You rang?
Posted on 02/26/2014 1:33:32 PM PST by kjam22
OKLAHOMA CITY - Emergency crews have stopped a tanker truck that spilled syrup along Interstate 44 in Oklahoma City.
At about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oklahoma City emergency crews responded to a large syrup spill along the westbound lanes of I-44 from the Belle Isle Bridge to the I-240 area.
Crews shut down the right lane of westbound Interstate 44 between N.W. 36th Street and S.W. 89th Street after discovering the spill Wednesday morning. The highway patrol says crews are bringing in sand to help clean up the slippery mess.
The semi truck leaking the syrup has been stopped on I-44 near S.W. 119th Street and has been made aware of the situation.
Authorities say the tanker was hauling 48,000 gallons of syrup to a Braum's restaurant. Police say the driver apparently drove for miles without noticing the leaking syrup.
Authorities say the spill is not considered an environmental hazard, but the sticky substance is making roads slippery. The lane closure is expected to last throughout the morning as the Department of Transportation applies sand to the road.
Bob Mills SkyNews 9 HD flew over the scene. Pilot Jim Gardner said syrup is still leaking out of the back of the truck. As of 8:30 a.m., Gardner said traffic is moving along just fine in the area.
Where’s Rachel Corrie when you need her? Oh! Never mind!
Slippin and a Slidin.........like the old song, lol.
His "Dances with Clams" theme is still going strong...
Any way, years ago, a similar accident happened outside his establishment, so he sent his people out with stacks of pancakes, and he managed to get himself on the local news putting the syrup on flapjacks.
Braum’s has the best hand dipped ice cream ever.
..*smiles*..that was a funny episode...
Haha, what do they dip it in, syrup?
You rang?
No trailer carries 48,000 gallons, I hope.”
Being blond, senior and a female doesn’t allow me to know much about sizes but, even with all these handicaps, seems to me like something that would hold 48,000 gallons of anything would be one huge wide load.
Well, maybe......
Toooo funny. You made my day. Thanks!!!
So how many pancakes would you have to have made before all this was gone?
“So how many pancakes would you have to have made before all this was gone?”
At one tablespoon per pancake,
12,288,000 pancakes.
Thanks to someone who is obviously a great mathematician!
That is just a whole lot of Aunt Jemimah Pancake mix to be stirring up to take care of the amount of syrup that the reporter says was in this one truck. Just think if I had that much syrup I could invite four million of my closest friends to breakfast.
Just toooo cute. You all are so talented. Thanks.
The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150. The event has entered local folklore, and for many decades residents claimed that on hot summer days, the area still smelled of molasses
Lol
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