[Elecraft] Meteor explosion in Chelyabinsk, Russia

[Gary Gregory]

Paul,

Thanks for the posting. Was great to read and glad to hear he and his
family are all safe.

Scary stuff eh?

73
Gary

On 18 February 2013 23:40, Fred Smith <mfsj at mo-net.com> wrote:

> Paul thanks for posting that.
>
> Fred/N0AZZ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:
> elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Paul VanOveren
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 5:51 AM
> To: elecraft reflector
> Subject: [Elecraft] Meteor explosion in Chelyabinsk, Russia
>
> Many on this reflector may know Willy, UA9BA, (UK9AAN) (UP2L) He is
> probably one of the most well known Russian hams..He and I have been
> friends since 1977. Here is the return email I received from him regarding
> his
> Vladimir Umanets
> Feb 16 (2 days ago)
> to Paul
> Hey buddy!!!
>
> Yes we're ALL fine!
>
> I  was at my office with window jalousie closed. The windows are looking
> North.
> The meteor exploded  about 20km South of Chelyabinsk and 50 km high. So the
> explosion couldn't
> be seen from my windows. Nevertheless it was like this - it started getting
> brighter and brighter in my office
> for  about 1,5 second then it got very bright for maybe ,5 second, so
> bright that I almost got blind for a moment and then
> the light quickly disappeard. I was asking myself what could that be and
> thought of a nuclear explosion and waited for two minutes
> if anything else would follow, but nothing happened. But in one more minute
> this horroble very long and loud crashing sound came!
> The whole building was quaking with this sound and I clearly felt that the
> sound and the force came from the above. We all were
> ordered to leave the building and when we came out we saw this two line
> trace turning into one line trace with junction point just
> above our heads and little bit to the South. This cloud was very big and it
> seemed in very close proximity even though it turned out
> to be over 50 km away. I looked around and found out that lots and lots of
> windows were broken. The ambulances started coming in
> and I saw many people were injured and bleeding some couldn't walk by
> themselves. It was a very frustrating expirience and many
> people  are still under shock. Even I go over and over those moments and
> don't feel normal, still kind of excited or something.
> I don't know what frightened me more the spectacular light, or the hit
> wave, or those bleeding people. All this happened on Friday
> morning  at the plant I work for. The plant loss is estimated at 85 000 000
> R which is en equivl. of 1.5 month salory of our 1900
> employees. The plant lost about 25000 sq.m of windows, over 50 doors, lots
> of equipment (measuring, PCs and so on).
> This was the day I will remember till my last day.  My family is OK. My
> house (42 km South of Chelyabinsk) lost its windows and that was
> the only damage to my family. By the way, this explosion woke up my 81 year
> old mother with its spectacular light. She lives in Troitsk
> 136 km South of Chelyabinsk. The hit wave came 6+ minutes later and was
> very strong as mother said.
>
> That's how it was. I now feel like I trust in God more and more...
>
> 73's & GL, Willy UA9BA
>
>
>
> Пятница, 15 февраля 2013, 21:37 -05:00 от Paul VanOveren <paul at nf8j.com>:
> status after the Meteor hitting near his home/work sites. Sorry for the
> bandwidth.
>
>
> --
> Paul VanOveren
> 5911 Snow Av
> Alto, Mi 49302
> (616) 868-7149
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