an update for those not on Twitter
So agonistes, moofoot, and I were having drinks and dinner over at the local bar on Colfax Avenue when we heard a muffled boom and looked out the window to see a six-story-tall fireball and a pillar of black smoke.
The good news: everyone's all right, both in our area and over by the explosion.
Turns out it was an electrical transformer substation that caught fire and went boom, about eight blocks away from us. It ALSO turns out that the smoke could be seen from as far away as Red Rocks. The links have pictures.
Everyone seems generally to be okay, except for an injury to a worker in a medical lab at National Jewish (the lab also went boom when the power flared), and some evacuations at Rose Medical Center due to limited power supplies. The grid went down in an area about 25 blocks square; they're rerouting now.
We're back at my house and back online. It appears my location shares a subgrid with a nearby hospital.
Never a dull moment, y'all.
The good news: everyone's all right, both in our area and over by the explosion.
Turns out it was an electrical transformer substation that caught fire and went boom, about eight blocks away from us. It ALSO turns out that the smoke could be seen from as far away as Red Rocks. The links have pictures.
Everyone seems generally to be okay, except for an injury to a worker in a medical lab at National Jewish (the lab also went boom when the power flared), and some evacuations at Rose Medical Center due to limited power supplies. The grid went down in an area about 25 blocks square; they're rerouting now.
We're back at my house and back online. It appears my location shares a subgrid with a nearby hospital.
Never a dull moment, y'all.