Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Memories.......

 

Needs more much more .

 

US Post Office Winthrop, Maine. 9:15 AM. Where my wife works. And STB thinks his post office has problems.

 

YIKES!

I think even STB would have to give a pass on these deliveries

 

Tell the boss no smoking at work.

 

OK, today is Tuesday after a Monday Federal Holiday. This means up to 3 days of checks being delivered to small business that might have just burned up at the Winthrop ME post office. If that happened, that would really be a huge hindrance to a small business seeing that you wont even know what incoming checks you didnt get for 2-5 weeks when doing collections calls. I wouldnt want to get our mail from there!!!

 

I liked that, but didn't want to.

 

I trust she is OK. any idea about the fire??????

 

Here's a news link

Fire destroys Winthrop post office - Central Maine

 

Yeah, I know.

 

Thanks.

 

Everyone working in the building is shook up but fine. The wife said she was casing her mail and heard someone say something about smoke. She turned around and saw smoke, and one guy climbed up to lift a ceiling tile to see if he could see something. About that time she saw flames and told him to get down, She watched the flames walk across the ceiling in a matter of seconds, and the building filled with smoke immediately, and at that point everyone started bailing out. The smoke alarms never went off until everyone was out of the building. It doesn't appear by the damage that the building had sprinklers, which I find hard to believe. The place is only 7 years old. ATF and the State Fire Marshals office are feuding over who has jurisdiction over the investigation but I think ATF will prevail on that being a Federal building. This is going to be a royal pain for all the carriers involved. They're going to be working out of a post office 12 miles away.

 

Very accurate, Geno.

 

Unfortunately so. Glad to hear the missus and everyone is OK

 

Are they arguing over who to blame for smoke detectors and possibly sprinklers that didnt appear to work? The building inspector and fire dept are likely making sure their records are in shape.

At least they can still work-that's an upside.

 

Might need a good stiff drink tonight after that experience.

 

Well, I'm just speculating here and don't know if the building had sprinklers or not, but like I said earlier, based on the damage it doesn't look like they did. Maybe they had an exemption? I don't know. The office I work in doesn't have them but it's not a new building. We house records that go back to the 1800's. We were in a sprinklered building and it either failed or froze and damaged a bunch of our records, so we were moved out.

 

She's not much of a drinker anymore. Gallons of soda though and a Red Bull.

 

I love the snow option on this site! It would be even cooler if it accumulated on the posts, eventually obscuring them. then you can click a plow truck to clean it up.