Mizz Kat: Radford had two military targets - the Radford Arsenal and Clator Dam. It still makes me nervous that I lived there during World War II. Fortunately, we were above the high water mark if they had blown the dam. John in Ohio ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kat Fulcher" <[email protected]> To: "vafloyd" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:11 PM Subject: [VAFLOYD] not genealogy--Science Channel program >I watched a fascinating program on the Science Channel about an incident in > 1958 where a bomber had to drop a nuclear bomb into the Atlantic after an > accident during a Cold War "game" that went wrong! The bomb is still > lost, > somewhere off of Tybee Island, Georgia. The CREEPY part of the story was > that the pretend "target" of the war game was RADFORD, VA!!! Two bombers, > loaded with real nuclear bombs, flew over Radford and pretended to wipe > them > out!!! The flight plan took them down toward Charlotte, so they probably > flew right down over my house in Hillsville! Sure glad they had their > accident and bomb drop out over the Atlantic instead of over the > mountains! > Really interesting story. They never did explain why Radford was the > target > of the exercise... > > Maybe they were huntin' for Ole Paul's house???? > > MizzKat > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen [email protected] > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Miss Kat, my daughter lives on Wilmington Island which is close to Tybee and not to long ago if I remember right they found that bomb but chose to leave it where it is. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:18:59 -0400 > Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] not genealogy--Science Channel program > > Mizz Kat: > > Radford had two military targets - the Radford Arsenal and Clator Dam. It > still makes me nervous that I lived there during World War II. Fortunately, > we were above the high water mark if they had blown the dam. > > John in Ohio > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kat Fulcher" <[email protected]> > To: "vafloyd" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:11 PM > Subject: [VAFLOYD] not genealogy--Science Channel program > > > >I watched a fascinating program on the Science Channel about an incident in > > 1958 where a bomber had to drop a nuclear bomb into the Atlantic after an > > accident during a Cold War "game" that went wrong! The bomb is still > > lost, > > somewhere off of Tybee Island, Georgia. The CREEPY part of the story was > > that the pretend "target" of the war game was RADFORD, VA!!! Two bombers, > > loaded with real nuclear bombs, flew over Radford and pretended to wipe > > them > > out!!! The flight plan took them down toward Charlotte, so they probably > > flew right down over my house in Hillsville! Sure glad they had their > > accident and bomb drop out over the Atlantic instead of over the > > mountains! > > Really interesting story. They never did explain why Radford was the > > target > > of the exercise... > > > > Maybe they were huntin' for Ole Paul's house???? > > > > MizzKat > > To contact Listowner: > > Rena Worthen [email protected] > > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen [email protected] > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009