Some part of American soil will likely get hit by a Category 5 hurricane this week. Here's a map that shows Wake Island's location:
Ioke is a really big, classic-looking hurricane:
To: conservative in nyc
These are the "buses" used to evacuate Wake's residents:
Maj. James Hill supervised the loading of civilians, most of them Thai nationals, who were forced to leave Wake Island yesterday morning because of Super Typhoon Ioke, which was expected to slam the island tomorrow. The Air Force sent two C-17 Globemaster cargo jets to evacuate 188 people.
To: SandRat
3 posted on
08/29/2006 7:31:06 PM PDT by
Fiddlstix
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To: conservative in nyc
I've actually been to Wake Island. I don't remember much about it because I was 5 years old and it was the middle of the night. It was on the way from the US to Japan. I wonder what people do there for a living....
susie
4 posted on
08/29/2006 7:31:16 PM PDT by
brytlea
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To: conservative in nyc
Man can you imagine just living out there, waking up to sunshine and 80 degree weather everyday? If I get rich I'm definetly retiring to an island in the Pacific.
To: conservative in nyc
Winds were recorded at 130 knots, with gusts up to 160 knots.
Bit of an error in the article but I find it's common for people not to understand something about almost all tropical systems that do not get aircraft recon..the winds and the pressure are VERY vaguely GUESTIMATED by looking at satellite pictures, not actually measured by anything.
Nobody and nothing has actually measured the winds of Ioke in any form.
To: conservative in nyc
...188 residents who were evacuated by the Air Force and flown to Honolulu in two C-17 Globemaster cargo jets yesterday. I should be so lucky.
20 posted on
08/29/2006 8:24:33 PM PDT by
gotribe
(It's not a religion.)
To: conservative in nyc
When did we hand over Wake to Thailand?
22 posted on
08/29/2006 8:33:34 PM PDT by
ElCid89
(the corps...the corps...and the corps...)
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25 posted on
08/30/2006 12:34:45 AM PDT by
HAL9000
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To: conservative in nyc
Wake Island. Where America's day really begins.
26 posted on
08/30/2006 5:31:33 AM PDT by
paddles
To: conservative in nyc
Dang. Looking at the island on Google Earth, there won't be anything left of it. It's not much bigger than the landing strip itself. That guy's computer and DVD player will wash up on somebody's shore.... someday.
33 posted on
08/30/2006 7:08:27 AM PDT by
Hatteras
To: conservative in nyc
August 29 -
40 posted on
08/30/2006 8:20:21 PM PDT by
HAL9000
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