The tank's machine gun chattered, and the window frame above Wilson shattered as half-a-dozen rounds hit it and rained glass down on him.

"It was literally raining glass," Mr. Wright said.

A fiery mushroom sprouted there, and in a heartbeat it was raining glass and blackened, twisted scraps of steel.

Overhead, the windows of the club suddenly exploded, raining glass on the crowd.

The crew wagon shuddered, its windshield rippled, raining pebbled glass over Bolan's head and shoulders.

DeVries was turning, firing back along the hallway, when the sliding windows at her back imploded, raining shattered glass.

The person in the back fell off the seat in the cab - it was just raining glass everywhere.

An ion-cannon burst exploded the window beside the doorway in which they were huddled, raining glass, stone chips, and plaster down on them.

Lights begin blowing out all over the Mile, raining shattered glass and sparks.

"It looked as if it had been raining glass," said Stefano Tasselli, an assistant curator.