Storrowed

Close only counts in horseshoes

By adamg - 1/28/19 - 6:12 pm

Gm2059 had a front-row seat this afternoon when a trucker missed a storrowing on Soldiers Field Road inbound in Allston by maybe a couple inches.

Remember that train bridge in Westwood that the state gave more clearance to so trucks would stop ramming it?

By adamg - 12/14/18 - 8:56 am

It didn't work.

Or maybe the state is using the Calvin and Hobbes method to determine the clearance needed.

Pay attention, class: This is how you storrow a truck

By adamg - 12/7/18 - 8:59 pm

Get 'er up to ramming speed and damn the torpedoes! DF captured the scene on Storrow Drive inbound at the Silber footbridge around 6 p.m. Scroll down the comments for a photo of the truck's contents.

Storrowing: The game every bridge can play

By adamg - 11/20/18 - 10:20 am

JP Shipley shows us what happened when the driver of a big rig tried to cram under the Orange Line's Medford Street bridge in Malden this morning.

A storrowing Memorialized

By adamg - 11/15/18 - 9:20 pm

Ari Ofsevit captured the aftermath of a storrowing on Memorial Drive in front of MIT this evening.

Truck driver storrows in Dorchester

By adamg - 9/27/18 - 8:33 am

Storrowed truck on Adams Street in Dorchester

Stuck truck. Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports no injuries after a truck driver wedged his truck but good under the Red Line tracks on Adams Street near Lincoln Street around 7:30 a.m. Read more.

In a game of inches on the river roads, the bridge always wins

By adamg - 9/18/18 - 4:35 pm

BostonDirt reports she got to see her first storrowing, about 11 a.m. on Soldiers Field Road.

An RV from New York had a mini storrowing incident a couple of hours ago. After hitting the "Cars Only" sign at the Mass Ave. underpass on Memorial Drive the completely unfazed RV managed to just barely slip under the bridge, however the AC unit on its roof did not. Hitting the concrete at about 25-30mph it disintegrated and showered the NY plated Chevy behind it with metal scraps. The RV seemed just as non-plussed about the hit as when it hit the sign and continued at the same speed until the next u-turn point. Welcome to our city!

A couple weeks late on Storrow Drive

By adamg - 9/14/18 - 9:44 am

Jason Richardson spotted the results of what he called a "slight Storrowing" this morning just inbound from the Longfellow Bridge.

The Storrow pool is open

By adamg - 8/31/18 - 6:00 pm

Somebody almost storrowed on Memorial Drive

Oh, so close! A roving UHub reporter watched a near-storrowing on Memorial Drive, at the Mass Ave. bridge underpass early this afternoon:

An MIT police officer saved the day, they flagged the college-aged U-Haul driver down and backed him up to the offramp to Mass Ave.

'Days Since Last Storrowing' clock reset to 0

By adamg - 7/24/18 - 5:07 pm

Ryan Frazer reports:

STORROWED

Go figure: Trucks can storrow at the entrance to the Callahan Tunnel, too

By adamg - 7/23/18 - 5:49 pm

Truck about to go crunch in the Callahan Tunnel

EastieStrong, who just wants to get home, reports both lanes into the Callahan are way backed up due to a tractor-trailer with a driver with good enough reflexes to avoid having his vehicle peeled back like a can of sardines - so chalk this up as a near storrowing.

The storrowing watch never stops

By adamg - 7/16/18 - 8:53 am

Truck stopped on Storrow Drive just in time

Sometime between 3 and 3:50 a.m., the driver of this box truck thought it would be a good idea to get on Storrow Drive towards Leverett Circle. It wasn't, as Chuck Fitzpatrick shows us.

Rental-truck driver scores storrowing hat trick

By adamg - 7/5/18 - 9:24 am

Kevin Brennan posts video of a storrowing outbound at the Kenmore/Fenway exits this morning in which the driver hit the overpass, tipped his truck over and spilled crap all over.

Roofless in Allston after classic storrowing

By adamg - 6/25/18 - 11:04 am

Karyn Regal at WBZ News Radio photographed a box truck that became a bit lighter this morning after its driver disregarded those "CARS ONLY" signs in Allston.

Say, we don't get many street sweepers around here ...

By adamg - 5/31/18 - 8:39 pm

And at these heights, I can see why!

Tim captured the action on Memorial Drive shortly after 6:30 p.m. You can almost hear the loud "bonk."

Bus driver brings Storrow Drive to a halt, but narrowly avoids peeling his bus open

By adamg - 3/24/18 - 4:41 pm

Photo by Ellen Popko.

Or is that side of the BU Bridge still technically Soldiers Field Road? In any case, if he has any passengers, they're probably relieved he had good enough reflexes to stop before plowing into the lower train bridge there.

Truck driver crosses one off his bucket list on Soldiers Field Road

By adamg - 2/14/18 - 10:07 am

Josh Jacobs couldn't help but admire this bucket-truck storrowing on Soldiers Field Road at North Harvard Street shortly before 9:30 a.m.

H/t ThatGuy for the headline.

Local brewery releases beer for people who like to get smashed

By adamg - 2/2/18 - 3:26 pm

Trillium Brewing Co. today released a beer called Storrowed. Read more.

Who had January 29 in the Storrow pool?

By adamg - 1/29/18 - 9:00 am

Good thing he wasn't hauling anything hazardous, eh? Photo by Tracy Walsh.

Sometime around 1:30 a.m., a semi driver thought it would be a good idea to get on Storrow Drive inbound. The train bridge near BU quickly informed him otherwise by turning his big rig into a much smaller rig.

Rick Macomber shows us the view from the other side of the bridge, which, of course, is famous for being the only place in America where you can smash a truck under a train that is passing under a car while a plane flies overhead: Read more.