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Posted: 4/18/2005 7:28:37 AM EDT

I was sitting here working, and the whole house just shook. Windows rattled and I felt some overpressure through the open windows. Obviously a shockwave.

No sounds of any explosion or aircraft, tho.

Anybody in the far N. Houston area hear or feel anything?

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:30:32 AM EDT

[#1]

What did you have for dinner last night?

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:31:33 AM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
What did you have for dinner last night?

you beat me to it

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:32:03 AM EDT

[#3]

Earthquake!

(I've felt 2 of them here in Michigan of all places... years back. One felt like someone kicked my chair - HARD - but there was noone there. I watched the news that night and they said we had a minor tremor)

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:32:52 AM EDT

[#4]

did the neighboors experience it also???? could've been a minor earthquake....technically earthquakes can occur just about anywhere.....

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:35:14 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
did the neighboors experience it also???? could've been a minor earthquake....technically earthquakes can occur just about anywhere.....

It's a rural area, and I don't know any of the neighbors (not my home).

And I had the Mesquite Chicken Bacon sandwich from Quizno's last night.

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:37:17 AM EDT

[#6]

quake...enjoy the ride.

Sgat1r5

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:39:38 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

And I had the Mesquite Chicken Bacon sandwich from Quizno's last night.

QED....

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:42:12 AM EDT

[#8]

GET OUUUUUT!!!

Sorry, just saw Amityville Horror...

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:42:37 AM EDT

[#9]

B-1 bomber out of Dyess?

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:47:13 AM EDT

[#10]

I've felt quakes and sonic booms that could both be described that way.

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:53:25 AM EDT

[#11]

That was me flying home for lunch. I'll divert on the way back.

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:54:12 AM EDT

[#12]

Godzilla......................I highly doubt it was anything else.

vmax84

Posted: 4/18/2005 7:54:56 AM EDT

[#13]

You have seven days.

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:05:53 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
I was sitting here working, and the whole house just shook. Windows rattled and I felt some overpressure through the open windows. Obviously a shockwave.

No sounds of any explosion or aircraft, tho.

Anybody in the far N. Houston area hear or feel anything?

Did you hear a voice telling you to "Get.........Out"

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:07:31 AM EDT

[#15]

You guys are hilarious.

It wasn't a quake, according to the USGS.

earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:09:27 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
I was sitting here working, and the whole house just shook. Windows rattled and I felt some overpressure through the open windows. Obviously a shockwave.

No sounds of any explosion or aircraft, tho.

Anybody in the far N. Houston area hear or feel anything?

Probably Michael Moore was going for a jog nearby. Too bad you didn't think to grab your rifle, you missed your only opportunity!

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:12:54 AM EDT

[#17]

Damn, apparently I missed.

BRB...

TRG

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:19:08 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
B-1 bomber out of Dyess?

I hope not.. Dyess is a bit of a haul from Houston.

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:28:08 AM EDT

[#19]

Houston area?

Seismic work?

Clearing a pipeline?

A number of explanations.

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:30:23 AM EDT

[#20]

Just the new hyperspace bypass going in. No worry.

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:33:24 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Just the new hyperspace bypass going in. No worry.

NASA doesn't have a shuttle up right now, so we can rule that out as well...

TRG

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:39:37 AM EDT

[#22]

Aurora

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:40:12 AM EDT

[#23]

Subsonic 155mm?

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:43:39 AM EDT

[#24]

big truck roll by

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:43:55 AM EDT

[#25]

You got nuked. You are surfing arfcom fromt the great beyond.

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:44:26 AM EDT

[#26]

NRA's in town!

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:47:56 AM EDT

[#27]

sink hole opening under the house

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:51:26 AM EDT

[#28]

I shot a 15 lbs keg of Green Dot smokeless powder yesterday that shook most of Young county. Maybe that was the shockwave just getting to south Texas.

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:52:43 AM EDT

[#29]

did your trailer fall of its jacks? or tire blew?

Posted: 4/18/2005 8:55:07 AM EDT

[#30]

Someone blasting nearby?

Posted: 4/18/2005 11:20:10 AM EDT

[#31]

No blasting, no seismic shooting, no sink hole.

I'm guessing it was another NG tank at a well exploding.

It happened about a year ago, and I felt the shockwave 20 miles away.

There are quite a few NG wells in the area.

Posted: 4/18/2005 11:22:57 AM EDT

[#32]

Sure someone wasn't testing some tannerite?

Posted: 4/18/2005 11:26:52 AM EDT

[#33]

A tremor in the Force

Posted: 4/18/2005 11:27:50 AM EDT

[#34]

It may have been generated by the stampede of illegals coming across the border.

Posted: 4/18/2005 11:35:31 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
GET OUUUUUT!!!

Sorry, just saw Amityville Horror...

Me too. It sucked.

Posted: 4/18/2005 11:59:14 AM EDT

[#36]

Arc light......

Posted: 4/18/2005 12:06:37 PM EDT

[#37]

how far north of houston?
past conroe?

Posted: 4/18/2005 12:08:21 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
how far north of houston?
past conroe?

Just off of 1488, 12mi west of I45.

Posted: 4/18/2005 12:09:13 PM EDT

[#39]

Id say a fighter breaking Mach 1 at a rather high altitude. You wont really hear the airplane, but the wave will still come get you

Posted: 4/18/2005 12:11:05 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
Arc light......

LOL. B-52 strike.

now that's what i call a load out.

Posted: 4/18/2005 12:13:22 PM EDT

[#41]

could be your house shifting. That area is known for flooding and soft ground. You're just south of the san jacinto.

Posted: 4/18/2005 12:19:03 PM EDT

[#42]

look at your tannerite stock pile.

is the room it was stored in missing?

Posted: 4/18/2005 12:19:56 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
could be your house shifting. That area is known for flooding and soft ground. You're just south of the san jacinto.

Not THIS area.

And the ground is definitely NOT soft. We had to rent a Bobcat with an auger to make post holes for the fence, and even it had trouble.

Like I said, I felt the overpressure.

Definitely a shockwave.

Posted: 4/18/2005 12:24:20 PM EDT

[#44]

could be a detonation from a ground or stack flare.
you get a shot of liquid that puts out the flare's pilot and then a big shot of gas that makes a cloud. when the pilot relights you get a big BOOM just like a fuel air device.