The Wake Up Call Part 1.
1:40Am January 1st 2012:
I woke up to a loud boom, the whole house was shaking and it sounded like some of the windows actually shattered. Our dog Henry went crazy and my wife almost broke here leg jumping out of bed so fast.
We were completely baffled as to what had happened , we saw the neighbors lights on as well , so it wasn’t just our house. The little village of Lakeview sits nestled near a small coastal lake in the Pacific North West, and our house sits along its shores.
Its always so quiet around here , so this was quite a “wake up” call. We both looked at each other as if we had seen a ghost not knowing what we should do. We called the neighbors and they confirmed they too had been startled and were checking for structural damage and broken windows.
The Johnsons were an older retired couple , like family to us, so we went over to check on them to make sure they were all right.
After making the rounds and covering two broken windows , we called the local fire department and asked what had happened, sure enough we were not the only ones effected in this small town of twelve hundred , mostly retirees from California.
Randy , the volunteer fire chief was also the towns sheriff, he said it sounded like a sonic boom , but at a level he had never heard before , and had already put in a call to the air force base in Medford to see what was going on.
They told him not to worry, they were doing fly by drills , and when he asked what that was, and why they were doing them over the town in the middle of the night , he was put on permanent hold.
After a sleepless night we woke up to a sunny morning and were thankful we didn’t have to go to work that day. The sun had been shining for 3 months now , very unusual for the Pacific north west in the winter time.
We had a persistent high pressure system parked over us and it did not want to leave , Sea Tac airport reported the highest atmospheric pressure ever recorded.
2012 was here and it came in with a bang, literately. After breakfast we checked the towns small website to see if any updates had been posted as to the cause of the loud mystery.
Having lived near Nellis Air force base in Las Vegas for nearly a year , I have heard a few sonic booms before and while loud and annoying , they didn’t come anywhere close to what had happened last night. This was a whole new level, and I wasn’t convinced this was just some air force yahoos looking to scare up the old folks in the middle of the night.
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