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The year in Storrowing: 2021
By adamg on Sun, 12/26/2021 - 1:14pm
And that's how you do it. Photo by Matthew Christensen.
2021 was a peak year for storrowing. Drivers were back on the roads and once more ignoring the "CARS ONLY" signs bouncing off the cabs of their trucks. It was a great year to capture the screeeeeeech of metal being peeled back and, for the lucky few, like Matthew Christensen, to witness the truly sublime: A truck peeled back and tilted precariously on its side after its driver tried the Kenmore exits.
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 Is this how they get flatbread pizza?3/30/21Chris in 02134 reports the driver of an Oath Pizza box truck storrowed but good at the train bridge under the BU Bridge... |
 Bostonians were storrowing long before Storrow Drive was even built5/12/21The folks at the Boston City Archives found an example of storrowing roughly 45 years before Storrow Drive was built: A cart... |
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 Truck folds like a house of cards6/2/21Joe Kidston captured this fine storrowing this afternoon on Soldiers Field Road near the Harvard Business School. |
 What's silver and goes 'screeeeeech'?6/25/21Jim spotted this freshly shorn truck on Storrow Drive outbound at the Fairfield Street bridge early this afternoon. |
 Florida Man narrowly avoids fate of Man from Nantucket and Man from Martha's Vineyard8/7/21Somebody hauling a boat learned first hand shortly after 1 p.m. that despite their names, the river roads aren't meant for... |
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 You don't have to come all the way into town just to storrow8/21/21Belmont Police Chief James MacIsaac shows us what happens when a truck driver doesn't stay to the middle of the Belmont... |
 Bridge wins another game of inches on Storrow Drive8/29/21Ethan McCoy got a grand view of the storrowed box truck at the train tracks by the BU bridge (where Storrow turns into... |
 Somebody got quite a haircut on Storrow Drive this morning10/15/21Mike the roving UHub photographer wasn't able to rove much this morning after another driver cleverly used one of the bridges... |
 She warned him not to wear his costume on Storrow Drive10/31/21But did Justin listen to Erin? The photo tells the story. Elsewhere in Cambridge: Our North Cambridge neighborhood... |
 A perfectly executed storrowing11/9/21Matthew Christensen got a great view of a successfully storrowed box truck at the Kenmore exit from Storrow outbound tonight... |
 An artist at work with a huge audience this morning on Storrow Drive12/2/21Nothing like a good storrowing to start the morning commute, as Log shows us, with a snap of a freshly peeled box truck at... |
 Storrowers have really been stepping up their game of late12/4/21Dr. Ed spotted the remains of a box truck sitting on Western Avenue after a very, very solid storrowing this afternoon on... |
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is there a calendar?
I'd buy one!
Relatedly, a slow-motion video
of a truck getting peeled by a makeshift "bridge": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7klO0p092Y
...for people interested in the physics of such things.
I'd love to rig up something to auto-capture such a video on Storrow, but it would be expensive and tricky. Maybe ultrasound to detect an overheight-truck approaching and turn on the high-speed camera, then a noise burst sensor + a timer to end the capture period? But it would have to sit out in all weather and be at risk of theft.
Let's take this national.
Let's take this national.
Could have been worse, https:
Could have been worse, https://weartv.com/news/local/photos-show-c-130-aircraft-being-transport...
If we are voting...
My vote goes to 6/2/2021 for the 'Storrowing of the Year, 2021'
It's a perfect peel with just enough cargo to make you go "You needed a big ass truck for that?"
What is the cost to the
What is the cost to the driver when they Storrow a truck?