CHAPTER 15
The Dog Ate My Shipment
(The Inconceivable Is Not So)
Vignette: Avalanches
Avalanches happen regularly in winter in the British Columbia Rockies.53 That morning, news of another avalanche near Lillooet did not attract my attention. Should it have?
I forgot that I had an order of 6 tons of liquid urethane shipped in 55-gallon steel drums on its way by train from Calgary to Vancouver Island via Vancouver and Nanaimo.
I did not count on avalanches.
This latest avalanche near Lillooet cut off the train tracks and destroyed my shipment; moreover, it delayed train traffic by a week. I was facing a factory shutdown because of lack of this essential raw material for my polyurethane hydraulic-seal production process. To compound the problem, ...
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