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Well, I had a couple of days of exciting business meetings in CA. Despite all that, I couldn’t wait to get home. I really am not one of those types who loves to travel. I don’t know why. I suppose I just like my ability to work in the comfort of my own home. Imagine my enthusiasm when Em calls me to tell me the only road to our house has been closed off indefinitely due to an explosion at the water treatment plant.

Apparently, a tanker offloaded some chemicals into a wrong tank and created a chemical reaction. This resulted in a chlorine explosion. Yep! Chlorine! They evacuated the south shore campers at Carter Lake and about 500 residents. I didn’t even know we had 500 residents here.

Anyway, I had to navigate a back road from Estes Park. The normal route was completely blocked off. When I got to the back road intersection around 1:30am, it was blocked, but I managed to get through. There was no one standing there to stop me. The HazMat crews were still working at the plant.

Besides the obvious inconvenience and scare, the explosion has left me with no T1 Internet access. I have been having some chronic issues and had spoken to MegaPath earlier in the day. They had noticed an extraordinary number of tech calls over the past 6 months. They decided to put pressure on AT&T and Quest to fix things. That sounded great, with one small problem. The trucks couldn’t get to equipment. One end of our T1 is obviously at our house. The other is next to the treatment plant. So, here I am online via the Satellite backup and without VOIP capabilities.

What can I say? Never a dull moment in my life

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