When it rains, it snows

[muckefuck]

All that's left of our glorious snowfall of a week ago are some icy, blackish, low heaps where plows had made piles. A few more hours of this steady rain may wash even those away. A few more hours are all we're likely to get before the mercury drops below freezing once more and we can put the nightmare of yesterday's record temperatures (62 F!) behind us.

Does anyone know what time last night the gas main exploded at Ford City? I remember hearing a booming from the southwest when I awoke around 4 a.m. I originally thought it was thunder, even though it didn't rumble in the way I expected, but then when I heard no follow-up claps, my suspicions were pricked. I don't jump at every loud noise, but ever since 9/11, whenever I hear a sound loud enough to be an explosion, it always occurs to me that it could be something more sinister than an accident. Same thing whenever I hear an airplane flying low; there were a couple of those last night, too.

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[bunj.livejournal.com]

It was probably just distant thunder, I think you're way too far from FC to have heard the explosion (which was at 8:30, by the way). I remember thinking at one point while watching some distant lightning flashes that, during the summer, they'd be called "heat lightning" (which, after all, are just distant lightning flashes).