You can smell hot asphalt from three blocks away. But when you're standing next to 525-degree molten tar, that smell becomes everything.

Friday morning. New roofer Darrell claimed to be a journeyman. I believed him.

When it came time to fill the hi boy with hot asphalt, I trusted that he'd done his part. I pulled the rope.

Big mistake.

Ever trusted the wrong person at the worst possible time? πŸ”₯πŸ‘·β€β™‚οΈ

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525 Degrees of Truth: A Roofing Accident That Changed Everything

You can smell hot asphalt from three blocks away. But when you’re standing next to 525-degree molten tar, that smell becomes everything. The mid-June sun beat down on Timber Ridge Junior High…

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