Something at the Hynes pops like a cork; sideways geyser bursts across the street

Shortly after 6 p.m., Kelly Davidson reports, she came out of work near the Hynes Convention Center and watched as a gusher burst out of the Hynes and across Boylston Street.

"If I left my office less than a minute sooner, I think I would’ve been swept across Boylston," she said. As it was, people across the street got wet: