Showing posts with label hurricane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hurricane. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 October 2024

Hurricane Milton

🌀 Milton was set to hit early Thursday morning. He was early and landed Wednesday night. Collecting these was rather interesting. Look for the heroes! 

🌎Zoom Earth had a great real time graphic. 

There are many heroes, including the scientists at NOAA. They fly various planes through the storm to gather valuable data. 

Then, there is Scorpion Reef. I saw that turquoise oval on the radar. I found it what it is. There are critters on it, who, I hope, can hunker down.

This is a NOAA aircraft, they have NOAA042, NOAA043, and NOAA049, etc.

Bumpy ride into Hurricane #Milton on @NOAA WP-3D Orion #NOAA43 "Miss Piggy" to collect data to help improve the forecast and support hurricane research.

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— NOAA Aircraft Operations Center (@NOAA_HurrHunter) October 8, 2024

The USAF is there, as well.

Tampa Hospital (on an island) has an aqua fence!



Lightning strikes prior to the hurricane.


Some dude has storm surge cameras up.

Canadians lineworkers are on their way from Nova Scotia to Tampa. It's only 2511 km!


Tornados are embedded in the storm. Sloth evacuation at the Florida Aquarium:

 

Surge cameras posted on the shore. 



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Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Hurricane Helene

It is a disaster. However, there is such a difference between it happening in a developed or a developing country. The photos and videos are still coming out, although many don't have cell service or power. It could be weeks.

I am fascinated with the helpers. I like watching air traffic, as well. Here are both boxes checked off! (P.S. Don't read the comments. People can be stupid.)

Lots of civilians as well as the pros, were out to rescue people or provide aid in North Carolina. There are military helicopters (roads have been wiped out), but they don't tend to register on transponders. 


Cell service was down, as well as power, so FEMA had to buy Starlink cell service to give to towns. Billionaire Musk wouldn't just give it to them. The rich and middle class just don't get it. 


In truth... there is a lot of poverty. Sarcasm doesn't always work online, but you get the idea. 




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Wednesday, 31 October 2018

Bells Corners – there we were

Last week, we trucked into Ottawa to visit JB's aunt. There are many signs of fall: pumpkins in the fields, geese in the skies.



I like these posted speed signs.


This is where we had lunch, Bells Corners. It was a busy Friday around 1 p.m., we had a bit of a wait. Our poor aunt, they kept insisting she sit down, she uses a cane for balance, losing her sight and hearing, but she was perfectly capable of standing!


After lunch, we drove around. This (on the left) is where our family lived in 1981.


Lots of Hallowe'en decor.


We took her back home, and waved goodbye.


Our old church, where I we attended. I lef the Jr. choir, was the church treasurer, the Sunday School Superintendent, and sang in the choir, a lifetime ago.


Back on the road, the rec. centre.


Ah, city life: lineups for gas, and weird drivers.


We drove into Arlington Woods, where the hurricane wreaked havoc.


Back in Perth, the Senior's Complex is coming along. I've been taking photos, and our grandie thinks we should live there.


Then, the Darou farmhouse is well on the way for deconstruction.


Ah, the catalpa leaves!
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Friday, 14 September 2018

September storms: hurricanes and typhoons

Florence... she is fascinating. We are weather watchers, and the technology is amazing. People on the coast have been warned for days that they had to evacuate. Several million did. The North American satellite shows her approach.

In the meantime, the journalists and the storm chasers have flocked to the area. They are getting 3" of rain PER HOUR!
There is the journalist, with the weather man explaining
he's gone from the eye of the storm,
to the northern edge,
with more wind and rain!

Several nuclear power plants, and several prisons, have NOT evacuated.


One family sent a photo to the reporter (below). They had evacuated to a hotel, but their neighbours did not. The neighbours sent photos, and are trapped in the room above their garage. Their house is flooded. They have had nothing but warnings to evacuate. They tie up first responder crews who are concentrating on downed hydro wires.
The reporter said that they had just had to move from their previous location due to flooding. The storm surge, water forced up onto the land by the winds, is flooding rivers on the low flood plain.


Another threat: typhoon Mangkhut is headed for the Philippines.
— Matt Taylor (@MetMattTaylor) September 13, 2018


It's a lovely time of year in Ontario. We've had some rain, and wake to fog, most mornings.


The bugs are pretty much gone. The farm animals hang out.



We went to the hotel for lunch outside on the patio. Who knews when it is 'last one!' This overlooks Stewart Park, and the Tay River.

There was a meeting of some sort. There were several Ontario Government vehicles, including this cool air boat.


We were in Almonte for bird seed. They are filming a movie there. It's rather fun! Almonte is a delightful town, very scenic.

Fake snow, real film stars descend on Almonte this September

In order to fake the snow, a mixture of products are used, from paper to real crushed ice to "snow blankets." 


The trees are beginning to change. Lots of folks, with their antique cars, are enjoying the fine weather.


JB told me they had ripped up the parking lot in our mall. He wondered why. Turns out, more stores. Being a cottage town, he shops early in the morning, and we avoid going in on Friday afternoons.


Our local paper explains:

Perth Mews mall expands with 3 new stores


The Subway store will relocate from across the parking lot and be one of three tenants on the 7,000 square foot building. The other tenants will include a Starbucks coffee shop and a St. Louis Bar and Grill, with an outdoor patio.

Back at home, the wasps have hatched their babies. The first photo was Aug. 1st:  A WASP story!, and now they are hanging around. At some point, I will be able to figure out what to do with the broken bird feeder. In the meantime, ♩♪♩♪ "Can't touch it!"



The mason bee, or lone bee house is housing eggs. All is unfolding as it should.

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