1:14 PM: For those who are asking: Still looking for official confirmation but this is one of those things on which we can make an educated guess: Seahawks pregame flyover.
@westseattleblog @KING5Seattle We’ve been getting a bit of an airshow over in West Seattle for the last 30min or so. pic.twitter.com/QvZOiZH8lR
— Chris (@bensoncSEA) September 19, 2021
1:26 PM: A reporter covering the game verifies the flyover.
Love it. They flew right past us at slow speed on their way to the game.
Love that when they did vibrate my home!! Thanks to these pilots!!
For someone with ptsd, hearing those jets is crippling. Sports funded jet flyovers should be banned.
Jets causing PTSD? To who? Pilots? Frequent flyers? Traveling salespeople? To soldiers on the ground, arriving friendly air support is one of the most-welcome sounds in the world. What IS likely PTSD-inducing are the fireworks being lit off after every touchdown.
PTSD for people that when they hear that noise an air strike is coming. This country has been bombing people for decades and many have be able to relocate here and yes this is well documented to cause PTSD. It’s also a complete waste of money and resources for the Libertarians out there.
I’m from Cambodia and the sound of jets means my family won’t have to flee THIS country for our lives again.
@StopBeingHeartless, regardless of how someone suffers from PTSD, you shouldn’t belittle them. I can fully understand why the sound of a military jet can ignite PTSD in a military person or an immigrant from a war torn country.
It might shock you to know that plenty of people who live in the area have also been on the receiving end of imperialism
I was briefly in a war zone when I was five, and those jets today were making me pretty anxious. We weren’t even there when things got bad, because we had the privilege to quickly leave at the start. I’m in my mid-30s and the sound still made me very uncomfortable, checking the sky to make sure everything is okay, etc. I can’t imagine how it is for someone who was older than five in an experience like that, around those sounds longer, or was in a more active war zone.
Part of the reason, albeit a minuscule part, our military budget approaches $1 trillion. But the important part is that people are titillated by flovers over their gladiatorial games.
I agree. Jingoism that costs so much money while many are houseless. This country is backwards.
These flyovers come out of the training budget so they would be happening anyway.
Training for what? More violence in other countries? It’s a waste of money.
I happened to be in Georgetown when the jets were landing at Boeing Field. That was loud!
These flyovers don’t cost any money as it has been said numerous times that the pilots have to continuously train. These are combined into that. And these comment threads where people cite ptsd are never the ones actually suffering it. Lets here from them. I have 2 friends that are gulf war vets and these don’t bother them. What is probably more annoying is these obnoxious modified cars buzzing around at all hours
Most people are too embarrassed to talk about their ptsd. That’s why you don’t hear them talk about it much -if at all.
I am a gulf war vet with ptsd. I can attest that loud cars at odd hours are more triggering than the occasional jet fighter in the daytime, for me at least. Trigger events for me are things that don’t come from a military source, but sound like it. I know what to expect from a fighter jet or a tracked vehicle, but something like a kid jumping on a bed upstairs from me can sound like artillary and cause great distress.
I agree. I am also tired of music played so loud in a car that it vibrates my car.
I find it fascinating that many things from the 1980’s seem to be returning. The loud bass music from cars being one of those things.What’s next, parachute pants?
Can we talk about the environmental costs of things like this?
Obnoxious and wasteful. I’m 100% against the ongoing hyper-militarization of our society. This needs to stop.
I agree.The jets are cool, though. They’re more like big, expensive toys than like military equipment in a context like this.
We heard, and saw, these 2 jets while out for a walk…..I wondered if there was an urgent need for the buzzing and circling above the Sound, like an emergency response to ….
I can’t get enough of the fighter jets. So proud of our Air Force, USMC, and Navy pilots and our Army chopper crews. My husband flew Fat Albert with the Blue Angels. Thanks for the quick air show, guys/gals.
I love it also!!!! To me, what i hear is FREEDOM!!! I’m a veteran also.
Like clockwork, every time a fly over happens the what about the environment!? What about the homeless!? What about the budget!? It scares my pets! It causes anxiety! The orca! Crowd pipes up. Relax, it ain’t about you. It’ll be over in a second and your day will continue just fine. It’s a flyover and most of us think they’re pretty cool.
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