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Posted on 1/22/25 at 9:39 am to member12
Was a junior in HS at the time living in old pier beam house. House shook like crazy. I was right next to my father when it happened and his facial expression was something I had never seen him make before and to this day. He was in Vietnam
Posted on 1/22/25 at 9:42 am to member12
Was working at the mall and the building shook
Posted on 1/22/25 at 9:46 am to Neveragain
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It shook the grid so hard that it went to 59hz long enough to be recorded on the graph.
For a lay person....what is the significance of that?
Posted on 1/22/25 at 9:59 am to member12
I was at Cortana Mall in Spaceport when I felt the ground shake
Think I was playing Bad Dudes
Think I was playing Bad Dudes
Posted on 1/22/25 at 10:10 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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This is an interesting website for weather information:
You can search monthly and daily climate records for any location that NOAA tracks for as long as they've been recording data here:
weather.gov
Just click on the region you're interested in.
Posted on 1/22/25 at 10:24 am to LegendInMyMind
Thanks. I can get really lost in those types of websites. I love looking at statistics and historical data. 
Posted on 1/22/25 at 10:26 am to member12
I remember calling 387-5411 and they said, "LOW TONIGHT....THREE!"
Posted on 1/22/25 at 10:28 am to member12
Out in Port Hudson it knocked my sister off the couch watching TV and my mom fell out of her recliner. Pretty big sonic boom.
Posted on 1/22/25 at 10:32 am to member12
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Gas released from storage tanks ignited and exploded around 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 24, 1989. The blast blew out windows at the state capitol and throughout downtown. It could be felt some 40 miles away and seen from even further.
I felt it and heard it in Ponchatoula. I was laying on the living room floor with a pillow under my head watching the Saints play the Colts and felt it and like wtf was that.
Posted on 1/22/25 at 10:33 am to Roaad
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I was at Cortana Mall in Spaceport when I felt the ground shake
Think I was playing Bad Dudes
Nah. That's just how hard that game went.
For me, I had just opened the refrigerator as a kid when suddenly everything on the shelves shook and clinked. I was like, da fuq? Wasn't until the news broke in on tv that I put two and two together.
Posted on 1/22/25 at 10:33 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Thanks. I can get really lost in those types of websites. I love looking at statistics and historical data.
They've got em. And sometimes you'll find that they don't got em. It can be a crapshoot on some of the rural stations as to whether they work and report as intended, but it is a useful resource.
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Posted on 1/22/25 at 10:40 am to LegendInMyMind
Two degrees 2/13/1899! 
Posted on 1/22/25 at 10:42 am to member12
I remember it vividly. We lived at the end of highland road and jefferson hwy and I was jumping on ice in ditches with my childhood friend. I felt it my chest when that blew up. We thought it was a water heater in a house nearby that had exploded. But seconds later we saw that black smoke rising in the west.
Posted on 1/22/25 at 10:42 am to member12
Depends how close to the explosion you were.
Posted on 1/22/25 at 10:50 am to ellesssuuu
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Was a junior in HS at the time living in old pier beam house. House shook like crazy. I was right next to my father when it happened and his facial expression was something I had never seen him make before and to this day. He was in Vietnam
My Pops worked at a chemical plant pretty much his entire adult life. He was off one day and was outside working on a big playhouse he was building for us. He heard and felt an explosion. He came in the house and told my Mom, "Turn on the news, the plant just blew up." He was right. We lived a little over ten miles away, and it was clearly felt.
Posted on 1/22/25 at 10:51 am to member12
I remember our windows shaking on our house all the way in Pierre Part
Posted on 1/22/25 at 11:25 am to member12
I remember Lake Pontchartrain freezing over along the shore, so it was pretty cold. Also, I related in another post that I was an hour and half helicopter ride south of Cameron, LA and it was snowing on the rig which was shut down because it was so cold.
Posted on 1/22/25 at 11:44 am to member12
My dad was the chief attorney for Exxon in BR when it happened. I can vividly remember all of the details when it happened.
Like others said, he immediately said “that was Exxon.” He told my mom to tell anyone that called he was on his way and he hopped up, changed his clothes and headed out. I think I saw him maybe a total of 15min over the next 3-4 days. I think it was the 29th that we actually opened Christmas presents.
I didn’t see him much over the next few months. I still recall a few of the crazy lawsuits that he was having to deal with.
Like others said, he immediately said “that was Exxon.” He told my mom to tell anyone that called he was on his way and he hopped up, changed his clothes and headed out. I think I saw him maybe a total of 15min over the next 3-4 days. I think it was the 29th that we actually opened Christmas presents.
I didn’t see him much over the next few months. I still recall a few of the crazy lawsuits that he was having to deal with.
Posted on 1/22/25 at 12:44 pm to Dough
I was at home and my mom was on the phone with family we were set to visit later in NBR.
She heard it over the phone at their house before the wave hit us.
My big memory of that day, past that, was the sun being blotted out from the sky at about 2-3PM. Still daylight but black clouds everywhere.
One of my later teachers in HS took the opportunity that day to drive to the State Capitol and have a picture taken of him with the building in the background and the black skies behind him because of where Exxon sits in relation to the capitol.
She heard it over the phone at their house before the wave hit us.
My big memory of that day, past that, was the sun being blotted out from the sky at about 2-3PM. Still daylight but black clouds everywhere.
One of my later teachers in HS took the opportunity that day to drive to the State Capitol and have a picture taken of him with the building in the background and the black skies behind him because of where Exxon sits in relation to the capitol.
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