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Wyomingite
Fish Wrangler
 Posts: 1656
Age: 43
Location: Wonderful Windy Wyoming
Humor: "I drank what?" - Socrates
Favorite Fish: I won't choose and ya can't make me!
|  Subject: How Wyomingite Makes a Living... Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:40 pm | |
| FUN! and MORE FUN!
How I started my day, at 5:40 this morning. To give ya an idea, that tower on the right side of the pic in the first link is roughly 85' tall. I was app. 50' to the west of that, directing hose streams. The first link is later on in the event, the pics in the second link are a lot closer to how it looked when I first started dealin' with it. I was only directin' things alone for the first 5 minutes plus or minus, but 5 minutes seems like eternity when yer lookin' up at 80'-100' flames.
WYite
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dirtydawg10
Global Moderator
Posts: 2951
Age: 39
Location: Connecticut
Favorite Fish: Severum
| | Subject: Re: How Wyomingite Makes a Living... Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:20 am | |
| Wow!! That sucks. Did anyone get hurt? |
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Wyomingite
Fish Wrangler
Posts: 1656
Age: 43
Location: Wonderful Windy Wyoming
Humor: "I drank what?" - Socrates
Favorite Fish: I won't choose and ya can't make me!
| | Subject: Re: How Wyomingite Makes a Living... Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:42 pm | |
| Nobody hurt, well, one guy twisted his ankle afterward on oily stairs. But nothin' serious. We were lucky it was shift change and Maintenance hadn't shown up to work yet. A lotta nerves frazzled, though. 
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Brisch
The Pleco Princess
 Posts: 175
Age: 22
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Favorite Fish: Betta Splendens, All Apistogramma
| | Subject: Re: How Wyomingite Makes a Living... Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:07 am | |
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dirtydawg10
Global Moderator
Posts: 2951
Age: 39
Location: Connecticut
Favorite Fish: Severum
| | Subject: Re: How Wyomingite Makes a Living... Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:37 am | |
| "FUN" and "MORE FUN" in his first post are links.
Glad to hear no one was hurt. How's the cleanup going? |
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Wyomingite
Fish Wrangler
Posts: 1656
Age: 43
Location: Wonderful Windy Wyoming
Humor: "I drank what?" - Socrates
Favorite Fish: I won't choose and ya can't make me!
| | Subject: Re: How Wyomingite Makes a Living... Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:50 pm | |
| Slow. Still cleaning up and purging the unit, draining it and gettin' it ready for repair. Initial estimates underestimated the amount of damage. Guessin' the crude unit will be down three weeks. I get to work 6 days a week now, for the next three weeks. WHEEEEEEEEE!
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saint_felony
The Turtle Whisperer
Posts: 1902
| | Subject: Re: How Wyomingite Makes a Living... Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:48 am | |
| Infuego!
Your new work schedule sort of blows, eh? Hopefully you'll get a fat overtime check though. |
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Wyomingite
Fish Wrangler
Posts: 1656
Age: 43
Location: Wonderful Windy Wyoming
Humor: "I drank what?" - Socrates
Favorite Fish: I won't choose and ya can't make me!
| | Subject: Re: How Wyomingite Makes a Living... Sat Jul 31, 2010 8:23 pm | |
| O.T.? I'm salaried. I don't get O.T. Should get some comp time out of it, though. Anyways, here's another pic I got my hands on. With vehicles in it for better perspective. Seconds after it started. 
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saint_felony
The Turtle Whisperer
Posts: 1902
| | Subject: Re: How Wyomingite Makes a Living... Sat Jul 31, 2010 8:42 pm | |
| Wowza. I do things with pyrotechnics on a fairly regular basis, but at close range I might have needed a fresh pair o' undies after dealing with that. |
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Mostlycichlids
Cichlid Specialist
Posts: 4507
Age: 32
Location: New Mexico USA
Favorite Fish: Jaguar Cichlid
| | Subject: Re: How Wyomingite Makes a Living... Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:13 pm | |
| Wow, lucky, very lucky.
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dirtydawg10
Global Moderator
Posts: 2951
Age: 39
Location: Connecticut
Favorite Fish: Severum
| | Subject: Re: How Wyomingite Makes a Living... Sun Aug 01, 2010 4:04 pm | |
| Wow again!! Luckily no one was hurt. |
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