Where's Coker?
Or rather, where's the coker?
So, I've decided I don't much care for the local news crew here. We (the bf and I) were watching the evening news one night in February when a story aired about a coker being transported out of town. For those of you who aren't familiar with petroleum refining processes and equipment, a coker is basically a really big cylindrical structure in a refinery.
Okay, so whoop-de-do, right? Turns out the bf thinks it would be fairly impressive to see them move this monstrosity down the city streets. After all, it is so big that they need to remove signal lights and turn street lights 90 degrees. I can see the validity of checking it out. Plus, we didn't have much else going on (we might as well be married given the excitement of our Friday nights).
The news reporter said that they were transporting the coker and that it had just turned down a particular road not to far from where we live. I finish up my little project and approximately 5 minutes after the airing of the report we leave the house. The route that the coker is scheduled to pass along is nicely laid out such that we basically cannot miss it. The map shown during the broadcast indicated that it would be traveling on the major roadway nearly in our backyard. If it travels an average of 15 km an hour (I would assume that is the highway speed) and was 5 km off when we heard the news, then we should be able to catch it - no problem.
And we now arrive at the point where I have decided I don't care very much for the local news. We could not "find" the convoy with a really big truck with an even bigger piece of industrial equipment strapped to it with a bunch of FLASHING LIGHTS. WTF? We saw the city management working to put back the street and signal lights though. Yeah, because (apparently) the newscast was pre-recorded but they didn't bother to tell us. Hey, the footage was dark. Who would think they would disrupt traffic any earlier than 11pm? I guess we were just to conclude that it couldn't possibly be a l-i-v-e news reports. Grrrr. Not a fan. Not at all.
So, I've decided I don't much care for the local news crew here. We (the bf and I) were watching the evening news one night in February when a story aired about a coker being transported out of town. For those of you who aren't familiar with petroleum refining processes and equipment, a coker is basically a really big cylindrical structure in a refinery.
Okay, so whoop-de-do, right? Turns out the bf thinks it would be fairly impressive to see them move this monstrosity down the city streets. After all, it is so big that they need to remove signal lights and turn street lights 90 degrees. I can see the validity of checking it out. Plus, we didn't have much else going on (we might as well be married given the excitement of our Friday nights).
The news reporter said that they were transporting the coker and that it had just turned down a particular road not to far from where we live. I finish up my little project and approximately 5 minutes after the airing of the report we leave the house. The route that the coker is scheduled to pass along is nicely laid out such that we basically cannot miss it. The map shown during the broadcast indicated that it would be traveling on the major roadway nearly in our backyard. If it travels an average of 15 km an hour (I would assume that is the highway speed) and was 5 km off when we heard the news, then we should be able to catch it - no problem.
And we now arrive at the point where I have decided I don't care very much for the local news. We could not "find" the convoy with a really big truck with an even bigger piece of industrial equipment strapped to it with a bunch of FLASHING LIGHTS. WTF? We saw the city management working to put back the street and signal lights though. Yeah, because (apparently) the newscast was pre-recorded but they didn't bother to tell us. Hey, the footage was dark. Who would think they would disrupt traffic any earlier than 11pm? I guess we were just to conclude that it couldn't possibly be a l-i-v-e news reports. Grrrr. Not a fan. Not at all.
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