Today we headed to Sarnia after Julie finished her half day of work. She'd been off sick since Wednesday and didn't want to get a doctor's note so she dragged herself into work today. Silly policies...
Anyway, we were able to get on the road at around 4pmish today. Now the cool part of the drive happened just past Kitchener on the 401. The traffic was slowing down and pulling into the far left lane. A big cloud of black smoke was in the air and Julie said that she could see a fire up ahead.
I thought it was an ambulance on fire, from the looks of the doors at a distance. It turned out that it was no ambulance...
IT WAS A WELDING SUPPLY TRUCK!
I've always wondered what would happen if one of those bombs on wheels ever ignited. Now I know. It was pretty spectacular. No explosions or anything (at least while we were there) but the entire back end of the truck was in flames. There were a couple cars that had pulled over ahead of the truck and the driver seemed to be with them, but it must have just happened as there were no emergency vehicles in sight.
We listened to the radio to see if they'd report it in their traffic reports and it wasn't until about 40 minutes later, as we were nearing London, that we heard anything. Turned out they'd shut down both the East- and West-bound lanes of the 401 at that spot. Phew! Good thing we got past before we'd gotten stuck there!
We also had an interesting drive, weather-wise. It went from sunny to cloudy to blizzardy and back to sunny as we went through London. Crazy snowbelt.
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What I'm Eating: Yummy Thai food... IN SARNIA!!!
What I'm Playing: Not much. Just looking for something to play on my GBA while I'm here in Sarnia.
What I'm Watching: Satellite TV! Gotta love the G4 (well, not really, but still)
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