Here's more strange info:

According to this RT report, cell phones stopped working in the area. The fireball's electrical discharge might have produced an EMP-like (electromagnetic) effect on the area, shutting down communications.

Tatiana Bordovitsina, an astronomy professor at Tomsk State University in western Siberia, claimed that the meteorite could have been debris preceding the 2012 DA14 asteroid. But both NASA and the European Space Agency have stated that
the two bodies are unrelated. The trajectory of the fireball in Russia was from north to south, whereas asteroid DA14's trajectory is in the opposite direction, from south to north.

Russia Today citing "unconfirmed reports that the meteorite was shot down by Russian air defenses" while an anonymous Russian military source told local newspaper Znak that the incoming space rock "was intercepted by an air defense
unit at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk... A missile salvo blew the meteorite to pieces at an altitude of 20 kilometers." But this claim has been contradicted by a Roscosmos statement clarifying that the space rock was not
being tracked: "Our ground facilities and, as I understand, those abroad too did not the monitor this celestial body," a Russian space agency spokesman said.
[link to www.sott.net]

Thank you for info from GLP thread tonight:
Why isn't anyone asking questions?
Cheers!
SK