70 yrs ago, people began noticing dings in their windshields. Was it...cosmic rays? H-bomb fallout? Something else?
—Police set up roadblocks
—Marines searched
—Seattle's mayor wired Ike for help
Turns out, in most cases: "The pits had been there all along, but no one had noticed them until now."
@jasonpohl.bsky.socialI've sent this piece about the Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic to, like, a dozen people today. Might as well put it here too! Sure hope the "drones" don't start dropping rocks on our cars... www.historylink.org/File/5136
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Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April
On April 15, 1954, Bellingham, Seattle and other Washington communities are in the grip of a strange phenomenon -- tiny holes, pits, and dings seemingly have appeared in the windshields of cars at an