- Jan 4, 2001
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Just sitting here, typing an e-mail on my laptop, watching MST3K, waiting for Acronis True Image to back up my PC.
LOUD BOOM!!!!
Half of my kitchen cabinets fly open.
So I head around to the front of the building - it's a deli/general store on the front side. A car had run into the building, denting the front of it in about 2 full feet.
The person in the store had called the store owner (my landlord's son), and he was going to contact his insurance company. My landlord will probably stop by.
The collision was on a wall about 20-30 feet away, but my kitchen wall's paneling has been popped out, and all the dust behind it got blasted out by the concussive force.
Not even 5 minutes later, a TV crew is outside, as well as a fire truck.
This is the second collision this building has endured. The first was a tree falling gently on it a few months ago.
The tree, my PC's registry dying, now a car hitting the building. I wonder what great things are still in store.
Maybe my microwave will create a micro-black hole tomorrow morning.
Store front
The pavement visible there is a small parking lot, so the person had to pull into the parking lot first, and then drive over the sidewalk, and then still smash into the store.
Location of my kitchen wall.
The crash was just around the corner from the Pizza sign.
Busted-out paneling
Broken ceiling trim.
Broken ceiling trim, different angle
Note the awesome worksmanship on that corner there.
LOUD BOOM!!!!
Half of my kitchen cabinets fly open.
So I head around to the front of the building - it's a deli/general store on the front side. A car had run into the building, denting the front of it in about 2 full feet.
The person in the store had called the store owner (my landlord's son), and he was going to contact his insurance company. My landlord will probably stop by.
The collision was on a wall about 20-30 feet away, but my kitchen wall's paneling has been popped out, and all the dust behind it got blasted out by the concussive force.
Not even 5 minutes later, a TV crew is outside, as well as a fire truck.
This is the second collision this building has endured. The first was a tree falling gently on it a few months ago.
The tree, my PC's registry dying, now a car hitting the building. I wonder what great things are still in store.
Maybe my microwave will create a micro-black hole tomorrow morning.
Store front
The pavement visible there is a small parking lot, so the person had to pull into the parking lot first, and then drive over the sidewalk, and then still smash into the store.
Location of my kitchen wall.
The crash was just around the corner from the Pizza sign.
Busted-out paneling
Broken ceiling trim.
Broken ceiling trim, different angle
Note the awesome worksmanship on that corner there.
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