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Thursday, November 10, 2005

The Times that We Live In



Today as I was walking back from lunch, at least two if not more fighter jets scrambled overhead from east to west, most likely coming from Andrews AFB. Then we saw a helicopter and the jets turned around. I have no clue what is going on, nothing anywhere on the radio or internet, but the jets are still circling above me as I type.

Directly after 9/11 the jets flying constantly overhead were somewhat comforting. Then after a while hearing/seeing them became creepy. The constant flights eventually subsided. Now when they are flying above, especially for a prolonged period of time, you wonder and just know that something is happening. Sometimes it makes the news, mostly it doesn't and those of us that live in the more obvious targets just deal with it.

[The jets just made the news at 1:50 p.m. They were scrambled because of something suspicious showing up on radar. Apparently, it was a flock of geese. That's right, geese. I now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging.]

posted by Blue Dog Art at 1:28 PM

7 Comments:

  • It's so weird that geese can set off radar like that. I wonder if the geese were Canadian and in V formation?

    By Blogger m.a., at November 10, 2005 3:23 PM  

  • I live under the flight path of a whole squad of F-16's stationed a few miles from here. They are the ones that scramble to protect the coast from Atlantic City up to NY, and down through MD. Nightmare.

    No one tells you if you live in a military flight path. We found out the hard way. Sheesh.

    By Blogger Jaded, at November 10, 2005 4:54 PM  

  • During the democratic national convention, I was walking down by Fenway Park and saw a helicopter circling. Didn't think anything of it. We have news helis and LifeFlight and, and, and... Until I realized that THIS helicopter was military. As he turned, I thought "that can't possibly be what I think it is..." and then he finished his turn and it was. A gunner, locked and loaded and aiming at my hometown, hanging out the huey. (I lived at Ft. Bragg and Ft. Collins for too long not to recognize what I was seeing.) Shortly thereafter, the "See Something, Say Something:Freedom Means Speaking Up" ads started showing up in the T stations. Welcome to Boston, the Fascist State. Sigh...

    By Blogger BostonPobble, at November 10, 2005 11:11 PM  

  • MA-Lord knows there are enough geese around here. Maybe something set a huge flock of them up into the sky all at once. They must have the radar set to "super duper sensitive".

    Jaded & Pobble-We live on a flight path between Quantico and the Pentagon. Let me just tell you how low they fly those big-ass helicopters over my house. My entire house rattles and the kids cried when they were little babies. I feel your pain.

    By Blogger Blue Dog Art, at November 14, 2005 11:35 AM  

  • Oh, how weird. At least if the geese were actually coming from Canada to attack, we'd be all over those bitchez. :)

    By Blogger mysterygirl!, at November 14, 2005 1:31 PM  

  • Mystery-Hilarious. You are right, the geese wouldn't have a chance.

    By Blogger Blue Dog Art, at November 14, 2005 10:25 PM  

  • I hear fighter jets go over all of the time, and they come in low and booming. It's an unmistakable sound, and it's always unnerving.

    By Blogger Washington Cube, at November 18, 2005 11:08 AM  

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