Somebody dropping a massive load?
They dunno!
"People reported hearing and feeling ‘booms’ in Peabody. No one knows what caused them; ‘It was kind of scary,’ one resident said of Tuesday’s incidents" by Steve Annear Globe Staff, February 24, 2021
Leslie Williams-Dunn was standing by her kitchen counter in Peabody Tuesday morning when she heard a loud, unsettling sound that caused her 25-year-old son to come rushing from his room.
“I thought a tree limb had crashed on our house,” said Williams-Dunn, who teaches kindergarten. “The sound lasted maybe five or six seconds, and it felt like it was coming from above.”
Fifteen minutes later, a perplexed Williams-Dunn heard a second, shorter “bang,” she said, but this time she also felt it rumble beneath her feet.
“It was kind of scary,” she said.
Scarier still, no one seems to have the faintest idea what caused the sounds, even a day later. Williams-Dunn is one of dozens of Peabody residents who either heard or felt what they described as “booms” or an “explosion-like noise” between 11:30 a.m. and noon, but local officials remain stumped over the source.
“I’m baffled,” said Ed Charest, a city councilor.
A sign from above regarding God's anger, or something more nefarious regarding more earthy elements?
Charest said Peabody officials are taking this situation “very, very seriously” and doing everything they can to figure it out, but for now, the cause remains elusive.
“Still no clue,” he said. “They are checking everything over and over again, and still they have no answers and no really strong leads. It’s very strange. Very, very strange.”
Charest did not hear or feel the disruptions himself but said many of his constituents reached out Tuesday and Wednesday to report what they’d experienced. One of his neighbors told him it felt like “one hell of a blast.”
So far, there’s been no evidence of an explosion, and no one lost power or gas to their homes, Charest said. Nobody had reported any property damage, either.
On Wednesday, fire and police officials said they were investigating. Police said they would use a drone team and explosion-detection canine units to try and pinpoint the origins of the loud noises.
“If you see a law enforcement canine, please do not approach or interact,” police wrote on Twitter and Facebook Wednesday. “Thank you to all who have reached out and we will continue to inform the community when we have more to add.”
On Tuesday afternoon, after police posted that they were aware of the “loud noises and disturbances heard and felt” between Goodwin Circle and downtown, many people shared first-hand accounts on the department’s Facebook page.
Some wondered if it was an earthquake or fighter jets flying overheard, while others recalled the devastating gas explosions that tore through the Merrimack Valley in 2018.
“Definitely felt like the foundation of the house shook,” one person wrote. “First thought was an accident out front ended with a car into the house. Hope it can be pinpointed.”
A resident on Quail Road said it felt like a “rumble, then the boom” that rattled the house. Another person described it as so jarring that they believed it was “an explosion of some kind.”
“I ran outside and all the neighbors were out,” the person wrote. “Very scary,” but the Peabody Fire Prevention Bureau put to rest any speculation that it was an earthquake, saying it had been in touch with the Boston College Weston Observatory about the possibility. They also said there was no “blasting” going on in Peabody Tuesday.
For nervous residents, the lack of answers has been as bewildering as the sounds themselves, Charest said.
“People felt it and heard it — that’s what I think is frustrating people. How is there no evidence or anything to find out what it was?” he said. “Anyone’s guess is as valid as the next person’s.”
PFFFFFFFFFT!
I'm almost afraid to ask, but could something be going on in the underground tunnels?
You can check to see if your lottery ticket is a winner while you are on the throne:
"Lottery players embrace ticket-scanning app" by Colin A. Young State House News, February 24, 2021
Lottery Executive Director Michael Sweeney ran the Lottery Commission through the early returns on the program that was announced in November during a meeting Tuesday in which he also said the Lottery could soon revise upwards its estimated profit for the current budget year.
“This is really a revolutionary product that allows our customers to check the status of their lottery product, whether it’s a winner or not, and what exactly the amount is that has been won virtually 24 hours a day, seven days a week if they want,” Sweeney said, “but I think the big part with this is they can do this not only at their leisure but in a privacy setting of their choosing if they should want to do that as opposed to doing it in a setting where there may be other individuals that they don’t know, or where they may feel uncomfortable.”
I $uppo$e everything in life is a gamble, and how pathetic is that?
Speaking off pieces of $tinking $hit:
"Former aide to New York governor details alleged sexual harassment" by Hannah Knowles and Reis Thebault Washington Post, February 24, 2021
A former aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made detailed allegations Wednesday that the politician sexually harassed her, describing an unwanted kiss in Cuomo’s office and a pattern of behavior that she says left her ’'nauseous’' going to work.
Lindsey Boylan, who eventually resigned from the Democratic governor’s team, described deep discomfort with Cuomo starting in 2016, when she says her boss told her that the governor had a “crush” on her. Boylan said in a Medium post that Cuomo “would go out of his way to touch me on my lower back, arms and legs,” and she shared images of text messages and e-mails that she said supported her story, an expansion on public allegations she made last year.
“He is a sexist pig and you should avoid being alone with him!” Boylan’s mother texted her at one point about Cuomo, according to pictures of the exchange.
A spokeswoman for the governor, Caitlin Girouard, said Wednesday that Boylan’s “claims of inappropriate behavior are quite simply false.” She focused on the former’s aide’s opening anecdote about the governor allegedly suggesting that they “play strip poker” while seated close together on Cuomo’s jet in October 2017.
Four people listed as taking flights with Cuomo and Boylan that month issued a statement through the governor’s office that the conversation Boylan described “did not happen.” Girouard did not comment on other specifics of Boylan’s account.
Boylan’s extensive written account Wednesday came as Cuomo is embroiled in another scandal for withholding data on coronavirus deaths in nursing homes. The blowback has increasingly focused on Cuomo’s personality and behavior, as one critic, a state legislator from Cuomo’s party, accused the governor last week of threatening him in an angry call.
Boylan, whom The Washington Post could not immediately reach Wednesday, said Cuomo’s treatment of her was part of a deep-rooted, workplace-wide problem.
Cuomo “has created a culture within his administration where sexual harassment and bullying is so pervasive that it is not only condoned but expected,” she wrote in the Medium post. “His inappropriate behavior toward women was an affirmation that he liked you, that you must be doing something right. He used intimidation to silence his critics, and if you dared to speak up, you would face consequences.”
Boylan publicly accused Cuomo of sexually harassing her for years in tweets late last year, declining at the time to share details and drawing strong denials from the governor.
“Look, I fought for and I believe a woman has the right to come forward and express her opinion and express issues and concerns that she has,” Cuomo said at a news conference, “but it’s just not true.”
Yeah, you believe the woman unless the charge is against a $cum member of the Party and she is not the only one to level such accusations. They are vast regarding that mob$ters "style" of governing. He exudes the term a$$hole from the podium.
Boylan said the strip poker comment came during a flight in October 2017, as she and Cuomo were seated together, a press aide to one side and a state trooper behind them.
“That’s exactly what I was thinking,” she said she responded, trying to “play it cool” and realizing “just how acquiescent I had become.”
Girouard, the press secretary, on Wednesday shared flight manifests from that month and a statement attributed to others listed onboard — John Maggiore, director of policy at the time; Howard Zemsky, president of Empire State Development at the time; and Dani Lever and Abbey Fashouer Collins, both communications staffers at the time.
“We were on each of these October flights and this conversation did not happen,” the statement said.
Boylan’s Medium post recounts many other alleged incidents in detail.
She said she was warned about Cuomo after becoming chief of staff at New York’s economic development agency: “Be careful around the governor,” she said an unnamed friend at a civic engagement group told her. Boylan said she first met Cuomo at a 2016 Madison Square Garden event where the governor paid her a surprising amount of attention.
Then, she said, her boss told her about Cuomo’s “crush.”
“It was an uncomfortable but all-too-familiar feeling: the struggle to be taken seriously by a powerful man who tied my worth to my body and my appearance,” Boylan wrote.
She also posted a picture of an e-mail in which a staffer for the governor told her that Cuomo suggested she look up images of another woman, saying she was that woman’s “better-looking sister.” Cuomo started calling Boylan by that woman’s name in the presence of colleagues, Boylan wrote, calling the experience “degrading.”
At one point, she said, while alone with the governor in his office, Cuomo showed her a cigar box that he said was from former president Bill Clinton, an apparent reference to Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
“I tried to rationalize this incident in my head. At least he didn’t touch me,” Boylan wrote, but later, she said, during a one-on-one briefing in Cuomo’s New York City office, the governor stepped in front of her and kissed her as she tried to leave. She said she kept walking, stunned.
Boylan said she resigned in fall 2018 after she “started speaking up” for herself and saw her relationship with top Cuomo staff deteriorate.
Boylan said she initially turned down a promotion to become deputy secretary for economic development and special adviser to the governor, “not because I didn’t want the responsibility or work but because I didn’t want to be near him,” she wrote.
Maybe he can meet someone new.
Related:
He DID NOT accept blame!
Also see:
"The two men were together Sunday morning, tinkering in a garage in Liberty, N.Y., to rig a small device to emit a pink-or-blue burst during the grand finale of a gender-reveal party planned for later that evening, but the homemade device unexpectedly malfunctioned, killing the expectant father and seriously injuring his 27-year-old brother, New York State Police said in a statement Monday. Police are still investigating the cause of the explosion, but no criminal charges have stemmed from the accident. Gender-reveal parties, which have roots in a 2008 parenting blog, have turned dangerous in recent years, as excited couples have opted for increasingly elaborate stunts to share whether they are having a boy or a girl. A novelty cannon killed a Michigan man at a gender-reveal party earlier this month. A soon-to-be grandmother died in Iowa after shrapnel from a homemade explosive device struck her chest in 2019. The parties have also sparked wildfires and caused a plane crash in recent years. The tragic accidents, often caused by unintended explosions, leave families grieving instead of celebrating....."
