The shuttle landed today.
What that means to me is that around 3:30 it sounded like a bomb went off or maybe thunder. Needless to say it upset my babies something fierce. Usually there is one or maybe two booms as it goes over. Enough to wake the dogs up and get them all barking. Well today I'm not sure why but, there were the two usual booms and it sounded like rolling thunder after that, the windows were rattling, the door shook, etc. Took me a few seconds to realize it was the shuttle and then it took several minutes to convince the dogs that there was no one they needed to kill. All four were on high alert. Even D was headed for the door. I'm so glad I learned to pay attention to those kind of things. One morning the shuttle landed quite early around 7 AM. I was sleeping and heard the boom. I bolted out of bed and went looking for the smoke from the bomb I was positive I'd heard. Maybe it was an accident right in front of the house. That time it took me most of the day to figure out what had happened. After that I pay attention to NASA.
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Kind of exciting to read about, but I do think it must be a hassle for people who live close by. Have you ever seen the landing?
ReplyDeleteBTW: Thanks for your comment on my blog. As for the student pilot duck, I'm not sure what he was doing and I'm not sure he did either! (I think he touched down then decided he spotted a better place to go!)
thanks for the visit Sue.. too funny you talk about sonic booms. Growing up here in the west we do not hear them. When I was a child the airplanes used to break the sound barrier and make them.. My husband and I were recently discussing the fact that our children don't even know what that means..
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