But there was also a three-hour standstill in traffic caused by a tractor trailer that had driven into a ditch on a road that usually does not permit vehicles so big, but made an exception because that was the only way into or out of the area in the wake of the storm.
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
11 Oct. 2024
Bucks use water as a barrier, think deep drainage ditches, creeks, streams, and rivers.
There were no nukes screaming across the open sea to knock our planet’s assembly of nations into history’s gutters of Armageddon.
Will Cady,
SPIN,
30 Oct. 2024
Walz, 60, was tapped by Harris as her running mate in part because of his blue-collar appeal – a happy-go-lucky, flannel-wearing former high school teacher and football coach, who is cast as the everyday dad, fixing a car and repairing house gutters in campaign videos.
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