' " eyewitness Joyce Block said.
The colossal cargo came to a rest at Main St. and Appleton Ave., both state highways, where it blocked traffic throughout the... [continue via Web link]
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