as dad and i are driving in, we see a big plume
of black smoke in the sky. he asks me if that’s normally there and it got me
second guessing like maybe it is. i mean there’s manufacturing facilities by
encore, so it could be. we’re usually too preoccupied in conversation or in
boston traffic or in both to notice small out of the ordinary happenings, but
this was hella smoke. i looked it up but couldn’t find much. when i get to work
i ask alan if he saw the same thing coming in and he said it was a fire from a
recycling plant. i forgot all about it until we began driving home. when i
looked it up they said it took hours to put out the fire. hours?! that’s a
loooooooooooooong time for something to be burning. luckily nobody got hurt,
but can you imagine not being able to stop a fire?
that’s terrifying to me.
-ratha, 7:11pm, 12.8.21