the problem with this is that my place is a very old (c. 1923) shotgun cottage that was divided down the middle and added on to to make a ramshackle duplex. my longtime neighbor moved in october, so the building has been unusually quiet. this noise sounded like an angry person slamming the back door of the unoccupied apartment. not cool. i would know if anyone was moving in.
the noise also sounded like a large, dead limb might have fallen from the tree overhanging the house. said tree presumably being how the aforementioned raccoon gets on the roof.
so once again here i am walking around the house with a flashlight. i shined the light into the windows of the empty apartment and onto the roof of the building. nothing.
so i went back inside. soon, i heard sirens, lots of them . they were coming from somewhere to the northeast of my block, the rear of my place facing east-northeast. the sirens went on for a real long time.
i began checking the internet. about an hour later the austin-american statesman website reported that there had been a gas explosion at an address maybe a 5-10 minute walk from me.
apparently, a house exploded right as firefighters were arriving to investigate a gas smell. one firefighter was taken to the hospital with a knee injury.. three occupants of the house, a mother and two daughters, were taken to st. davids suffering from gas inhalation.
these are early reports, so i hope that this is as bad as it gets. i hope the mother and daughters haven't been too traumatized and get back on their feet soon.
for me to feel the blast at my place, houses on either side of this house probably suffered structural damage, at least had windows blown out. people inside would have been scared half to death.
that's all. it's a strange world sometimes. take care of yourselves.
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