i KNEW it!!

ok. so yesterday the sky looked menacing. it was cloudy, and there were dark rain clouds that seemed to follow a line through the sky. i got on the F train and, as is my wont, was watching the neighborhood fly past the window when i noticed that the line of grey cloud might actually be a tower of smoke coming from some distant point. it was really awesome looking.

so when i got to work i asked, "does anyone know if anything is burning in brooklyn?" of course, there was no reply. because my coworkers tend to ignore things i say. they are awesome. obviously.

anyway, i searched on the internet machine and nothing popped up. nothing on nytimes, nothing on cnn. i thought that it was just a normal industrial smoke thing going on.

THEN, this morning i spotted an article in someone else's New York AM about some fire in Brooklyn. YES! not that i'm happy there was a fire, mind you. it seems that an area of warehouse buildings (suspiciously owned by one guy who's slowly turning the empty warehouses into condos on the waterfront) totally burst into flames yesterday morning. like for serious flames. it was a 10 alarm fire. the worst since 9/11. (full nytimes story here) it seems pretty sketchy. especially because there's been a bit of a kerfuffle about yuppifying the area. the older residents are none too happy.

i would just like to say i knew it. and i told them so. and they don't care, so i'm telling you.