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There are so many  " booms " around here anyway, that another one wouldn't be recognizable. There's always noise here from the frieight trains doing their switching, or the jet planes going low over my house. I live 5 miles from a major airport. The med- flight helicopter goes over a few times a day from U of M hosp to the local 5 story hospital. I have noise , smoke , polution from the Ford plant about 1/2 a mile away . We have large, diesel trucks going up and down the busy road in back of my street. One night, about 5 years ago, I heard a BOOM about 10pm at night. I thought it was just the noisey neighbors throwing around firecrackers. It turned out to be a real explosion of a factory on a road about  4 mile south of me.  Two years ago, a family owned furniture store in my town had a gas explosion ! That was LOUD. Two of the 3 people in there were killed. They had just come to work at 9am. The owner was buried under the rubble and was burned,but he was transported to U of M hosp on the med- flight helicopter. He recovered. Several stores nearby that store were put out of business.