Messages From The Heartland

[David In Indy]

*cough*

The dust! The dust!

Nobody has posted anything in here since HALLOWEEN!

I'm bored. Where is everyone tonight?

[CellarDweller]

(((((David)))))

[Kelda]

Im just going off to bed.. tired... Hope you are well honey,

[David In Indy]

Hi Chuck and Kelda! Thanks for stopping by!

The airplanes are flying awfully low tonight. Around this time of night the airport switches over from passenger traffic to cargo.... lots and lots and LOTS of Fedex planes landing and taking off. They still have some passenger planes late at night though..

Anyway, I can always here them fly over because they are very huge jets.... much bigger than the 737s, 757s and 767s we have flying over during the day. But tonight for some reason they are flying very low and the sounds of their motors are shaking the house. And I'm at Dad's which means I'm a good 20 miles from the airport. Maybe more like 25 miles. I don't get it. I wonder why they are flying so low? It's creepy.

I've been keeping an eye on the local channels and there is nothing about Indianapolis being under attack, or any other problems. But about every 2 or 3 minutes another jet flies over very very low.

How spooky!

[Kelda]

probably to do woth weather conditions or something?

[CellarDweller]

Oh david, that would work my nerves!

[David In Indy]

probably to do woth weather conditions or something?

I don't know Kelda. It was raining here last night, but not hard. It was one of those misty rains. Maybe there was a lot of fog out there. I didn't see any, but maybe it was foggy in other sections of the city.

It could be that Grissom A.F.B. was conducting tests, or some sort of military flights and took over some of the commercial air routes and so the Fedex and passenger planes had to fly lower. I don't remember that ever happening before in the past though...

They never said anything about it on the news either.

[David In Indy]

Oh david, that would work my nerves!

It was awful Chuck!



Let's hope it doesn't happen again tonight!

[bailey1205]

Before they closed the military base down here in Austin, my home is 20 miles from where it was, and right in their flight path.

All times of the day and night, military jets, and helicopters would fly low over my house.
It would rattle my windows, and if you were on the phone, you had to tell the person on
the other end to hold on !  LOL

Many times I would be out in my back yard when a helicopter flew over and I could actually see the
pilot.  Used to drive my dog nuts.  He would try and chase it !
 

[David In Indy]

Eww! That's awfully LOW! That would have scared me! And those helicopters are incredibly noisy. They make that loud thumping sound. Yipes! I don't think my dog would have the courage to chase a helicopter. He'd probably go hide somewhere if he saw one flying that low.

I'd still love to know what happened last night. Something was up. Maybe they will talk about it on the local news at 6 pm.