Correction:

Departure, 13 days. Maxwell AFB is having to handle all of the new recruits from what used to be Keesler AFB, Mississippi (fairly well destroyed by Katrina), so they moved me up a day.

I now leave Sunday, October 9th.

WGUS54 KMOB 261503 ( Read more... )

14 days.

Northwest Floridians: Expect 2-4 feet of storm surge. That is all.

http://cs-people.bu.edu.nyud.net:8090/aaron/turret/small/short.mov

I must have one of these.

I must.

I think this is something like what I'll be doing.

kpwoodr writes "An interesting article at the Washington Times makes note of a recent satellite launch by the U.S. It seems we have put a jammer in space that will allow us to disrupt enemy communication systems at will. From the article: 'The U.S. military is bracing for future attacks in space, ( Read more... )

Models are doing batshit crazy stupid stuff. Shifting east, towards new orleans. Still. I'm not sure I even want to look at the 7 AM model runs; I predict that a solid majority of the morning models will have this storm smacking into west/central LA. And with tropical storm force winds extending out 200 miles from the center of the storm ( Read more... )

[17:53] lostoverethernet: Anyways, Josh Ashley and I are trying to figure out how fast the wind would have to blow to pick up a cow ( Read more... )

The models and the NHC track just shifted three hundred miles east. NHC is predicting a model consensus track, which means they have no real idea beyond taking averages of lines. (Neither do I; please understand I'm not saying they suck; I'm saying that nobody knows). However, the trend has been further and further east, in 150-300 mile chunks. ( Read more... )

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