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Boston in 2022: Storrowing

Truck flipped on its side

Ramming speed! Photo by Live Boston.

Will they ever learn? Nope. 2022 was, like all the years before it, filled with the sounds of bonking and screeeeeching as truck drivers learned, again, why there are "CARS ONLY" signs at all the more fashionable on ramps to the river roads. The lucky few managed to stop in time, then did the backup of shame. And storrowing is a game any bridge (or tunnel) can play, even if well away from the holy storrowing trinity of Storrow and Memorial drives and Soldiers Field Road.

Pinewood Derby competitor carved into a Storrowed U-Haul

Gentlemen, start your storrowing engines

1/21/22
Austin Fossey is a Boston-area native who now lives in Pittsford, a suburb of Rochester, NY. He has two sons in Cub Scout...

Storrowed truck at Weston train bridge

Weston makes a surprise entrance into the Storrowing Olympics

2/14/22
The Weston Fire Department reports that Park Road was shut this morning after a truck driver engaged in a battle of wits...

Truck showing signs of storrowing on Washington Street in Brookline

Immaculate storrowing

2/23/22
It's a real puzzler. Hugmajesty spotted this truck with a fresh haircut this morning on Washington Street in Brookline, where...

Ryder truck and Storrow Drive pedestrian bridge

Get thee behind me, truck

5/26/22
Clare captured the near storrowing on Storrow Drive inbound this afternoon.

Storrowed truck in Malden

A Connecticut Yankee in King Storrow's Court

6/10/22
Storrowing's not just for Bostonians! Malden Police show us an example of a trucker who thought he could fit his truck under...

Strorrowed truck in Cambridge

Looks like this truck driver will have some xtra xplaining to do back at the warehouse

6/11/22
Roving UHub photographer Wiley Cox spotted a freshly storrowed truck sitting outside Micro Center on Memorial Drive in...

Squashed Ryder box truck in Kenmore Square

We imagine it sounded something like: SKEEERONNNCH

7/30/22
Greg Moseley took some pictures this afternoon of a Ryder box truck just sitting on Beacon Street in Kenmore Square around 4:...

Truck backing up on Storrow Drive

Moving-truck driver chooses backup of shame over truck haircut

8/4/22
The driver of one moving truck seemed to have decided to get ready for Allston Christmas by ignoring the "CARS ONLY" signs...

Poster for wrestler known as The Storrower

Warning to out-of-state U-Haul renters: You'll be cruising for a bruising on the river roads

8/23/22
Artist Eric Funk is out with his annual warning for the parents of college freshmen and other clueless motorists that those "...

Eggs on Memorial Drive after storrowing

Mem Drive traffic scrambled after eggsacting display of storrowing

9/15/22
Duke Nukem for a Limited Time Only got a great view of the results of an 18-wheeler driver trying to get to the Trader Joe's...

Truck stuck at a bridge on Soldiers Field Road

At least the driver had an overhang to keep him dry while waiting for troopers and the tow

9/22/22
Javi came upon this freshly storrowed box truck on Soldiers Field Road inbound, just before it turns into Storrow Drive,...

Rental truck stuck but not stuck

Schroedinger's rental truck

10/11/22
Can a truck truly be storrowed if its roof isn't peeled back even if it's clearly under a Storrow Drive bridge? A roving UHub...

Flipped over truck at Grand Junction bridge

And the award for the best storrowing of 2022 goes to ...

10/14/22
Live Boston reports that around 2:30 a.m., the driver of a box truck slammed into the train bridge under the BU Bridge,...

Peeled back truck on Storrow Drive

Peeling is such sweet storrow

10/22/22
Leslee got a great view from the Fairfield Street pedestrian bridge of a truck whose driver got a fresh haircut at the Mass....

18-wheeler jammed under Freeport Street train bridge

Storrowing: A game any bridge can play

11/10/22
Live Boston shows us what happens when the driver of an 18-wheeler tries to squeeze under the bridge that carries the Red...

Truck stuck on Storrow Drive

Apparently word of our low bridges has yet to reach the distant shores of Chelsea

11/14/22
Top Gun caught the end of another exciting match on Storrow Drive inbound by Mass Eye and Ear today, in which the final score...

Truck backing up from Callahan Tunnel entrance

Close only counts in horseshoes

11/29/22
Jessica Dello Russo watched today as state troopers opened up the special Backup of Shame ramp from the Callahan Tunnel...

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That's a lot of Storrowing.

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Maybe for next year.

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Storrowing is an international phenomenon as well.

The New York Times has a story about a British railroad bridge that is their Storrowing champion. The bridge has been struck by cars and tucks more than 33 times in a year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/25/world/europe/rail-bridge-crashes-ston...

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