[TheForge] and it all happened even before the coffee was donebrewing ; -)

[Jerry Frost]

Quite the way to start a day Terry. I HOPE you didn't 
let any of that stop you from having your cup of 
coffee!

Glad nobody was hurt, all the rest can be repaired or 
replaced.

Frosty
-------------------------------
If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "terry l. ridder" <terrylr at blauedonau.com>


> hello;
>
> as the subject states it all happened before the 
> coffee was done
> brewing.
>
>
> a semi-truck load of stone had been waiting to be 
> deliver until the
> road posting of weight restriction was lifted. the 
> road posting was
> lifted by the county on saturday, i received a 
> telephone call at like
> 0600 am asking if they could deliver the stone today. 
> i said sure when
> did they want to deliver it, they said the truck was 
> all ready on its
> way here. ( wonder what would of happened if i had 
> said no you cannot
> deliver it today. ;-) ) 30 minutes later the 
> semi-truck arrives and i
> instruct the driver where to dump the stone and to 
> watch out for the
> overhead electrical wires. he nodded at me and smiled 
> and went back to
> his truck. backed up onto the lawn area west of the 
> driveway and
> proceeded to dump the load. by this time i was really 
> concerned that he
> was going to hit the overhead electrical lines the 
> 7.6 kva electrical
> lines. with the dump nearly at 90 degrees to the 
> ground the driver pulls
> straight out and takes out both power lines in a 
> massive shower of
> sparks and arcing and flashing. the arcing wires 
> proceeded to start the
> dry front lawn on fire. within minutes the fire 
> department, county
> sherif, commonwealth edison repair crew, the joint 
> utilites location
> service (julie) were here. thankfully the truck 
> driver was not injured
> and smart enough not to attempt to get out of the cab 
> of the truck with
> 7.6 kva wires hanging from his rig. the one 
> electrical line was arc
> welded to the aluminum dump body. very impressive.
>
> so standing outside in my pajamas with my winter coat 
> on and brown work
> boots with cap and gloves i am answering the fire 
> departments questions,
> the county sherif's questions, commonwealth edison's 
> questions. then the
> trucking company's manager shows up and i answer his 
> quesitons.
>
> about the time i thought i could go inside the county 
> sherif calls me
> and asks if the 6 cars carrying my friends can come 
> past the county
> sherif road block which the setup while commonwealth 
> edison repaired the
> lines. i said yes, knowing fair well that they would 
> all ask me what i
> had done to get so much attention so early in the 
> morning. i was right.
>
> when i mentioned the paver stone idea at the morning 
> coffee, gary comes
> over to me and begins feeling  my head, asking if i 
> had hit my head
> outside to come up with such an asinine idea as that.
>
>
>
> -- 
> terry l. ridder ><>
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