Comments on: Residents Report Large ‘Explosion’, Broken Windows

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:30:25 +0000

Concussion as opposed to percussion.

We are talking about improvised explosives, no musical instruments.

As that old evil woman would say, “let us move on”!

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:24:56 +0000

We heard it in Molino too

By: Xpeecee

Xpeecee — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 13:49:33 +0000

Margie Hays, I agree with your comments. The explosion was obviously at, or near ground level. It was large. We felt the concussion from our front porch. It would be fairly easy to pinpoint the source of the explosion, if enough people would estimate the direction of the explosion from the point where they heard it. Triangulation only works, if there are at least three accurate sources of direction. I would suggest that everyone who heard it, state where they were and the direction of the explosion. If plotted on a map, the source could be found…

By: Theresa Hill

Theresa Hill — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 13:40:42 +0000

I saw a guy that had filled up a balloon with cetylene. Welding gas! It was years ago. He tied a line of toilet paper to it. Lit it and ran. Shook every house for a mile or so out. Big, big boom and no evidence of where it detonated. Very dangerous and irresponsible! Any welders in the neighborhood?

By: TS n Molino

TS n Molino — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 13:37:42 +0000

I live off 196 and the percussion that went off around my house was no fireworks!!

By: Margie Hays

Margie Hays — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 12:51:20 +0000

Does anyone else in the area also know how to triangulate and would be willing to work in a team to try to locate the area where the Sunday night explosion happened?

By: Margie Hays

Margie Hays — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 12:08:26 +0000

I must share again– the percussion was at ground level. Even large, professional pyrotechnic rockets don’t go off at ground level unless they’re staged improperly. This boom in Sunday night didn’t happen in the air, it happened barely above ground.

By: Margie Hays

Margie Hays — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 12:05:07 +0000

David, from extensive personal experience, I can promise you it wasn’t a sonic boom. I’m thinking right along with JT…. This was akin to a sizable mortar and would have left a hole in the ground. Definitely not an earthquake, the ground didn’t shake and it was no seismic event, underground gas line event, cave in, rail accident, etc. it was an in incendiary device, above ground at surface level, great enough for the percussion to travel more than a one mile wide radius by first-person reports.

I’m discouraged that whomever said they had the broken windows hasn’t yet posted a photo or come forward by calling authorities to see the evidence, because plotting the damages and witness reports would help pinpoint where it originated, wether it’s munitions or fireworks. Either are illegal without proper permitting. They also mean we have an idiot neighbor in this area who really is careless, selfish, thoughtless and lawless.

It’s way past time for a neighborhood watch area or two out here before our formerly quiet community goes down the tubes instead of being the close-knit flourishing community it should be.

By: Jb

Jb — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 06:08:09 +0000

It might be the blow off valve on the pipeline.

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 03:40:55 +0000

FIREWORKS at several houses Hwy297A and Heritage Baptist Church last night and today/tonight. It’s been like a contest as to who has the loudest. These fireworks are the same that explode at Fireworks Shows. They have finally stopped tonight at 10PM.