General Quarters!!!

[rpm]

Set material condition Zebra.
Baton down all hatches and close all watertight doors.

[Hap]

Ohh, Denton, my old stomping grounds looks to get a gullywasher.

And here, it's snowing.

[rpm]

I live just south of the 287 icon. It's starting to hit here now. Looks like a doozy. I called my sister. Her and her family were going horseback riding in Decatur. I caught them right before they unloaded the horses.

[Airscrew]

so far still pretty calm,  just windy and grey

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[Hornet33]

RPM....you forgot something.


All weatherdecks are secured untill further notice
Standby for heavy squalls and heavy rolls


That is all:aok

[AquaShrimp]

You guys can't even go out on the decks of your gargantuan ships in a storm?  The navy must not have much confidence in your sailing abilities.

[Hornet33]

Coast Guard here, and no we didn't go out on deck in bad weather unless we absolutely had to. Besides you ever try and walk around on a wet deck in 30ft seas on a 270ft ship that's taking 30-40 degree rolls and pitching 20-30 degrees?? Believe me it isn't something you want to do. Been there, done that, and have the puke stained shirts to prove it. (not my own puke though, I've never gotten sick underway)

Seriously though, in bad weather you keep everyone inside the skin of the ship. If someone falls overboard the chances of getting them back is marginal at best. Why take the chance?

[nirvana]

Exactly Hap!  Been snowing all day, just got home and had big flakes falling.  I enjoy it even if no one else in my family does.

[Dichotomy]

Originally posted by rpm
I live just south of the 287 icon. It's starting to hit here now. Looks like a doozy. I called my sister. Her and her family were going horseback riding in Decatur. I caught them right before they unloaded the horses.

Alvord?

this is nothing man

[storch]

I recall hearing "this is not a drill this is not a drill general quarters general quarters all hands man your battle stations" just once.  it was amazing how well drilled the crew of the USS Bigelow was and how most of us performed our assigned duties from muscle memory.  it was a beautiful thing.

[Slash27]

Originally posted by rpm
Set material condition Zebra.
Baton down all hatches and close all watertight doors.

We got bypassed by any rough stuff here at work. Looks like the house may have got a little bit though. May be the same story tomorrow. You have a NOAA weather radio? And have I asked you that before? Just had a little Dejavu:D

[dmf]

Originally posted by Hornet33
Coast Guard here, and no we didn't go out on deck in bad weather unless we absolutely had to. Besides you ever try and walk around on a wet deck in 30ft seas on a 270ft ship that's taking 30-40 degree rolls and pitching 20-30 degrees?? Believe me it isn't something you want to do. Been there, done that, and have the puke stained shirts to prove it. (not my own puke though, I've never gotten sick underway)

Seriously though, in bad weather you keep everyone inside the skin of the ship. If someone falls overboard the chances of getting them back is marginal at best. Why take the chance?

Were you on the boat that passed a 30 foot sail boat about 3 months ago that blew the horn about 4 times and watched, everybody on the sailboats deck?

[rpm]

Originally posted by Dichotomy
Alvord?

this is nothing man

5 miles from there. You from around here Dichotomy? It was rockin' and a rollin' around 3:30! Looks like we missed a big chunk of it. The storm stretched from Bowie to Stephenville when I first posted.

I'm ex-CG also. Hornet is right, you don't go out on a weather deck in a storm unless it's an emergency. I have almost as much time walking on bulkheads as I do on deck. I think I might qualify for NASA with all my time spent weightless in the paint locker.

[rpm]

Originally posted by dmf
Were you on the boat that passed a 30 foot sail boat about 3 months ago that blew the horn about 4 times and watched, everybody on the sailboats deck?

I WAS on the 378ft ship that stopped and watched the show on the sailboat in San Diego on July 4, 1980. Those girls got a 150 man salute.

[DREDIOCK]

My father in law WWII vet in the US Navy USS Pasadena CL-65

Keeps telling the story of when they were caught in the middle of a typhoon  
He claims the captain had the crew in the bowels of the ship running from side to side to help keep the ship upright to keep her form capsizing. Or so they were told.


Remembering it He chuckles about it now every time he tells it. someone asks him "Were you scared"
He laughs and says  "I was 18 $)%@ damn years old. What the hell did I know? I didnt know enough to be scared. All we know is (whoever the officer was) told us to run to one side,we ran to that side. they hed tell us to run the other way. ands we did. and it seemed like we did that all night long"

He said when it was all over they found out that some ship or ships were lost during the storm. It wasnt untill then they realised how much danger they were in.