Longjohn ★ Posted January 1, 2022 Share #1 Posted January 1, 2022 Just shook the house, no windows broke. I have no idea what it was, I looked outside and I don’t see any fire. My only guesses would be someone getting fireworks set up and they all exploded at once (not likely), one of the gas wells in the area exploded (again not likely or there would be fire), or a truck on the interstate exploded. I don’t hear any sirens. The state police barracks is only four miles away, they had to have heard it. if I find out anything owl post it here. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 1, 2022 Share #2 Posted January 1, 2022 7 minutes ago, Longjohn said: Just shook the house, no windows broke. I have no idea what it was, I looked outside and I don’t see any fire. My only guesses would be someone getting fireworks set up and they all exploded at once (not likely), one of the gas wells in the area exploded (again not likely or there would be fire), or a truck on the interstate exploded. I don’t hear any sirens. The state police barracks is only four miles away, they had to have heard it. if I find out anything owl post it here. It should not shake the house like that, LJ. Either the person is setting it off in wrong area or something else happened. There is a limited class of fireworks that's allowed by your municipality. In Canada there is federal law on storage/handling of explosives, fireworks /import/export. Then to provincial and municipal law for different classes for fireworks to be handled by sold and handled by general public. (This is from working for Ontario provincial authority...we monitored fireworks damages and injuries.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentonMakes Posted January 1, 2022 Share #3 Posted January 1, 2022 Hope all is well and everyone is OK. A few years ago there was a gas explosion about a mile away and my wife thought a tree fell on the house (thanks to Sandy we know exactly what that sounds like). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 1, 2022 Share #4 Posted January 1, 2022 Scary. Call the news office. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share #5 Posted January 1, 2022 5 minutes ago, shootingstar said: There is a limited class of fireworks that's allowed by your municipality. When I was a kid the only legal fireworks you could buy was sparklers but I think it’s wide open now. If you have the money they will sell you anything. The two biggest fireworks manufacturers in the country are less than thirty miles away. I used to live within a few miles of Zambelly fireworks. One of their bunkers where they stored fireworks exploded one time and that shook the house. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 1, 2022 Share #6 Posted January 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Longjohn said: When I was a kid the only legal fireworks you could buy was sparklers but I think it’s wide open now. If you have the money they will sell you anything. The two biggest fireworks manufacturers in the country are less than thirty miles away. I used to live within a few miles of Zambelly fireworks. One of their bunkers where they stored fireworks exploded one time and that shook the house. Holy poop.... hard to believe to open the doors wider to sell any range of fireworks to the public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share #7 Posted January 1, 2022 On 12/31/2021 at 8:52 PM, shootingstar said: Holy poop.... hard to believe to open the doors wider to sell any range of fireworks to the public. They are expensive though. My son that was in the army likes to blow things up and when he was home on leave one time he spent hundreds of dollars on fireworks to blow up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 1, 2022 Share #8 Posted January 1, 2022 17 minutes ago, shootingstar said: Holy poop.... hard to believe to open the doors wider to sell any range of fireworks to the public. This is the country of unlimited guns remember? Pffft to a few more finger destroyers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share #9 Posted January 1, 2022 4 minutes ago, maddmaxx said: This is the country of unlimited guns remember? Pffft to a few more finger destroyers. Every year there are reports of area people blowing off fingers with fireworks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 1, 2022 Share #10 Posted January 1, 2022 8 minutes ago, maddmaxx said: This is the country of unlimited guns remember? Pffft to a few more finger destroyers. Since China invented fireworks and still manufactures alot of it plus celebrates by using them...it's part of the culture: China makes most of the world’s fireworks—and bears most of the danger. (slate.com) Below a 2020 incident in a fireworks manufacturing facility in China: Huang was in a packing warehouse when, at 3 p.m., someone in the building next-door triggered an explosion by sweeping rice hulls off the floor. The hulls, highly combustible materials used to burst the cardboard shell of a firework and heave its colored stars into the air, are a key ingredient in making fireworks. Chinese safety regulations dictate careful disposal of leftover hulls, but that day they were swept away like harmless debris, the casual meeting of friction with flammables setting off the catastrophe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted January 1, 2022 Share #11 Posted January 1, 2022 Hope everyone is ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 1, 2022 Share #12 Posted January 1, 2022 50 minutes ago, Longjohn said: When I was a kid the only legal fireworks you could buy was sparklers but I think it’s wide open now. If you have the money they will sell you anything. The two biggest fireworks manufacturers in the country are less than thirty miles away. I used to live within a few miles of Zambelly fireworks. One of their bunkers where they stored fireworks exploded one time and that shook the house. LJ; From the above linked article: When many U.S. states relaxed consumer fireworks laws in the 1990s, demand ramped up and factories went into year-round production (in China). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikeguy Posted January 1, 2022 Share #13 Posted January 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Longjohn said: Just shook the house, no windows broke. I have no idea what it was, I looked outside and I don’t see any fire. Wow yesterday @MickinMD's home gets shaken... today yours. Since bad things come in threes... where tomorrow? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted January 1, 2022 Share #14 Posted January 1, 2022 We felt an explosion 10 miles from our house when a gas semi exploded at a refilling distribution center. The windows in the house shook. It was ten miles away. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan ★ Posted January 1, 2022 Share #15 Posted January 1, 2022 Maybe it was your Amish neighbors blasting stumps. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 1, 2022 Share #16 Posted January 1, 2022 A video I made. This happened a while back about 2 blocks from the house. Couple of guys making fireworks in a garage of a house they were renting. The two guys were killed in the explosion. Injured Injured several neighbors and blew out the windows of 112 surrounding houses. Blew up 2 of the houses next to them. I heard the first explosion sounded like it dropped the ground underneath me. Then the second explosion and a third at 1:30 into the video. People from Mexico just looking for a better life. Totally destroyed somebody's house. The victim's wife started a go fund me page in their their honor. WTH, what honor? They screwed a lot of people trying to make a few bucks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted January 1, 2022 Share #17 Posted January 1, 2022 Funny, I was typing on one of the threads here Thursday when my house was shaken and I posted it didn't feel like an earthquake. Sure enough, it turned out to be a coal dust explosion around a 5 story coal silo a mile or so from me. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffJim Posted January 1, 2022 Share #18 Posted January 1, 2022 Longjohn, did you ever solve the mystery? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 1, 2022 Share #19 Posted January 1, 2022 2 minutes ago, BuffJim said: Longjohn, did you ever solve the mystery? Good question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 1, 2022 Share #20 Posted January 1, 2022 15 minutes ago, Airehead said: Good question Googling didn’t turn up anything recent for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share #21 Posted January 1, 2022 1 hour ago, BuffJim said: Longjohn, did you ever solve the mystery? Nope, there was only that one big explosion and it wasn’t anywhere near midnight. I could hear some normal fireworks off in the distance but could barely hear them from in the house. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Longjohn ★ Posted January 4, 2022 Author Popular Post Share #22 Posted January 4, 2022 3 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 4, 2022 Share #23 Posted January 4, 2022 Holy cow, this is really something! bo·lide /ˈbōlīd,ˈbōləd/ Learn to pronounce noun noun: bolide; plural noun: bolides a large meteor which explodes in the atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Longjohn ★ Posted January 4, 2022 Author Popular Post Share #24 Posted January 4, 2022 I new it was something big.compared to 30 tons of tnt. That’s a big firecracker. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 4, 2022 Share #25 Posted January 4, 2022 Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 4, 2022 Share #26 Posted January 4, 2022 2 minutes ago, Longjohn said: I new it was something big.compared to 30 tons of tnt. That’s a big firecracker. Sheesh! All this talk of earth-destroying asteroids and this one slipped under the radar! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikeguy Posted January 4, 2022 Share #27 Posted January 4, 2022 3 hours ago, Philander Seabury said: Sheesh! All this talk of earth-destroying asteroids and this one slipped under the radar! So the sky is indeed falling. Chicken Little may eventually be correct. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 4, 2022 Share #28 Posted January 4, 2022 4 hours ago, Bikeguy said: So the sky is indeed falling. Chicken Little may eventually be correct. She was another famous downer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge ★ Posted January 4, 2022 Share #29 Posted January 4, 2022 Holy cow!! Never a dull moment at LJ's! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gump Posted January 4, 2022 Share #30 Posted January 4, 2022 And you didn’t even get pictures🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share #31 Posted January 4, 2022 17 minutes ago, Gump said: And you didn’t even get pictures🙂 I didn’t see anything, the house shook and I went outside to see what happened and I didn’t see anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 4, 2022 Share #32 Posted January 4, 2022 A meter in diameter! And 72,000kph. We're not savages! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted January 4, 2022 Share #33 Posted January 4, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 4, 2022 Share #34 Posted January 4, 2022 7 minutes ago, Page Turner said: An awful "comedy". Easily 45 minutes of junk that should have been cut out. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 4, 2022 Share #35 Posted January 4, 2022 13 hours ago, smudge said: Holy cow!! Never a dull moment at LJ's! Just another ninja fended off by Chuck Norris. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted January 5, 2022 Share #36 Posted January 5, 2022 7 hours ago, Razors Edge said: An awful "comedy". Easily 45 minutes of junk that should have been cut out. ...you probably go to a performance of "Twelfth Night", and say the same thing as you're leaving the theater. It's a farce. Farce doesn't need to have a tight plot and an identifiable hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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