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It's had about a thousand lives in it, some brittle and cold, others quaint and lively. The wallpaper's peeling and the pipes are rusting. The shingles are breaking away, falling to ancient earth but the hearth still smells of warm breakfast, eggs sizzling in their beds, toast crisp with strains of raspberry jam, griddlecakes tanning themselves, milk being topped off. Somewhere there is a rumbling, a truck bearing gifts of furniture, a car with parents cooing to their young and calming the family pets as they speed on to their destination. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
A minute later or more a loud rumbling sound could be heard over a large area, perhaps up to 100 km( about 62 miles) away from where the meteor was seen straight overhead. – Steinar Midtskogen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
With the earthquakes, it was already a problem, the locals here know how to read what's going on with Pele( the legendary Hawaiian volcano goddess believed to control Kilauea's lava flows). And when it starts rumbling, she's definitely going to do something. We're in that zone. – Steve Gebbie	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I could hear a rumbling and the rain was coming down hard and I said ‘we gotta go now,'. – Desionne Franklin	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I was laying down in bed with my dog, and all of a sudden, I heard a big rumbling sound, the whole entire house started shaking and I just knew that it was a tornado. – Ryan Portish	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It sounded like a big tractor trailer passing by the road, rattling and shaking, guttural rumbling. ... We left everything there, grabbed my kid, my dog, got in the car with my wife, all the neighbors were outside, a lot of young people crying. Armageddon type reaction. – Trevor Moffat	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable. – St. Jerome	added by anonymous 13 years ago

It's had about a thousand lives in it, some brittle and cold, others quaint and lively. The wallpaper's peeling and the pipes are rusting. The shingles are breaking away, falling to ancient earth but the hearth still smells of warm breakfast, eggs sizzling in their beds, toast crisp with strains of raspberry jam, griddlecakes tanning themselves, milk being topped off. Somewhere there is a rumbling, a truck bearing gifts of furniture, a car with parents cooing to their young and calming the family pets as they speed on to their destination.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

A minute later or more a loud rumbling sound could be heard over a large area, perhaps up to 100 km( about 62 miles) away from where the meteor was seen straight overhead.

– Steinar Midtskogen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With the earthquakes, it was already a problem, the locals here know how to read what's going on with Pele( the legendary Hawaiian volcano goddess believed to control Kilauea's lava flows). And when it starts rumbling, she's definitely going to do something. We're in that zone.

– Steve Gebbie

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I could hear a rumbling and the rain was coming down hard and I said ‘we gotta go now,'.

– Desionne Franklin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I was laying down in bed with my dog, and all of a sudden, I heard a big rumbling sound, the whole entire house started shaking and I just knew that it was a tornado.

– Ryan Portish

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It sounded like a big tractor trailer passing by the road, rattling and shaking, guttural rumbling. ... We left everything there, grabbed my kid, my dog, got in the car with my wife, all the neighbors were outside, a lot of young people crying. Armageddon type reaction.

– Trevor Moffat

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

– St. Jerome

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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