"WAKE UP and get dressed, we have to leave the house. the Hes gas station exploded. grab your computer and hurry, we got to evacuate"
That is what my mom said at 3AM this morning
Worst case senarios were running through my head.
Flash back to a flud of my house 7 years ago where I had to grab what I needed and get out of the house. I was going to grab my computer and my box of expensive baseball cards but I had no idea how much time I had so I didnt grab my box of cards, just my computer and the adapter while throwing on a shirt and shorts and getting the hell out of there.
My mom and I got in her car. Everyone was leaving the street and checking on everyone else. My mom and I went to my parent's condo, taking the backroads because RT1 is where the gas station was. It is only a few hundred feet from my house.
My father was helping out on site, he is the emergency management director of a nearby city.
I could not sleep at the condo. I was more concern finding out what happened and what's going on. It wasnt till the 5AM news that we found out what happened. I eventually dosed off after 6AM and woke up at 8.
A 10000 gallin tanker roled over on RT1 Saugus and exploded.
4 other cars were crushed and or eventually melted to it's skeliton, destroying some of the pavement as well as minor damage to an over pass that was a few feet behind where the accident acurred. The gas went everywhere including the storm drain, causing a fire on the water that passes by the side of my house (but one more house over) but up the streem a few hundred feet. There was also a greenhouse that the flames totally engulfed that use to stand just behind my across the street neighbor. There was also a few brushfires that blazed. They struck an 8 alarm fire.
From where the truck was to my house was less than 2 football fields apart.
The truck driver is the only one who was killed.
The air still, 15 hours later, smells like burnt rubber.
A near by Wallgreen and Burger king report an oder of gas.
Fear of cracked pipes still worries me.
All propities and people on my street are ok.
I cant think of anything else
But it was a real life nightmare
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