Happy Birthday, Tunguska Event!

[David Payne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

On June 30, 1908, as reported by an eyewitness:

"We had a hut by the river with my brother Chekaren. We were sleeping. 
Suddenly we both woke up at the same time. Somebody shoved us. We heard 
whistling and felt strong wind. Chekaren said, 'Can you hear all those 
birds flying overhead?' We were both in the hut, couldn't see what was 
going on outside. Suddenly, I got shoved again, this time so hard I fell
 into the fire. I got scared. Chekaren got scared too. We started crying
 out for father, mother, brother, but no one answered. There was noise 
beyond the hut, we could hear trees falling down. Chekaren and I got out
 of our sleeping bags and wanted to run out, but then the thunder 
struck. This was the first thunder. The Earth began to move and rock, 
wind hit our hut and knocked it over. My body was pushed down by sticks,
 but my head was in the clear. Then I saw a wonder: trees were falling, 
the branches were on fire, it became mighty bright, how can I say this, 
as if there was a second sun, my eyes were hurting, I even closed them. 
It was like what the Russians call lightning. And immediately there was a
 loud thunderclap. This was the second thunder. The morning was sunny, 
there were no clouds, our Sun was shining brightly as usual, and 
suddenly there came a second one!

"Chekaren and I had some difficulty getting out from under the remains 
of our hut. Then we saw that above, but in a different place, there was 
another flash, and loud thunder came. This was the third thunder strike.
 Wind came again, knocked us off our feet, struck against the fallen 
trees.

"We looked at the fallen trees, watched the tree tops get snapped off, 
watched the fires. Suddenly Chekaren yelled 'Look up' and pointed with 
his hand. I looked there and saw another flash, and it made another 
thunder. But the noise was less than before. This was the fourth strike,
 like normal thunder.

"Now I remember well there was also one more thunder strike, but it was 
small, and somewhere far away, where the Sun goes to sleep." 		 	   		  
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