Re: mopar collection narrowly avoids disaster

[Doug Daniel <dougdaniel50@xxxxxxxxx>]

i am glad for you ,,,and happy too hear all is safe 

--- On Sun, 6/28/09, neal zimmerman <neal.zimmerman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: neal zimmerman <neal.zimmerman@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: mopar collection narrowly avoids disaster
> To: "1962to1965mopars" <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 9:26 PM
> wow, what a day.
>   Had a grass fire here on the ranch and the flames
> got 20 feet from
> the Mopar barn. I was out there trying to fight it all with
> the garden
> hose when   the  pumper trucks and the
> fire chief showed up .  Found
> out the cause was two live wires dangling  on the
> adjacent tractor
> shed blowing around in the wind. apparently hanging there
> live for
> years and just the right conditions of  dry
> grass  and  heavy winds
> to   make them cross and throw sparks .
>    I was alerted by  thirty screaming
> cows all bellering it up, all
> upset. I  came outside to see what all the commotion
> was and " what
> the f.......Oh geeez".
>    somebody down the road must have called
> it in, i was mighty glad to
> see those guys.
> 
>     The tractor barn  got a  corner
> burned out of it , and lots of
> scorched earth.
>   and to think I decided to not go in to work today,
> Had I  gone the
> whole place would have burned .
>   My Mopars live on to fight another day.
> 
>    And lets not forget to be grateful for
> fire fighters , we talk
> about veterans a lot,  but often overlook those guys.
>   neal zimmerman, eugene oregon
>