Thursday, February 18, 2010

Too Close for Comfort

For all of our faithful blog followers I'm sure it's no secret that Austin Texas experienced a sad and eventful day.  In case you missed the days' events, check this link here:  LINK

Long story short; a guy gets into it with his wife, she takes the daughter to a hotel, he busts out an anti-government manifesto and posts it on-line, burns the house down and crashes his plane into an office park housing the IRS.

Here's where it gets a bit personal.  Take a look at the map below.  Pin D is our house and Pin A is the charcoaled remains of the perpetrators home.  Notice that D covers A because we're freakin neighbors!  We walk our innocent puppies by that house every day (okay, they're not so innocent but you get the idea).




Map of Destruction

Now, deploy your mapography skills on points C and B.  Point C is the new home of eFueling Technologies, LLC where I toil daily.  Point B is the office building slash make-shift landing strip.  My office is about 7 minutes away from the crash site.  It's wild to think I was so close to the start and finish of this domestic meltdown.




Neighbors Burning House



Post Fire Snapshot



Office Park Ablaze

I guess it just goes to show that we never know what's going on inside people.  As we walked the pups by that house every day we never could have imagined the intense emotional storm brewing inside.  I'm still contemplating exactly what to take away from today's events but I've definitely got some food for thought.

-Kyle

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