SFist: Kaboom?

MRMinSF

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:18:46 -0800

yep we heard it at hayes/cole big time. friend at SFPD said they had people investigating for several hours but were "UTL" (unable to locate) any source of the explosion. No transformers reported out by pge. 911 got dozens, if not scores, of calls. You still have to take off your freaking shoes at the airport, but someone can detonate a powerful shell over a major metropolitan city with impunity. Someone out there is doing a 'heckuva job.'

jhc

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:20:00 -0800

I used to live on 31st/Clement, and the transformer right outside my bedroom window blew up twice. So yes, the explosion was the transformer shorting out.

mariconsoy

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:13:55 -0800

It's those damn Sunis again.

cheaka

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:45:22 -0800

Whole room lit up with a bright flash, then about 2s later heard the boom, putting the explosion about 1/2 mile away from us (next to UCSF-Parnassus). A few weeks ago I saw/heard something similar and then power was out in a few-block radius on west slope of Cole Valley (It came back on after a few hours). So it could have been a transformer blowing up in both cases... Anyone lose power last night?

Rachel

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:33:45 -0800

I heard it on the Baker Bch side of the Presidio. Sounded like the munitions runs I used to hear when living near a military base.

wsanders

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:50:04 -0800

It is getting close to New Years, and all the aging militants in the city need to dispose of their ordinance somehow. I went to a New Years Eve party in East San Jose once. My God, the gunfire was amazing, I thought I was back in 'Nam, even though I never went there. The next morning my host went down to his small plane at Reid Hillview, and a fallback bullet had punched a hole in the top of the wing, straight down.

KWillets

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:57:28 -0800

And it echoed too, apparently.

alig

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:53:56 -0800

It was incredibly loud at Clayton/Waller!!

alig

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:53:43 -0800

It was incredibly loud at Clayton/Waller!!

mariconsoy

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:32:53 -0800

Was it a meth lab exploding?

Greg

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:14:51 -0800

I heard it all the way over at UCSF....no word in the esteemed mainstream press, so far as I can tell....god does this mean I have t actually read a whole Chronicle to find out....

contraversion

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:46:52 -0800

I heard it all the way out at 22nd Ave!

shannon641

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:55:09 -0800

Seriously, what the hell was that? I heard it at 6th and Cabrillo.

alexei

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:41:34 -0800

I heard it (6th & California).

stv

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:10:41 -0800

I heard it (8th and Balboa) - sounded pretty big. No idea what it was, though.