Explosions in the woods

[r porter]

a few years back one of my shooting buddies had a cousin that blew up a van cooking dope. killed him and totally destroyed the van.

 

[Xfaxman]

Our house is built on a slab. There is a quarry 5ish air miles away. We hear, well FEEL, explosions a couple of times a week. Usually, Tuesday and Wednesday around 11:00ish. The only thing we can figure is we can hear/feel explosions at the quarry. We heard/felt an explosion today which is unusual.

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Later,
Dan

This also shows quarry blasts. You can zoom to your area and set the settings for what you want to see. I have mine bookmarked: Latest Earthquakes

 

[Wakey]

I've got to ask, what it this guy? I remember when it made the rounds.

Generally, one does not walk TO tannerite when your shooting it. I get the fact that shooting tannerite is fun, but when metal is enclosing it, you're basically making a bomb with shrapnel and God only knows where that shrapnel is going to fly.

These can laugh about it on video, but they are beyond stupid IMO ]

One video the kid got lucky, the other, not so much. We did some insanely dangerous things growing up and were very fortunate. My risk aversion has changed considerably.

 

[EddieWalker]

My land was once part of Camp Fannin, a World War 2 Army base to train soldiers to fight in Europe. It was only open for a few years and it covered 14,000 acres. They trained 100,000 soldiers every 3 months, and this included small arms rifle ranges on up to large howitzer type cannons. The shape of the range was kind of like the capital letter C. All of the shooting went into the center of the C shaped range. I have rifle range number 4 on my land.

Once the US Military owns or leases a piece of land or building, they are responsible for contamination on that land for all eternity. Around 2017 or 18, funds where made available to clean up the bases of old ordinance, and 1,800 acres in my area was part of that clean up. The Army is in charge of this, but a contractor is doing all the work with former DOD experts from the military. They create a grid, then clear the land, then go over every foot of it with metal detectors. If they think that they have found old ordinance, they blow it up. This happens every day at around 3:45 pm. Not exactly, but pretty close to that time every day. Some days, they might set of something earlier, or even three times in a day. Most of the time, it's a dull boom. Every know and then, it's massive.

From what they told me, when the war ended, the Germans held prisoner here where used to walk over the range and identify all the ordinance. The sooner they finished, the sooner they got to go home. They rushed it and missed a lot. Since then, stuff appears out of the ground. I've seen rocket grenades in person, and pictures of cannon rounds on peoples land. It just slowly works it's way up to the surface, and then one day, it's just laying there, or sticking out of the ground. Most is harmless and rusted away. Some still has TNT in it that has gelled and turned to Nitro Glycerin, which is very dangerous. I'm not aware of anybody actually getting hurt, but the Army guys did start out doing this with just a couple sand bags and plywood over what they where exploding, and then one day, they blew up something much larger then expected and it really scared them. Now they really pile up a lot of material on top of their explosives before detonating it!!!!

If there is an old military base close to where you are hearing explosions, this could be what's happening. I know that they have been doing it all over the country, and not just from WW2. Before coming to my place, they worked on a Civil War site.

 

[JethroB]

Dry ice bombs make a pretty big BOOM. Easy to make and dangerous. Some grocery stores sell dry ice and you must be 18 or older to purchase.

 

[Alan W.]

Dry ice bombs make a pretty big BOOM. Easy to make and dangerous. Some grocery stores sell dry ice and you must be 18 or older to purchase.

Now Ive got to look that up. Thanks another tempting rabbit hole

 

[MossRoad]

My land was once part of Camp Fannin, a World War 2 Army base to train soldiers to fight in Europe. ....

That is pretty cool. My father got drafted in WWII and was sent to Texas for training. Among some of his training, he was made a firearms instructor, and, since they were a combat engineering battalion, they had to build their own firing range. I often wonder where he was in Texas. I doubt it was at your place, but who knows? I'd like to find his service records sometime.

 

[Dftodd]

My first thought was fireworks too. My house shook several times recently from some kind of explosion and I never thought it was caused by anything else.

Neighbor around the corner from us gets carried away with the gasoline while lighting his burn pile.

We'll hear a whoomp and the windows will rattle.

Once in a while it will be a fighter jet (sonic boom) from the air force base. And occasionally it will be mortars from the national guard base when doing live fire drills.

Usually they advertise on the news to warn the public before mortar and demolition drills.

 

[MossRoad]

Now Ive got to look that up. Thanks another tempting rabbit hole

Kids were blowing up mailboxes with them around here. Then someone started just leaving them around small towns and such. They can cause serious injury, especially if put inside of something else. Check your locale before making BOOM!

 

[Dftodd]

My land was once part of Camp Fannin, a World War 2 Army base to train soldiers to fight in Europe. It was only open for a few years and it covered 14,000 acres. They trained 100,000 soldiers every 3 months, and this included small arms rifle ranges on up to large howitzer type cannons. The shape of the range was kind of like the capital letter C. All of the shooting went into the center of the C shaped range. I have rifle range number 4 on my land.

Once the US Military owns or leases a piece of land or building, they are responsible for contamination on that land for all eternity. Around 2017 or 18, funds where made available to clean up the bases of old ordinance, and 1,800 acres in my area was part of that clean up. The Army is in charge of this, but a contractor is doing all the work with former DOD experts from the military. They create a grid, then clear the land, then go over every foot of it with metal detectors. If they think that they have found old ordinance, they blow it up. This happens every day at around 3:45 pm. Not exactly, but pretty close to that time every day. Some days, they might set of something earlier, or even three times in a day. Most of the time, it's a dull boom. Every know and then, it's massive.

From what they told me, when the war ended, the Germans held prisoner here where used to walk over the range and identify all the ordinance. The sooner they finished, the sooner they got to go home. They rushed it and missed a lot. Since then, stuff appears out of the ground. I've seen rocket grenades in person, and pictures of cannon rounds on peoples land. It just slowly works it's way up to the surface, and then one day, it's just laying there, or sticking out of the ground. Most is harmless and rusted away. Some still has TNT in it that has gelled and turned to Nitro Glycerin, which is very dangerous. I'm not aware of anybody actually getting hurt, but the Army guys did start out doing this with just a couple sand bags and plywood over what they where exploding, and then one day, they blew up something much larger then expected and it really scared them. Now they really pile up a lot of material on top of their explosives before detonating it!!!!

If there is an old military base close to where you are hearing explosions, this could be what's happening. I know that they have been doing it all over the country, and not just from WW2. Before coming to my place, they worked on a Civil War site.

I've been in a couple areas where new construction was going on in former bombing ranges and proving grounds for explosives.

We had a mandatory stand down one morning at work. The topic was the former proving grounds for Martin Marietta being converted to shopping and housing. This was directly across the street from the convention center in Orlando FL.

Two days before our stand down about that site. One of the workers found an intact Anti Tank mine Idiot loaded it up into his old Ford ranger and hauled it home to Ocala to show his buddies. Dude got pounced on by Martin Marietta's security the next morning when he showed back up to work. He still had the mine sliding and banging around in the back of his truck.

They had the military come in and dispose of it. We were told to stick to the haul roads if we had to visit the site. If they wanted the equipment worked on or serviced, they needed to bring it to the front of the property to the lay down area.

Baldwin Park (Orlando) was built on the old Air Force bombing range. That housing community project was the single most dismal failure for a few big housing developers. They neglected to have the area policed properly for ordinance. $300k homes had their value dropped to $125k after kids found live ordinance in the bushes next to the play ground at the elementary school. People were were doing strategic foreclosures on those houses they paid $300k for and walking away from them.

The builders couldn't say whether the area was clear under the homes or not.