Shuttle explosion

[alora <chrisnlorrie@yahoo.com>]

Hello all,

I was up this morning when my mom called me about ten minutes after 
8 am.  The shuttle did explode, but I didn't hear it - there's four 
kids here with cartoons on, people asking for breakfast, etc.  I 
flipped channels and there it was.  The news broke pretty quickly.  
It's just devastating.  I remember Challenger and exactly where I 
was at the time......I know today will be the same way.  The debris 
is scattered all over the place, most of it south and east of 
Dallas.  I'm in Lewisville, which is about 20 min. north of Dallas - 
we can see the Dallas skyline pretty well.  I notices Melody has 
already checked in, she's about 20 more minutes north of me in 
Denton.  My husband is training for a marathon, and he did see it 
streaking across the sky, but he didn't know what he was looking at 
at the time.  He had his radio headphones on, so when the news broke 
he understood what he had seen.  I was surprised to see him so shook 
up when he came home.  He said it's just terrible to see that think 
that there were seven people plummeting to their deaths.  Oh, it's 
just terrible.  From what we are gathering, it actually exploded 
over the Dallas area, which is why most of the debris is not right 
around here, but a little farther south and east.  Did anyone see 
the our local radar?  There's this enormous heat line where it 
explodes and leaves a heat trail on the radar.  Pretty much along 
that heat trail is where most of the debris is.  I just keep 
thinking of the families...

Alora