Co-worker Jason Meserve was driving home to New Hampshire up 495 yesterday when traffic slowed to a crawl. After all, it's not every day you see a plane in the breakdown lane. The pilot ran out of gas during rush hour, landed and, naturally, pulled into the breakdown lane (well, actually pushed into it). Meserve reports his ride home took an extra 45 minutes because of the gawkablocka.

An amazing simulation of the landing.

Not a bloody mess, but red nonetheless.

Sandouri Dean Bey can't help but thinking of an old Greek Orthodox story on why Greeks dye Easter eggs red, involving Mary Magdalene carrying a basket of eggs, which she said would turn red if Jesus had risen, and, of course, they did.

... Verily I say unto you, if Christ is risen, this road shall turn red.

On Big Dump Truck, Jody writes that she witnessed an awful accident on 495 today:

... I ran out of the car and supplied my Spongebob blanket to one of the drivers and stayed with her because she was freaking out. So I gave her a hug and held my umbrella over her and just stayed with her until the ambulance showed up (her neck hurt and her eyes were burning from the airbag). The kid whose SUV flipped and slid was okay (God knows how) but was bleeding. ..