Mysterious BOOMS in Richmond Va. (very weird)

[underpants]

I live maybe three or four miles (as a crow flies) from this area of the city but I/we haven't heard any of these. No one seems to know what is causing them---remember the mysterious BOOMS coming from the Naval Observatory in DC (Cheney's house) a few years ago? :shrug:

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031778953029

A series of loud booms that shook a North Richmond neighborhood was reported to police and fire officials by residents late Tuesday night and early yesterday.

Johnson said seismic activity has been ruled out as a possible cause of the tremors, along with construction, low-flying planes or military exercises.

Residents believe it may be a problem stemming from the sewer system, mentioning a foul smell coming from storm drains and basements.

So they held a town meeting just last night

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031779281369&path=!news&s=1045855934842

Richmond's northern neighborhoods were jolted again yesterday about 12:45 p.m. as more of the so-far-unexplained booms shook homes and rattled windows, residents said.

"The ground shook, and we heard a muffled boom," said one man who lives in the 4000 block of Hermitage Road.


Yesterday's booms were preceded by another clap that hit Saturday about 11 p.m., and some residents described that one as the loudest they had yet heard.

The booms and shakes started Nov. 1, and they have recurred on at least five days since then, according to city emergency services spokesman Bill Farrar yesterday.

"I'm betting it's an earthquake," said a woman who lives on Maple Shade Lane.

A duty seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said the center's sensors did not pick up indications of a quake in Richmond yesterday. If the booms were the result of an earthquake, they would have been recorded, the federal seismologist said.

[miss_kitty]

1. A new 'undisclosed location'

for cheney being built?

[underpants]

4. Maybe a tunnel from DC to Richmond's Northside?

Hmmmmmm

[slor]

2. Crashcart building a new...

undisclosed location?

[miss_kitty]

3. beat ya!

:evilgrin:

[slor]

5. LOL...I saw that...

DAMN YOU EVIL MISS KITTY!

[short bus president]

6. No fair!

You said you were gonna beat ME first! :spank:

:P

[miss_kitty]

7. soon soon

but anticipation=almost 99% of the pleasure

:P

[short bus president]

8. OK, as long as the other one percent

is some sort of searing pain, I think we're reading from the same book, if not the same page. ;-)

[demnan]

9. It's God's Wrath

n/t

[vptpt]

10. Here in east Tenn

there were reports last night on some explosions that were heard. They were officially explained as sonic boom. I wonder what it really was? Nuclear Fuels isn't too far from where people were hearing this, so it makes me wonder.

[farmbo]

11. The Yankees are finally closing in from Petersburg!

eom

[underpants]

12. LOL but I wouldn't be surprised to see that in the Richmond paper

Note to Yankee generals-when you make a hole DON'T have your troops run INTO the hole.

Battle of Petersburg.

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. Battle of Petersburg?

I thought you were talking about Iraq.

[underpants]

14. Ouch!

Good point

[MADem]

15. Anyone testing out scramjets???? n/t