more fires

[low_delta]

Ms Fledermaus says she just saw a humongous car fire in front of her old building. It was a van, and it looked like it was full of the belongings of someone who was either moving in or out. Flames two stories high. Nobody hurt, apparently.

Other than that, she's fine.

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[aki-dreaming.livejournal.com]

This entire post is hair raising, but I'm really curious about the bee comment. Yeah. That's something we should all be grateful for!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

She related a news story that happened in an area she was familiar with:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2004/jun/15/061505862.html


Truck Carrying 9M Bees Spills in Mont.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) - A tractor-trailer overturned on a curve on a highway, spilling its load of hundreds of bee hives and unleashing some nine million angry honey bees.

The bees buzzed furiously as driver Lane Miller, has arm scraped to the bone, struggled to flee his rig after it overturned Monday in Bear Trap Canyon west of Bozeman. The truck slid across the highway before coming to a stop between guardrails. "I had to kick the windshield out of the front of the cab and the bees were on me from that moment," said Miller, 41. "I've never felt so much fear in my life." Miller walked away from the crash, and two people picked him up and took him to the hospital. Miller underwent surgery on his arm and suffered bruises and about 20 stings.

The state road was closed for 14 hours as crews and beekeepers cleaned up the 512 hives Miller was hauling from Idaho to North Dakota.

In spite of bee suits and extra clothing, beekeeper Gary Clark said he counted about 60 stings of his own. "Everybody had literally thousands of bees on them, in their hats and on their suits," Clark said. "When we pulled the boxes out, big globs of them would fall on us."

Firefighters directing traffic also suffered stings. "The bees were so agitated you could barely see the beekeepers or the wreckage itself, just because of the cloud of bees that were swarming," said fire chief Shawn Christiansen.

It wasn't until 3 am. Tuesday that a tow truck got in to haul out the tractor-trailer, leaving behind pools of honey from the overturned hives. State Transportation Department employees dropped sand on the road to soak up the sticky mess.

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

yowsa. that's some story.
I'm glad it wasn't on I-5 here.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're not covered in bees either.

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

I'm not allergic or anything, are you? I just stepped on one as a kid and my foot was swollen for a week. when you're a kid that kind of thing sticks with you, so they've always made my hair stand on end.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not allergic. I've only been stung two or three times in my life.

They don't really bother me.

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

I think they might be worrisome in mass quantities, though.
just for me, anyway.
:|

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Some of these people got stung sixty or eighty time. =8-o I was in a lot of pain with my one sting.

Chickenman Prophecies

[aki-dreaming.livejournal.com]

For no real reason this reminds me of a story told by my friend Free:

She was watching TV and there was an aerial picture of a overturned, jack knifed semi truck. It was laying on the highway surrounded by emergency vehicles and in the grass all around it were patches of white flowers.

She said "I was thinking 'Wow, those flowers are really pretty'. Then I thought, 'Hey, those flowers are moving'. Then I realized those flowers were chickens."

Apparently a truck carrying a load of live chickens (I keep trying to type "livechickens" like "livejournal") and crashed and spilled it's payload of life all around the surrounding area. Bees and Chickens. What are they trying to tell me?

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

We're all glad you're not covered in bees.
It sounds like a dubious way to gain notoriety. And damn uncomfortable.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

No kidding