Breaking news from Tehachapi: traffic diverted due to out-of-control turbine!

Ever since "Tehachapi wind farm | 28 March 2009" - a six minute cinema verite oeuvre with Hitchcockian accents - was uploaded, I've waited patiently for the moment when I could post it. And, that moment is finally here:
A fast spinning windmill appeared "out of control," and threatened traffic on the highway between Los Angeles County's high desert and the San Joaquin Valley, a CHP dispatcher in Bakersfield said today.

The CHP dispatcher said the windmill is spinning too fast and might fly apart, which is why Highway 58 in the Tehachapi Pass was closed down both directions between Mojave and about 45 miles north of Lancaster and Tehachapi.

...At midafternoon, the CHP was calling the windmill's owners to see if it could be shut down.
(h/t Larry Grover; that's Lloyd Bonafide's travel trailer near the beginning.)

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