Explosion in downtown San Francisco

There was an explosion in downtown San Francisco at 9:50 am this morning. I was on my way to the city from East Bay at the time. Luckily the traffic was not affected much except in the downtown area (which is to say that the traffic was a bad as ever but no worse :-)).

After a couple of hours, investigators determined the cause to be an electrical explosion in PG&E's aging infrastructure in the city. Although it turned out to be an accident, the chaos and lack of information and direction for about 2 hours clearly suggests that the city is far from prepared to deal with terrorism incidents. The needs to be clear channel of information in such cases - the public should know who to listen to for authoritative directions. While all this was going on, Ron Owens - the popular talk radio host on KGO 810am was busy selling mattresses:-)

Here are some links for more information:

http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_231131708.html