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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3354314" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>I was in my office in Norman when it happened. It wasn’t until some time afterward that I called our sales rep at a place in OKC that I found out what had happened. When he answered, the first question he asked was how I got through; my thought was, well, I just picked up the phone and dialed, then he said there’d been some kind of explosion downtown, and the phone system was a mess. And that was how I found out about it.</p><p></p><p>My mechanic, one of my dad’s former subordinates, had his shop on the corner of 6th and Hudson (the old Firestone). The axle from the truck landed on a car in his back lot, and the perimeter that night was in front of his store—I remember seeing it on the news, with yellow caution tape, a Humvee, and a National Guardsman with a rifle out front.</p><p></p><p>My boss’s boss was supposed to have been in a meeting in the Journal Record building at 9am, and would’ve been in the conference room that was right across the street from the truck when it blew up, but something else kept him from making it. (I don’t remember if he was in the building or not, but I’m certainly glad that he wasn’t in that conference room.) Somebody else I knew had a brother in the Journal Record building when it happened, and he got sprayed with shattered glass. As I recall, while he was in surgery, his wife was in a different hospital in labor. As it turned out, she was somehow related to a coworker of mine. Talk about a small world...</p><p></p><p>Just a few years earlier, my dad would’ve very likely been walking down that street around 9am on his way to the second stop on his daily circuit...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3354314, member: 26737"] I was in my office in Norman when it happened. It wasn’t until some time afterward that I called our sales rep at a place in OKC that I found out what had happened. When he answered, the first question he asked was how I got through; my thought was, well, I just picked up the phone and dialed, then he said there’d been some kind of explosion downtown, and the phone system was a mess. And that was how I found out about it. My mechanic, one of my dad’s former subordinates, had his shop on the corner of 6th and Hudson (the old Firestone). The axle from the truck landed on a car in his back lot, and the perimeter that night was in front of his store—I remember seeing it on the news, with yellow caution tape, a Humvee, and a National Guardsman with a rifle out front. My boss’s boss was supposed to have been in a meeting in the Journal Record building at 9am, and would’ve been in the conference room that was right across the street from the truck when it blew up, but something else kept him from making it. (I don’t remember if he was in the building or not, but I’m certainly glad that he wasn’t in that conference room.) Somebody else I knew had a brother in the Journal Record building when it happened, and he got sprayed with shattered glass. As I recall, while he was in surgery, his wife was in a different hospital in labor. As it turned out, she was somehow related to a coworker of mine. Talk about a small world... Just a few years earlier, my dad would’ve very likely been walking down that street around 9am on his way to the second stop on his daily circuit... [/QUOTE]
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