Boom

[mmcirvin]

I stayed up way, way too late last night messing around on the Internet. Between two and three AM, before going to bed, I was taking an overdue dump and heard sort of a muffled boom, and the window rattled. I wondered for a few minutes what had happened--it was a little like a sudden gust of wind, but everything seemed calm afterward. I went to bed and didn't think any more of it.

This morning, everyone was talking about this. Note, I am within a few miles of the New Hampshire border.

The governor was speaking of a "Thanksgiving miracle". It was amazingly fortunate that nobody was killed or even seriously hurt, but I don't suppose that when your house gets caved in by an ink factory exploding down the street, you regard it as particularly miraculous.

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[adw3345.livejournal.com]

I was taking an overdue dump and heard sort of a muffled boom, and the window rattled.

I don't really have anything to add to the factory explosion, but I do like quoting the above out of context.

-Derrick

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Since my co-workers had had a similar reaction to the spoken-word version of this narrative, I decided to release this straight line to the world as a public good, because I love you all.

I was thinking about working the fact of an actual explosion in an ink factory into some sort of crack about NaNoWriMo, but my heart wasn't in it.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I was taking an overdue dump

I must say that i did a double-take when i read this. Your verbiage is normally so genteel...

Exploding Buildings

[ammenemes3.livejournal.com]

I once had a building across the street from me explode after having filled up with natural gas (apparently from a leaking stove or something). I was sitting reading in a room on the opposite side from the explosion and suddenly heard a loud *BOOM* and I felt the house shift deeply within its foundation and all the windows rattled.

Subsequently, all the light pouring in from the window adjacent to me (which faced the opposite side of the house from the explosion) acquired an eerie orangish pallor. I ran downstairs and out the front door to see what had happened and encountered a towering column of flame easily four stories tall.

Easily Dante's Inferno type material.

So, ah, that sort of stuff can be pretty scary. In my case nobody was hurt (a miracle!) by the explosion, but the owners of the home that exploded had to deal with a complete and utter lack of home when they returned.

So it goes.

Re: Exploding Buildings

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Sam once slept through a bomb going off in a church down the street while she was visiting Lithuania.

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

I could not help but be reminded of the Jonathan Coulton song (http://www.jonathancoulton.com/lyrics/the-big-boom), inspired by a similar experience.