Early Wednesday morning Nathan and I were woken up by a really loud clap of thunder. And I'm talking really loud. The house shook, and all the car alarms in the neighbourhood went off. It started to pour rain a little while after so we didn't really think any more about it.
On Wednesday night I went to the gym and found out that apparently it wasn't thunder. Two oil tankers crashed on Hwy. 2 by Airdrie and exploded. The "thunder" we heard was them becoming a raging ball of fire. Miraculously, no one was seriously hurt. Only one of the drivers went to hospital and all his injuries were non-life-threatening. Crazy. They had to close the highway because there was a line of flames across it. One of the trucks veered off the road and went down in the ditch and then back up on the other side. When they exploded, it made a nice little fire trail.
I just can't believe we heard and felt it at our house. And it was really loud, much louder than regular thunder. Scary. I can't imagine what it would have been like to be close to them when they exploded.
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