21/12/2012 Doomday report
21/12/2012 11:00 AM - doomday report, nothing strange has happened so far in Singapore. What about other places on earth? Keep us up-to-date.
Looking out the front window to see if the entire neighborhood had lost power or if it was just us, I was shocked to see a full-view lightshow going on in the skies. The lights changed from green to red to blue to pink in lightning flash changes.
My daughter ran to the door and asked me what was going on, and I joked that maybe the Mayans were right. Over the next 45 seconds, as the sky continued its ostentation, I became less and less sure that it wasn't the case. I stood agape watching the sky change, oblivious to the fact that my daughter had begun crying until after what seemed like an eternity, the lights stopped and all we could see in the distance was a faint red flickering glow.
What had happened of course was that a transformer had exploded and gone haywire. The light show was because of that, as was the power outage.
Afterward, I began consoling my daughter and relayed that I thought it had just been a transformer, and that we'd probably have power restored within a few hours, but honestly, for about 30 seconds, I wasn't entirely sure that the world's future was as sound as I had previously known it to be.
I'm guessing that, and our relative nearness to it explains why it seemed to fill the entire sky.
Either way, yeah, it was trippy. I've never seen the like.