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This Behemoth Buzzed My House Last Night

Fenton

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Fema and Houston and the surrounding Counties have pooled their resources to head off the inevitble Mosquito Population boom after Harvey

I knew they were going to use these planes but damn ! He was maybe 50' off the tops of our oak trees and it shook the house.

Also this was close to 10 pm so every neighbor filed out of ther homes wondering what the hell ?
 
Funny looking sky for 10PM unless you live in Alaska in the summertime. ;)
 
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Fema and Houston and the surrounding Counties have pooled their resources to head off the inevitble Mosquito Population boom after Harvey

I knew they were going to use these planes but damn ! He was maybe 50' off the tops of our oak trees and it shook the house.

Also this was close to 10 pm so every neighbor filed out of ther homes wondering what the hell ?
If you captured that on a cell phone, I think it's pretty amazing that - blurry or not - it stopped the props! I doubt my phone could do that. Mine can't even keep up with the dogs!
 
C130 at approach altitude. Sometimes pilots would practice 'nap of the Earth' with us on-board. After serving as training weight for a less than top-gun pilot for a couple hours, jumping was like leaving a boat that's been rocking on waves. We wanted to get out of that giant sloshing stinky flying boat so badly, we would've given up primaries and gone secondary chute only at critical altitude. Even in the middle of a moonless night with fog so thick I couldn't see my hand in front of my face, it was better than being in that cargo plane one more minute.
 
If you captured that on a cell phone, I think it's pretty amazing that - blurry or not - it stopped the props! I doubt my phone could do that. Mine can't even keep up with the dogs!

I got it off the internet. It was almost 10 pm when it flew over our House and I only saw it because of the noise it made as it approached our neighborhood.

No chance to get it on video

When I walked out to the end of my drive way it appeared over the trees and flew west while spraying insecticide as it went along.

I thought a large passenger plane was coming in for a crash landing it made so much noise.

You could here the instecticide hit the trees and houses after it passed.

Thing is the County sprays monthly for mosquito's. They drive through the neighborhood spraying insecticide up into the trees and I didnt notice a increase in mosquito activity before they decided to dust entire parts of Pearland

Wonder if it was even warranted
 
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