Gas Explosion, Rancho Cordova, 24 December 2008 - I was half a mile away.

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http://cbs13.com/breakingnews/rancho.cordova.explosion.2.894590.html I was at lunch in a room at work that has computers we can use when we are not working. I wasn't sure what it was when it happened. First I thought it was an earthquake but the ground didn't shake, just the windows. And it wasn't the usual earthquake rocking and rolling, it was just BANG! - and that was that. Sometimes there are little creaks and snaps when air pressure does something to the doors, and I figured maybe the door was open a bit and it got slammed shut. I heard there was a fireball four stories tall - I imagine that would take a few seconds to dissipate, but from what I witnessed it was a split second. A moment when one house was leveled and the two beside it damaged. Nothing like the movies that it just drags on and on. Just Wham and its done. One has died, two are still critically injured.