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Steam
1st March 2007, 13:34
Was there just a huge boom, like an F1-11 at about Mach 1, or was it a bomb in my neighbourhood? Or a shotgun murder next door?
Eh, anyone hear it? Just about 2.30?
Skunk
1st March 2007, 13:43
Heard a Boom but that's all...
skidMark
1st March 2007, 13:44
Was there just a huge boom, like an F1-11 at about Mach 1, or was it a bomb in my neighbourhood? Or a shotgun murder next door?
Eh, anyone hear it? Just about 2.30?


well ummmm todays the 1st of march, you can predict stuff....whats the winning lotto numbers?
bistard
1st March 2007, 13:46
well ummmm todays the 1st of march, you can predict stuff....whats the winning lotto numbers?

"Im Here"
What are you wearing??
hahaha
I bet I am more bored than you are!!
skidMark
1st March 2007, 16:20
"Im Here"
What are you wearing??
hahaha
I bet I am more bored than you are!!


gahhh stalker ahhhhhh

well what are you wearing?

LOL
Hitcher
1st March 2007, 17:33
I seriously doubt that Civil Aviation would let an F111 or any other capable aircraft go supersonic near a major urban area.
Steam
1st March 2007, 17:37
Ya, must've been something in my neighbourhood. LOUD! Very like a bomb.
Colapop
1st March 2007, 17:58
Hey ahh yeah... yeah that was me... Just playing with my explosives cache... That was the one I like to call Big Tom Thumb... *Tui*


Didn't hear a thing - too much work... still here... sux...
ajturbo
1st March 2007, 18:04
yer we were working in heke st, were had just stopped for lunch,
it was a VERY LOUD BANG.... but there was no smoke.. that we could see....
it was LOUD!!!
McJim
1st March 2007, 18:40
It was just Finn dropping his wallet - nothing to worry about - move along, move along...
Skunk
1st March 2007, 18:52
yer we were working in heke st,
That's in Ngaio, I heard it in Vivian Street. Where were you Steam?
Steam
1st March 2007, 19:04
I was in Wadestown / Wilton. That musta been loud to be heard all over those places. Still a mystery. I'll read tomorrow's paper closely.
98tls
1st March 2007, 19:07
Bit of luck it will have been Helen and Winston eloping in the beehive.........all the way to mars or some other such faraway place..........
ceebie13
2nd March 2007, 08:06
Ive heard booms before...turned out it was cannons being fired somewhere on the harbour shore... where or why I know not. Could it have been more of the same?
Steam
2nd March 2007, 10:50
Ive heard booms before...turned out it was cannons being fired somewhere on the harbour shore... where or why I know not. Could it have been more of the same?

No, it was REALLY loud up here in Wadestown. Like it was a shotgun next door, or a bomb 100m away.
Steam
2nd March 2007, 14:52
It just happened again! Boom! 3.50pm! Am I mad?
0arbreaka
2nd March 2007, 14:53
yes you are, very.
crazybigal
2nd March 2007, 16:04
its blasting at the horikiwi quarry
Hitcher
2nd March 2007, 17:07
It just happened again! Boom! 3.50pm! Am I mad?

Have you recently changed your medication? Of have you been riding WMC's Buell Ulysses demonstrator?
Toaster
2nd March 2007, 17:15
Maybe the aussies are invading... we have no defences, they need water and some decent rugby players....
Hitcher
2nd March 2007, 17:39
And cricketers, more worryingly.
Timber020
2nd March 2007, 20:23
One lot of booms were a gun salute to the finnish president, or something along those lines.
Shadows
2nd March 2007, 23:47
its blasting at the horikiwi quarry

Yep, some of the quarry blasts at Horokiwi are even registering as earthquakes, one today was measured at magnitude 2 in South Karori.

http://www.geonet.org.nz/2703805g.html
Steam
3rd March 2007, 07:28
Yep, some of the quarry blasts at Horokiwi are even registering as earthquakes, one today was measured at magnitude 2 in South Karori.

http://www.geonet.org.nz/2703805g.html

Oh yip, the time fits. That's AMAZING! SO loud yet so far away. And felt in Wellington!
Steam
3rd March 2007, 20:51
Aha! I'm not crazy! My brother heard it too today, so did the neigbours, and it showed up on the seismic drums in Karori. http://www.geonet.org.nz/snzo-drum.html
It's the blasting in Horokiwi. It was on the radio news too, people calling the police about possible explosions.
candor
3rd March 2007, 21:05
So it wasn't real earthquakes that cracked and split all the new piles under my house in Western hills! Its the quarries fault?
Deano
3rd March 2007, 21:11
So it wasn't real earthquakes that cracked and split all the new piles under my house in Western hills! Its the quarries fault?

No it was actually me giving the missus one. The earth moved for her anyway.