Here Comes the BOOM!

Casualties avoided, but the grace of God!!

Yesterday Roberto (my little brother here) was outside and I smelled gas. He was trying to light the water-heater and said that he thought it wouldn't work because there was a gas line explosion somewhere. Well, we have our own gas (I think it's actually propaine) tank on top of our house, so I lit the water heater and went on with life.
A little while later, Gaby came home from work - like 3 hours early! She said that the school she works at was evacuated because everything smelled like gas, but just on her street.
I went on with normal life and proceeded to go to the Centro to run some errands. When I got off the bus, my nose was assaulted with a nasty gas smell. And the pizza place that I was going to grab a slice at was closed. Well, on my trek to the post office, I noticed that everywhere smelled like gas, there were angry restaurant owners talking with the police on almost every street, and traffic was horrible.
I found out later that there had indeed been a gas line explosion!! It happened in a small town on the Queretaro/Guanajuato border (like a 20 minute drive from my house!) I probably would've heard the explosion had I been awake when it happend. My friends Ana and Ahide who live even closer to the explosion woke up from it. Miraculously, NO ONE was killed! There was a LOT of damage done to buildings and land, and all the natural gas in the City of QRO and surrounding areas was knocked out for the day. But wow, it could've been a lot worse! In Mexico City (in the 80's I think?) a whole neighborhood got blown to smithereens from a gas explosion! I'm thankful that this time ended with no deaths, and I'm thankful also for our propaine tank on top of the house!

(Just one question... I have smelt natural gas in Oregon many times when the stove doesn't light right away, and it stinks like animal poop or eggs or something. The gas line that broke here was natural gas, not propaine, and it didn't smell ANYTHING like natural gas in my parents' house, but everyone said that the smell is natural gas! Are the gas pipes in Oregon rotten or something??)