Frightening disaster..

I woke up about 1130 am Tuesday morning and for some reason turned on Steve's radio. Normally I don't turn it on. As soon as I turned it on I heard traffic for a fire .. and a command post being setup. I figured it was just a vegetation fire. As I listened more I realized that this was not just a grass fire that this was serious, I go wake Steve up and tell him that something serious is going on down the road. So we get dressed and go see what is going on.

At about noon no roads were closed and we went down hwy 65 and sat about a mile down the road and I took some pictures of this huge rail car full of propane on fire at a propane distribution plant. Attached to it was three other full rail cars full of propane. This is when we realized that this might get ugly. We continued to watch and monitor the radio. About an hour later CHP pulls up and tells us we have to go cause they are shutting the hwy down. So we left and had lunch. Just as we are leaving lunch Steve gets a call from q friend that has a firefighter friend who said to get your stuff and get out. So we went home. Got our dogs and a few important things and we left.  Good thing cause they mandatory evacuated us about 30 minutes later. So we spent the rest of the day doing what we planned and that was finishing the girls school shopping and get their hair cut.

By this time it is about 5 pm and things have worsened and they have closed off 65 in every direction so we made our way to my dads house to let the dogs out of the car for awhile.  We found a room about 8 pm and got settled in and here we are. Still waiting to see what happens and when we get to go home. We weren't able to stay at the shelters due to having animals.

This has been rough. A lot of emotions have ran through me. And it sure has been scary and fruarrating. Not knowing when we can go home. I am hopeful that things are looking good, this crew from Texas and our firefighters have done a wonderful job keeping this tanker from blowing up and creating a huge disaster and keeping us from losing our home, we are literally less than 1/4 of a mile away.

So a huge thanks to all the workers out their risking their lives to save my home. <3