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Sunday, 12 February 2023

✈ Things were flying!

 Friday began with a bang. On several fronts. There was a lockdown in nearby Carleton Place. An emergency. Then there was an amber alert about a pair who were armed and on the run. That fizzled out. They posted a photo and named the pair. Hopefully more information is to come. It is good to know the alert system works!

Police later said they were wanted on warrants
 unrelated to this incident.

Things settled after they found and arrested the dude from our DNE township who stole a car. He was near the Beckwith Recreation Complex. We were there for the Beckwith Heritage Festival. They were giving wagon rides! This is what was noticed on radar.

Saturday morning, I went to Flight Radar, and found a Brockville Cessna having a good day.

Later on, I was watching the activity in the air. I noticed an Ornge Air helicopter off to an emergency. It was slowing, then flying lower, and curved back around and went back to the Ottawa Airport.

Turns out it was a car on fire. Thankfully our volunteer firefighters went at it. 


I checked out what was happening in 🛫Ukraine. Not a good sign seeing the US Navy plane circling. Grateful to be here – not there. What an awful situation.


On a happier note, our statistics for influenza have been good. Masking and hand washing are good things!

Things got more exciting, as we were expecting our kids. More on that tomorrow! 
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15 comments:

  1. Tom12 February 2023 at 07:34

    ...this makes a boring day look good.

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  2. Yamini MacLean12 February 2023 at 08:25

    Hari OM
    Busy skies! If President Z has his way, those Ukrainian skies will be even more densely populated... YAM xx

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  3. Elizabeth Edwards12 February 2023 at 09:18

    makes me wonder about what folks i did hang out with as a kid ...meaning they had scanners ...wonder what they have now? since technology has gotten so more advanced. i found them kind of annoying ...the scanners ...they would beep and making silly noises and whatnot. ( :

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  4. Barbara Rogers12 February 2023 at 10:01

    You're absolutely right...nothing much happening there! Just fire and theft of cars, and planes and helicopters here and there. Such a boring existence. But it all came out alright, so there's that.

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  5. Nancy J12 February 2023 at 12:16

    Flight radar, I also have cruisemapper.com, a friend from NZ is on board the Ocean Endeavour, as a Sony Photography Ambassador, and I have followed her travels in the Southern Ocean and now the Antarctic. You would be surprised at the number of huge ocean going ships down there at any one time. They vary in length and size, and then I hopped over to Australia, to see what was there. Massive vessels!!! Hope all those crazy people up your way start to behave.

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  6. RedPat12 February 2023 at 14:02

    Such a hectic day!

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  7. Hena Tayeb12 February 2023 at 15:59

    You sure were up on all the important news.

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  8. Lorrie12 February 2023 at 17:51

    When I read the title of your post, I wondered if you were going to mention all the UFOs flying around these days, including the one shot down over the Yukon. Yikes! What's THAT all about?

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  9. William Kendall12 February 2023 at 20:51

    Those two numbskulls look like they lost out in the gene pool.

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  10. Red12 February 2023 at 21:09

    Certainly a lot of stress in the world these days. When some of the stress is right in your neighborhood it's more worrisome.

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  11. DeniseinVA13 February 2023 at 05:16

    Busy skies indeed! I was looking at a diagram the other day showing how many satellites there were above the earth. It is amazing to me that there are no collisions, or maybe there are and we just don’t hear about it. The number was unfathomable! That alert certainly would have gotten my attention. Thank goodness for all the firefighters. They will always have my utmost respect. I shake my head all the time with what is happening in Ukraine, and fervently hope there will be peace for all their sakes. So much going on in the world isn’t there?

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  12. Bleubeard and Elizabeth13 February 2023 at 05:27

    I feel so sorry for the Ukrainian people who didn't ask for this war, but are suffering as a result of it. On another note, I suspect death totals in Turkey and Syria will top 30,000 in a day or so.

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  13. Patio Postcards13 February 2023 at 07:04

    Those tracking apps are certainly interesting. We get the Ornge Air helicopters flying over us a lot lately. The firestation up the road is a transit point for them & ambulance. I am encouraged by the drop in Covid, influenza & RSV in our region too.

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  14. Gill - That British Woman13 February 2023 at 18:33

    lots and lots going on. We see the Ornge Helicopter all the time wandering back and forward from RVH to downtown Toronto.

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  15. Divers and Sundry14 February 2023 at 13:00

    Alerts are helpful if they're targeted enough. I'd certainly rather know as things are happening than find out later.

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