What big news have you heard first from the Peas?

I think when Heath Ledger died - I heard it from the Peas.  

I know y i u said Yu weren't counting,celebs, but Michael Jackson's death was it for me and that was pretty big.

Honestly I think just celebrity deaths... I can't think of a major one.. but good chance I did hear it at 2peas.. I just don't remember. I am usually at work when I am on the message boards so unless something happens on off times... I am guessing I would have seen it 'here'

The one that stands out most to me and was impacting was the Sandy Hook massacre. I recall a post early that December morning simply saying "I just heard there is a shooter at an elementary school" I remember thinking please let everyone be ok Then as the events unfolded throughout the day I remember just crying. My own son was in 6 almost 7 and in 1st grade at the time and it hit me very hard.

Several major accidents, found out through the Peas first, sometimes I found out about something and ask if anyone else heard about too.  The school shootings I learn from Peas before the news reports it.

Almost everything except for the demise of Two Peas, I found that out on my other 2 peas offshoot board.

What popped up in my mind FIRST when I saw the title was the death of Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter. The reason that hit me harder than most celebrity deaths was that he died 5 years and 5 days after my late husband. My late DH loved to watch the Crocodile Hunter show, the moment I read it, in my mind, I saw my late DH's face with him laughing at some of Steve's antics.

But the big reason is, since it was just after the 5th anniversary, my late DH was still very much in my mind and I was SO very very "feeling" Terri's pain with her husband dying suddenly AND the fact that his children were close to the ages of me and my younger sister when our father died. The kind of odd thing is, I met my current DH almost exactly one month later.

I found out more news at the peas in the last 12 years than any other one source!

9-11 for me too. I will forever link 9-11 with 2peas. I was surfing at work when the first plane hit. We didn't have access to TV or radio...and many of the main news websites were crashing...so I kept my office updated via 2peas.

There have been many more things through the years...but nothing like that day.

Me too. I don't watch the news often at all.