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I am working on a photo gallery that you get to from our home page
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Its address will be
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So I forgot to post this back when it happened but here it is anyway. There was an accident on I15 South on my way home back on the 11th of June. There are these trucks here that haul rocks around to the various construction sites in the valley. They're pretty big and heavy and they even run them doubled-up. Well one of them took a little spill on the highway just South of Tropicanna on the right side. It happened just before I got there. I was four cars back from it when the truck caught fire.

The initial fire and smoke

In this shot you can see all the smoke. I also like the PVC roll bars the guy in front of me has on his Suzuki. That'll really keep his head on if he rolls, but back to the crash.

A closer shot of that fine "roll bar" and the smoke.

A couple of fire trucks showed up and put it out pretty quickly. There was an ambulance but they never loaded anyone up so that's good. You can now see the truck below. That police car was not visible till they got the fire out.

After the fire was put out.

And here we have the final result of the crash and fire. I don't know what he hit. He may have just "burst into flames!" as Eric would put it. ( he thinks that's why there are no animals around here. He thinks that if they come out of their burrows during the day they will "burst into flames" in the desert heat. He went to college too. )

The aftermath

All told, it took 20 minutes to go from crash, stop traffic, get the fire truck there, put it out and get things moving again. Pretty quick I say. And, as far I could tell, no one got hurt. Even better.

This was the one line that had Josh irritated. I think it was used three times. I went with the Stroders to see the move Transformers on Thursday night.

As a kid I thought the cartoon sucked as bad as anything could suck. I just can't stand cookie-cutter plots and crappy art. The Transformers had both. Josh could argue on this at length, but, that show is his thing. He can have it. I grew up on Robotech, Star Blazers, Speed Racer and Voltron (the one with the lions and NOT the one from the DMV).

The movie was great, in my opinion. And, they totally ripped Las Vegas a new one with the fight scenes. At least I think it's Vegas. Not the strip, but down town Vegas maybe. They do show some skyscrapers though. I don't think there is anything here bigger than the hotels on the strip. In any case there was no shortage of robots. Whether they be just tooling around, talking, transforming, fighting, being philosophical and destroying buildings.

There were no FX teases in this one. The transformation scenes are pretty elaborate and complex. They do not transform as easily as the toys do. I think you would need a degree in physics to completely get it.

If you want to see a movie where great big robots completely destroy a place in the name of fighting their enemies, and do so with the coolest looking weapons and high-speed action, this is it. This movie is definitely entertainment. I know there are those (Josh) that would like to see things kept in their purest form as they saw them when growing up. I just look at it for what it is, a movie. Technology, time constraints, actors and audience demographics are what determine the final product. I think they did fine.