DUmmy nadin advises other DUmmy to call 9/11 to report something in the sky

[Tess Anderson]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024127591

It turned out to be a rocket launch:

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 05:49 PM

 Baitball Blogger (13,810 posts)


In Central Florida, something just blew up in the sky--Did anyone see it?

Last edited Tue Dec 3, 2013, 06:05 PM - Edit history (1)

 It was a cloud of smoke, something spiraled to the ground and three lights floated down.
 
Anyone else see it? It was to the east.

UPDATE: It WAS the sunset launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket. According to the news reports everything was normal.

 

Response to Baitball Blogger (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 05:55 PM

 nadinbrzezinski (128,062 posts)

4. 911

Response to upaloopa (Reply #22)

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 06:32 PM

 Atman (26,841 posts)

32. No, the launch was from Cape Canaveral




It was attempted three times last week, while I was in Cocoa Beach. We were watching (waiting) from the beach. It was completely scrubbed on Tuesday due to bad weather. They tried again at 5:39 on Thursday, and they actually completed the countdown and fired it up, but immediately shut everything down when there was a pressure problem. They actually made a second attempt about 90 minutes later, and that was scrubbed, too. It figures...we left Cocoa Beach a day early and got back to CT last night. Missed it by that much!

'cause Rob was sending out some bad vibes.

[GOBUCKS]

Wonder who paid for Rob's ticket.

And it's time to update the crazy bald dwarf's resume again.
Who knew she was a 911 operator?

Response to NutmegYankee (Reply #18)Tue Dec 3, 2013, 06:12 PM
nadinbrzezinski (128,063 posts)
25. I used to do this, including dispatch center,


and while I commend you for not trying to waste my time with a vacuous call, (and trust me, got my share of them), as I always told people when they asked about what is an emergency? My answer went something like this, if you believe it is an emergency (in this case an explosion in the air may very well be), please call. I'd rather you call me, and make me waste my time, than not call and then we have to wait for somebody else to do this. After all it was a real emergency, and yes that happened too.

Ideally a call should take all of a minute if this is not truly an emergency, or it is something that has to be transferred to another communications center (as it happened from time to time). From what the OP is describing, it might very well be one that needs transferring down the line. Regardless, he might have witnessed something that got plenty of calls to communications centers that are closer to the scene (I hope). One common problem is that people always assume that others will call. It really is a problem.

Now back to my usual mode of not talking here much any longer. Figured this one might be of some use, but most likely not.

[Freeper]

Wonder who paid for Rob's ticket.

And it's time to update the crazy bald dwarf's resume again.
Who knew she was a 911 operator?

She's done more jobs than Mike Rowe.

[Ptarmigan]

Sure, overload the emergency system. 

[FlippyDoo]

She's done more jobs than Mike Rowe.

With all that she's done she absolutely has to be about 943 years old. She waddles around fairly well with that much age on her.

[Chris_]

Sure, overload the emergency system. 

Gotham has their own GNADS signal.

[GOBUCKS]

Except for that last self-serving paragraph, does anyone believe nadin authored that post?

Spelling, grammar, logic, sentence structure, none of it is nadinesque in the least.

[Bad Dog]

Except for that last self-serving paragraph, does anyone believe nadin authored that post?

Spelling, grammar, logic, sentence structure, none of it is nadinesque in the least.

Temporary sobriety?

[Vagabond]

I know of a story where a woman and her neighbor were in her front yard talking when they observed a signal flare launched from the river, about a mile east of her house.  She started not to call, and then decided that perhaps she would just report what she saw and allow them to worry about it.  She called, gave her address, and reported the relative position of the flare.

Since it was deemed by the locals to be a possible distress watercraft in distress, they passed the information to the coast guard.  The coast guard took an initial look at it, and told the locals that they weren't responsible for aircraft that had crashed on land.  Two ambulances, two companies worth of fire trucks, and six police officers showed up at the house looking for a plane that had crashed in the front yard.