Anyone else get boomed today?

[Longnightmoon]

Lunchtime trying to search out a bag of pasta. The actual wall of my house shook, I was holding the handle of the kitchen cupboard, and I felt it ripple. - and my first thought was Montgomery!

But it was just a typhoon fighter jet intercepting a passenger flight who's radio broke.

Reassuring in a way that the military response to unusual behaviour by a plane is so fast

Montgomery?
I thought you were going to suggest an earthquake. So it was a plane?
That would be scary.
Did you find the pasta?

I got distracted from the pasta 😂

Did you feel it?

No, sorry, I'm in Canada 🤷

What did you mean by Montgomery? If you don't mind me asking....

OMG I did hear something weird and loud in the sky earlier, like a deep rumbling and a weird noise. Was it in the Midlands/border of Wales?

It happened in North kent! I don't think you'd feel it from Canada

This was yesterday… can’t be the same thing two days in a row…

Oh I would hope not! 😦

Well I don't know how far it went, but at least one typhoon fighter flew towards Stanstead, there could have been more scrambled in other places. At that speed the whole of the UK must be reachable in seconds!

I had this once a few years ago. We were at a party. Everyone stopped and stared at each other - it went through us all.

How do you imagine WE feel!

Was it yesterday? I remember it being today.... but maybe it was yesterday - A friend just told me and I thought o right, that is what happened in the kitchen

What does Montgomery mean? Why is that what you thought? Did it happen today or yesterday?

Yeah it was yesterday and we heard one in Essex too. A plane lost comms so jets were scrambled to intercept. It was a false alarm

Montegomery is a second world war cargo ship sunk of the kent coast, loaded with unstable explosives which are too dangerous to salvage.

When it explodes, it will be the biggest ever peace time explosion in Europe, supposedly - or it might not be, no one really knows.

I have taught in schools which have fire alarms and montgomery alarms- two different notes. fire alarm, evacuate building, Montgomeray alarm, take cover as far as possible from north facing windows.....

Yes definitely yesterday haha! My house shook and I did get up to look then saw all the typhoon reports. A passenger plane went off radar for a bit and was then intercepted. Crazy how that made such a big impact on land

This was yesterday. I'm in Essex. Tbh my first thought was Putin.

Are you ok, OP? You can't possibly think this happened today.

well, I have been working nights!

Right well that’s very specific to Kent. And being not from Kent I had no idea what you meant.

It might be wrecked off Kent, but it is very famous, I knew of it when I was growing up in Yorkshire. Not everyone has heard of it though. The Pakistani fisherman who caused our only ever genuine Montgomery alarm by rowing out to the wreck and climbing up to sit and fish in its masts certainly had no idea what he was sitting on, and did not expect the fully armed warships that arrived to remove him!

I’ve never heard of it.

I shall google it but your assumption that people would know what you meant is clearly a bit off.

and it doesn’t help that you got the day of the boom wrong too.

I thought this was going to be a thread about elderly parents and their inability to use technology 😂

It was yesterday, just talking about it today at a family lunch, cousin lives near Stanstead. Said the walls shook.

ah well, like I said, was up all night. If I see something in a post I have never heard of, I just look it up. It isn't something that bothers me.