Just when you thought you'd seen everything: A porta-potty ‘Storrowing' on Memorial Drive

A truck carrying a portable toilet driving on Memorial Drive in Cambridge on Monday morning struck the Massachusetts Avenue overpass, knocking the porta-potty…

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Honestly, this is impressive even to me--living in the land of the #Storrowing

Hat tip @HenricoPolice.

At the lunch table, we made our predictions on the number of #Storrowing incidents there will be this year. I guessed 4 by Sept 10. Anyone else want to place their bets?

Poll explainer/end of August context:

(What's a #Storrowing? https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/08/27/college-moving-boston-storrow-drive)

(What's #AllstonChristmas? https://www.boston.com/real-estate/renting/2022/09/02/confessions-of-an-allston-christmas-newbie/)

(8/31: Why is this night different from all other nights? https://www.boston.gov/news/tips-residents-advance-september-1-move)

A reminder: be wary when going to ikea, target, or other house-goods shops for the next 30 days, assume they'll be mobbed.

#Boston #BostonWeekend 🧵 (2/x)

Don't get 'Storrowed': What you need to know about moving trucks and Boston bridges | WBUR News

An official with the U-Haul Company of Boston said the company loses around 10 trucks per college move-in season (May through August) each year, despite cautioning customers who rent the trucks against hopping onto Storrow Drive.

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State sues #Charlestown recycling company for the way one of its drivers storrowed a bridge on 128 in Danvers
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/state-sues-charlestown-recycling-company-way-one

#Massachusetts #lawsuits #storrowing

State sues Charlestown recycling company for the way one of its drivers storrowed a bridge on 128 in Danvers

MassDOT yesterday sued a Charlestown company

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Enough with Ryders and Penskes - our long drought of U-Haul storrowers is over
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/sure-weve-seen-penskes-and-ryders-where-are-our-u

#Boston #SoldiersFieldRoad #storrowing

Enough with Ryders and Penskes - our long drought of U-Haul storrowers is over

Roving U-Haul photographer Paul Kafasis reports he was inbound on Soldiers Field Road down by Harvard Stadium today when he "hit a wave of traffic and saw a mangled U-Haul backing up." He adds that if you look up the bridge the driver will probably never hit again on Google Maps, it's actually marked "low clearence" (so, yeah, Google Maps needs some spelling help).

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Massachusetts sues Alabama trucking company for a storrowing that damaged an I-93 overpass in Medford

MassDOT today sued a trucking company in Lincoln, AL that had a worker haul a giant tank south on I-93 in Medford, where it collided with the bottom of a bridge over the highway, shutting the road and causing what the state says was $2.65 million in damage in 2021. Read more.

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We came ThisClose to a third Storrowing

Roving Uhub photographer Brian C., who photog

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@Unixbigot Oh @universalhub , you might like this little piece of fiction 😂 #storrowing