An industrial solvents plant on the north side of Des Moines blew up this afternoon. Everyone in the plant got out safely, but the plant burned all afternoon and is still burning at 10 p.m.. Burning barrels of solvent were shot into the air all afternoon 200 feet up, looking like scuds flying in the Gulf War. The scene will be a local legend for a long time. And this evening a guy who worked in the plant contends that 200 barrels of solvent were supposed to be stored in the plant--but at least a thousand were actually inside. So there will be regulatory issues as the whole story is uncovered. I missed all this this afternoon, because I came home from work this afternoon and went to bed and found out about all the excitement when I got up and turned on the local 6 p.m news.
That is the big event around here. Also, the Bears, and Nebraska got beat this weekend, and Kalamazoo College lost their Homecoming game last week to Wisconsin Lutheran, but the Maryville Spoofhounds and the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats won their games. The Red Sox won the World Series. And seven college kids were killed in a fire in a beach house they were sleeping in in South Carolina. And a guy was electrocuted Sunday night in Des Moines while trying to steal copper wire from a live power line.
This is going to be all for right now. My own life this weekend has had little drama in it--sleeping, going to the grocery store and the second hand store, and watching TV, and exploring the internet, and fighting the local traffic. Sometime I should compose a blog entry for posterity on interesting websites I have found. So, you all take care, and I will return with more stuff in the near future. Di di mau!
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