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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on March 29, 2007, 01:23:05 PM
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Set material condition Zebra.
Baton down all hatches and close all watertight doors.
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Ohh, Denton, my old stomping grounds looks to get a gullywasher.
And here, it's snowing.
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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.
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so far still pretty calm, just windy and grey
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RPM....you forgot something.
All weatherdecks are secured untill further notice
Standby for heavy squalls and heavy rolls
That is all:aok
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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 :)
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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.
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Originally posted by rpm
Set material condition Zebra.
Baton down all hatches and close all watertight doors.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.:cool:
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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.
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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?
3 months ago, no, but I have seen it a bunch of times in many different places:D
I truely do appreciate natural flotation devices.:aok
By the way, if your close to the Lynnhaven mall, your not to far from me. I'm over near Newtown and VB Blvd area.
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Originally posted by rpm
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.
Arlington but I've spent a lot of time in Alvord and Decatur on a friends land back a lifetime or so ago.
Glad you didn't get hit too hard. I think we might be in for a nasty April / May.
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Originally posted by Hornet33
3 months ago, no, but I have seen it a bunch of times in many different places:D
I truely do appreciate natural flotation devices.:aok
By the way, if your close to the Lynnhaven mall, your not to far from me. I'm over near Newtown and VB Blvd area.
I'm across from Holland Elementary School
But, 3 months ago I was out with friends on their sailboat, and a Coast Guard boat passed us tooting at us LOL I guess either they liked the bikinis or they were hoeing we were topless (some of us were)
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Lets see the evidence.
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I cant wait to get to San Diego.
When weather is bad...we just "Dive, Dive" arrrruuuuuuggggahhhh arrrrruuuuuugggggahhhh "Dive".
Nice and calm down there. ;)
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Bubblehead. :p
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Originally posted by dmf
I'm across from Holland Elementary School
But, 3 months ago I was out with friends on their sailboat, and a Coast Guard boat passed us tooting at us LOL I guess either they liked the bikinis or they were hoeing we were topless (some of us were)
Yeah your about 6-7 miles from me. How's the jet noise??? Gotten any worse since the Super Hornets moved in??
What the hell were you doing wearing a bikini 3 months ago? It was cold then.
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rpm
everything up there okay? Looks like yall got slammed again
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Just got home from work. Heard we had a possible tornado near Lake Bridgeport. About 5 a squall line hit and it was tough. Must have rained 2-3 inches in just a few minutes with 30-40 mph winds. 2 bridges were underwater and several roads flooded out in Bridgeport. We need the rain bigtime. The lake was 18 feet low last Sunday. It's so low they are finding old WW2 muntions from when it was a test range.
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Originally posted by Hornet33
Yeah your about 6-7 miles from me. How's the jet noise??? Gotten any worse since the Super Hornets moved in??
What the hell were you doing wearing a bikini 3 months ago? It was cold then.
Remember those nice 68 degree days we had, back in Jan?
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Oh the jet noise really hasn't changed that much here, I see them I hear them, late at night I can hear a real low sound coming from over that way,but nothing really bad, now the people living in Cardinal estates hate life with the new jets, I have a friend on Hawk avenue that says she can't even watch tv when they fly over and late at night the engines running will make you deaf.
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hey hornet..can u tell those jets to keep it down when they fly over our house at almost top speed about 3-4 times a year:furious :D
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Aw man.....that's the sound of Freedom!!!!!!!! Now if you want noisey try living on an AFB in the early 80's with a bunch of SAC alert KC-135A's. They'd launch those things all hours of the night and with the water injection they would rattle windows for miles around the base. Not to mention the C-141's and C-5's flying around the clock.
But even if I was in the Navy and I'm not, thank God, I don't think air opps would listen to me if I told them to keep it down. I'm only an E6 for Christs sake:D
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i like the jets:D
i just dont like the fly 3 feet above the trees at full blast part of it:furious
i rather see a B52 or Huey fly over thou:D
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When I was growing up in Oklahoma, every now and then my dad and I would go fishing at Foss Lake and a couple of time we had B1's come screaming over the lake at about 200ft. My dad said Foss was a check point for the B1's out of Dyess AFB on their low level training runs. It was awsome to see those things come in. You wouldn't hear them until they were right on top of you. Saw a B-52 making a run there 1 time and that was real cool to see.
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Wes the 3 or 3 times a year a jet fly over your house is when the ones from Langley get lost, and are looking for a street sign to find their way home :D
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Before I moved to texas I had never heard of a "Thunderstorm alert". The only thing more boring than the weather here is the terrain; flat and brown as far as one can see. They also have a different definition of flash flood. Which btw "flash flood" warnings normally accompany the "thunderstorm alerts" when they interrupt TV programs with their urgent news.
Of course anyplace that water occurs naturally here has been made into a state park.
Last time ice accumulated on roads here the company I worked for gave "I survived the ice storm" T-shirts to people who managed to make it to work that day.
Actually the most severe weather here goes unreported because it's the norm here for 9 months out of the year. No need for a humidor, just leave your cigars outside, but put them in mason jars with small holes poked in the lid so that cockroaches won't carry them away.
I know I keep saying it, but someday I really will return to civilization.