The day I turned 10, I was about to go to sleep and heard a dull bang, as if something heavy fell or something.
Mother yelled at me for it, although I had nothing to do with it.
Couple minutes later heard sirens and then the flashing of emergency vehicle lights through the curtain.
At that moment we figured it's better to see whats up and go outside.
There was already firemen going inside the neightbours apartment, where something had happened.
A bit afterwards it appeared that the neightbour had blown herself up with a gas oven, although first dying to inhalation of the gas fumes.
A further rumour tells that the refrigerator had then blown up the gas.
The explosion blew out the shrapnels of kitchen window over 50 meters away and blew out the closed kitchen door.
The next day I was able to take a peek inside the apartment from door and outside through window.
It was surprisingly clean, considering all the smoke which poured out of the apartment. Less than a meter down from the ceiling was pitch black, but downwards from that the walls were nearly completely white.
The candles weren't either completely melt. The oven was almost as new, except for missing the top piece where you cook things.
Talk about a birthday fireworks.
Of course my birthday is in november and I catch a cold, plus had to live two days elsewhere due to the smell of smoke.
No smoke damages to my home though, just the smell of smoke. The kind of smell which you could smell from the clothes for two days after spending couple of hours aside an open fireplace.
Not the only fireworks though.
Once with my cousin almost saw a house get hit by lightning, but a thin forrest blocked the sight.
It was the loudest and brightest lightning I've ever wittnessed though.
Everything was lit white the lightning and a horrid thundering sound came out of it.
My cousin actually jumped to the cover and grabbed me with him. A true life saver
I was just standing and the first thought was "wow".
Then we looked out of the window and saw smoke rising over the trees.
The family living in the house was away at the moment.
The next day we saw it and the attic was completely burned down, with the exception of a stone fireplace.
Once almost at the same place saw a BMW run out of the road at a curve, rolling over couple of times and ending up on its roof.
Later heard it was stolen.
Not the only car which has ran out of the road on that road.
At school, when I was 8 or so, I saw a ceiling glass come down from 2 floors high.
I was the only one walking in the corridors that time, luckily on the 2nd floor and not the 1st floor where it landed.
Some glass shrapnels flew up to the 2nd floor though.
Luckily everyone was in the classes at the moment, otherwise it could been very fatal, especially if it had been in the beginning or at the end of intermission. Some 20 kids could been right underneath it.
