The flames, boss! The flames!

Scene: My cubicle, yesterday. My phone rings.
Me: Hello?
Antwon: Are you near a window?
Me: Yeah, why?
Antwon: Are you looking out it?
Me: Yeah, well, I can be.
Antwon: See that big plume of smoke?
Me: OMG.

So yesterday there was a huge fire at the Rivermark plaza in Santa Clara, right near where we live. Apparently a construction site went up in flames (NBC11 has pix and a story). Very exciting. Took quite a while to find out exactly where the fire was – for a while, Twon and I thought maybe YGCHQ had gone up in flames, along with our cats and all our stuff. We are deeply grateful that it wasn’t our complex – and that it wasn’t anybody’s home yet. Phew.
The sight was amazing – we could see the flames from where we stood right outside my cube. Dig the photos my coworkers took (I didn’t have my camera with me, dammit):

Photo by earthdog.

It was really amazing. I was glad I got Rich and others to take photos. It’s all too easy in moments of excitement to forget to document stuff like this. I mean, look at the way the smoke curled around the sky in that last photo! Amazing!! Well worth photographing, no?
Sucks for the construction company, mind you, but still. Amazing.