Do you know what a sonic boom sounds like? We do. It sounds like someone plummeted out of an airplane (without a parachute) and landed on your roof. Which is what we thought happened to us twice yesterday. Until I ran out of the house to find all my neighbors staring up at their roofs. Our Army neighbor was looking for "a mushroom cloud."
Turns out a float plane wandered into a no-fly zone (due to a certain President being in town to stump for the incumbent senator) and two fighter planes were dispatched from Portland. Our neighbor said it takes about five minutes for an F-15 to fly from Portland to Seattle (160 miles). Which they apparently did. Creating sonic booms as they broke the sound barrier and causing much of western Washington to jump out of its pants.
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While growing up in south central Kansas, I heard sonic booms on a regular basis. Among my family, we've commented that they are never/rarely heard any more. I'm not sure what changed.
And yes, they do sound like an explosion. When we had an oil explosion in the town, it was described as sounding like a "big sonic boom."
Well, there you go. Thank you Mr. President. ;-)
Never heard one of those. I heard that most of the testings for planes is run up through the moutains of GA and TN away from most of the residential areas.
Can you imagine... Portland to Seattle in 5 minutes!?
Going to Seattle next month. Would love a 5 minute ride!
Judy
Awesome aren't they? We get to hear them almost daily. I just think that I am used to them and I then it makes me almost wet myself.
Oh yeah! We felt it and heard it here in Longview, too. It scared us. We were looking for a plane to crash. Josh thought maybe N. Korea decided to bomb us, which our landlord proceeded with "If that was them, they have really bad aim."
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