Yes; I was about 30 feet away and it really was loud. I could see the antenna clearly, and there was a large (very large!) cloud of smoke.
People started streaming toward the event; I went the other way, because I knew I could not help and because I didn't want to be there if the wire came down.
I had not known until just now, from your post, that there were no injuries. Glad to learn that.
Incidentally, I did a double-take at your callsign. My first callsign in 1957 was KN4SCK, superseded by K4SCK. A guy in North Carolina has K4SCK now, as a vanity call; his initials are SCK. We exchanged e-mails a couple years ago; he seems a pleasant person.
I didn't keep K4SCK because, after I emblazoned it on my schoolbooks, the other high-school kids started pronouncing the suffix in the obvious way. Sigh.
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