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Miscellaneous => The Orphanage => Topic started by: Magnum on January 10, 2015, 07:00:21 PM

Title: Fireworks in 18 wheeler
Post by: Magnum on January 10, 2015, 07:00:21 PM
http://abcnews.go.com/US/huge-highway-pile-triggers-fireworks-evacuation/story?id=28113629

A eighteen wheeler has a lot of steel.

So I am wondering what set off the fireworks.

It may one of those cases where the reporter did minimal research. :-)
Title: Re: Fireworks in 18 wheeler
Post by: dedndave on January 11, 2015, 02:16:17 AM
2 really bad pile-ups in Michigan on the same day
one near Kalamazoo (SW Mich), the other near Ann Arbor (SE Mich)
Title: Re: Fireworks in 18 wheeler
Post by: Gunther on January 11, 2015, 11:30:03 AM
Quote from: Magnum on January 10, 2015, 07:00:21 PM
http://abcnews.go.com/US/huge-highway-pile-triggers-fireworks-evacuation/story?id=28113629

The images are very impressive. It must be a hard winter this year in the US.

Gunther
Title: Re: Fireworks in 18 wheeler
Post by: dedndave on January 12, 2015, 04:39:06 AM
it wouldn't seem as much snow as last year, but very cold up there this year
Michigan is where i grew up - have many relatives and friends there