Sitting here in the quiet of the afternoon, longing to be out enjoying this beautifull day, there was a small explosion on the beach. I got outside to see a puff of smoke rise off the sand and up the cliff. A number of people thought someone had dropped a file cabinate or something else heavy.

An explosion is somewhat out of the ordinary, although when I was growing up here and the military was more active in the area, a sonic boom was not a surprise. It is a little weird now since I am working on a retired military base (Fort Cronkhite) and there is a “retired” Nike missle base just across the lagoon, and close to where the explosion took place. A few people went down to the beach to check it out, since one of them thought there was something in the sand out there that looked like an old mine (which is also not unheard of).

Anyways, no news crews yet, and no one seemes to be harmed. The funny thing is that there are usually Rangers all over the place here, along with a fire station; and they both seem to be not here.

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Addendum
I guess the Rangers were on the job, apparently it was some kind of Marine Flare found on the beach that they decided to blow up to be on the safe side. The quickest way to disarm a bomb is to blow one up I guess. They just didn’t happen to tell up that we should be on the watch for an explosion. Oh well, some excitement for the afternoon.