Scary thing happened last night:
So its 2:00 in the morning, I'm sleeping like a baby when suddenly I hear running footsteps coming from my upstairs neighbor- and I mean frantic running! So I start to get up to check things out when my door buzzer starts going nuts. I look outside my bedroom door and all the windows are glowing orange! A fire! But is it my building? My next door neighbor's? I grab my cell phone, keys and a pair of shoes and run outside, its the big 150 year old brick church on the corner. Burning embers are flying everywhere, I'm worried that they're falling on me! The flames are enormous, like 60-70 feet high! Fire trucks are there- about three of them at first. More came later. They started knocking in my neighbors' doors to make sure everyone was out. It seemed like the whole neighborhood woke up and went across the street to the park to watch yet another historic building in flames. It wasn't that long ago that the Coliseum Theatre was also burned to the ground, and that was only a block away. Here's the story from WDSU. I think they were the only news channel that covered it, I guess everyone else was sleeping. Must be nice. What a crazy night. The fire is out but there is fear that it still might collapse. I'm still not sure if I'm able to stay in my apartment, not that I'd want to really, since the electricity is out and today is another nasty humid/ hot day. Oh well, at least I was able to go in and get my computer and some clothes. Yay for a change of clothes!