Some residents thought the explosion was an earthquake or a car accident. Residents of Kingston, N.H., correctly assumed the explosion originated from a local cement factory but were dead wrong about the cause.
Local resident Amy Owen was standing at her backdoor when the explosion occurred. “We live in a four-family townhouse in Plaistow, and it shook our house so bad that we thought someone drove into our building,” Owen told the New Hampshire Union Leader.
“The kids all scrambled, saying ‘earthquake,’ before asking me what it was,” she said. After checking that her kids were unharmed, Owen said she ran outside and found her fiancé checking to see if a car had rammed their building.
Officers at the scene found that a group of people had detonated a large stock of Tannerite as part of a gender-reveal party, according to the AP.
The family said they thought a quarry was the safest place to pull the stunt, the AP said. The person who purchased and detonated the explosives, whose identity is not known, has since turned himself to the police, the AP reported.
The police added that the child was a boy. It was earth-shaking, one person who lives on Dorre Road, the same street as the quarry, told NBC Boston. It knocked pictures off our walls, Sara Taglieri, a woman who also lives near the quarry, told the outlet.
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University of Chicago Converts All Undergraduate Courses to Online
April 9, 6:16 a.m. The University of Chicago is converting all in-person undergraduate classes to online courses for a week and ordered students living in residence halls to stay there for a week. Tests in recent days have detected more than 50 cases of COVID-19 involving students in the college, including many living in residence halls, and we expect this number to increase, said a memo on the changes from Michele Rasmussen, dean of students, and Eric Heath, associate vice president for safety and security. Those who have tested positive are in isolation, following university protocols. Many of these cases may have been connected to one or more parties held by off-campus fraternities over the last week. We are particularly concerned because of the high likelihood that these cases involve the B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant, which is currently widesp