Several years ago, after my dad moved to Ft. Myers, he heard it one early morning around 3-4AM. Thought it was a shotgun blast, and called 911, without so much as batting an eye, the 911 operator on the other end answers the phone, "It's the shuttle" and my Dad said "ok". :-) Greg George Olshevsky wrote: > Around 12:30 PM Friday, as I was sitting at the computer working on my > latest indexing job, the house shook with two strong, closely spaced > slams a fraction of a second apart. The dog started to bark and my > wife, who had been napping on the living room couch, sat bolt upright > and asked, "What the devil was that? Another earthquake?" I told her I > thought it might have been a passing truck, but frankly I didn't > believe it--the double bang was too loud and too sharp. I went out to > see whether anything had fallen against or onto the house, but nothing > was disturbed. I finally decided it was the neighbor moving his > garbage cans back nito his driveway. But yesterday a local news report > noted that STS-117, which landed at Edwards AFB a few hundred miles > north of San Diego, had sent its re-entry sonic boom all across > southern California, startling the citizenry (I guess it came in from > the southwest). It's the first Shuttle sonic boom I've ever felt. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L > archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > -- Greg Williams K4HSM k4hsm@knology.net http://www.twiar.org http://www.etskywarn.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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