Bombs in Eglin AFB (north Walton)

[Smiling JOe]

Will someone make the bombs stop going off? Shouldn't they ban the bomb testing after dark? It is almost my bedtime and all I feel is the earth shaking and a distant rumble from the leftover "Boom!"

 

[TreeFrog]

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.

 

[GoodWitch58]

Think about what it's like in Baghdad

 

[Rudyjohn]

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!!)

 

[barefootguy]

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.

 

[beachmouse]

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.

 

[DBOldford]

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.

 

[lindatat]

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.

 

[Miss Kitty]

: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!

 

[pgurney]

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