Did you hear the rumble sound? Jack Knox from the TC:The Rumbles were particularly loud Tuesday evening. As usual, they sounded like a heavy truck rolling past, or God bowling, or the beginning of an earthquake. Only this time they were intense enough to send you cowering under the coffee table with the dog, in case this really was the Big One. Miesha Knorr detected the Rumbles in Central Saanich, thought they might have something to do with the fog and circling airplanes. Meagan Hogg heard them in Fernwood, where they have been known to interrupt her sleep. On Pender Island, Mae Moore wondered if the noise was from a U.S. Coast Guard firing exercise planned for the Whiskey Hotel gunnery range on the Canadian side of Juan de Fuca Strait. Jonny Miller asked the same thing. But no, as it turned out, the coast guard didn’t do any shooting that day. The Rumbles — mysterious, intermittent low murmurs lasting up to 30 seconds at a time — have occurred on and off for a few years, most frequently in the southern Gulf Islands, down the east side of the Saanich Peninsula and into Oak Bay — though Tuesday’s reports came from as far as Colwood. While the more imaginative among us blame everything from aliens to acid flashbacks, the noise is most often linked to EA-18G “Growler” electronic-warfare aircraft based at Whidbey Island in Washington state. Although the base has been around since the Second World War, the rise of the Rumbles coincided with the arrival of the Growlers in 2008. - Read more at: timescolonist/news/local/jack-knox-the-rumbles-are-rising-grab-your-earplugs-1.1723867#sthash.SefoteME.dpuf
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:13:48 +0000
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