Giant fiery explosions and a huge black plume of smoke in downtown Dallas right now. I doubt that it's on purpose, and details are sketchy (aren't they always?), but supposedly it's some sort of gas explosion. I can see it from my 28th floor window, and it's just creepy, with all the soot falling from the sky and the sirens continuously blaring by below. It's coming from just behind Reunion Arena, where the Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Stars used to play before the American Airlines Center was built some years ago.
Yesterday afternoon we had the big power outage in San Francisco that took down many important websites for several hours, including Netflix, TypePad, FeedBurner, and many that I don't frequent. I'm not sure what they've determined as the cause of that, if they have yet. We also just had the huge underground steampipe explosion in NYC. This morning on the way up the elevator, I read that the TSA (authority that protects airports and airplanes) has issued a warning for U.S. airports to be on alert for what appear to be "dry runs" for terror attacks.
I'll report back if there's anything worth reporting. In the meantime, more sirens continue to blare and the fire and black smoke continue to rise high into the sky.
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