This was interesting--Fuel truck overturns, spreads fire--8,800 gallons flow into storm drains near western cemetery

Seems a full gasoline tanker turned over, spilt its load, caught on fire, and started pouring flaming gasoline down the local storm sewers over by Elmwood Cemetery here in Birmingham. Which caused quite a stir, to say the least. My favorite local teevee reporter was there, and the video was pretty darned dramatic, with shots of manholes being blown off and thick black plumes of smoke rising up out of the cemetery (!), due to the flow of motor fuel through the sewer pipes that run underneath it.

Thankfully no one was seriously injured, and despite the dramatic 'splosions and stuff, it turned out that property damage was not that great.

And you know what, it took me to today to realize that when it happened, I didn't have that tense, cold knot in my stomach.

My first thought wasn't that some jacked-up jihadi had stolen a gasoline truck and tried to take out a few infidels on the way to the Eternal Hourihouse.

I just figured it was caused by one of the normal assortment of low-wattage folks who manage to get driver's licenses around here.

Frankly, I'll take the dimbulbs over the nutjobs any day of the week.
posted by Terry at 10:04:00 AM