Thursday, September 21, 2006

gunshy


An hour or two ago somebody ran into my office and said there was an explosion acouple of buildings down. Alot of the electric in Center City is down, and the biggest buildings all had to be evacuated. Some kind of problem when the utility was working on the electrical system when it blew up underneath one of the skyscrapers. Apparently blew off some manhole covers too.

I walked ouside for a look, all the streets we're closed down and traffic at a gridlock, sirens everywhere, and thousands of people out on the sidewalk for blocks and blocks. Black Smoke.

Even knowing ahead of time what the problem was my brain still chimed in when I saw the sea of people walking away...
"huh...911 again..."

3 comments:

Wendy said...

Yikes.

Anonymous said...

That is my building. 15th and Market - East Tower. We felt the building shake after the first explosion. The 2nd one was smaller.

Anonymous said...

Transformer caused explosion in Philly. Prime suspect described as blue and red semi truck