Bombs in Eglin AFB (north Walton)

Given the way they shake our house (near Eastern Lake), you'd think that if you lived in Destin or FWB it would flat knock you over. Or the whole house.

Think about what it's like in Baghdad :(

Try living near O'Hare airport. In the spring when we can open our windows for fresh air, we have to turn the tv to blasting range when they're flying over. When I'm on the phone, sometimes I have to close the windows! And it goes on at night too. (It's not bombs, but it's LOUD!!)

I grew up with O'Hare Airport and now I'm living with the bombs. O'Hare is noisy alright! The bombs are just kind of creepy. I'll be sitting at my desk late at night and it feels like some huge creature is walking outside my window :shock:

I go back and forth between homes in Crestview and Miramar Beach, but I notice the bombs more when in Crestview.

There was a blurb in the paper saying they're running night exercises the next couple of days, but should finish up by 9:00pm or so every night.

I've always wondered if the vibrations from the bombing were the reason why we have such a problem with lightbulbs burning out so quickly.

For the most part, I don't mind the noise, and they're usually pretty good about only bombing during normal business hours. (Heck, the trash guy is louder most of the time when he goes through the neighborhood at o'dark hundred) But it gets really creepy those times right before a hurricane when they decide to start evacuating planes, and all of Eglin that's fit to fly out flies out at low altitude right over my office at work.

This is a very bizarre thread to read through. And is there anything creepier than driving through the Eglin Reservation, past a red dirt road with a sign that states, "Hellfire Missile Range?" Sometime the green helicopters fly directly over our house there, headed toward the water's edge and it feels like that helicopter scene from "Apocolypze Now." Make love, nor war. :wub:

Try living near O'Hare airport. In the spring when we can open our windows for fresh air, we have to turn the tv to blasting range when they're flying over. When I'm on the phone, sometimes I have to close the windows! And it goes on at night too. (It's not bombs, but it's LOUD!!)

I live DIRECTLY north of O'Hare in Des Plaines; grew up in Park Ridge and will usually tell people that "I'm used to the airplane noise." A few weeks ago, I was having a really late workout on my very noisy exercycle - it was 2 in the morning and after putting it off all day, I decided better late than not at all. Anyway, I swear to you, an airplane flew over the house that was so loud, the entire house was shaking. I thought a plane was going to crash in my neighborhood. In 40 years I've never heard a plane that loud before.

:shock: Are these bombs going off as a part of training exercises or to get rid of them? I must say I have never heard of this!

HAHA...so now I finally know what makes the place rumble sometimes. I've been freaked out by that a few times down there! :rolling:

The Mother of All Bombs is history's largest conventional bomb. Maybe the dust and debris filling the air from its impact is the reason we have such beautiful sunsets.



From 2003: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/11/sprj.irq.moab/

The U.S. Air Force Tuesday tested the biggest conventional bomb in the military's arsenal, dropping the new 21,000-pound device on a test site at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, U.S. officials said.

:shock: Are these bombs going off as a part of training exercises or to get rid of them? I must say I have never heard of this!

its both - some eod (getting rid of those on the ground) and some red flag (making more of them be on the ground)

enjoy that 'sound of freedom' as they used to say

:shock: Are these bombs going off as a part of training exercises or to get rid of them? I must say I have never heard of this!

They don't test during tourist season.
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just kidding.😀

My house has shaken so bad at times from the bombing, the starfish jump out of the windows - and that's bad since Catfish likes to eat them!!!

My house has shaken so bad at times from the bombing, the starfish jump out of the windows - and that's bad since Catfish likes to eat them!!!

And, would Catfish happen to be your cat? Well, I have bowls of starfish setting around the house on display, and I find my dog, Rudy, chomping on one every now and then that he has snagged off the coffee table. Makes me so mad!!

The Mother of All Bombs is history's largest conventional bomb. Maybe the dust and debris filling the air from its impact is the reason we have such beautiful sunsets.



From 2003: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/11/sprj.irq.moab/

I remember when they were testing, and it was funny how much publicity there was about it. Usually, the bulletins about usuaual range activity aren't circulated all that widely- a couple of notices in the paper about road closings or possible garage door opener problems. But MOAB- it was all so clearly about wanting the world and the Axis of Evil to know exactly what the USAF so they sold the story to the national cable news guys like it was some huge deal down here to do that sort of weapons test, and CNN and Fox were treating it like we were going to be experiencing something really unusual when the test was no big deal.

Despite the noise, I'm glad the weapons development people are down here. Those programs bring a lot of high tech white collar jobs to the area, and the rocket scientists are a lot of fun to talk to at parties.

They have some big bombs exploding right now. I wonder if my house falls down, if I can suit the AirForce for the destruction. :idontno: Surely their actions are loosening the nails so that the wind can easily tear it apart.

The explosions feel like microbursts of an earthquake, if there were such a thing.

They were reportedly pretty reasonable about paying for damages when they dropped a plane on someone's house in Valparaiso a couple years back.

They were reportedly pretty reasonable about paying for damages when they dropped a plane on someone's house in Valparaiso a couple years back.

😱Creepy thread to read...Does this happen often?

😱Creepy thread to read...Does this happen often?

Fairly often.