Sonic Booms rock Western WA.

[Trebor]

I heard and felt this. this scared the hell out of me



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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I can remember hearing them when I was little. I don't know what the big deal is about them. It would not bother me if the occurrence had not been outlawed. In which case people would be use to it. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. Am I the only one who misses hearing them?

[Trebor]

I've never heard a sonic boom IRL before so this scared me. I thought Mt. Rainier or Mt. St. Helens blew their tops

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[evangilder]

I have heard a lot of them over the years. And sometimes we get an occasional hot shot Navy pilot who puts a little too much throttle into it at night. Woke me from a sound sleep a couple of weeks ago. If you haven't heard one before, they can be quite a shock. We got used to them during the heydays of the shuttle.

[B-17engineer]

Jamming 911 phone lines....my dad says it annoys him when the power goes out and people call 911...

[RabidAlien]

Sonic booms are cool. I still don't think they should be outlawed...if people don't want to hear airplane noises, then move away from the flight patterns!

[Erich]

I remember tons of em in the 50=60's and on occassion we get them over southern Orygun.......no big deal at all. think those in the Seattle area re making a fuss ssnce the president was loitering there actually I think it was abit on the funny side

if had been a Cascade peak blowing you would of known it then you would of probably been dead within the hour living in the proximity of Seattle area

[Matt308]

Gents, I assure you that you would not want to hear sonic booms like the two that hit my house yesterday. They weren't a mild annoyance or something that would only wake you up from a deep sleep. These F-15s made a sonic boom whose signature was massive. Imagine what it might sound like if you dropped your 400lb refridgerator on your roof from about 10ft above the roof line. I'm am convinced the only reason I don't have cracks in my plaster or broken windows is sheer luck. Those guys must have been decently low and haulin' azz.

[FLYBOYJ]

In the area close to Edwards AFB you could hear as may as 10 a day and as far south as Palmdale (35 miles).

[fly boy]

I thought someone was bombing us.But then my friend told me they where f-15's

[lqcorsa]

I was taking a nap. First one nearly knocked me out of bed! Sat up..

"What in the hell was th.." -KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM- *Glass falls off window sill.*

[skeeter]

The sound of freedom, ordinarily.

[RabidAlien]

The sound of freedom, ordinarily.

Well said.

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Well said.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!

[tyrodtom]

Back in the late 50s and early 60s when they was still teaching us " duck and cover" in school, a sonic boom could really mess up your day.
And in spite of what Mythbusters might have say, a sonic boom can break glass. I don't know if the USAF ever paid out claims for broken glass, but if they did you know they would be a lot of bogus claims for glass that was broken before one of their jets flew by too low, and too fast.
Even though I lived, (and still do) about 250 miles from the nearest TAC base, our secluded mountain valleys was a good practice area. When I was young you'd see low level jets about every week. After about 62-63 the sonic booms became pretty rare, because that's when they started flying low.