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178 mph gusts batter Aleutian Coast Guard outpost
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| 2 Dec 09
| JAMES HALPIN
Posted on 12/02/2009 8:39:24 AM PST by GATOR NAVY
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Now we know where the Coast Guard sends you when the detailer hates you ;-)
To: GATOR NAVY
How would you like to be out on a crab boat in those conditions?
Mike
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posted on
12/02/2009 8:41:20 AM PST
by
MichaelP
(Actung! Actung! The Neofuhrer Speaks!...)
To: GATOR NAVY
Are the crab fishermen out on that sea right now?
To: GATOR NAVY
It’s global warming, I tell ya!!
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posted on
12/02/2009 8:47:48 AM PST
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: GATOR NAVY
Sounds like a perfect place to move the Gitmo detainees. Alaska could probably be persuaded to cede one of these islands to territorial status so the ACLU would have to get a visa from the Department of Defense to visit them.
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posted on
12/02/2009 8:47:52 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: MichaelP
I always wondered why all the buildings and telephone poles in Okinawa were made from concrete- until we went through our first typhoon.
To: Vigilanteman
Pick a barren one and drop them off with a single edge razor and a spork, then let nature take it’s course.
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posted on
12/02/2009 8:52:32 AM PST
by
usmcobra
(Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
To: GATOR NAVY
That must be some great duty.
Lots of checkers, and strong arms from shoveling.
Thanks, no. I’d rather go to Key West.
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posted on
12/02/2009 8:53:11 AM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(My wife reads my posts. In case the FBI shows up, we will have cookies.)
To: Vigilanteman
I was thinking the same thing.
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posted on
12/02/2009 8:54:13 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
To: Vigilanteman
Great idea.
Go ahead, Mohammed, break out of prison. You’ll be an allacicle for the polar bears within 20 minutes.
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posted on
12/02/2009 8:54:55 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Socialism is hip until somebody loses a paycheck)
To: GATOR NAVY
There are 20 active-duty personnel based at the station on year-long assignments.Translation: There are 20 Coasties serving time for various infractions that were insufficiently serious to end a career.
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posted on
12/02/2009 8:55:44 AM PST
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Are the crab fishermen out on that sea right now?
Yes, I believe so...
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posted on
12/02/2009 8:56:25 AM PST
by
xenob
To: GATOR NAVY
‘Now we know where the Coast Guard sends you when the detailer hates you ;-)’
Damn straight. Icebreakers and bouy tending boats are tough duty but weather stations are the pits. Long hours, boredom and extreme conditions. Back before we had enough weather satellites most weather station duty was on ships. Try sitting for a month somewhere off the coast of Labradore doing three to five hour watches strapped into a encapsuled crowsnest fifty feet above the deck making 30 degee arcs with little or no heat...God bless the men of the USCG. They are about as tough as they come.
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posted on
12/02/2009 8:56:36 AM PST
by
Leg Olam
(Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you. - Benjamin Franklin)
To: Vermont Lt
That must be some great duty. Yep. I wonder who you have to piss off, er, uh, I mean what you have to do to earn assignment to a post like that?
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posted on
12/02/2009 8:57:25 AM PST
by
Thermalseeker
(Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
To: GATOR NAVY
The AF used to send the problem children to Greenland, or Guam.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:01:15 AM PST
by
alarm rider
(The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
To: alarm rider
I had a friend on a sub who wanted off the boat. His captain made sure he went to Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:10:01 AM PST
by
montomike
(Politics should be about service and not a lucrative, money-making opportunity!)
To: GATOR NAVY; All
> 178 mph gusts batter Aleutian Coast Guard outpost WOW, that is some COLD, DENSE air coming our way. It also sounds like a new official record for Alaska!:
From July 16, 2001 Whipped by gusts and scoured by dust, towns keep heads down http://www.earthmountainview.com/wind_problems.htm Anchorage Daily News
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The island of Attu, in the Aleutians, holds the official record for highest wind gust in Alaska with a 159 mph blast in 1950.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:11:39 AM PST
by
BP2
(I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
To: Vigilanteman
Sounds like a perfect place to move the Gitmo detainees.That's such a brilliant idea, that it will never, ever be implemented.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:16:43 AM PST
by
wbill
To: Tax-chick; Anoreth
Good reason to behave in the Guard ping. ;)
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:17:00 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Live jubtabulously!)
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