Penguin
9/17/2008, 06:21 PM
Whew! I finally have power. I just got it back about an hour ago. Ahh. Sweet a/c.
Friday, my lights started going on and off from 2am until about 5:30. Then, the power finally went out completely. So, I opened my bedroom window and I went to bed.
I got up around 11 and started setting up my hurricane supplies. Around noon, as I was enjoying a tuna fish sandwich with my still-cold mayo, I heard a boom. I didn't think anything of it. I was hearing transformers blowing up all night long and I just assumed it was one that was still holding on. Well, then fire trucks started rolling down my street. Then, police. Then, a crowd started gathering. I had no idea what was going on. My patio is next to the street and I couldn't help but hear people yelling and screaming. Some dude standing next to my open patio door yelled, "Grab my video camera!" That sure got my attention.
I finally decide to go out the door. People were running out of my apartment complex and going to the street. I saw my upstairs neighbor and I asked, "What's going on?" She said, "The apartment complex across the street just blew up!"
Luckily, I had my trusty cell phone with a fancy camera.
http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr297/OUpenguin/Picture008-1.jpg
See the building on the left? There used to be an exact duplicate right next to it. It is gone. Completely. Nothing left but a pile of burning rubble. What you don't see are the tarps on the street covering up bodies and body parts blown into the street. I'm not sure why I didn't take a picture of that. I know that I would be pretty disturbed if I actually had that on my hard drive.
I've heard 3 different stories from 3 different police officers. One said that it was a natural gas explosion. One said that somebody hooked up some sort of generator incorrectly. Another said that a dying smoker accidentally set off his own oxygen tanks.
Of course with Ike, this wasn't even mentioned on the news. On a slow news day, I'm sure that all of the news choppers would have been flying over all day.
Friday, my lights started going on and off from 2am until about 5:30. Then, the power finally went out completely. So, I opened my bedroom window and I went to bed.
I got up around 11 and started setting up my hurricane supplies. Around noon, as I was enjoying a tuna fish sandwich with my still-cold mayo, I heard a boom. I didn't think anything of it. I was hearing transformers blowing up all night long and I just assumed it was one that was still holding on. Well, then fire trucks started rolling down my street. Then, police. Then, a crowd started gathering. I had no idea what was going on. My patio is next to the street and I couldn't help but hear people yelling and screaming. Some dude standing next to my open patio door yelled, "Grab my video camera!" That sure got my attention.
I finally decide to go out the door. People were running out of my apartment complex and going to the street. I saw my upstairs neighbor and I asked, "What's going on?" She said, "The apartment complex across the street just blew up!"
Luckily, I had my trusty cell phone with a fancy camera.
http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr297/OUpenguin/Picture008-1.jpg
See the building on the left? There used to be an exact duplicate right next to it. It is gone. Completely. Nothing left but a pile of burning rubble. What you don't see are the tarps on the street covering up bodies and body parts blown into the street. I'm not sure why I didn't take a picture of that. I know that I would be pretty disturbed if I actually had that on my hard drive.
I've heard 3 different stories from 3 different police officers. One said that it was a natural gas explosion. One said that somebody hooked up some sort of generator incorrectly. Another said that a dying smoker accidentally set off his own oxygen tanks.
Of course with Ike, this wasn't even mentioned on the news. On a slow news day, I'm sure that all of the news choppers would have been flying over all day.