Author Topic: Yeee Haw!!! We Got Us An Ice Storm!!!! (Read 994 times)

rpm · « **Reply #15 on:** January 24, 2008, 10:45:13 PM »

Life is too short to smoke cheap cigars, drink bad whiskey and depend on a halfass generator.
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eagl · « **Reply #16 on:** January 24, 2008, 10:48:50 PM »

A couple of weeks ago, Wichita Falls had a bunch of freezing rain hit right at 7am. The result - 119 accidents, a bank robbery (cops all at the crashes, right?) and a fatality right outside the Sheppard AFB gate on a bridge that had a series of accidents one after another all morning. They'd clear one accident, re-open the bridge, and someone else would come sailing across the bridge and spin off into the trees or down a hill or something.

Me? I got up at 0630, looked outside, saw a couple of sprinkles on the ground. Took a shower, looked outside at around 0710 and saw my driveway getting coated with ice. I called my boss and said I'd see him around noon, and went back to bed. *duh*

As for tomorrow, the flying wing already pushed report time to no earlier than 0900 and we're told to actually consider the road conditions before hopping the car and driving into work. Something about his folks crashing and dying when we probably won't be flying anyhow puts off the wing commander I guess.

rpm · « **Reply #17 on:** January 24, 2008, 10:53:02 PM »

I see you're back at Sheppard. I ought to get you to take some aerial pics for me. I see ya'll flying over my place all the time.

eagl · « **Reply #18 on:** January 24, 2008, 10:54:37 PM »

They have special uniforms for guys who fly over houses and take pictures. They're bright orange and have padding so the handcuffs and leg irons don't chafe so much.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #19 on:** January 24, 2008, 10:54:39 PM »

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Originally posted by rpm
Life is too short to smoke cheap cigars, drink bad whiskey and depend on a halfass generator.
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When I saw that you typed 'onan' I went to the wiki and looked it up. Guess what it had as the search result? Yep, you guessed it. I'd never heard of Onan generators before.

rpm · « **Reply #20 on:** January 24, 2008, 10:59:11 PM »

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Originally posted by DiabloTX
I'd never heard of Onan generators before.

They are a division of Cummins Diesel.

Seriously eagl, I see trainers flying under 1000ft regularly over my place. I must be a test target or waypoint. Want my gps?

eagl · « **Reply #21 on:** January 24, 2008, 11:09:09 PM »

Sure. You may be near a low level turn point, or somewhere near the standard departure or recovery route.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #22 on:** January 24, 2008, 11:11:04 PM »

Dammit eagl, you shoulda played the "U.S. Government (i.e. Dick Cheney) is watching you" card on RPM.

eagl · « **Reply #23 on:** January 24, 2008, 11:16:01 PM »

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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Dammit eagl, you shoulda played the "U.S. Government (i.e. Dick Cheney) is watching you" card on RPM.

I think the gubbermint is sekretely run by buttlookers. They're passing secret butt watching laws. Warrantless butt looking. Next time you see a department of state security employee, you can be sure they're looking at your butt. It's a secret though, so don't call them out on it or you'll be thrown in secret jail for interfering with their secret butt looking program.

You see, the wrong kind of butt on airplanes is a security risk. It's all logically justified in the laws, but they're secret so you can't read them.

Maybe RPM is in on it and he's watching the butts of the planes that fly by. So no photographs.

rpm · « **Reply #24 on:** January 24, 2008, 11:19:35 PM »

-97.81445

33.34907

DiabloTX · « **Reply #25 on:** January 24, 2008, 11:20:21 PM »

Mebe he wunts 2 sho his buttox?

rpm · « **Reply #26 on:** January 24, 2008, 11:21:41 PM »

Hey, the government has had a file on me since April 6, 1978 when I joined the Coast Guard on my 17th birthday. I ain't skeered.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #27 on:** January 24, 2008, 11:23:30 PM »

March 15, 1986.

I am skeered.

eagl · « **Reply #28 on:** January 24, 2008, 11:26:01 PM »

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Originally posted by rpm
-97.81445

33.34907

I think you're on a low level route. I'd have to check the charts at work but from looking at google earth, I think you're in the general vicinity of at least one low level route we use all the time.

rpm · « **Reply #29 on:** January 24, 2008, 11:45:53 PM »

I see those trainers zooming low over my place all the time. I can see the pilots clearly. I'd estimate their AGL at 500ft. Just thought it would be cool to know one of the guys up there.

Before Desert Storm I would get zoomed by C130's flying NOE. That will rattle your windows, let me tell you. When I was a kid I remember seeing an F4 Phantom come in on a mock bomb run. I thought I was toast.

Here's a hi alt pic (like you would recognise it)...
My place is the triangular property between the railroad and the hiway. I've got 165 acres.