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Loud, House-Shaking Booms – Even Horn/Trumpet Sounds –
Persist in U. S. and Canada
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| 31JAN2014
| Linda Moulton Howe
Posted on 01/31/2014 8:08:06 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Texas Gal
At least 40 years ago in southern rural Texas there was an unbelievably loud boom which I thought was thunder until I looked at the cloudless blue sky I haven't thought about it in years but that used to be one of the sounds of freedom...a sonic boom. Used to hear a lot of those when I was younger.
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posted on
02/01/2014 9:08:16 AM PST
by
eldoradude
(Let's water the tree of liberty with THEIR blood...)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
02/01/2014 9:14:33 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: ChildOfThe60s
Yes, there have been quite a few recent reports of loud “booms” in the area generally around Paducah, KY. I’ve not been following this closely, and thought it was limited to the last 2-3 months. A little research, though, also shows it going back to Jan. 2013, in nearby S. Illinois, as far north as Mt. Vernon, IL. So, a significant area is involved, even though most (not all) the booms individually seem localized to less than county size areas.
http://www.dailyamericannews.com/article/20130318/NEWS/130319251
An exception was a recent small earthquake in W. KY (Jan. 26), which I experienced / happened to be only a few miles from the epicenter. That one was interesting as I felt no perceptible shaking, but the audible rumble was quite noticeable and lasted I would guess at least 15 seconds. I would not call that a “boom”. Also, in small quakes I’ve experienced in the past, usually the shaking was more noticeable than the the rumble — granted, those were larger quakes with epicenters 20 or more miles away, so maybe that accounts for the difference?
Getting back to the other booms, though, it’d sure be nice to know the cause. In the W. KY / S. IL area, explanations such as frost quakes have been mostly ruled out, so the “mystery” seems to continue.
I’d say it has been occurring now and then for over a month.
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posted on
02/01/2014 9:29:25 AM PST
by
Paul R.
(We are in a break in an Ice Age. A brief break at that...)
To: PrairieLady2
It was late & I didn’t go to the sound links. Do they sound the same? (Well, not all of them, I know. Some sounds were mechanical-like; metal on metal) Something like the alp horns would probably travel a pretty long way.
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posted on
02/01/2014 9:30:00 AM PST
by
KGeorge
(Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
To: Jack Hydrazine
What about the earth’s magnetic polarity switch? I would imagine that changes in magnetic forces could induce movements in the earth’s crust.
But, I’d rather believe that The Lord is coming soon. We sure do need him now in this new Dark Age.
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posted on
02/01/2014 9:31:48 AM PST
by
grumpygresh
(Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
To: Paul R.
Oops, sorry, strike that last sentence - old info - didn’t realize I’d left it at the bottom of the post!
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posted on
02/01/2014 9:33:52 AM PST
by
Paul R.
(We are in a break in an Ice Age. A brief break at that...)
To: Jack Hydrazine
I thought of “frost quakes” for the booms — where the ground freezes and thaws.
As for the horns, all I’ve got is this — we live about five miles from the nearest railroad track. When we have either very humid weather, or when it is “clear as a bell and cold as ****” we can hear train horns.
Wonder if it’s something intermittent and weather-related, like that.
YMMV.
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posted on
02/01/2014 10:43:57 AM PST
by
Cloverfarm
(This too shall pass ...)
To: Cloverfarm
Happens even when it isn’t cold. Go figure!
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posted on
02/01/2014 10:46:28 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: luvbach1
Noooooooooo. There seemed to be some indecision as to what the horns are CALLED, so I suggested that name. No, if it actually is a signal from the Lord, I’d vote for it being a shofar. Odd that He’d only notify the northeast, though. But there ARE a lot of commie libs around here. :o(
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posted on
02/01/2014 12:17:04 PM PST
by
Tucker39
("Having their conscience seared with a hot iron.")
To: JRandomFreeper
On my last cruise to Alaska, we passed slowly by the Mendelssohn (spelled wrong) glacier and was told that the Indians called the glacier white thunder. It was constantly booming as the ice cracks and then in a few minutes you looked up and down the length of the glacier and would find it calving. Usually you found it when it hit the water. Sometimes you would be lucky and see a large calving from the top to the bottom...been doing that booming for as long as the glacier was in existence. The glacier is 6 miles long, but the ship was placed so you could see the full 6 miles. Then it moved closer so as to turn around...It sounded exactly like booming thunder...
To: goat granny
Early one misty autumn morning in NM, when I was doing the mountain man thing, I was sipping coffee and reading, and I felt a rumble under my feet, and then a terrific crash, like a car had hit a telephone pole...
Then nothing for a while.
Then it happened again. The rumble followed by the crash...
I went outside, and through the fog, I saw two of the ranch's bulls, pacing off to about 100 yards apart, and then run into each other, butting heads.
Those were big bulls. Even though I shared a pasture with them, I avoided them.
Nature makes some strange noises and sensations. And sometimes, you don't have a clue what they are, until you understand what is going on.
It's a wonderful world we live in.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
I use to love it when a couple of my billy would face off in the pasture. They would back up from each other and then up on their hind legs and run towards the other and at the last minute heads go down and they crash skulls the heads go down to protect the front legs, cause if they don't they get a nasty break...only saw one break a leg and he went up behind another goat while I was in the barn and snapped the back leg.Thats the only sneak attack I ever saw... I made hubby neuter that sucker the same day. We usually neuter as kids, but this was a yearling that for some reason he didn't want to castrate. I put the broken leg goat in a small pen and hand fed him on his side for a couple of days, wrapped the leg and in less than a week he could get up. But stayed penned for a while, easier for him to eat without being pushed at graining time. A couple of bulls facing off would be something to see...:O)
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