someone even made a thread about the huge explosion in htown, and people were asking me if i felt it when it happened....
given that it went off at 4 am, I slept through it.... but, on a recent family outing to a restaurant over in west houston near the site, and knowing it hurt some of my favorite hangouts (Chica's sports bar, a video store, etc.), I decided to go check it out.......
first, an photo taken from the air:
The explosion that ripped across Houston at 4:24 a.m. Friday killed two workers at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing before radiating outward and smashing into nearby homes and businesses. It knocked houses off foundations, blew doors off frames, shattered windows, cracked sheetrock and jerked residents awake as far as 14 miles away.
Firefighters and police officers who arrived at the Spring Branch-area neighborhood found debris scattered across an area more than half a mile wide and a community reeling.
NOW, my video surveying some of the damage:
given that it went off at 4 am, I slept through it.... but, on a recent family outing to a restaurant over in west houston near the site, and knowing it hurt some of my favorite hangouts (Chica's sports bar, a video store, etc.), I decided to go check it out.......
first, an photo taken from the air:
The explosion that ripped across Houston at 4:24 a.m. Friday killed two workers at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing before radiating outward and smashing into nearby homes and businesses. It knocked houses off foundations, blew doors off frames, shattered windows, cracked sheetrock and jerked residents awake as far as 14 miles away.
Firefighters and police officers who arrived at the Spring Branch-area neighborhood found debris scattered across an area more than half a mile wide and a community reeling.
NOW, my video surveying some of the damage:
