A tourist noticed smoke curling up from the manhole in Manhattan and trained her phone on it. Whoa! Left we see the cover rising on a rocket ride. Then it’s fireball time and (right) a spear of flame from whatever it was inside that hole. The cover shattered against a nearby fire hydrant sending chunks of metal five storeys high where one broke an office window. Remarkably, no one was hurt and no cars wrecked in the early evening blast
