Grass fire caused by electrocuted raccoon

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) - The Salt Lake City Fire Department fought to gain control of a two-alarm grass fire Friday morning.

The fire was called in just after 5:00 a.m. at 1745 South milestone Drive on Salt Lake City's west side.

Crews were able to get the fire under control very quickly.

Crews said the fire was caused by a raccoon that crawled onto a power line and was electrocuted.

No structures were threatened.

http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story/SLC-grass-fire-caused-be-electrocuted-raccoon/iyMdRccimE6fAgb0NsawnQ.cspx

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News stories seems to disappear so I copied it just in case!

Steve and I were watching the news and this came on. Made us both laugh so hard. We're huge animal lovers and of course, we feel bad for the raccoon but you have to admit... that is hilarious.

Six for Saturday: Hurricane Irene

1. My dad parked his truck next to the house to protect it from any falling trees. In any other circumstance, I would poke fun at him for being redneck with his truck on the lawn.

2. My grandma in Hampton hasn't really gotten much even though South Hampton was evacuated.

3. My parents have been without power most of the day, but have a generator, so don't feel too bad for them.

4. A little boy near my parents was crushed to death when a tree fell on his house. I told them to all stay downstairs, as if they didn't know.

5. I'm super happy that it is weakening and has recently dropped to a category one.

6. The mail was delivered on time. Rain or shine. Hurricane or not...

I'm awesome x2

I'm a good worker. I've been pretty bitchy lately towards customers though.

Apparently, I'm still doing something right because I got two praises this week.

#1. Lady came up to customer service super annoyed that we didn't have a book that she saw mentioned in three different magazines up front on display. She couldn't remember what it was called. She didn't know who the author was. She told me the cover was yellow, and that it was a fiction book for gamers. That if you were a gamer you would find all the references in the story funny. She wanted to get it for her son. That seriously gives me NOTHING to go on. I told her I hadn't heard of it and she started to walk away while getting ready to text or call someone. I told her I would keep looking and asked her what magazine she read it in. She stood nearby trying to contact whoever while I pulled up the magazine's website. After a few minutes I found what I thought it might be and she said that was it and asked if I had it. I did. It was in the back room ready to go for a display next week. The cover was not yellow. It was red with orange writing. Anyway, she told the cashier how super helpful I was when she was so vague and was singing my praises. My manager talked to me about it later. :)

#2. Lady called to ask me to change her order for a program we're doing right now, but she wanted a book that our warehouses were super low on. When they get super low on a high demand title, they stop letting us order it. So I told her I couldn't get that one and asked if she wanted anything else instead of what she ordered. She didn't. We hung up. I checked on it again later and the publisher had sent the warehouses more so it was available again. Her name was super easy to remember so I looked her up, ordered the one she wanted and called her to inform her and ended up leaving a message. She called back later to thank me and cancel the original while keeping the new one I had placed. I couldn't cancel the original without her permission. She then asked to talk to my manager and he later came to tell me about it and what a good job I was doing.

Go me! Now I kind of feel bad for being in such a bad mood with the others. If they would just learn to watch their children! That's all I ask! Being appreciated has put me in a better mood with them though. :)

Relay

My department relay (moving everything around) is just about done. Some cascade shelving we were waiting on finally came in. I'm still missing an entire fixture as well as a few shelves though. Once those come in, we'll be done! Hooray!

It was a lot of work. A LOT OF WORK.

My partner and I started it early one morning (4 hours before opening) to get a good start on it. That really didn't happen. We would have gotten so so so much more done had the managers called sooner to fix the scanners. The next day one of them finally called and boom, instant scanning. Not waiting and hoping for 30 seconds that you would get a response instead of asking you to reconnect to the system which takes a good 60 - 90 seconds itself. We scanned about 1,000 books that day just trying to sort them into their new categories as we moved things. Had our scanners worked properly, we could have gotten 10,000 scanned. And at least 5 more areas done than we did.

I was annoyed for an entire week that it took a 5 minute phone call to fix the issue. It wasted our time. It wasted the company's time.

Once it was fixed the next day I got the same amount done as my partner and I had done in a whole day in half a day by myself!

Moral of my ramblings the story, make sure you have properly working equipment before taking on a MAJOR project.

Six for Saturday: Things my sister and I did

My sister came to visit me 2 weeks ago. Here are some of the things we did

1. We went to Lagoon. I got sunburned a lot. She only got a little (because she's so tan).

2. We played board games and had a blast!

3. I was the big sister that showed her little sister a cool, new hairstyle.

4. We both played laser tag for the first time.

5. We went shopping at the biggest outdoor mall I've ever seen.

6. We laughed a ton!

Six for Sunday: Staying Cool

1. Drink lots of water! Staying hydrated is important! Make it ice water for the cool factor

2. Get A/C or a swamp cooler. A/C is better. If you can get neither, buy a fan. If that's not good enough, buy a bag of ice, put it in a shallow bowl and put it in front of the fan.

3. If you have no cooling system, put fans in your windows at night. Be sure to close all your windows by 10 AM.

4. Keep the blinds or curtains shut during the heat of the day.

5. Go to a movie. :)

6. Play in the water. Sprinklers, pools, water parks, heck, even the shower.

August... wow

Where has the time gone?! I can't believe summer is almost over!!!

33 days until my birthday, in case you lost count. ;)

55 days until our anniversary. Haha multiples of 11

Being the first, it's time to write my rent check, and I hate it. I would much rather be putting that towards a house payment. I want to buy a house. Like yesterday. But we'll be moving much too soon for that to happen.

Then again, at the rate things are going, Steve may be 30 before he joins the Air Force. It's been another two weeks since he was supposed to finally go to MEPs and do all that other stuff.

The doctor flagged him for having a reaction to blue cheese. He's actually allergic to penicillin, but the mold in blue cheese (penicillium) is similar to it and so it makes him throw up whenever he does eat it. So he had to write out what happens when he eats it, and get it notarized. Seriously. I get being cautious, but 2+ weeks to approve that? It's ridiculous.

I want to know how long until he goes to basic, but they won't even give us an estimate until he goes through MEPs. I'm very frustrated and ready to give up. Of course, he's not and it's his career and so it continues.