And in Local News:

[Wild Cobra]

Barge hauling 1 million gallons of gas runs aground in Columbia Gorge (http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/barge_hauling_1_million_gallon.html)

I just love how the liberals here decided they could wait on spending money to dredge the river.

[Wild Cobra]

FYI...

The liberal friendly Oregonian made it sound like the barge lines fault. here is a better pic, and according to the Google satellite pointer, it's in the channel. I can make out the channel markers when I zoom in.

http://www.ktvb.com/news/regional/stories/L_IMAGE.1223cc986ef.93.88.fa.d0.23416b72.jpg

source:

Gasoline barge runs aground in Columbia River (http://www.ktvb.com/news/regional/stories/ktvbn-jul0909-hood_river_barge_aground.23b5e676.html)

If I didn't have to be somewhere in an hour, I would drive there and take some pis myself.