Who knew gas tanks were plastic?

So on my way home today from the YRC I had a major car malfunction...the gas tank exploded. It was not a blow up the car kind of explosion just a shake the car have to pull over kind. So here I was just coming in Auburn and I hear this horrible noise and the car starts to shake and then slow down. Yes, lucky me! Anyway I pull over by the grace of god no one was behind or beside me at that point and I was safely able to get over to the shoulder of the freeway. Of course this had to happen on one of the busiest stretches of highway, again see how lucky I am! So I pull over and get out of the car, not something I would recommend but I needed to see what happened. I figure it was gas leaking out of my car by the smell and decide it would be best to turn the car off, move away from it and call AAA. As I was trying to explain stuff to AAA my mother came driving up the same stretch of highway, she never leaves work early but again by the grace of god she did and came to my rescue. While on the phone with AAA they decided that I have a major issue and called highway patrol (remember I'm on a really bad area of the freeway) and the local fire department plus made me a priority pick up. If I knew having my gas tank want to explode would get this much attention, I would have had it happen along time ago. So the hot fire fighters show up and clear my car for tow. Yes I gawked they were in uniform and for the most part pretty hot. The tow truck shows up and I had 10 minutes to get my car to the shop before they close along with every rental car company in Auburn. Needless to say the car was dropped off at the shop and I got a rental car.....day was just not going to get any better. While talking to the dealer about my strange gas tank, he stated that "gas tanks are plastic now didn't you know!" Yeah guy I knew that couldn't you tell my dumb expression on my face!!!!!

They will rebuild!

They are going to rebuild along with most of their neighbors. Great news!!! I went over to their house to see what I could do,look through rubble or move metel from the RV, sheds and other machines. I found my uncle there already making plans. Plans to bring in dirt and tractors this week, to make it right somehow again. Sad thing is my grandparents still have not been in to see the wreckage, it's just too much for them.
They will rebuild their lives.

Fire Nightmare

On Sunday there was a horrible fire in North Auburn and boy was it scary. I will start from the beginning..I met a "new" guy for lunch, don't worry he was not the ONE. We met at Chevy's, a common ground for both of us. I'm not going to say it was the worst date I have ever been on but really where are all the non weird guys. Well this guy was odd, he hardly talked and was okay with that and for 38 he was pretty immature. Can't a girl find a guy who is over their ex's, geesh. So back to my story, we were leaving Chevy's an hour and a half later when I saw this huge cloud of black smoke (means structure fire), stomach turned to knots and I wanted to throw up. I knew that it was close to my house based on the smoke. I said goodbye to this "new" guy that was already "old" and left for my house. I called my mom, freaking out that I would not make it home to get my cat. At that point 49 was moving slow and I was having a hard time getting to my road...driving half in the lane and half on the dirt, I blew past all the fire trucks on my road. I made it home just in time to be told to evacuate, I told them I would just be a minute and ran for the cat, computer and new camera. In the 5 minutes it took to catch the cat the fire was already close to the house. I throw everything I could into the car and ran for the safe zone. I continued to pray that everything would still be standing when the nightmare ended. I went to my mom's and started watching the news, boy was it on every channel. On the channel we were watching it was showing neighborhoods that were a total loss, at that point I realized it was my grandparent neighborhood. I immediately began calling family looking for my grandparents, no one knew anything except that they were not home when this nightmare started. Eventually my dad went up to the neighborhood and I was right everything was a total loss. Where had the fire fighter been, how do you lose 60 houses in under an hour?