[bonesmccoy]

I missed the live thread. I popped on the PC and site at 6:02 AM and peared outside to see clouds over my house :*(

At that point, FNC said that the vehicle was going to be landing soon and that they would have live coverage.

They showed the ground track over CA and I decided to get active and out of bed.

When the TV picture had no vehicle, I got distressed and popped on FR to find out what was really going on.

When I realized the guys on the thread didn't understand what was happening (and the people on the TV were more lost than FR was), well... I decided to start writing.

When you want to figure out what is really going on... load Free Republic!

[bonesmccoy]

For a hi-res image of the stack clearing the pad...
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/03pp0142.jpg

[tubebender]

Just saw on KTVU out of the Bay area that some kind of burnt debris was found in South SF and there are 2 dozen reports of debris. Also showed the home video of a piece coming off Clolumbia over San Jose. The one piece they had in hand was about the size of a almond kernel and looked man made. Of course it could be charcoal... Look for the KTVU web site. I haven't checked it yet.