Explosion rocked my world
Many of you may in passing hear of the chemical plant explosion that happened in Jacksonville today.
At 1:30pm I had my head on my pillow after 4 days of hardly sleeping when something that sounded like a sonic boom, but felt like an earthquake happened.
The lights flickered and we all thought it was perhaps a transformer that blew.
About 45 minutes later our lights went out for about an hour.
Well, this is a link to what happened.
http://www.news4jax.com/news/14890696/detail.html
Now to understand, I live about 3.5 miles (as the crow flies) from this plant. I can not imagine the force of the blow if, from over 3 miles away, my house shook and the doors rattled and miniblinds swayed.
We are so lucky it wasnt something more. As it is, the plant processed everything from gasoline to arsenic and that is now floating in the air around us. My sister works in the ER at the county hospital and says it is sad and scary the injuries she is seeing. She also said many are sick with respiratory problems from the smoke.
All I can say is wow! God has provided for many in the past two weeks in our city....first the parking garage collapse and now this...yet only 4 deaths. There are some busy Guardian angels!
At 1:30pm I had my head on my pillow after 4 days of hardly sleeping when something that sounded like a sonic boom, but felt like an earthquake happened.
The lights flickered and we all thought it was perhaps a transformer that blew.
About 45 minutes later our lights went out for about an hour.
Well, this is a link to what happened.
http://www.news4jax.com/news/14890696/detail.html
Now to understand, I live about 3.5 miles (as the crow flies) from this plant. I can not imagine the force of the blow if, from over 3 miles away, my house shook and the doors rattled and miniblinds swayed.
We are so lucky it wasnt something more. As it is, the plant processed everything from gasoline to arsenic and that is now floating in the air around us. My sister works in the ER at the county hospital and says it is sad and scary the injuries she is seeing. She also said many are sick with respiratory problems from the smoke.
All I can say is wow! God has provided for many in the past two weeks in our city....first the parking garage collapse and now this...yet only 4 deaths. There are some busy Guardian angels!