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Why doesn’t this happen here?

Well…going off on a lighter note this morning to talk about the meteor that came in over the northeast yesterday…a double bioom was reported and I just watched a 15 second video that had the sound on it and it was pretty loud…NASA says that the meteor was about 3 feet across and hit the atmosphere at 75,000 mph…the explosion was the equivalent of 300 tons of TNT…and my only question is: “why doesn’t that happen here?” It would be so cool to see/hear something like this as long as it doesn’t hit anyone or cause damage like the Russian meteor did 15 years or so ago…I just love natural phenomena and I still remember the earthquake I felt when I was having lunch with T at the Cantina in GR…shook like a huge truck was driving by and we bounced up and down for a few seconds…and that is really unusual for Michigan with no fault lines anywhere in the state…I wonder if I should hold up a target with the caption “hit here?” I would if it would work…