Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Sioux Center fire



Yesterday, an ethanol truck was loading it on the train and it exploded. My dad was in town and said that you could see the flames from a long ways off. They had to evacuate lots of buildings close by including the mall. Apparently there the train car by it was filled w/ some stuff and they were afraid it was going to blow too. I go a picture of the train car today. The orange is from the flame. You can see were the truck that was holding the ethanol was. The ends are still there but the middle is gone. As far as I've heard, no one was killed. It might be in the news over there too.





I started violin lessons today. I really like my teacher (Jennifer). She is really nice and she also teaches viola. She has a small son and is expecting. I think I'll like her a lot.





I promised picture of me in that one dress so here is one. I also liked this picture so I'm putting it in.

7 comments:

Sarah said...

I love your dress!

Hanna said...

i think the bridge collapse in msp overshadowed the tanker explosion

Becka said...

Probably. Expecially since no one was killed. We finally got rain yesterday after over a month of no rain. Everyone down here is very happy.

Hanna said...

i saw more rain in 5 days then i saw in eau claire in two months when we were in scotland. and i saw about 10 rainbows. they were very pretty

Lisabeth said...

That sounds scary! :( I liked the dress a lot! Paula got her Prom/Winter Carnival dress at Savers for $20 a week ago. I'll have to get her to put up a picture of her in it on her blog! I liked the pic of you and your cat! I love cats! Thanks for calling us yesterday it was really awesome to hear from you again!
<3Elisabeth

P said...

hey that dress is really cool! sorry we couldn't make it to see you when you were in rochester. tennis is about to start here and i am really excited though it means that school is about to begin. i really need to get a move on on the ap land and comp assignments considering one is due on the 9th. hope to hear from you soon!
paula

Becka said...

Have fun w/ your assignments. It's ok that you couldn't come. It would be nice if we got more rain. That one rain really helped our garden.