Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Prepare Yourself... for a Mind Explosion!*
And by "mind," I mean "transformer under Grand Central Station."
I was on the 6 train (which goes through Grand Central) when it happened. We passed the stop because "other trains were backed up," but news had traveled that there was an explosion before I even got off the train. When I exited one stop later (at 33rd Street, where I live) and walked to Lexington Avenue, there was a HUGE plume of smoke billowing from the ground. Going to the roof now...
There's a picture from my roof. I was going to try to get a shot of all the gridlock along Third Avenue, but they started blocking traffic further and further back, so it never became a complete parking lot.
When I got off the train, I saw an abnormally large amount of people milling around Park Avenue. There are usually a lot of people out this time of day, but the amount of people outside today was noticeably larger, and they were milling. I kept walking to Third Avenue and then I saw what happened. Yow. I really hope not too many people are hurt.
I don't think anyone knows the number of people affected yet, but I'm told they evacuated the station and all the windows on that block were blown out. Here's CNN's coverage so far.
I'm Kathy Sanchez, Channel 4 News, Keeping an Eye on You.**
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*Human Giant
**Trigger Happy TV
***Could I possibly use any more random references?
Ha ha! No "Transformers: The Movie" references.
D'oh!
