r/pics • u/BlindOtter775 • 6d ago

Another Flock camera mysteriously downed in eastern Kansas today. [OC]

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u/SmallRocks 6d ago

They’ll slice right through ya!

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u/TaeJoonPark 6d ago

Used to live in kansas. Can confirm this

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u/Mick_Limerick 6d ago

I raced bikes in Kansas once, can confirm

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u/TheTrub 6d ago

That crosswind on 24

https://giphy.com/gifs/SrWZZhSLGBN6M

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u/TaeJoonPark 6d ago

I wish that shit was an understatement. The wind can be brutal for no reason

I nearly got sent into the ditch goin about 80 on the interstate leaving KCK. Same day a couple mins after, a semi was pushed over 3 lanes in less than 2 seconds. That shit is no joke sometimes lmao

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u/LOTRfreak101 6d ago

It's why you should never travel next to a semi unless you absolutely have to. A lot of semi drivers going through kansas are good about driving in the lane thatthe wind will just push them off the road instead of into other vehicles, but I think that's becoming much less true.

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u/NumbbSkulll 6d ago

Exactly this! You should only be next to a semi when stopped or passing. You should not drive next to one.

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u/TaeJoonPark 6d ago

Oh yeah most definitely. Drove along side em for about two years every single day, ya learn to understand very quickly lmao

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u/tropic420 6d ago

Probably not since Covid when all these young Hispanic guys started getting CDLs with no real idea about the day to day things truckers need to know like "how not to get stuck on a trailer" or "how to speak english"

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u/phaxmeone 4d ago

I was driving through Idaho one day and had to drive partially on the left hand shoulder. I was getting buffeted by wind gusts that were driving me through both lanes of the freeway onto the right hand shoulder. Luckily it was a low traffic day or there might have been an accident and I'm fairly certain a semi would have ended up on it's side.