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Super typhoon Ioke is barreling towards Wake Island (Military, civilians & contractors evacuating)
KHON TV and KHNL TV ^
| August 27, 2006
Posted on 08/27/2006 8:41:03 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
That's one boring target.
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:20:39 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
To: DungeonMaster
sure, but gonna be some killer surf in Japan. wish i was there!!
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:23:04 AM PDT
by
ratt
To: dljordan
Dummy! I went [Googling] to Guam! Doh! As a boomer sailor in the 60s I made numerous flights between Hawaii (where the off-crews were based) and Guam (where the missle subs put in).
Over the entrance to the terminal at Anderson AFB, as you walking in from the tarmac, was a big sign:
Where America's Day Begins
- GUAM IS GOOD! -
(By Order of the Commanding Officer)
To: kingu
"This was a recent water vapor image of Ioke. It still boggles my mind comparing the latitude lines to where I live, and how much territory it would cover were it in the United States."
What are the divisions on the image you provided in your post? 1 degree? 5 degrees? 10 degrees?
The main part of the typhoon takes up about 4 x 4 divisions and the eye is about 1/4 or 1/3 of a division in diameter.
Just trying ot get a sense of scale here.
To: SandyInSeattle
They didn't evacuate us, because honestly, how do you evacuate the entire island of Okinawa? They just told us not to come to work.
We had the same situation in Gitmo. You hunkered down and rode out the hurricanes. One of them hit us 3 times in one week.
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:05:01 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
To: SandyInSeattle
They didn't evacuate us, because honestly, how do you evacuate the entire island of Okinawa? Didn't they have a bunch of school buses?
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:09:43 PM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: Doe Eyes
Didn't they have a bunch of school buses? I just spit on my keyboard. Fortunately, it was water. :-)
67
posted on
08/30/2006 5:30:54 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: IonImplantGuru
Divisions are two degrees (Long/Lat).
Here's a recent (2330Z Aug 30th) IR image of Ioke approaching Wake Island. That black dot, two squares down, two squares right from the top left is Wake.
Current observations on Wake (00:48Z Aug 31st) 43.15 knots per hour wind, 56.57 knots per hour gusts, 992.40 mbars pressure. No idea how long the weather station will last on Wake, wave heights are supposed to get to 50 feet, and the station is at 12 feet.
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posted on
08/30/2006 6:11:14 PM PDT
by
kingu
(No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
To: kingu
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