4 Salt,

I've seen fighters at McChord, but maybe they aren't there all the time. Whidbey has A-6 (think that's the right number) Intruders that have guns if not missles. However it's always possible that Portland had the closest jets yesterday, and the gov't. was being as efficient as possible under the inherently inefficient travel by AF1.

Sg

"Do you call your Aunt Millie when you hear what you believe to be explosions?"

Myself, I normally wouldn't call anyone. I figure if it's that loud they already heard it at the precinct. But if Aunt Millie were like you I would call her to calm her down and prevent her from tying up the 911 lines. Is this that San Francisco attitude? Call 911 about loud noises?

Oregon Air National Guard stands alert for the NW sector of NORAD, there are armed aircraft on alert status, these dedicated aircraft can get airborne in less than 5 minuets after the alert horn is sounded.
Neither the Navy or the Air Force have fighter aircraft in this sector, so any intercepts will come out of PDX.
FYI Portland's fighters were originally based at McChord AFB, and Oregon had a alert detachment mission there for a number of years, presently no fighters are based in Wash.

Yeah, I'm the knucklehead.

Oh crap, I just saw a yellow helicopter fly overhead, that's "clearly out of the ordinary" I gotta go call 911.

SO why do you call 9-1-1 when you have an earthquake Hank?

Is it an emergency when your lifesize blowup doll of Nancy falls off the bed ??

Alert! Alert! Saw a person outside who didn't look like me. Possibly a Muslim (extremist, of course).

Gotta call 9-1-1 ... and go get my GUN.

If I were Dictator of the US, and you called 911 to try to get Michael Jackson tickets, you'd be dirt-napping before dinner.

911 is for reporting an emergency. Is a loud boom an emergency? If the loud boom was accompanied by a huge explosion, and you saw it, THAT would be the time to call 911.

911 is the number to Ticketmaster? Man, this thread has gone sideways!

Only if that Kenyon-born-marxist-muslim ain't confiscated it yet.

It's a country in Africo.

Geez, I thought that was a brilliant snarky remark, and all I get is a phookin spell check.

Spelling Nazis!!

Nazis ! ! Call 9-1-1 ! !

Too funny. You have yet to put forth evidence that you possess the requisite mental capacity, let alone sufficient cognitive function, to ascertain what could be considered brilliance. Recently, it's becoming abundantly clear that you are absent operative synapses, and fail to achieve orchestrated firing of neurons.

So, there.

Leev it tu yoo nukkleheds to rune a purfeckly gud thred.

Phish awn...

Todd

Leave it to you, Todd, for not properly moderating this thread.

If I properly moderated every thread on the Dark Side I'd be the only one allowed to post any more...

Fish on...

Todd

You don't like it? Call 9-1-1

I was thinking of fishing today, so I called 9-1-1 for a weather and river conditions report...they said there was a high pressure ridge of dumbass coming in fast, and that the river was low on common sense and really needs a good gully washer of intelligence to get it into proper shape...but that there was not only no intelligence in the three day outlook, but might not be any on the way again.

Ever.

Fish on...

Todd