Friday, August 19, 2005

Today, My Sister Nearly Blew Up

Although it has only barely made the national news, there was an explosion in San Francisco today. A transformer under the corner of Post and Kearny blew up, injuring ONE person! Just one! With a big fireball and everything. Linda works one block away and heard/felt the blast. She called us immediately thinking it would be all over the news and that we would freak out... which we would have, had it been all over the news. As it was, I still had to dig around on CNN.com four hours after it happened.

But anyway, she is fine, most of San Francisco is fine (although the woman who was injured was apparently severely injured), and life seems to be puttering on as usual there. I'll be curious when they identify the cause of it. I just imagine some little cockroach walking across a wire and setting off the chain of events...

There is a better, longer story here if you are interested...

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