What is the loudest noise you have ever heard?

Question

What is the loudest noise you have ever heard?

Answer 1

Thunder caused by a bolt of lightning that struck about 50 feet away from me.

Answer 2

sonic boom at air and water show in chicago.  jets like to streak between the buildings so you cant hear them coming and then as soon as they are out over the lake you hear them..... OOWWWW.

Answer 3

when i forgot i set my cellphone on handsfree and when the guy on the other end talked it hurts my eardrum.

Answer 4

when I was hog-tied to a rampant gibbon!

Answer 5

Either a fire engine siren or an M-80 explosion.

Answer 6

Al gore, going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on;

Almost makes you wish you were deaf.

Answer 7

Venting excess steam pressure on a steamship.   Sounded like a jet engine a few feet behind the bridge.

Answer 8

My wife, when she's angry.

Answer 9

fire engine sirens

Answer 10

my little girl screaming when she gets pissed....ugh makes my ears bleed! lol

Answer 11

fireworks

Answer 12

A Saturn 5 lifting off (Apollo 8, December 1968).  You could feel the ground vibrating before the sound even reached you.

Answer 13

one hand clapping

Answer 14

My kids screaming just for the fun of it.

Nothing like a high pitched scream at 8am for no apparent reason from a 2 year old and a 6 year old

Answer 15

Last night in bed

SteveC

Answer 16

gunshots from a 300 winmag

Answer 17

The crack of thunder as the lightning lights up the sky!!!

From my Van in a park at night.

WWWheeewww!! very amazing!!

Answer 18

try putting your ear on the speakers while the microphone makes that vey annoying sound like Eeeekkk... that's the most annoying and loudest noise I've ever heard