News Flash: It Is Sleeting

News Flash: It is 8:00 P.M. and it has been sleeting tiny frozen pellets for the last hour. If it keeps up it will be bad driving in the morning. The forecast is for the temps to rise and the sleet to turn to rain.The D.C. metro area is suppose to get about three inches of rain in 12 hours time. Flood warnings are now being advised. But if it keeps sleeting, it will be a different scenario. These are the days you sleep well knowing that you don't have to do the early commute into work. Ahhhhhhhhhhh-----blessed are the retired.

Go Here For Your Sunday Sermon

News Flash: Patty Lincoln has just posted on her blog the most amazing Sunday sermon! Someone had emailed the sermon to her. You won't regret taking time to click on her blog and reading this post. Wow! I love it!

Click here: http://oldladylincoln.blogspot.com/2009/09/received-this-in-e-mail.html

Thank you Patty. Terrific blogpost.

News Flash

News Flash: You must go to Denise's blog to see the cutest photos of a little boy in a Scotish kilt dancing at a Scotish festival. Too, too cute! Click here: http://anenglishgirlrambles.blogspot.com/2009/09/wee-scottish-lad.html

News Flash: Haymarket Housefires!

News Flash: Townhouses Burning in Haymarket, VA

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

See the white smoke in this photo. Townhouses are on fire in Haymarket, VA. Jack and I noticed the huge cloud of black smoke rising in the air when we were on Linton Hall Road near Gateway Shopping Center.

We followed the black smoke home and found Prince William County police vehicles and Prince William County firetrucks and ambulances racing to the scene. Our neighbor Art said that he could see both the flames and the black smoke all the way back in Centerville, VA which is in Fairfax County.

We became ambulance chasers and went pass our house to the lovely brick townhouses further down the street. There we saw two hook and ladder units raised and spraying water on the flames. Click on the photo above and you will see the red flames of fire shooting out from a second floor window.

Jack counted over 12 firetrucks at the scene with just as many ambulances and police vehicles. I noticed one firetruck was from the Lake Manassas Fire Station which is clear over on the southeast side of Manassas. (We live directly northwest of Manassas.)

Here you can see the long hoses strung from a fire hydrant to the hook and ladder unit to spray water on the flames.

Here comes another firetruck to fight the fire. Hope to know more about this by tomorrow.

Update: Dickie walked over with Bev and she said that they could see that the heat from the fires had melted the vinyl siding on the townhouse across the street. Dickie also told me that she said some neighbors standing on the street said that they heard a very loud explosion so maybe the cause is a gas leak of some type. But this is just hearsay. We don't know and will not know for awhile. The good news is that we think all residents were able to escape the burning houses and a pet dog was later rescued.

I'm Getting Me A Gun!!

News Flash!

Drats, drats, double drats! The deer are back in the yard again and this time they had a gourmet meal of the yellow mums that I had just stuck in the gound ten days ago. Drats, drats, double drats! I'm getting me a gun!

Bambi, lookout!