some info from some NY people I know who work for the airlines - many international flights into NY have simply quietly been cancelled for 9/2 (the day of the Bush speech), just taken off the airline schedule. and NYC talk show host John Gambling was talking about seeing some fighter plane activity over long island sound this sunday around 6:40AM.
(In the wee hours- yes, that would have been Sunday morning... (I always think of it as very late Saturday night) I heard a very large number of flights going over this area: SW Connecticut near Long Island Sound)
Mystery illness strikes Caston schools
Associated Press
August 23, 2004
FULTON, Ind. -- State health officials are trying to determine the cause of an illness that spread through Caston schools last week.
At least 80 students were absent Friday, seven from the high school and 73 from the elementary school, said Superintendent Bob Huffman.
Huffman said each of the seven sick high school students has a sibling attending the elementary school in the district of about 800 students about 50 miles northeast of Lafayette.
Students began getting ill Thursday afternoon, some of whom got sick on their bus rides home. The high absentee rate prompted Huffman to contact the Fulton County Health Department, which brought in the state Department of Health.
Health officials checked temperatures and took food samples in the cafeteria, Huffman said. He said that food poisoning has not been ruled out, although officials are leaning toward a virus.
The school served chicken nuggets for lunch on Thursday, and the bags and boxes they came in have been checked, he said.
"Everything we've used, we've kept back in case it needed to be tested further," Huffman said.
(In the wee hours- yes, that would have been Sunday morning... (I always think of it as very late Saturday night) I heard a very large number of flights going over this area: SW Connecticut near Long Island Sound)
Mystery illness strikes Caston schools
Associated Press
August 23, 2004
FULTON, Ind. -- State health officials are trying to determine the cause of an illness that spread through Caston schools last week.
At least 80 students were absent Friday, seven from the high school and 73 from the elementary school, said Superintendent Bob Huffman.
Huffman said each of the seven sick high school students has a sibling attending the elementary school in the district of about 800 students about 50 miles northeast of Lafayette.
Students began getting ill Thursday afternoon, some of whom got sick on their bus rides home. The high absentee rate prompted Huffman to contact the Fulton County Health Department, which brought in the state Department of Health.
Health officials checked temperatures and took food samples in the cafeteria, Huffman said. He said that food poisoning has not been ruled out, although officials are leaning toward a virus.
The school served chicken nuggets for lunch on Thursday, and the bags and boxes they came in have been checked, he said.
"Everything we've used, we've kept back in case it needed to be tested further," Huffman said.
I am sure they are doing familiarization flights around NYC right now...
I saw and heard on scanner a couple Navy helicopters in Los Angeles this weekend. They got lost a couple times...so I dont know exactly what they were up to.
I imagine a lot of assets will be in NY/NJ area so perhaps Navy Seals will be covering SoCal in the next couple weeks.
(Last month there was a Coast Guard Dauphin helicopter doing some type of DHS flight over my place....30 miles from the ocean)
Interesting, thanks for passing on the info.