SeaCat
Hey, my Halo is smoking
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I'm hurting tonight, but it's a good hurt.
I worked my ass off today. Put up sixty feet of six foot high Stockade style fence. (No nails, all screws. Yep I do like to screw.) It took most of the day but it's worth it.
While I was working on the fence I ran out of supplies. I came up short by ten slats and a bunch of screws. Ran down to the neighborhood Home Depot. No big deal except along the way ran across a five car Chain Reaction Accident. No-one injured but there were two cars where the doors wouldn't open. Called it in and waited there talking with and keeping the people there calm. Police and Fire responded quickly and were soon on scene. One couple decided they just needed to have care and complained loud and long so the police and rescue were cncentrating on them. Unfortunately they didn't notice the smoke coming from under the hood of one of the cars.
Seeing the smoke I walked back and looked over the area. The car seemed to be leaking fluids and I could smell gas. (I still don't know if it was from that car or from another.) The young couple in the car were starting to freak out seeing the smoke and unable to open their doors. (They were unhurt, just trapped. The doors were jammed and their seatbelts wouldn't release, not uncommon.) Telling them to cover their faces I punched out the drivers side window then reached in and cut their seatbelts. (Dropping my knife in the process.) They got out with no problems after that.
Hearing the sound of the window being popped the Police investigated then started chewing on my ass while the FD popped the hood and put out the fire. The FD interrupted the police to inform them I had probably saved the peoples lives. The FD then wanted to run me to the hospital to have my arm sewed up. They just shook their heads as I refused, then dumped a bottled of Alcohol over the cut and butterflied it closed. While I was doing this I commented to one of the Paramedics I had lost my knife in the car. I couldn't believe it when he climbed onto the wrecker and dug around in the car until he found my knife. He gave me back my knife as well as giving me his own, much more expensive knife. (Mine is a Clipit with a serrated blade. His was a Smith And Wesson.) I'll keep his knife but I'll continue to carry my Clipit. It fits better in my pocket, plus it was given to me by my old Fire Dept.
So now I sit here with sun pinked shoulders and arms, swollen knuckles, and an eight inch cut in my right forearm. Damned good day if you ask me.
Cat
Oh, I forgot to say that after my wife chewed my ass out, she promised to pose for some more outdoors pics tomorrow. Yahoo.
I worked my ass off today. Put up sixty feet of six foot high Stockade style fence. (No nails, all screws. Yep I do like to screw.) It took most of the day but it's worth it.
While I was working on the fence I ran out of supplies. I came up short by ten slats and a bunch of screws. Ran down to the neighborhood Home Depot. No big deal except along the way ran across a five car Chain Reaction Accident. No-one injured but there were two cars where the doors wouldn't open. Called it in and waited there talking with and keeping the people there calm. Police and Fire responded quickly and were soon on scene. One couple decided they just needed to have care and complained loud and long so the police and rescue were cncentrating on them. Unfortunately they didn't notice the smoke coming from under the hood of one of the cars.
Seeing the smoke I walked back and looked over the area. The car seemed to be leaking fluids and I could smell gas. (I still don't know if it was from that car or from another.) The young couple in the car were starting to freak out seeing the smoke and unable to open their doors. (They were unhurt, just trapped. The doors were jammed and their seatbelts wouldn't release, not uncommon.) Telling them to cover their faces I punched out the drivers side window then reached in and cut their seatbelts. (Dropping my knife in the process.) They got out with no problems after that.
Hearing the sound of the window being popped the Police investigated then started chewing on my ass while the FD popped the hood and put out the fire. The FD interrupted the police to inform them I had probably saved the peoples lives. The FD then wanted to run me to the hospital to have my arm sewed up. They just shook their heads as I refused, then dumped a bottled of Alcohol over the cut and butterflied it closed. While I was doing this I commented to one of the Paramedics I had lost my knife in the car. I couldn't believe it when he climbed onto the wrecker and dug around in the car until he found my knife. He gave me back my knife as well as giving me his own, much more expensive knife. (Mine is a Clipit with a serrated blade. His was a Smith And Wesson.) I'll keep his knife but I'll continue to carry my Clipit. It fits better in my pocket, plus it was given to me by my old Fire Dept.
So now I sit here with sun pinked shoulders and arms, swollen knuckles, and an eight inch cut in my right forearm. Damned good day if you ask me.
Cat
Oh, I forgot to say that after my wife chewed my ass out, she promised to pose for some more outdoors pics tomorrow. Yahoo.
