So your saying "IF" there were unexploded bombs over in the old thunder valley,just because your not allowed in there,then NO concern,right WRONG! Their are many civilians & military living on that island right now,thank you.Your goofy,NO beer here big boy!

teacher2b: US Army regulation 4530.06R "If the old TNT is leaking, don't sneeze - just be sneaking... away as fast as you can!".
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The Channel 3 site says "The bomb squad identified the explosives as "heavy military ordnance".
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Ya know, in the good old days, if you kept a few mortar rounds or howitzer shells in your basement, your friends and neighbors didn't fuss over it.
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Apparently the people were there to prepare the home for an estate sale and discovered some military "souvenirs".

teacher2b:
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Exactly right! Though we’re left to wonder . . . is this another example of AP’s continuing slide into ignorance and irrelevance, or did the Gazette editor fail to understand that the correct word is “ordnance”, since it’s spelled correctly in the article?
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woodsman, you’re into the beers a little early tonight, eh? Do you equate unexploded ordnance in reefs by a remote island with something found in a suburban area? In a reef, the only person at risk is the goof who goes fooling around what is usually a pretty obvious explosive device. In a suburban area, there are lots of innocent folks who could find themselves inside the blast radius. A bit of perspective is a good thing.

I'm just wondering what "ordinance" prompted the evacuation. Must be some law against having old bombs in you house.

I have no idea what kind of point you're trying to make, woodsman, but military ordnance in a civilian home is a quite different matter than an old, mapped bomb field.
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I'm sure that old ordnance turned up in a barracks or officers' quarters would generate similar concern.

This is an interesting story: Does this mean that civilians are more important then the military? I was stationed on an island by the china sea,as of reading about it in the paper years ago,i think in the 80's,that there are,and probably still is bombs that are still lying by the reefs off the island,from WWII.