<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the Atlanta Journal at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/ham-jam-closes-south-fulton-interstate-ramp/ncPdk/">http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/ham-jam-closes-south-fulton-interstate-ramp/ncPdk/</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 class="cmLargerH1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ham jam closes south Fulton interstate ramp</h1></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; display: inline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; display: inline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="cid:E7D6899A-523A-4AE3-B10E-FF5EA89F58B7" alt="image.jpeg" id="E7D6899A-523A-4AE3-B10E-FF5EA89F58B7" width="640" height="356"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; display: inline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; display: inline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Authorities in south Fulton County were working before daybreak Thursday to reopen an interstate ramp after a tractor-trailer overturned, spilling a load of hams onto the roadway.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The driver of the truck wasn’t seriously injured in the wreck, which happened before 4 a.m. on the ramp from Old National Highway to I-85 southbound.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The truck was hauling 40,000 pounds of hams. The cab of the truck was destroyed in the crash, which also caused a diesel fuel spill.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I didn’t see no signs that there was a curve,” said truck driver Riva Vargas. “Going 40 mph and trying to find the turnoff to 85 and when I saw the arrows, I tried to brake.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vargas said he was hauling the pork to Texas when he wrecked.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’m okay,” he said. “I just banged my head against the door when it flipped over and kind of cut it.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 1em 0px 0.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Crews were on the scene at 6:30 a.m., trying to unload and upright the overturned truck, but the ramp remained closed at 9:15 a.m. and the Department of Transportation had no estimate of when it would reopen.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still </span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill <br>If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </font></div></div></div></div></body></html>