About ten minutes to two o'clock we hear "BOOM!!" My husband yells the usually obscenities, "What the hell was that?!" My first thought is that the tree has fallen onto the house, and now we're really going to have to move.
However, when we open the front door to figure out what happened, we see practically the whole neighborhood out on their front lawns looking up towards the sky.
Now I am thinking aliens might have landed. I mean really. I have never even seen half of these people in the year and a half we have lived here. We met the neighbors for the first time. The Vietnamese couple that sings Frank Sinatra and Ricky Martin karaoke with all of their friends on Wednesday nights.
We go back into the house after quick deliberation with the neighbor that we do know and conclude that there must have been an explosion nearby. I quickly get back on the internet and look up the local news station. As soon as the KCRA homepage pops up there is an image of a house that has been leveled and a preliminary report.
By the time I click on the link to read the report, I hear countless sirens and helicopters hurrying to the scene.
The report so far:
*A Rancho Cordova house was leveled after an explosion on Wednesday afternoon.
*The blast was reported on Paiute Way between Grayson Drive and Kachina Way.
*KCRA 3 reported that five people were hurt in the explosion. Three of them are in critical condition. It's unknown if anyone was killed.
*Christian Pebbles from the Sacramento Metro Fire Department said officials suspect natural gas as the cause of the explosion.
I hope everyone will be alright.
I am ready to move now.
