I saw black smoke rising from 34th Street this morning (I’m a couple blocks away) – a mass of fire trucks and black smoke billowing out of Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.
As I have described before – we here in New York go on as usual. We go to work, we take the subway, we yell at cabbies who almost run us over … but then when you see black smoke rising and fire trucks massing – it is like no time has passed at all.
At least that’s my experience.
I’ve been feeling very jumpy anyway. I just want these damn conventions to be OVER with. It’s making me extremely nervous. Of course, the Republican National Convention is going to held AT Madison Square Garden – and the Democratic National Convention began today – so to have one of the first things I saw this morning on my arrival into the city be enormous black clouds billowing out of one of our main transit systems was quite alarming.
I finally found a report of it. Apparently it was due to “an underground transformer fire” – which – I have no idea what that means.
Unconfirmed reports said the transformer fire started with an explosion in an underground vault about 9:15 a.m., sending heavy black smoke up through subway gratings.
I’m holding my breath until these damn conventions are over. I feel like a sitting duck here in Manhattan, with a big damn target on my back.
I know how you feel.
A few months back, there was a fire somewhere between New York City and the road I drive home on. As I saw the smoke rising in the air, I quickly turned on the radio to see if anything had happened.
I hope this sets your mind at ease: Transformers are nothing more than simple robot warriors who can change into cars, planes, can openers, whatever. For more details, ask any 11-year old boy.
They are probably just continuing their centuries-long war, so no worries.
What I don’t understand is how they got underground.
Oh, and I’m told that they’re also “more than meets the eye.”
You can learn more about them in the upcoming Speilberg movie.
We had two burn in the last month in Phoenix. No foul play.
I heard that this morning too, damn.