[Reposed from other thread....]

HOLY MOLEY! I heard these 5 or 6 explosions yesterday around 9XX AM. Then just now (10:04 AM) I heard another, single, HUGE one - sounding like it came from the West of here (Dulles Airport area).

Someone tell me this is Quantico? That would need to be a MOAB for me to hear it up here. I would BARELY be able to hear a 5,000 bomb from this far from Quantico.

It's got to be some kind of blasting/tunneling for the new Metro line to Dulles. Has to be. But I can't find any official info. You would think they would let people know in advance. From here, it sounded like 10 747's crashing at once.

Did I mention holy CRAP!?!

Could they be getting serious about this quarry expansion?

http://maps.google.com/?ll=38.858758,-77.543092&spn=0.032081,0.041842&t=h&z=15

The homeowners directly to the east are probably overjoyed, huh?

Who cares about Herdon and Sterling? They both suck.

There are quarries in Sterling (off of Old Ox near the Herndon border), Pleasant Valley/South Riding (Chantilly Luckstone Quarry, north of 50 along the Dulles border), Centreville (on 29 near Bull Run), and more.

Explosions means rocks. Rocks mean construction.
Construction means jobs. Jobs means money. Money means purchasing. Purchasing means more jobs . Jobs mean more construction. Construction means more rocks. Rocks mean more explosions.
And to think we just landed on Mars for rocks. All they needed to do was ask me.
I have rocks in my head.

When living in Herndon, we used to get these fairly often, and a resulting little "earthquake" when they blasted. It felt like it epicentered underground so close to town (We were a couple of miles from the big quarry near 28) we thought they were either building underground tunnels (secret railway escapes for the D/C royalty in case of a cataclism?) or the rock quarries to the south west of town were expanding their territories by tunnelling horizontally underneath the town of Herndon--that way they don't have to purchase the land for open pit mines, and with all the construction around here, who would investigate--until somebody's house drops down vertically a few hundred feet! There must be a lot of great granite bedrock down there under Herndon. Out in Loudoun County, all I have seen so far is soft red claystone and mudstones, but there are lots of quarries there also, must be good solid granite rock under the claystone. Something down there is pumping up all that radon gas into people's basements!

.................rocks underground?!?!?

Geez, who'd have ever thought?

o_0

A homeowner in Sterling lived in the lower level suite of his house and rented out the upper floors. Because he was in the basement, he was always complaining about the vibration and very low frequency noise he was hearing that came through the underground 24 hrs a day. There would be occasional booms like muffled blasting. I remember him cussing up a storm leaving the house at all times of the night going out to try and pinpoint where the noise vibrations were coming from, and failing. We were about 10 miles from Dulles airport. He eventually sold out and moved to another state, he coud not get any sleep in Sterling.