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WATCH: Massive fire caused by explosion engulfs home, damages multiple others

HOUSTON – A homeowner said she is glad to be alive after her house exploded into a fireball that damaged multiple homes in southeast Houston.

Homeowner Jewell Meyers told KPRC 2 photographer Wladimir Moquete that she noticed the smell of gas Sunday morning.

The explosion caused windows in nearby homes to blow out and also left a hole in the neighbor’s house and created a massive fire that engulfed Meyers’ home.

“I’ve lost everything,” Meyers said. “What can I do? I am 82 years old. What can I do?

Four homes total were damaged by the explosion. One across the street and the two neighboring homes on either side of Meyers’ home.

Authorities said there were no injuries reported in the blast or the fire. Officials have not yes confirmed the cause of the explosion.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/12/27/watch-massive-fire-caused-by-explosion-engulfs-home-damages-multiple-others/

HOUSTON: MAN BURNED IN CHRISTMAS EVE HOME EXPLOSION IN HEMPSTEAD

HEMPSTEAD, Texas (KTRK) – Investigators say one person was burned in a home explosion in Hempstead overnight.

Just before 10:30 p.m. Thursday, investigators got calls for an explosion on 5th Street near St. Barbe.

Video from the area shows the damage done by the blast, with debris scattered throughout the street.

When firefighters first arrived, multiple buildings were on fire. They were able to extinguish the flames quickly.

"There's fire, there's civilians that are running up toward it," one firefighter could be heard saying on Range Cast scanner. "We need more people here to help with control."

The Waller County Fire Marshal's Office says a man went to the house to pick up some clothes and when he opened the door, the home exploded. Investigators say he doesn't live at the home.

https://www.abc13.com/amp/home-explosion-house-explodes-christmas-eve-hempstead/9054476

Houston: Deadly house explosion in Tomball may have been intentional, police chief says

Homes nearly five miles away from the scene were rattled by the explosion, according to officials.

Tomball police said the blast was ignited by a combination of flammable liquid and natural gas at a home in the 200 block of Vernon Street late Wednesday night.

Tomball Police Chief Jeff Bert said the incident may have been intentional and was a suicide, though an investigation is still being conducted.

https://www.khou.com/amp/article/news/local/resident-missing-person-explosion-fire-tomball/285-e251b33a-bc3d-42a4-bf28-1b826d6fd969

>>12199178

Forgot pics

>>12199265

Bitter, are we?

Just coming on today so apologies if this already posted

Downtown

"Downtown" is a song composed by Tony Hatch which, as recorded by Petula Clark in 1964, became an international hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the UK Singles Chart. Hatch received the 1981 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.[1]

Single by Petula Clark from the album Downtown

B-side

"You'd Better Love Me"

Released

November 1964

Recorded

16 October 1964, Pye Studios, London

Genre

Soul

Length

3:05

Label

Pye 7N 15722 (UK) Warner Bros. 5494 (US)

Songwriter(s)

Tony Hatch

Producer(s)

Tony Hatch

Background

In the autumn of 1964 Hatch made his first visit to New York City, spending three days there in search of material from music publishers for the artists he was producing. He recalled, "I was staying at a hotel on Central Park and I wandered down to Broadway and to Times Square and, naively, I thought I was downtown. . . . I loved the whole atmosphere there and the [music] came to me very, very quickly".[2] He was standing on the corner of 48th Street waiting for the traffic lights to change, looking towards Times Square when "the melody first came to me, just as the neon signs went on."[3]

Recording

Also playing on the session were guitarists Vic Flick, Jimmy Page and Big Jim Sullivan, as well as drummer Ronnie Verrell, while The Breakaways provided the vocal accompaniment.

>>12199573

Popular culture

On a "Tonight" show television broadcast (host Johnny Carson), the Petula Clark recording played while scenes in New York City of the down-and-out, homeless, and drunks were shown, presenting a sharp contrast to the inviting, party-time lyrics of the song. In Jaws 2, a band plays the Downtown theme as Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) enters the Grand Opening Ball of Amity Island's Holiday Inn.[citation needed]

The song is heard on a car radio and a diner jukebox in the film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould.

In the 1991 film Flight of the Intruder the crew of an A6 Intruder played by Willem Dafoe and Brad Johnson sang the song in their cockpit after completing a dangerous bombing run over North Vietnam.[citation needed]

The complete lyrics to "Downtown" were repeated by Jerry Seinfeld in "The Bottle Deposit" episode of his television comedy Seinfeld as he and George Costanza puzzled over where another character might have gone on an important errand.[citation needed]

The song is a theme in the 1999 psychological drama film Girl, Interrupted, both as a background during credits as well as during scenes of a capella and acoustic guitar performance by the main characters including those played by Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.[citation needed] The Petula Clark version of the song appears in a few episodes of the ABC television series Lost.[citation needed]

The song was used in promotions for the video game WWE 2K17, promoting it as an area of "Suplex City" referring to Brock Lesnar.[citation needed]

In the TV series Lost the song was played several times.

The song is played on repeat in the 2019 film Escape Room, as a musical chairs-style countdown timer before a portion of the floor in the upside-down billiards bar section of the escape facility is lost, revealing a deadly chasm.[citation needed]

Before the 2020 Nashville bombing on Christmas Day 2020, the song was reported to have been played from the RV involved in the explosion prior to the incident. [14]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_(Petula_Clark_song)

Downtown

When you're alone and life is making you lonely

You can always go downtown

When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry

Seems to help, I know, downtown

[Pre-Chorus]

Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city

Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty

How can you lose?

The lights are much brighter there

You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares

[Chorus]

So go downtown

Things will be great when you're downtown

No finer place for sure, downtown

Everything's waiting for you

[Verse 2]

Don't hang around and let your problems surround you

There are movie shows downtown

Maybe you know some little places to go to

Where they never close downtown

[Pre-Chorus]

Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova

You'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over

Happy again

The lights are much brighter there

You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares

[Chorus]

So go downtown

Where all the lights are bright, downtown

Waiting for you tonight, downtown

You're gonna be alright now, downtown

[Instrumental Break w/ Backing Vocals]

Downtown

Downtown

[Pre-Chorus]

And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you

Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to

Guide them along

So maybe I'll see you there

We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares

[Chorus]

So go downtown

Things will be great when you're downtown

Don't wait a minute more, downtown

Everything is waiting for you, downtown

[Outro]

Downtown (downtown)

Downtown (downtown)

Downtown (downtown)

Downtown (downtown)

(Kinda sad)

>>12199777

It's been really hard for this anon not to make snide remarks to the normies who called me conspiracy theorist

>>12199853

He had to have been incapacitated or already dead, or nerves of steel.