On 10/06/2016 7:57 PM, dpb wrote:
....

That's the NOAA boys flying the Orions. Meanwhile, the USAF Reserve 53d
Weather Reconnaissance Squadron based at Keesler Air Force Base in
Biloxi, MS, fly Lockheed WC-130J aircraft directly into the hurricane.
Typically a mission will penetrate the hurricane's eye several times per
mission at altitudes between 500 and 10,000 feet.

And a trace of a recent Matthew fly-thru--

https://icons.wxug.com/hurricane/2016/recon-matthew-0442Z-10.7.16.jpg

On 10/07/2016 7:14 AM, Drama Queen wrote:
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Yah, but it's not as bad as the media's drama queens would have you
believe. Most of the wind is coming from the loud mouth reporters. Sheeesh!

Ratings do have to be maintained, yes...but--only that the track turned
out (so far) to have been a little farther east kept the highest winds
offshore...

On 10/7/2016 9:53 AM, dpb wrote:
On 10/07/2016 7:14 AM, Drama Queen wrote:
...

Yah, but it's not as bad as the media's drama queens would have you
believe. Most of the wind is coming from the loud mouth reporters. Sheeesh!

Ratings do have to be maintained, yes...but--only that the track turned out (so far) to have been a little farther east kept the highest winds offshore...


Here's a quote from a weather site:

"As the destruction makes its way up the East Coast, it's time to prepare."


What destruction? Did some panicked Floridians knock over the Puddin' Cup display at a Miami Walmart? What kind of structure is destroyed by a 40 MPH wind?

And who's the idiot that builds junk like that in a hurricane zone? Good grief!


But I'm sure they'll have videos of FEMA unloading body bags from a semi.

On Fri, 07 Oct 2016 01:03:14 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 06 Oct 2016 19:27:53 -0700, Oren wrote:

My guess is the utility trucks are sent via train rail? Crews fly in?

Nope, you see big convoys of trucks on the road when these things
happen. My neighbor is an FPL lineman and he goes all over the gulf
coast and up into the carolinas when things like this happen.

Forgot about that. I've seen the convoys and the staging areas for
the trucks. I was thinking from a long distance.

On 10/07/2016 12:01 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 21:16:10 -0500, Dean Hoffman
wrote:

I wonder if Walmart will be better prepared for the storm than FEMA,
the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (silly question)

They usually are. Walmart has lots of stuff, really close, in hardened
warehouses. They also keep their stuff moving so things can stay
fresh.


Once I remember hearing that during a storm there is an increased demand
for strawberry Pop-Tarts.

On 10/07/2016 07:08 AM, Frank wrote:

[snip]

Guy I know said he bought a generator at about 1/3 price as a return
after a severe storm.

Yesterday, the first time I hears about the storm was some commercial
email from a company called US Carburetion that makes propane conversion
kits for generators.

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"The trouble with divine revelation is that we do not know who did the
business." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other
Essays_]