Thursday, January 27, 2005

Toxic Air

A fertilizer plant in the next town caught fire when an employees truck, parked inside, caught fire (that dude is soooo fired!). Anyway, the chemical fire cannot be smothered with water b/c that would cause additional air pollution and runoff into a nearby stream. And they can't smother it with fire retardant 'cause you mix the fire department stuff with the fertilizer stuff and you have a potential for an explosion. Can you say fertilizer bomb?

So the road was closed for about a day but unfortunately the closed area was right after my exit to work. So I still had to go in. The air smelled lovely and it gave me a headache. I should get workers comp.