Boom!
Posted By Ardellis on November 23, 2006
Our house is, according to Google Maps, 1.3 miles from the site of this explosion yesterday morning. Yes, it woke us up. No, there wasn’t any damage in our neighborhood.
Andy says his first thought was that our house had been struck by lightning. I thought it just sounded like a big thump; I didn’t even feel the vibration — but then I’m a much heavier sleeper than my husband. We looked out the window and listened for a moment, and when nothing else happened, we went back to sleep.
Two hours later, I got up and discovered that our interior porch door had been blown open into the hallway, and our kitchen door (across from it) was open, too. Man, was our kitchen cold! (Yes, I know, we should lock the door at night, but I’m hardly worried about intruders, as we have a sizable and protective dog.)
Honestly, I didn’t think much about it. The porch door is old and doesn’t really latch at all, and the kitchen door is old and sometimes doesn’t catch completely — the dog can push it open with his nose more often than not. I assumed the boom I had heard was just a sudden gust of wind slamming the doors open. It had never happened before, in the five years we’ve been here, but it wasn’t inconceivable.
It wasn’t until Andy was up and turned on the news that we found out what had happened (which explains why I didn’t blog this yesterday). All I can say is thank the Gods no one was killed.
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