The lights flickered and finally blacked out for about ten seconds. After the news I just heard from the librarians here, it's only a tad unnerving.

A Flying J truck transporting butane got into an accident on Highway 89 in Farmington and took out a van. The butane tank it carried cracked open. I don't know much about physics, but I'd like to know how this happened. The butane carried over through the air over to a nearby farm, and it caused an explosion, but the damage was only internal. The outside of the farm was not damaged.

There was an evacuation order called for in the area, where Mrs. Orem lives. They were told to leave immediately and report to the city hall or an elementary. Emergency vehicles rushed down the streets with bullhorns announcing the evacuation.

At first she was not told why, and if I were her, I would assume either a) apocolyspe or b) World War three.

So when the lights went out, then flickered, then went pitch black, I was expecting some sort of impending doom.