I lived near Carswell AFB for a while during my early childhood. I can still remember these monsters starting up and taking off over our house. The ground shook.
Glad to bring back childhood memories.
We lived directly across the lake from the end of the main runway. Remember that low, growling incessant bzzzzzzzzzzz they made? When they took off to the north (over the lake, then our house), the vibrations shook the house --actually shaking plates out of the kitchen cabinets.
I'll never forget the night we heard one coming down the runway...then stop. We hadn't been aware of the sound, really...until it stopped. Then, we wondered what had happened, what had we "heard".
We went out on the back porch and, there, off our dock, halfway between the two shores, was a B-36 -- in the lake, back broken, burning.
Most of the crew died in the crash. Something had gone wrong on takeoff and they had ditched the great beast in the lake, avoiding all the homes across the lake. Including us...