Emergency vehicles arrived with a color display and rescue workers. 3/9/24. 9:45 pm. Paul Goldfinger photo. Delaware at Mt. Hermon right outside our windows. The work was done by the yellow headlights.
It was raining hard at 9:30 pm when the first explosion occurred. I turned around to see the spark shower–was it fireworks? Then two more explosions in quick successions, emanating from the overhead wires followed by more spark showers.
What did I do? I was upstairs so I shouted, “Eileen–call 911.” Then I grabbed my cameras and went out on the upstairs porch. The operator said it was a transformer and we should go inside. But I went outside .
A few neighbors appeared. One saw me and asked if I was doing some exotic medical experiment.
“You mean like creating a Frankenstein?”
Then another neighbor called and wanted to know why we had power since he did not, but no one around us did. He thought it was “luck.”
Eileen recalled that a similar situation happened a few years go when we learned that we are on a different circuit—thus our lights stayed on while his were out.
About ten minutes later a fire truck came by and stopped. They went up a pole and did some work. Then they sat in the rig for awhile before driving off.
Nighttime excitement. North End Ocean Grove. Paul Goldfinger. Look at the worker in the cab.
A short while later the power came back on.
It was a strange coincidence but I was watching a movie about Einstein and the atom bomb when the A bomb exploded on the screen right before the explosions out my window.
It was only last May when a light pole in front of our house was set on fire by some party balloons causing a short. We don’t have parties, so it wasn’t us. That was at the same intersection where tonight’s fun and games occurred (link below)
Pole fire May 2023 near current problem.
JAMES TAYLOR: