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Posted by BEI Design on March 24, 2008, 2:37 pm
Sharon Hays wrote:
> BEI Design wrote:
>
> > Sharon, I've seen such awful pictures of the flooding in
> > your part of the world, and then tonight there was news
> > of a
> > big chemical plant fire in AR. Check in and let us know
> > you're Ok, please?
> >
> > Beverly
>
>
> Thank you so much for thinking of me! We are all fine as
> can be. (I knew my ears were burning, now I know who it
> was. ;) )
>
> We did get a LOT of rain last week. It started raining
> Monday night and didn't stop till Wednesday about
> mid-day. In that time, we got 7.23" of rain here in
> Springdale. The horse pasture behind us had water not
> only standing but Running across it. The neighbors put
> the horses in the barn Monday afternoon and didn't turn
> them out again till Thursday. Poor babies. But much
> better than risking them being out in that water. (It
> had all drained off into the creek by Thursday morning.)
> There were several streets here closed due to high water.
> But there were a lot more north of us and south of us.
> We sit right at the edge of the Ozark plateau and believe
> it or not, that really redirects a lot of the bad
> weather. Kind of like a big rock splitting a stream.
> I'm also very grateful that we live at the top of a hill!
>
> The fire was in Booneville, AR. That's almost 2 hours
> south and slightly east of us. It's southeast of Ft.
> Smith. Was a horrible fire. I really feel for the folks
> in that town. The Cargill plant was the primary employer
> in the area. So a lot of the folks who had to evacuate
> not only had to clear out of their homes in a hurry, but
> are out of a job right now too. The good news was that,
> being Easter, they didn't have a full shift running at
> the plant. From what I've heard on the local news here,
> it sounds like they were doing maintenance/upgrades in
> the plant. That's how most of the poultry plants work,
> they will do that sort of thing when they aren't running
> a regular production shift. The biggest worry was an
> ammonia leak/explosion. They use ammonia as a
> refrigerant (again,that's pretty standard in the poultry
> industry.) Good news was that they did have a release,
> but they didn't have an explosion in any of the ammonia
> tanks. (so far as we know.) It looks to have been caused
> by a spark from some welding they were doing. (realizing
> that I know way too much about the poultry
> industry...could be something to do with DH working for
> another poultry company for 11+ years?? lol)
>
> Thank you again for thinking of me. It was really ugly
> all around us for a while, but we are all just fine.
>
I'm so happy to learn you were mostly unaffected. Have a
good trip to PA.
Beverly
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