One Big Tree How Many Belge Firemen Does It Take
On our way back to Brussels we encountered a tree!
This was no small tree it cut off four lanes of a highway and both directions of traffic, including our bus for over two hours. The good news? No one was hurt. That tree would have flattened any of the small gas friendly cars on the road and done serious damage to any moving vehicle. On top of stopping both directions of traffic, the other complicating factor was that the tree had pulled down, although did not snap a power line. Traffic ground to a slow crawl as the vehicles inched forward into a “sardine can” formation (if you have ever spent any time in a French or Quebec ski line? If so, you might have an idea what this started to look like).
Finally, a single fire truck arrived to the rescue. This event occurred in the middle of the afternoon on a Sunday in crappy weather…so it took awhile…
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