We've been hearing bits and pieces on our radio scanner where a big transport truck had an accident there between P & J's and the nursing home, (Howard) is turned over, and spilled about 38,000 gallons of diesel fuel. We do not know of the details at this time..............
Lois, have you heard anymore about the overturned tanker?
From what I understand now, it didn't actually spill the 38,000 gallons, but that was what it was hauling. The last little bit I heard was that it was leaking just a little bit.
No, what we've been hearing now is calls for wreckers for vehicles that are off in the ditch in Elk County.
Mother, you and Lois sound just like a TV news anchor and the street reporter.
Yeah, the reporter has the information and the anchor is trying to pull it out of her.
When I came home from school (about 1 pm) the tanker was lying in the ditch on the Twilight Manor side. It had been headed south. The tanker itself didn't look damaged, the truck cab was definitely dented.
Ta, Ta and Momma Wilma.......I think I may have missed my calling! :laugh: :laugh:
Me, too. We got more information from you than we ever see on TV or in the paper.
I may be wrong, but I was thinking that highway transports carried more like 7500 gallons of product.
And here is a picture of that truck . . .
This really is better than other news medias. With me as anchor, Lois as reporter and Mom70X7 as photographer, we should get an award of some kind.
:laugh: Do you think we could get the Pu-ul-l-itzer Award? :laugh: Don and I had a laugh out of your posting.
Nothing is impossible.
Independence Reporter
February 1, 2007
TANKER TRUCK OVERTURNS IN ELK COUNTY
The Kansas Highway Patrol investigated an accident involving a tanker truck that rolled over on Highway 99 in Howard in Elk County Wednesday.
A 1998 Kenworth tractor owned by Murphy Oil Company of Moline and driven by Kevin Tastove, 43, of Cottonwood Falls, was hauling diesel fuel and reportedly returning to the Moline area from El Dorado at about 11 a.m. when the truck overturned because of the slick roadways, according to the KHP Tastove reported that a car in front of him was slowing to turn and he was unable to stop in time, causing him to go off into the ditch and overturn.
There was "minimal leakage" from the tanker, according to Trooper Kelly McIntosh, and another truck was called in to pump off the diesel fuel before it was righted and hauled away by Daves Wrecker Service.
There were no injuries.
You 3 ladies are just the Cats Meow!
WOW~~~ This is better than FOX NEWS! :o
I think I'm going to set back and see what other news you 3 can come up with..
Ok...
I'm ready...............
BRING IT ON~
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Okay - search for some news for me. It's too late for pictures, but I'd like to know if the story is true . . .
A hay bale fell off a (tractor? trailer? wagon? ???) on Highway 400 Wednesday. They weren't able to get the bale back on (the vehicle it fell from ???), so the bale of hay was set on fire.
True? I heard it from a secretary who heard it from a friend who heard it from a driver. :-\
Do you know about where this happened? I can have my daughter watch for any signs of it when she comes out Sat.
I had not heard that or seen anything like that. It is doubtful that they would set the hay on fire as it takes a long, long time for hay bales to burn. If they couldn't get it back on they would roll it off into the ditch or maybe sell it to a farmer who could pick it up with a stabber thing. How's that for knowing what to call stuff???
Don & I didn't recall of hearing anything about that on our scanner radio,either, and I quickly searched on the internet, and in a couple of newspapers, and found nothing. If that did actually happen, it must not have been very newsworthy.
Thanks, super reporters :angel:, for checking it out.
It would have been absolutely funny if it were true. Very, very Kansan. I wanted to rush right out and take a picture of the burning bale - or the remains - but I didn't know where it happened, either, other than on Highway 400.
Oh well . . .
Last winter they burned most of a load of hay on 169 highway North of Cherryvale. A load ended up in the ditch on both sides of the highway and they threw a match. Of course last year hay was worth a fraction of what it is this winter.
Quote from: Mom70x7 on February 03, 2007, 02:52:45 PM
Thanks, super reporters :angel:, for checking it out.
It would have been absolutely funny if it were true. Very, very Kansan. I wanted to rush right out and take a picture of the burning bale - or the remains - but I didn't know where it happened, either, other than on Highway 400.
Oh well . . .
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Sighhh.. Oh well, there will be many more other times that you will get to play "Lois Lane".