Large Meteorite Hits Near Columbia CA at 7:55AM, Several Fires Reported

News 10 Sacramento ^ | 04/22/2012 | News 10 Sacramento

[.454Puma]

An eyewitness says:

"It was pretty freakin' real when all the dogs started barking right before it hit, then EVERYTHING shook. We were in the field just outside the barn & the barn continued to shake for a couple minutes afterward. We are about 50-60 miles or so from where it hit."

[KoRn]

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[easternsky]

Hour from there, Heard nothing. And yes I was awake and outside. It was Sunday getting ready for Church, no one in Church said a thing about it. We all live 40 to 60 miles from the area.

[gotribe]

Missed by 3000 miles.

[TBall]

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[6SJ7]

There were three guys vaporized by the heat ray bout 1/2 hour into the movie.

[NoCmpromiz]

cooking smoked new-mexican style shredded pork with jalapenos, hand-crafted salsa, hand-crafted corn tortillas, pinto beans with smoked ham hock and jalapenos, and spanish style rice.

Umm... You forgot to post driving directions with your invitation to dinner. ;-)

[tomkat]

That's pretty damned fast:

100 kilometer/second = 223,693.629 mile/hour (mph)

[redhead]

"That guy cracks me up. The perma-tan... the hair, which gets crazier with each episode... the insanity. He’s got it all!"

Including a beautiful complexion. And, you have to admit, his hair always looks really clean...

[JRandomFreeper]

223,693.629 mph is still under the speed limit.

You know. 176,000 mps. It's not just a good idea. It's the law.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Yes. Yes I did. Sorry you missed it.

It was heavenly. In a noisy and sulphurous way (later).

/johny

[tomkat]

At that kinda speed, some poor guy sittin’ on a toilet in Samoa mighta gotten his ass lit up.

[redhead]

Isn’t that the guy from Ancient Aliens? (That’s probably where he got the idea for his hairdo.)

[null and void]

You’re killin’ me here!

[SunkenCiv]

Rain of Iron and Ice
by John S. Lewis

On November 27,1919, a meteorite fell into Lake Michigan near the Michigan shore. "Residents of Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, South Bend, Grand Haven, and other Western Michigan cities fled from their homes in panic, fearing an earthquake. Houses were shaken, the country was illuminated as by a bright sun's rays, so all-enveloping it was impossible to tell from which direction the flare came, the earth trembled for half a moment and then came a deep prolonged rumbling as of a terrific explosion." (p 159)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks .454Puma.

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[JRandomFreeper]

Sorry. I knew it was noisy, and the catz left the room, but I thought I was alone.

I should have known when the grand piano soundboard resonated that there would be repercussions. ;)

Dinner was good. Truly good. God bless that 90 year old woman that taught me the technique. And helped me learn my polite spanish.

/johnny

[null and void]

Not that. I was drowning in drool.

[JRandomFreeper]

It is good to have a well travelled chef in the house. Even if you live alone. ;)

Fires, metorite strikes, and life carries on (well) with locally shot pig and provisions out of the garden.

One must have priorities.

At Armageddon, I'll be the guy in a starched chef's jacket taking over for missing staff and personally passing trays.

/johnny

[RandallFlagg]

You’re off by 10000 MPS.
It’s 186,000 MPS.
Just sayin’.

[dragnet2]

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[TheOldLady]

One little missing apostrophe, and we can assume all sorts of things, LOL!

[TheOldLady]

It was pulsating? Spinning?

Great pic! Yours?

[stayathomemom]

I never heard about that! Too bad my mom was too young at the time to remember it or I’d ask her about it. (She would turn two in three days.) We are life-long Michiganders. Perhaps it was you who posted the article that suggested that the great Chicago fire, the Peshtigo fire, and the other fires that broke out simultaneously in1871 were I fact caused by meteorite strikes? My husband and I lived in Menominee, MI for four years. It’s just up the road from Peshtigo. That fire is pretty important history to that area.

[Monkey Face]

Bacon?

[Monkey Face]

Steve McQueen’s first movie.

[dragnet2]

Not mine.

[dfwgator]

Asteroids have hit Earth before; they will again. Be prepared.

I am.

[dfwgator]

Width and Height image attributes are your friends.

[dragnet2]

#72 is for the computer challenged people.

[TheOldLady]

Excellent find then. Thanks for posting it.  

[Renegade]

The Blob/ Scared the hell out of me. They have ‘Blobfest” in Boyertown Pa in the original movie theater that the people ran out of. They recreate the mob stampede every year.

[Monkey Face]

Yah...it was a good movie for the times. It got my adrenaline going, for sure! Especially when the old man played with it. I knew then the movie was going to have less folks in it at the end than it did at the beginning!

[bigheadfred]

Odd. I would have expected a local FReeper to beat any news service.

I don't know. Sometimes digging yourself out of the rubble is a real bee-otch.

[bigheadfred]

I really need to get a bigger monitor.

[dragnet2]

[bigheadfred]

Ha. Like a 15 year old can monitor me.

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops! Thanks KoRn!

[SunkenCiv]

I probably have posted that (Chicago and Peshtigo fires caused by space debris), now that you mention it. I think the author of a book about it was from Michigan.

I wish I’d asked the remaining relatives old enough to remember that year about this, but (alas) I never got around to it.