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Scary noise - vanity
Vanity ^ | 12/28/2021 | Vanity

Posted on 12/28/2021 7:42:51 AM PST by cuban leaf

I just stepped outside to do some work, and I heard an enormously loud and enveloping "WHOOSH" with a slight low frequency hum that quickly subsided. It continued for about ten-15 minutes. It was so loud that my wife and I could not communicate without yelling at each other at 20 feet apart.

It was clearly miles away. And the only thing I can think of is that in that exact direction, about ten miles away, is a large natural gas facility.

Here it is: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4138666,-85.3956611,855m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0

It literally sounded like a rocket taking off (but never leaving the ground). Anyone hear any news on this yet?


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1 posted on 12/28/2021 7:42:51 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: cuban leaf

Clickable:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4138666,-85.3956611,855m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0


2 posted on 12/28/2021 7:45:52 AM PST by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: cuban leaf

Sometimes I think that the rapture may have happened in a big whoosh, and I’m still here.


3 posted on 12/28/2021 7:48:17 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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To: jacknhoo

Call your local Tv news


4 posted on 12/28/2021 7:49:00 AM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: cuban leaf
Did it sound anything like this?

Emergency Shut Down Pipeline Compressor Station/

5 posted on 12/28/2021 7:49:49 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: cuban leaf

Haven’t heard anything on the national news.

I’d call around to see what the neighbors heard, and what the NG facility has to say.


6 posted on 12/28/2021 7:50:54 AM PST by Terabitten (Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor...)
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To: Steely Tom

That is exactly what it sounded like. Interestingly, I’m also hearing sirens from miles away in the opposite direction heading in that direction. To be clear, we’ve lived here over ten years and I’ve only heard sirens once. Now twice.


7 posted on 12/28/2021 7:52:39 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Steely Tom

The news just hit: They are releasing air out of gas lines in Soloma. Man, I feel for the people that live within a mile or less of that plant. It was dang loud way out our way. I can only imagine what it was like there.

So, the siren must have been a coincidence - or someone was LITERALLY scared to death. ;)


8 posted on 12/28/2021 7:55:15 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: cuban leaf

If an array of vent points were opened along a line that is roughly perpendicular to your location, the sound could have been very loud.

To have gone on as long as you describe, a lot of $$$ worth of gas would have been lost, the contents of many miles of pipeline. Perhaps they got a report of a leak somewhere and vented a whole section of pipeline in order to avoid an explosion in a populated area.


9 posted on 12/28/2021 7:56:53 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: cuban leaf

I live near an oil refinery and sometimes things go on there that make it sound as if I lived on an airport runway.


10 posted on 12/28/2021 7:59:42 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: cuban leaf

If ANYONE tries to tell you its not aliens, ignore them. IT’S ALIENS!!


11 posted on 12/28/2021 8:01:13 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

If it’s a big one, I’d be surprised if they didn’t have a big combustion turbine generator or two for emergency electrical power. Combustion turbine => essentially a ground mounted aircraft engine.


12 posted on 12/28/2021 8:03:39 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: cuban leaf
There have been some bad gas pipeline incidents in recent years. There was one in California some years back that caused many deaths (I think it was in San Francisco or Oakland). There was also one in a rural area in the Eastern United States a few years ago that was quite destructive.

I think federal regulations on the pipeline companies were tightened in the wake of those incidents, and they now have to do a lot of testing and vent to atmospheric pressure if they detect even the slightest hint of a leak anywhere. The lines are punctuated by valves at intervals, but those valves can be pretty far apart.

I would take the "releasing air" story with a grain of salt, but perhaps they were doing some sort of high-pressure test with air before bringing a section back into service after a repair cycle.

If it was a test, they undoubtedly test to a pressure somewhat higher than the operating pressure of the pipeline. If they have to release — say — twenty miles of pressurized line, and the line is the usual 36" size, that would be an awful lot of compressed air, millions of cubic feet when it expands to ambient pressure.

13 posted on 12/28/2021 8:08:21 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: ClearCase_guy

The Rapture FIRST transforms those in Christ into higher dimensional variable beings. THEN the whoosh happens where we are gathered up into the clouds to meet the Lord int he air. we will literally disappear from view by those not being Raptured, then be drawn up into the clouds to meet the Lord int he air and return with Him to the Father’s House where there are many rooms awaiting our arrival.

The airport produces that Whooshing sound and I hear it ten miles away as the crow flies. Jet engines under the right atmospheric conditions can be heard many miles away as they crank up. I live in the area this thread is describing ...


14 posted on 12/28/2021 8:11:19 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN; cuban leaf
Yes, when it's cold, sound travels better than when it's warmer. When I was a kid, I lived less than half a mile from the town firehouse. It's siren going off was a pretty routine thing.

It gets pretty cold where I live ("Upstate" New York, about 100 miles from the Canadian border). On those rare occasions when the fire siren was activated on a cold winter day, it sounded like it was almost next door. You cold hear the individual "tick" sounds as the siren ports opened and closed when it spun down to low RPMs as the siren died out.

15 posted on 12/28/2021 8:15:58 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: FreedomPoster

It’s supposed to be the third or fourth largest refinery in the country, so that could be it.


16 posted on 12/28/2021 8:19:54 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: cuban leaf

Has any wells been drilled by your house yet? Loud 24/7.

I don’t mind though because that means we will soon get our gas royalties.


17 posted on 12/28/2021 8:24:36 AM PST by setter
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To: setter

Nope.


18 posted on 12/28/2021 8:31:40 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Steely Tom

Yep. It’s roughly perpendicular to me.


19 posted on 12/28/2021 8:32:41 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Especially when we change clocks and you show up at church an hour early..
An elderly lady knocked on our door in a panic some years back. She didn’t know about the time change. She was quite agitated.


20 posted on 12/28/2021 8:48:10 AM PST by Cottonpatch
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