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06.20.05
Yesterday, one block away from The Place Wherein I Am Employed, the local Dominick's grocery store burned to the ground.
Apparently there were huge clouds of black smoke billowing over the roof of our building, creating an unnatural, noxious fog in the parking lot outside.
I drove past the site on my way home tonight, but all I could see through the looky loos was a burnt out shell and some rubble.
It's not like I really shopped there or anything, but I liked the thought of being able to run over and get something at lunchtime. Now I totally have nowhere in the neighborhood to buy those little gelatin parfait cups.
I hear they plan to rebuild.
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As an aside, they completely demolished the store less than a week after the fire.
Which they are now billing as "suspicious," and they suspect arson, instead of their original assessment of an electrical short starting the bread section ablaze, and you know the rest.
I haven't had the chance to snap another photo, but the place where the store was is now a flat, concrete bed that is surrounded by a chainlink fence, and appears to be in the process of becoming a construction site.
(At least they won't have to pour another foundation!)
The only good things to come out of this mess are that 1) I figured out how to make my own jello parfaits that are better for me than the storebought variety, and 2) the store they are building is going to be modern, instead of the sucky old dinosaur that the torched store was before all this happened.
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