I didn't make it into work yesterday, because a truck ran into my train. It hit about car 2, I was in car 4 and didn't notice anything except some noise in the wheel wells and the immediate smell of fuel. So they stopped the train, and we all got out in the middle of a marsh and they returned us to Davis, then to Sacramento.
The truck was completely mangled. The front of it was just sort of disintigrated and the engine block, the only thing up front that survived, was sitting in the middle of the road.
Made me glad to get home and enjoy my family for the rest of the day.
Moral: Never mess with trains.
3/19 Update:
Here's a more detailed article with a picture of the truck.
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