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What A Day
13 years ago
Wow. That was quite the day.
Its already a couple days after Hurricane Isaac passed though Arkansas, and we have been pelted with rain every day since. Well today was the icing on the cake.
I was delivering pizzas for my store. Had been all day. About noon the rain started to fall. It came down hard and heavy, and thanks to the wind, sideways. It would rain for ten minutes, then clear up for five. Off and on like that all day. Though all this we kept delivering. Why? Because people want their pizza, and nobody should be on the road when the rain is so heavy that it looks like you're driving though milk. Then suddenly, around 7pm.. BAM. Lightning strikes the main power source for main street. 90% of our small town is suddenly out of power. The store's back up power kicks in, we still have enough juice in the computers to run another hour. Just enough time to deliver the pizzas that are already out of the oven. They hand me my last delivery of the night.
I take off for the delivery. It was in one of the more remote parts of town, down one of those famous country back roads. I start driving down till I'm suddenly stopped by a fell tree across the road. Well my little Honda certainly can't get over that....so I jump out, grab the lighter end of the tree, and with all my might, push it, pivoting the tree till it was on the side of the road. Still in the pouring rain, I jumped back into the car and started back down the road.
Less than a mile had passed when I started to smell smoke. Badly. I thought my car had a branch or something under it, so I jumped out again, looked under...spotted nothing. I looked up and look at that... a tree branch was leaning onto a power line, on fire, and looked like the line was the only thing holding it from falling onto a house. . I quickly ran to the door and banged on it. .... a couple times... till this elderly lady opened the door. I informed her of the tree and the danger. She thanked me and called 911. With that covered, I jumped back into my car and drove the rest of the way to the delivery.
They were thankful and tipped 10$.
When I was driving back, the fire truck was already there and had things taken care of. The old lady smiled and waved to me as I waved back. I made my way back to the store, cashed out, and was sent home two hours early. Not much work you can do when you're out of power.
What a day.
Its already a couple days after Hurricane Isaac passed though Arkansas, and we have been pelted with rain every day since. Well today was the icing on the cake.
I was delivering pizzas for my store. Had been all day. About noon the rain started to fall. It came down hard and heavy, and thanks to the wind, sideways. It would rain for ten minutes, then clear up for five. Off and on like that all day. Though all this we kept delivering. Why? Because people want their pizza, and nobody should be on the road when the rain is so heavy that it looks like you're driving though milk. Then suddenly, around 7pm.. BAM. Lightning strikes the main power source for main street. 90% of our small town is suddenly out of power. The store's back up power kicks in, we still have enough juice in the computers to run another hour. Just enough time to deliver the pizzas that are already out of the oven. They hand me my last delivery of the night.
I take off for the delivery. It was in one of the more remote parts of town, down one of those famous country back roads. I start driving down till I'm suddenly stopped by a fell tree across the road. Well my little Honda certainly can't get over that....so I jump out, grab the lighter end of the tree, and with all my might, push it, pivoting the tree till it was on the side of the road. Still in the pouring rain, I jumped back into the car and started back down the road.
Less than a mile had passed when I started to smell smoke. Badly. I thought my car had a branch or something under it, so I jumped out again, looked under...spotted nothing. I looked up and look at that... a tree branch was leaning onto a power line, on fire, and looked like the line was the only thing holding it from falling onto a house. . I quickly ran to the door and banged on it. .... a couple times... till this elderly lady opened the door. I informed her of the tree and the danger. She thanked me and called 911. With that covered, I jumped back into my car and drove the rest of the way to the delivery.
They were thankful and tipped 10$.
When I was driving back, the fire truck was already there and had things taken care of. The old lady smiled and waved to me as I waved back. I made my way back to the store, cashed out, and was sent home two hours early. Not much work you can do when you're out of power.
What a day.
Kymah
~kymah
you know what, your a hero, that old lady might of not known it till too late and got hurt or lost the house for a few days. alot of people would of kept going, that was so kind of you and delivering pizza like that was crazy, i dont think id be able too do that :P but its so awesome you were able to help those people
videogamer1217
~videogamer1217
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Thanks. You just got to do what you got to do. I was just doing what (I hope) any reasonable person would do. Plus, if she didn't answer, I was going to call 911 anyway.
Kymah
~kymah
yw :) saidly where i love they wouldnt care much, well most people, i blame technology :P lol no one pays attention much
