I just finished watching Wednesday’s episode of Jericho, the new CBS drama where the United States suffer from a nuclear attack and a small town rushes to survive. In the episode a storm that possibly carried with it radiactive rain was swiftly heading towards the town of Jericho. The residents had to seek shelter in underground basements and bunkers just to stay away from the possible harm the rain could cause them. As everyone knows radiation poisoning is bad.

After the episode finished I refreshed The Drudge Report only to see this as the top headline: Chlorine Gas Cloud: Emergency In North Carolina Town. My first reaction was, “AHHH” My second reaction was if this was related to terrorism. As it seems now, there seems no connection to terrorist activites. They are describing the disaster as a leak that quickly developed into a series of explosions. The city manager of Apex said there were aboue 20 to 30 explosions. Flames could be seen shooting up to 100 feet into the nighttime sky.

I logged into the North Carolina local news that is streaming live on nbc17.com. The first words that I heard was their meterologist analyzing the direction of the winds and the potential of a storm forming to the west of the city of Apex. My first reaction was, “AHH!”