To The Poor Schmuck Whose Car Blew Up Last Night:
Sorry.
That was the scene last night around 11 after a manhole exploded on 14th and Clifton St. in Columbia Heights. The explosion knocked out power in the neighborhood–even the emergency lights were down in my building–and beat the hell out of an unfortunately parked Jeep.
I waited around to see if anyone would claim the car, but nobody had come forward by the time I decided to navigate the pitch black stairwell by the light of my cellphone. Which means there's a remote chance that someone walked outside this morning ready to drive to work and found this:








11:30 am
DC is missing a big opportunity by not marketing manhole explosions as a tourist attraction:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/new-tourist-attraction/
8:41 am
Add it to the Urban Trek guide.
9:57 am
Screw going to Yellowstone to see Ol Faithful....
10:24 am
there are many tourists attractions to choose from, the only problem that we have is the money to spend to see most of them :
5:59 am
well, there are so many tourist attractions that you find on asia and europe. i would really love to travel a lot *,-