Anonymous ID: 941bc4 Feb. 9, 2021, 2:33 p.m. No.12873452   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>12873298

Dec 2, 2020

 

A mysterious “explosion” rocked large swaths of upstate New York on Wednesday, shaking homes, rattling windows — and confusing a lot of people.

 

Residents across central New York called 911 beginning around noon to report hearing — and feeling — the large boom.

 

“Just felt an explosion that rattled our entire house in Syracuse. I hope everyone is safe,” former congressional candidate Roger Misso wrote on Twitter.

 

Another person asked: “Anyone else in Syracuse just hear a big boom and feel their house shake…”

 

“Welp. Who had aliens taking over in December? #syracuse #boom,” one user quipped.

 

Turns out the rumble was likely caused by a meteor ripping through the Earth’s atmosphere, Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society told the outlet.

 

Witnesses in the Empire State — and in Maryland and even Canada — reported seeing a fireball shoot across the sky, Lunsford said.

 

Video taken by a camera atop Toronto’s CN Tower showed a bright flash over Niagara, science writer Scott Sutherland shared on Twitter.

 

Indeed, many on social media said they’d suspected the massive shake was caused by a sonic boom.

 

“It was so loud and shook my whole house, after checking for a tree on my roof, my next thought was #meteorite,” one person wrote.

 

Lunsford said it’s uncommon to be able to spot meteors in daylight, adding that most of the space rocks burn up while they’re higher up in the atmosphere.

 

It was unclear whether Wednesday’s suspected space rock made impact.

 

“This must be a big one,” Lunsford said.

 

https://nypost.com/2020/12/02/mysterious-explosion-from-meteor-rattles-upstate-new-york/

Anonymous ID: 941bc4 Feb. 9, 2021, 2:39 p.m. No.12873512   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Anyone notice that the poem quoted has similar theme as White Squall? The ship of state must weather the storm.

 

https://www.poetry.com/poem/18695

 

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!

Sail on, O Union, strong and great!

Humanity with all its fears,

With all the hopes of future years,

Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

We know what Master laid thy keel,

What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,

Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,

What anvils rang, what hammers beat,

In what a forge and what a heat

Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!

Fear not each sudden sound and shock,

'Tis of the wave and not the rock;

'Tis but the flapping of the sail,

And not a rent made by the gale!

In spite of rock and tempest's roar,

In spite of false lights on the shore,

Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.

Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,

Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,

Are all with thee, -are all with thee!