An electrical transformer blew up by my head - General

This all happened last night at about 6:30pm PST , I have both terrible timing, incredible luck and/or incredible reaction time. I live in Seattle, and other Seattlites can attest to this terrible weather. We were getting some pretty powerful winds in West Queen Anne (a district in Seattle, where I live) which had been going on for about three days. The wind knocked over a small tree last night narrowly missing our car, but it was cleaned up the next morning. The next day, my mom returns from work and I ask her if she's hungry, and if she has my money from my transcription job I did. She tells me there's a sandwich in the car, and we'll hit the ATM in a couple of hours. Now mind you it was already pretty dark and nasty outside. I walk down the outside stairs and head towards the car, and just as I reach for the door handle I hear this terrible creaking noise. I look up and there's this massive tree coming down on top of me! Quickly, I cover my head and sprint across the street as it tears through power lines, overloading the transistor/transformer (whatever it's called) which caused it to explode, sending glass, sparks, and this 10 pound metal thing my way, I could feel my skin tingling from the explosion, and the hair stood on the back of my neck. Luckily, the 10 pound metal thing wizzed by my head, smacking into the windshield of our neighbors car. I freezed, trying to figure out what's going to happen next. I then removed myself from the carnage, backpedaling several yards as the tree snaps the last power line, sending it in front of the door of my house. My mom then runs out of the house to try and determine where I am. "Stop! Get the fuck back in the house, there's down power lines!" (I didn't know at the time that the line fell infront of our walkway, as it's covered by bushes. "Ethan? Where are you? Stay in the car!" "I'm not in the car, I'm across the street." "Well get in the house!" "I am -not- crossing the street until they disable the power, call 911" "Get back in the house -NOW-" (At this point a crowd had gathered) "Are you nuts? The ground is wet, I'm not walking any closer" "It's safer inside! I said get in the house!" "Alright, shut up, you're making a scene, call the damn fire department" Then someone came up to me, "What was that loud boom?" (The explosion was loud, it set off several car alarms. It was quite brilliant too, bright and blue) "Power line thingy exploded, I was right under it when it happened, I almost got killed. Tree fell on the power lines, don't get any closer to that tree over there." "Oh god, are you alright?" "I'm fine." About 30 minutes later the fire department shows up (they weren't coming quickly enough, so I told them we were trapped in the house.. which.. was true to an extent) They remove downed power line and get the area clear for us so that we could get our stuff and head to a hotel for the night. Hyatt, I fucking hate Hyatt, they charge you for everything. I'll get pics later today of what's left of the damage. They fixed the power lines and restored power over night, which is AMAZING, at least to me. In Detroit it would have taken a week. [b]TL;DR[/b] I try to get a sandwich out of the car, tree falls over and snaps some power lines, causing the box thing to explode over my head, I barely get out with my life This is what a transformer explosion looks like, I was standing right under it. I dodged THIS SHIT [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy6UXxhzYlk&feature=related[/media] Another example: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZW8KTN29AY&feature=related[/media]

The tree is trying to kill you

You're a ninja. Also, Marriot is better than Hyatt. :v:

Did you ever get your sandwich.

Why are you going to a hotel?

be afraid. be very afraid

I question myself. Why get one out the car, when you can make one yourself.

That's some Final Destination shit.

It's a miracle! Praise the Lord for saving your life!

Wow, although getting yelled at to cross over some power lines was pretty silly imo.

I bet that was quite an electrifying moment... :smug:

Holy shit.

[QUOTE=Pascall;18452268]You're a ninja. Also, Marriot is better than Hyatt. :v:[/QUOTE] Apparently. Yes, but I didn't pick the hotel, plus my mom's boyfriend had a complimentary free stay. My mom and I both have jobs using the internet (she works for Amazon.com, and I do transcription work) so we needed to gtfo. Plus there's seven other trees just about ready to strike, and the wind was still shit.

[b]HOYL FUCK!!!!![/b] If that happened to me, I'd be emotionally traumatized... good to see your okay though.

[QUOTE=Miasmic;18452269]Did you ever get your sandwich.[/QUOTE] No sandwich, it's still in the car. Got my money though. I went over and kicked that fucking tree this morning. But they chopped it up into pieces and put it on the side of the road, so I was unsure as to which piece to kick.

We were having powerful winds as well, north of you in B.C. Well I think it was a large portion of that area.

Don't kick the fucking tree, you'll stub your toe ;].

Great title, you're going to get about 400,000 views thanks to it. The story was awesome.

[QUOTE=Malison;18452281]That's some Final Destination shit.[/QUOTE] My thoughts exactly The whole time I was thinking 'WHAT A GLORIOUS DEATH!'

Oh wow. Ninja Skillz. Probably would have been a cool sight.

Me last night [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIGGDx6M5Ac&feature=related[/media]

Awesome. At least it's a nice story.

You would have died a Martyr's dead my friend. I applaud you.

[QUOTE=Subhazardman;18452545]Me last night [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIGGDx6M5Ac&feature=related[/media][/QUOTE] so you turned into a shitty action movie and/or a giant robot alien?

[QUOTE=Subhazardman;18452255]OP[/QUOTE] It was all good until you posted that shitty movie link.

What kind of sandwich is it?

[QUOTE=Negrul1;18452717]so you turned into a shitty action movie and/or a giant robot alien?[/QUOTE] Yes, exactly. If Peter Parker can turn into a super hero with a spider bite, I can turn into a Tom Cruise film with an exploding transformer.

[QUOTE=Subhazardman;18452751]Yes, exactly. If Peter Parker can turn into a super hero with a spider bite, I can turn into a Tom Cruise film with an exploding transformer.[/QUOTE] ...You can do that?? Also, epic tale.

Here are two good examples of what it looked like: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy6UXxhzYlk[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZW8KTN29AY&feature=related[/media]

I was in Downtown Ballard (a district in Seattle across the bridge from Queen Anne/Magnolia) around 6:30PST last night and nothing exciting like this happened. =x I'm glad you're okay, though.