Local peeps:
Did anyone here get woken up by some odd thunder and lightning…? like, a flash as if it was going off inside your own room, and then these ear-piercing explosion sounding thunder?
Happened around 3:30am as far as I can tell. my whole house woke up and we were pretty scared.
it didn’t sound/feel/seem like normal lightning/thunder….
edit: I was thinking this morning, and came up with a theory: I’m starting to think maybe it was a tiny meteor exploding in the atmosphere above corvallis. It’d be fucking rad if that was it. It totally wasn’t lightning.
The rain/wind behaved really really violently right after the noise… and my other roomie said she saw a weird fog… atmospheric stuff like that could be explained by an explosion in the atmosphere… so… maybe it was an air-bomb, or maybe it was space junk!
Also wrote a longer entry here.
jonish | 01-Jan-01 at 12:00 am | Permalink
resonancer | 01-Jan-01 at 12:00 am | Permalink
shazamaramack | 28-Jan-06 at 4:49 am | Permalink
it’s the terrorists… yeah, I felt it
raindropebykat | 28-Jan-06 at 8:03 am | Permalink
Sounds like a conductor blew somewhere in your area, that happened near my place once, scared the sh*t out of me.
And for stupid people like me, the conductor is that trash can looking thing at the top of telephone poles.
I kid you not someone had to explain that to me once.
starladear6 | 28-Jan-06 at 8:14 am | Permalink
it was much bigger than that. and it was apparently not that localized. for example, doesn’t live anywhere near me, AND he claimed he was at Shari’s when it happened, which is clear across town.
suparjerk | 28-Jan-06 at 8:31 am | Permalink
And I’m up on 9th and Western, and I saw the same camera-flash-only-thirteen-times-as-bright as well. Definitely wasn’t a conductor.
amaranthtiger | 28-Jan-06 at 9:02 am | Permalink
This can only be attributed to alien phenomena.
It can also mean only one thing, all of you that witnessed it will soon be delegates to these strange, intelligent creatures. Remember, go willingly for when you travel beyond the stars you become more than just another human.
Also, try to mate with them. Eventually all of our differences will cease to exist and then we can live in open harmony with these new beings from…beyond.
buddha_x | 28-Jan-06 at 9:15 am | Permalink
I live up on Witham Hill and the boom was loud and clear. Shook the house a bit. I also saw a flicker flash, not directly, but reflected through my window. It seemed to me to be from the North. I expected a few more, but, nope. It did start raining in earnest, though.
wavingdrowning | 28-Jan-06 at 9:36 am | Permalink
Yeah, I heard it up on Witham Hill, but I don’t think I saw lightning. I was trying really hard to ignore it and get some sleep though.
starladear6 | 28-Jan-06 at 10:05 am | Permalink
wow, that’s far away.
This better fucking make the news. Someone must have weather or seismology instruments that recorded something.
I’ve been googling for witness testimony about mid-air meteor bursts in New Zealand and in Alaska (1999 and 2000 respectively) and a lot of what I’m finding is similar to what people are saying here.
kidorhi | 28-Jan-06 at 11:27 am | Permalink
Yeah, woke me up. I don’t remember the flash, though. Huh.
blackthorpe | 28-Jan-06 at 12:06 pm | Permalink
We live off of Glenridge, and I didn’t see the flash, but the boom did wake us up, then the wind and rain kept us up for a while. I wish I had seen the flash… Stupid sleep…
Maybe it will happen again tonight! I’ll have to stay up and see!
kazujin | 28-Jan-06 at 12:43 pm | Permalink
I heard the same type of thing like two or three days ago. My friend who was kinda far away heard it too.
I live in the NY area. It was really freaky. Thunder in january? I don’t think so.
maiki_desu | 28-Jan-06 at 1:33 pm | Permalink
woke me up real good
the boom was so loud and shaking that it set off all the alarms of the cars where i live. after that, it sounded like there was a leak in my room., but i ignored it and went back to bed
blackthorpe | 28-Jan-06 at 2:17 pm | Permalink
Well, I just talked to my wife, who works at Valley, and she told me that the Oregonian is reporting it as thunder. It was like no thunder that I’ve ever heard, though, and the wind and rain afterward was bizarre. Of course, this is Oregon, so wind and rain is pretty eratic anyway.
Maybe it’s the end of the world???
winnebagos | 28-Jan-06 at 5:17 pm | Permalink
I was awake at my place when it happened. I saw the lightning flash and heard the subsequent thundercrack and rather extended rumbling. Second such event I’ve witnessed since moving here, and that really accounts for all the thunder I’ve heard since August.
Thundercracks like this are a pretty regular occurrence in the midwest. It was definitely on par with some of the louder ones I’ve heard, but it sounded and looked rather textbook to me. It’s funny to me how excited it got the Oregonians I know. One of my friends even called me right after it happened, she was so surprised at how loud it was.