Everything Was Just Fine At Rockwell Collins

Although at first glance it appeared as though a titanic explosion had occurred at Rockwell Collins' engineering office building #130 along C Avenue NE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on July 7, 2008, in reality it was the tremendous updraft of a billowing cumulonimbus cloud much farther in the background. I was on my way to play some tennis around 5:40 PM when this scene, looking southeast, caught my attention. At left in this image is the antenna farm for Rockwell Collins, a major communication and aviation electronics company in Cedar Rapids.