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Portland goes ‘boom,’ again
Daily Blog//March 28, 2010//
Update: Portland Police are saying today that the boom was . Police found remnants of the bomb at Powers Marine Park just south of the Sellwood Bridge.
Twitter is聽 tonight and calls are pouring in to TV stations with reports of a loud boom in Southeast Portland. 聽The , too.
Reports are very similar to an event , when people in the Southeast reported a loud boom that shook their houses and prompted people to come outside. On Twitter, made showing where the boom was heard.
Portland Police said the last boom might have been fireworks, though many people who heard it said it was too loud for fireworks. Some say it sounded like dynamite.
Does anyone know? Is anything going on in Southeast Portland that would explain the loud boom?
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