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Friday, January 20, 2006

DON'T CRY FOR ME, WINONA

I'm amazed I have three posts today. I guess it's the change in schedule that allows me to do some things on the blog that I wouldn't normally do on the air.

Milk Spill Floods Winona Street - from WCCO radio in the Twin Cities. Hold those tears because you're going to get dehydrated after reading this part. Pardon me if I can't tell if those tears are from laughter or sorrow:

"...the truck leaked about 1,000 gallons of milk which flowed into the gutter and storm sewer. Considered a hazardous material, the milk had to be cleaned up by a special crew that tried to remove as much milk as possible from the storm sewer..."
Lemme guess...1,000,000 cats...10,000 loaves of bread...5,000,000 cookies...

Hazardous material?

4 comments:

Brian from Cedar Rapids said...

Greg,

First, I love your show. I have spoken to you on the air several times. Keep up the good job!

Second, milk is considered a hazardous material when it enters a water source because it displaces the oxygen in the water which results in a fish kill.

Please check this article from Pennsylvania that includes such a reference.

http://live.psu.edu/story/4631

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Brian from Cedar Rapids said...

Greg,

I found another article on the internet about spilt milk haz-mat incidents.

http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?id=46778§ionId=45

Keep up the good job!