flickering lights, sparks, and firetrucks...oh my!

whoa.

so i was working on my session notes from my individual music therapy placement this past tuesday and was in the middle of session note-ing our xylophone/piano improvisation when all of a sudden the lights in my room started flickering. at first i thought it was a power failure-ish type thing because of the winter storm warning in the waterloo region but the lights just kept flickering without them ever fully going out. then i realized everytime the lights in my room flickered i could hear a popping from outside my window, so i looked out the window and saw this:

SPARKS. and not just one, but a lot of them happening one after another.

i seriously thought that some idiotic kid had set off fireworks in the trees until i realized it was the hydroline in our neighbour's yard that was exploding. (aghh! the hydroline! AND their line goes through TREES.) ok maybe exploding is a little over the top, but sparking hydro lines are never a good thing although the green and yellow sparks flying everywhere were beautiful to look at. i think i sat there for a couple of minutes just staring at them. so dangerous but oh so mesmerizing. (it's like those blue bug lights that the bugs can't help but look at even though they must know the light could potentially kill them. yah, blue bug light = sparking hydroline, bug = me. haha. :P) it was quite the commotion: people living in the houses around ours went into their backyards plus there was yelling and everything. there were also some brave morons who tried to get a better look at the sparks by getting as close to them as physically possible (omg, so dumb.) thankfully the sparks didn't catch on fire. that would have really sucked as all the little war houses (including mine) in this area are made of wood. someone was definitely looking out for us tonight.

anyway, no more than 2 minutes later i heard a siren coming closer and closer to our house. at first i thought it was the police but it turned out to be a firetruck full of firemen coming to check things out at our neighbour's place. but really who cares, i'm still super impressed with 911 in waterloo and their speediness. i guess everything checked out okay and because within minutes the firemen left.

thankfully now the drama is over: the lights are fine, the sparks are gone, the firetruck isn't there anymore...and everything is back to normal in my little corner of the world. :)