Adventures

A tanker truck flipped over just before 6am this morning in Abbotsford spilling 22,500 litres of gas and diesel fuel. The fuel entered the storm drainage system and over 400 homes had to be evacuated. Schools and businesses were closed. The evacuation was lifted sometime this evening and the families were allowed to return to their homes. Wow! My mom's best friends lives really close to where it happened so she had to be evacuated. They came to her door and told her that her and her family had to leave immediatly. Even though I feel bad for all the work that the emergency crews had to do and for all the people who had to leave their homes there is a huge part of me that wishes that I was one of the people that was evacuated. It seems like a kind of adventure. It's definately not something that happens everyday.
I just love when things happen that are completely out of the ordinary. A couple of years ago I was over at Shannon's house when a neighbour came and started pounding on their door. It had been POURING rain all day and the street that runs beside their house was flooded. REALLY FLOODED!!! The water was in danger of pouring into their basement. Aaron and I went outside to take a look. The leaves were clogging all the drains so the water had to where to go. We walked all the way down to Mac's in the pouring rain unclogging the drains as we went. By the time we got back to Shannon's house we were completely drenched from head to toe. But it was so much fun. That for sure doesn't happen every day.
I just love adventure I guess. Even though neither one of these things is really that huge it is still something different....out of the ordinary.

Now for something different. My car has been acting funny for about a week now....not accelerating properly, making noise, and steam rising from the hood. I was dropping Aaron off at his house the other day and it started smoking really bad. We opened the hood and saw that it was coming from near the rad.That evening I went over to my parents house and my dad took a look at it. He checked the fluid levels.....no oil.....no anti-freeze.....WUPS!!! My dad spent half an hour trying to get the temperature down so it would be safe for me to drive it home. Tonight I drove it to the shop. They are looking at it tomorrow morning. On the way down my car wouldn't stop shaking. The smoke coming out of the tail pipe wreeked of anti-freeze. My dad thinks I'm going to have to replace part of my engine. OUCH!!!! If anyone reads this can you pray that it doesn't cost a fortune to fix and that no permanent damage has been done. If I have to replace my engine I might as well just buy a new car.....and I do not have the money for that. It wouldn't really be so bad if the whole thing wasn't my fault. Why didn't I remember to check the fluids. I guess I'll never forget now. Maybe I should just see it as yet another adventure...