Thursday, May 1, 2014

We made CNN!:

And nobody ever thought anything exciting ever happened in my hometown.  Ha.  Fooled ya.  We made headline national news today,  too bad a train had to blowup to do it though....  A tanker train carrying crude oil derailed today causing 50,000 gallons of crude oil to catch on fire and leak into the James River.  The train cars were blocking the entrance to where my mom uised to work, Griffon Pipe factory.  A friend of the family who works with a nearby railroad went down there and said it was caused from the rain erroding the earth away from under the tracks and it just collapsed as the train went over it.  We've had several days of constant drenching rain, and a lot of snow this past winter.  More than usual at least.  14 or so cars derailed and several blew up. It was a massive mess. I can't believe I slept through it.


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