{"product_id":"what-the-hell-was-that-cleveland-9781972510995","title":"What the Hell Was That, Cleveland?","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Trowbridge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harbor Ridge Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harbor Ridge Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Form - Anecdotes \u0026amp; Quotations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt 8:57 a.m. on St. Patrick's Day 2026, a seven-ton rock from space exploded over Northeast Ohio.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHouses shook. Windows rattled. A guy on a Cleveland sidewalk genuinely wondered if it was the end of time. A woman in Strongsville blamed snow thunder. The 911 centers across four counties lit up like a video game nobody signed up to play. And in a bar in Valley City - directly below the point where the asteroid detonated - the owner reassured his customers that there were no aliens, and \u003cstrong\u003enothing was going to hamper St. Patrick's Day.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was right. The kegs stayed tapped. The party continued. And Northeast Ohio did what it always does when the universe throws something ridiculous at it: cracked jokes, poured drinks, and started figuring out how to put it on a t-shirt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, in the fields of Medina County, meteorite hunters from Connecticut, South Carolina, and Baltimore were converging on a small town called Sharon Center, searching for fragments of something \u003cstrong\u003efour and a half billion years old.\u003c\/strong\u003e A man who quit his career to hunt space rocks full-time drove through the night and searched for an entire day before finding a piece at sundown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is not a science book.\u003c\/strong\u003e This is the story of what happened to the people of Northeast Ohio on the most memorable St. Patrick's Day in history - told with the humor, heart, and self-deprecating stubbornness that defines this region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the \u003cstrong\u003eInfamous Moments in Cleveland Sports\u003c\/strong\u003e series, this is the first book in the \u003cstrong\u003eInfamous Moments in Cleveland History\u003c\/strong\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harbor Ridge Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775873892503,"sku":"9781972510995","price":914.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781972510995.webp?v=1777992937","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/what-the-hell-was-that-cleveland-9781972510995","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}