So that’s what that was. I thought a neighbor had dropped a large box or something.
Ha- I was in Costco today and heard it and had a momentary panic, but loud sounds usually do that to me, so I had my typical “It was nothing, don’t worry about it” conversation in my head and carried on with my errands. Who’d’a thunk!
We heard it, too! Made me jump, that’s for sure.
Reminds me of being a Navy brat in San Diego in the '60s and early '70’s. Sonic booms were frequent enough to be unremarkable.
If people are hearing it clearly 80 miles away what would it sound like right under the point of origin?
AHA! Yes, I heard it and wondered if an oil refinery in the harbor (I live in Carson) area had gone blooey. They do that from time to time, you know. But when the expected sirens failed to sound, I recalled the very first space shuttle return and being told it would be a double boom, as it was, and as this one was. But I still didn’t make the connection.
Merged two threads on this topic.
Years ago, we lived right across the river from a navy base. My cat of the time (Pussywillow) was sleeping contentedly in the back pool area, when all of a sudden a sonic boom went off. The poor cat jumped 4 feet in the air. Yeah they’re supposed to remain subsonic over land but you know how flyboys are…
I caught one about 10:30 am on wednesday. Some fighter pilot leaving on a mission out of Nellis I suppose.
I’ve had the shuttle-landing-sonic-boom thing scare the livin’ crap out of me more than once, living in central Florida. We work in a converted shipping complex, so the boom shakes the walls, and if you’re here on night-shift, working alone, and all of a sudden something goes BOOM, it’s kinda scary! 