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Aug. 17th, 2010 02:24 pm
gwyn: (teevee jim ward morris)
[personal profile] gwyn
The house shook, and there were two sets of double booms so strong that car alarms went off and the blinds moved. (I wonder if it's our proximity to Boeing Field?) All the neighbors running out of the house, dogs yapping everywhere.

It has been decades since I heard a sonic boom -- they don't usually let the military planes do them over land even at air shows, and Boeing killed the SST program when I was a kid, when we heard them more than a few times. The Concord and BA SSTs never flew here. The news source says someone breached presidential air space (Obama's in town), or something, and they scrambled some F-15s. Whatever the hell it was, it was intense, and the poor cats are total wrecks. Maybe this will convince them that someone knocking on the door isn't so bad.

Or maybe next we'll have another earthquake. That would be a wing-ding!

Date: 2010-08-18 12:48 am (UTC)
klia: (party hats)
From: [personal profile] klia
Oh wow, cool! I used to love sonic booms as a kid!

What?

Date: 2010-08-18 04:57 pm (UTC)
klia: (flowers)
From: [personal profile] klia
Those fighter jets had to have been pretty low for their sonic booms to shake stuff on the ground and set off car alarms -- very different from the way loud, but still far-off-sounding booms of my childhood -- so I can understand why you would've been scared!

You're right about movies and TV failing to show anything resembling real reactions, but it seems to me the events are usually just the set-ups for their stupid, contrived, soap opera style dramas, anyway.

Date: 2010-08-17 09:31 pm (UTC)
ext_29896: Lilacs in grandmother's vase on my piano (Default)
From: [identity profile] glinda-w.livejournal.com
Oh, *that's* what that was...

Date: 2010-08-17 10:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kerithwyn.livejournal.com
The whole building shook here (Renton). Noisy. I hope our cats didn't lose their tiny brains at home....

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