Manic Monday

This past Monday started off as any other Monday afternoon; an easy afternoon assignment followed by a couple of basketball games in the evening. After having finished editing a multimedia project, I made my way into the office arriving shortly after 2 p.m. and upon arrival I was prompted that a cement mixing truck had overturned in a ditch along a nearby highway. So I headed out to the intersection of Midway and Homedale roads to check it out and sure enough, a fully loaded semi had flipped off the road, landing in a muddy field adjacent to the intersection. It was pretty impressive to watch these two enormous tow trucks and roughly 10 guys work to yank the truck from the ditch.



After spending about an hour at the scene I decided I had seen enough and headed back into the office, where I was met by a co-worker who informed me that a cat had wandered into a transformer around 5 p.m., cutting off power to about 1,000 residents and the majority of downtown Nampa. I saddled up and went to check it out and sure enough, all the power was out, including all of the stop lights. I wandered around downtown for about half an hour snapping pictures of police officers directing rush-hour traffic through the busy city streets and the city employees scrambling to set up stop signs.



I rounded out the day with a city council meeting and a Idaho class 1A girls basketball game, so I guess you could say that the day started out much more exciting than it ended.

After spending the past two days skiing it is time to get back to work and today it looks like i'll be heading out to cover even more prep basketball, barring any vehicle rollovers or major power outages of course.

As always, thanks for looking!