For most, it was the sound of a thundering boom or the sight of a fireball stretching into the sky, or the fear for a loved one, or the sheer frustration of a traffic snarl caused by the closure of one of the state's most traveled sections of roadway. The tanker driver, Ronald Tobias, 73, was taken to Methodist Hospital where his son, Mike, told The Indianapolis Star that his father had a detached ear and that his eyebrows, eyelashes and hair on the back of his head were singed from the incredible heat of the blast.