Paul thanks for posting that. Fred/N0AZZ
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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 <[email protected]>: 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 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
