I bet the driver of this blue sports sedan thought he got away from the Washington State Patrol after speeding away at triple-digit speeds but forgot a rather large detail.
Brace for impact as groundbreaking research from Oregon State University reveals a dire future for the Pacific Northwest. Extensive simulations predict a significant increase in wildfire intensity, affecting vast areas from Oregon's western Cascades to Washington's northern Cascades, the Puget Lowlands, and the Olympic Mountains, starting in 2035.
At 4.1 miles, the Astoria-Megler Bridge at the mouth of the Columbia River makes it the longest continuous truss bridge in North America and the second longest in the world. Construction of the bridge was dangerous and cold.
Lead pipe goes all the way back to Roman times, but even the Romans knew that drinking water from lead pipe might make you sick. It wasn't until the early 1900s that we realized the danger of lead poisoning. By 1930 most people were using copper instead of lead pipe for their homes, but it wasn't until 1986 that lead pipe was actually banned from use in the United States for transporting water...