Residents on N. East Street, College Street and South East Street all heard/felt it
Dispatch received multiple calls last night around 8:15 PM reporting a huge explosion somewhere in east Amherst. The reporting party on Jenks Street said it "shook the house," and upon first arriving on scene an Amherst police officer noted smoke off in the distance woods.
But by the time he hitched a ride out to the suspected area, the smoke was gone. I went outside immediately after the first 911 call aired to scan the skies for a military jet, but did not see or hear one.
Mystery solved. Or NOT
It could be swamp gas -- unventilated methane which found an ignition source.
ReplyDeleteI heard it in south Amherst -- thought it was a backfire.
ReplyDeleteI'm on North East Street. Noted about a half hour of loud gunfire off to my east for half an hour before the bang. Think it was people playing with explosives.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's kind of what I"m afraid of.
ReplyDeleteCould have been the Arabs known as the "Quabbin 5"
ReplyDeleteMaybe they'll have a lockdown tomorrow in the schools
ReplyDeleteJust becaws they were Muslim, and proweling around Metro Boston's water supply, doesn't meen they were up to know good
ReplyDeleteI take it there has been no news on the actual explosion since it occurred.
ReplyDeleteHow many people would actually recognize a sonic boom? Those *will* shake the house.
ReplyDeleteHowever Larry, if you're right, it puts the Dylan Disaster in a different light, doesn't it? Whoever was involved has real "bang" and Dylan never did. They are the threat he never was.
I hope 9:33PM is not an Amherst high graduate.
ReplyDeleteHoly Cow... If so, the school system has a lot more wrong with it than racism.
It must be terrorist!!! right? silly hippie elitists!
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t must be terrorist!!! right? silly hippie elitists!
ReplyDeleteIf you are talking a cannon being fired, I believe there is a difference in acoustics between an explosion and a tube weapon discharge.