Meteor

Yesterday, I (finally?) mentioned the meteor that went over us and landed in Lake Erie. 

At work, everyone was talking- or getting texts - about said meteor. 

It was like the Northern Lights all over again for Blobby.  Nothing. Never saw. Never heard. 

The building in which I work may as well be a bomb shelter. Built in the '30s (19, not 18) is solid. We heard nothing. Depending on who was telling the tale, it was 10 miles to my east or 20 to the west or 10 south. 

Everywhere but where I was located. In likelihood, you could see / hear it from all those places. It came up past Kentucky (they didn't know what it was because....well.......science) past Cinicinasty, Columbus, started breaking up over Medina and allegedly landing in Lake Erie. 

Mind you, it was far far too cloudy in our parts to see anything.  Other areas "nearby" did not have the overcats (not a typo) issue. 

The above dash-cam photo was taken at the Ohio / Pennsylvania border about 90 miles from us. I love how news programs played this and had to bleep most of it out - as the driver had a potty mouth that would have made yours truly proud. 

Oh, I didn't see the news, but my sister sent me the clip. The meteor broke the sound barrier making a ka-BOOM. 

My sister in law thought a huge tree fell on her house. A co-worker's wife thought two semis collided in front of where they live. 

Me? When told all these thought, "well, it is probably Iran bombing us - and rightfully so.". But I logically thought that through and figured they are NOT starting with Cleveburgh. We offer nothing. 

Meteor hunters immediately tracked the path and started looking for debris. Not the lake pieces, but allegedly someone found parts in Medina. 

710's not so guilty pleasure movie - though I really wish it would be a lot more guilt would be involved - is Deep Impact. While it sounds like an adult movie title, it is really just the 1996 Tea Leoni / Frodo classic that was the lesser mirror movie of Armageddon which would come out two years later. And the 'lesser' comment has to hurt on multiple points since Armageddon is not good. 

{Deep Impact spoiler coming}

In the movie, Tea perishes (on purpose) by going to 'the shore' to be swallowed by a tidal wave caused by the meteor. 

Well...........granted, ours was a smaller meteor than their fake one, but I'm not sure we even got a wave. So, either the science was wrong, Hollywood lied to us, or almost nothing hit the lake. It was very anti-climactic. 

Yet here we are, days later, people still chattering about it - like the Northern Lights....and except for a 'boom' nothing really happened,  Much like Cleveland. 

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