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What Was That: Big Boom Shakes East Haven, Much of Shoreline

Big ground-shaking boom has residents from several shoreline neigbhorhoods dialing 911.

This post was written and reported by Pem McNerney and Julie Weisberg.

What was that sound? 

A huge "boom" was heard  about 10:30 p.m. in East Haven and North Haven area, and as far east as Madison and Clinton, and as far west as West Haven and Milford.

John Long asked on East Haven Patch's Facebook page: "Anyone else feel that?"

And Elvira Scappini asked on North Haven Patch's Facebook page: "Did anyone just feel their house shake? anyone know what's going on?"

While it may have been thunder, many people reported that it was just one boom, and that it shook the ground, making it sound like an explosion. 

And, with the entire country riveted by the tragedy earlier this week in Boston, and the drama that unfolded today as one bombing suspect was killed and another captured, explosions were on everyone's minds, perhaps making them more apt to report something out of the ordinary to 911. 

The National Weather Service did say that conditions were ripe for a thunderstorm Friday night. 

Here is the overnight forecast: 

Showers and thunderstorms, mainly after midnight. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Areas of dense fog before 3am. Low around 50. Southwest wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Several calls came into dispatch centers other than Madison, including Connecticut State Troopers at Troop F in Westbrook, and other shoreline towns, according to the responses on the Madison 911 inquiry. 


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