new_jersey disaster
Explosion in Bergenfield
An apartment building was partially demolished by
a powerful gas line explosion
today in Bergenfield NJ, killing at least two people, and making a
dozen families temporarily homeless.
Coincidentally, this was the very building in
front of which my wife would park her car when she takes the bus to NYC
each weekday. She also has one friend who was living in the complex, but
tried telephoning her work number only late in the day today. She did
not know about this until she was at the Port Authority Terminal and
overheard some people talking about the explosion. As there are still
police lines around the scene where they are conducting an accident
investigation, we do not yet know what kind of damage might have been done to
the vehicle. So, for the short term, we're using my work van to get
around until such time as this gets cleared up.
Updated: Okay, so it was
exaggerated, and our car was fine. This morning they opened up
the road going past the site and when I dropped Pam off at the
bus stop, we found it there where it had been left, some distance
from the incident itself.