saw at least 30 seconds of flashing in the sky, towards cary. I was getting off of 40 onto gorman and the sky kept lighting up. soon after were sirens


TWW NEWS TEAM, ASSEMBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6/5/2008 10:02:53 PM

2 gunshots and an explosion

6/5/2008 10:03:13 PM

I thought I heard something

6/5/2008 10:03:29 PM

Blowup off Kaplan

6/5/2008 10:03:29 PM

tacky carnival fireworks? saw them from my apt

6/5/2008 10:03:37 PM

OH THIT

6/5/2008 10:03:44 PM

anyone remember that blue nuclear explosion like 4 or 5 months ago?

wtf was that?


sky turned like bright blue one night.

6/5/2008 10:03:46 PM

i think it was fireworks like posted above

6/5/2008 10:12:06 PM

sorry guys, i farted

go back to your shanties

6/5/2008 10:12:48 PM

I don't know

I don't know

I don't know where I'm a gonna go when the volcano blows

6/5/2008 10:14:03 PM

Mortars again.

6/5/2008 10:15:04 PM

Maybe a transformer died and started a fire. Those things can make some flashes before they blow up.

6/5/2008 10:15:13 PM

it was an extremely rainy day. this was back in november or december IIRC.

6/5/2008 10:15:21 PM

fireworks at the fairgrounds

they nearly caused an accident on Western, lulz

6/5/2008 10:26:51 PM

Quote :

"Maybe a transformer died and started a fire. Those things can make some flashes before they blow up. "

i have seen one blow and it was fucking-a awesome. i wasn't totally sober at the time and was like...............WTF is that sound.............ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh shit. BOOMMMMMMM!!!!!! ...........wowwwwww

6/5/2008 10:32:42 PM

saw them from my apartment too, fireworks at the fairgrounds

6/5/2008 10:35:51 PM

6/5/2008 10:36:56 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkDCS8xeobg
That would be CRAZY to see.

6/5/2008 10:38:40 PM

well, raleigh pd had mayo and the beginning of morgan shut down for a while. then i saw the same flashing lights somewhere between my place near st marys and campus... wonder whats going on

6/5/2008 10:43:35 PM

why were there fireworks though? What was there to celebrate?

6/5/2008 10:44:48 PM

definitely wasnt fireworks

6/5/2008 10:58:15 PM

Quote :

"tacky carnival fireworks"

I could hear them from the house....

6/6/2008 12:03:49 AM

that was me and tenacious c doing the hibbidy dibbidy

6/6/2008 12:04:42 AM

Celtics won game #1!

6/6/2008 12:06:00 AM

^^ it most certainly was not

[Edited on June 6, 2008 at 12:06 AM. Reason : ^s]

6/6/2008 12:06:12 AM

^^ Sweet!

6/6/2008 12:10:18 AM

6/6/2008 12:24:47 AM

heat lightening

6/6/2008 12:32:56 AM

Quote :

"Heat lightning is a misnomer for the faint flashes of lightning on the horizon or other clouds from distant thunderstorms that do not have accompanying sounds of thunder. Heat lightning was named because it often occurs on hot summer nights, and to distinguish it from lightning with accompanying thunder. Heat lightning can be an early warning sign that thunderstorms are approaching. In Florida, heat lightning is often seen out over the water at night, the remnants of storms that formed during the day along a sea breeze front coming in from the opposite coast. There are two possible reasons for the lack of thunder. In some cases, the thunderstorm may be too distant to hear the associated thunder from the lightning discharge. Thunder rarely travels more than 10 miles. Other cases can be explained by the refraction of sound by bodies of air with different densities. An observer may see nearby lightning, but the sound from the discharge is refracted over his head by a change in the temperature, and therefore the density, of the air around him. As a result, the lightning discharge seems to be silent. Under optimum conditions the most intense thunderstorms can be seen at up to 100 miles (161 km) or more distant over flat terrain or water when the clouds are illuminated by large lightning discharges, though an upper limit of 30-50 (48-80 km) miles is more common due to topography, items on the horizon like trees and so on, the fact that local visibilities above 25 miles (40 km) are uncommon in most areas, and other low and mid level clouds. Variability of anvil height also contributes -- 45 000 feet (13 715 m) is very common in the mid latitudes for warm season thunderstorms but the range can be from 35 000 (10 665 m) to a current record of 78 000 feet (23 770 m) There is evidence that suggests some cases of heat lightning are, in fact, slow, diffuse discharges of electricity. Silent lightning also occurs where airborne matter muffles the thunder, such as heavy snow in winter storms (thundersnow) and dust and sand storms. In some instances heavy falling snow has silenced thunder from cloud to ground lightning strokes as close as one to two miles (1.6 to 3.2 km) from the observer and severe dust storms are even more effective in many cases. [1]"

From Wikipedia. Interesting that there is no such thing as heat lightning.

[Edited on June 6, 2008 at 1:01 AM. Reason : g]

6/6/2008 1:00:21 AM

Quote :

"definitely wasnt fireworks"

it definitely was, i saw them...

and fuck the celtics

6/6/2008 1:02:35 AM

no, the interesting thing is that despite the fact that heat lightning exists, faggots on wikipedia spend a shitload of time trying to call it something else

6/6/2008 1:03:13 AM

Okay so my source sucks, but I have heard elsewhere that it is a misnomer. Distant storms at high altitudes cause visible lightning with no accompanying sound.

6/6/2008 1:04:52 AM

good job though^

6/6/2008 1:06:33 AM

calling it heat lightning is easier than trying to explain ^^^^^

6/6/2008 7:51:42 AM

^X6

Quote :

"From Wikipedia. Interesting that there is no such thing as heat lightning. "

Quote :

"Other cases can be explained by the refraction of sound by bodies of air with different densities."

hmmm, now what would cause different air densities? (not humidity)

6/6/2008 8:08:47 AM

those lights were bright like massive fireworks, but i didnt hear a thing. fairground fireworks can be heard from miles away though and these seemed a lot closer. hence the assumption that they were not fireworks.

6/6/2008 8:18:37 AM

someone gave a dead alien his head back

6/6/2008 8:19:31 AM

hey idiot, it was fireworks.
i live by the fair grounds

i think it was something about the Special Olympics. they had rides and shit there too

[Edited on June 6, 2008 at 8:48 AM. Reason : sadf]

6/6/2008 8:48:37 AM

It's the Got to Be NC festival... kinda like a mini State Fair. Started last night and runs through Sunday.

6/6/2008 11:49:28 AM

Bigman157 wins this thread.

6/6/2008 11:56:20 AM

musta been retarded fireworks.

6/6/2008 12:25:58 PM

My dog went apeshit when the fireworks started.

We went outside to watch them though.

6/6/2008 12:29:29 PM