Request.

Ok, so living in a military town (San Diego has two naval bases and two marine bases) has it's ups and downs, but you get used to it.

You learn not to get too sensitive of car alarms because low flying planes doing manuvers at mock 7 tend to set them off.

It's not so bad, really, living in a city where the female to young/employed/fit male ratio is so highly in your favor.

The bases usually send out a press release to all the radio stations and the like, if they're going to be testing anything odd or loud or weird. Not so much telling you what it is they're testing, but just what specifically to ignore. "Ignore the loud booming noise from the desert tonight." "Don't worry about flashing lights under the water off the shore."

So you'd THINK they would have said something like, "Ignore the HUGE BRIGHT low-flying MISSILE that will head straight at you, then change direction, then disappear into space, leaving a glowing plume of vapor trail, it's just an experimental way of launching a satalite" BEFORE,

BEFORE

and not

AFTER

the fact.




It was a bit scary.