Shelley wrote this morning that there was a loud boom at Third Avenue Northwest and NW 89th Street about 1:40 a.m. This morning she and neighbors noticed a fine white coating of dust on their house and vehicles.
I did a little exploration and the dust seems to have settled primarily in the five or six houses surrounding ours. It blew off my car easily as I drove and seems to be a fine clay or similar. Can’t imagine what that sound was but it woke up my baby and was definitely at least a few houses away.
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1 MonkeyPilot // Mar 16, 2010 at 11:47 am
I heard the boom last night, but didn’t notice any residue this morning. It sounded to me like a transformer blowing somewhere nearby.
2 mike // Mar 16, 2010 at 11:50 am
yes, I heard it at 107th.
3 Bentley // Mar 16, 2010 at 11:50 am
My roommate and I heard the same loud boom from a distance at around that time. We live at 103rd and 8th Ave.
4 trickycoolj // Mar 16, 2010 at 12:00 pm
The powder could coincidentally be tree pollen. It was very warm yesterday and a lot of trees went full bloom in my neighborhood and the entire street smelled like fresh flowers around 11pm since it was still 60 degrees.
5 foo // Mar 16, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Yes - agreed on the ‘residue’. My car was covered in a fine white-ish powder, easily blown off. And it was pollen. (Ballard)
6 chris // Mar 16, 2010 at 12:50 pm
heard it at 101st NW and 1st NW. couldn’t find any news on it but maybe related to the other explosions over the last month in Ravenna and Ballard?
7 MTH // Mar 16, 2010 at 1:06 pm
You can call or email Seattle City Light, and they’ll let you know if it was a transformer that blew. That happened here (couple blocks south of you) a year ago.
http://www.cityofseattle.net/light/aboutus/ab4_drct.htm
8 anon // Mar 16, 2010 at 3:13 pm
This town is full of light sleepers - never hear any of the explosions, choppers, fire trucks, wind, etc. people keep reporting!
9 DFH // Mar 16, 2010 at 11:42 pm
I’m at 87th and Greenwood and heard it too. It didn’t sound like anything I’ve heard before but not so much a boom as a bang - like a huge firecracker.
10 Bill // Mar 17, 2010 at 8:42 am
Sounds like we have a serial bomber…
On the Ballard blog there was mention of a paint can being blown up behind FedEx on Market a week or so ago.. and before that other misc explosions. There was also mention of a small explosion on Queen Anne. Most of them seem to occur after midnight.
11 Bee Brown // Mar 17, 2010 at 11:25 am
I also heard this and it woke me from a dead sleep. I just asumed it came from the crack house on 3rd between 90th and 92nd.
12 Travis // Mar 17, 2010 at 6:31 pm
I live at 87th & Phinney and was awake working and didn’t hear anything…
13 GeekGirlsRule // Mar 17, 2010 at 7:17 pm
We live at 92nd and Palatine, just off Greenwood, and the explosion woke my husband and I up out of a dead sleep.
It didn’t sound like a transformer to me, but more like when my redneck uncles would toss lit M-80s in empty oil drums.
Scared the crap out of us and the cats.
14 Drew // Apr 6, 2010 at 6:10 pm
There were a number of explosions heard in Maple Leaf last night around 11:15 PM over the course of about 5 minutes. The first ones caused my lights to flicker and I went to the front porch and saw flashes accompanying the explosions towards the south. Looked like they were occuring at the substation down by Fairview Christian school. There was a final explosion later on that woke me up, probably the one being reported here.
15 Drew // Apr 6, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Eh, probably NOT the one reported here, LOL. I didn’t notice the date of this report. The explosions I heard were the evening of April 5th.
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