Sunday Explosions
In memory of the Trojan nuclear plant, I am sipping java from my mug that bears a radioactive likeness. When the coffee is hot and steaming, the resemblance is uncanny. They blew the I-5 landmark up yesterday. Did you see it? If you didn’t, here’s video. And there’s also a Flickr pool.

In other explosion news…

…yesterday we got hit with some ferocious spring monsoons. They came fast and powerful and lasted only a few minutes but the rainfall was extraordinary. I was out gardening before the first one hit. I gathered up my things and went inside as the rain began to fall. I was standing in the kitchen watching the rainfall and admiring my handiwork out the kitchen window. From out of nowhere, there was a blinding white hot explosion and a simultaneous thunder clap. The thunder clap was the loudest I’ve ever heard in my lifetime. The explosion looked to have come from about the middle of the yard. It looked like a thousand flash bulbs all going off at the same time. I jumped about three feet in the air. The cats went into a panic. The power went out.

The power came on about two hours later but subsequent thunder showers kept knocking us off the grid. Could the gods be angry about the destruction of a nuclear plant? Doubtful, but possible.