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Aircraft carrier is rushed to the hurricane-battered Keys
Miami Herald ^ | 12 Sep 2017 | JENNIFER KAY AND DOUG FERGUSON

Posted on 09/12/2017 7:00:19 AM PDT by shove_it

MIAMI Authorities sent an aircraft carrier and other Navy ships to help with search-and-rescue operations in Florida on Monday as a flyover of the hurricane-battered Keys yielded what the governor said were scenes of devastation.

"I just hope everyone survived," Gov. Rick Scott said.

He said boats were cast ashore, water, sewers and electricity were knocked out, and "I don't think I saw one trailer park where almost everything wasn't overturned." Authorities also struggled to clear the single highway connecting the string of islands to the mainland.

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He said the Navy dispatched the USS Iwo Jima, USS New York and the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln to help with search and rescue and other relief efforts....

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: hurricaneirma; shipmovement; trumpfema; usnavy; ussabrahamlincoln; ussiwojima; ussnewyork
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1 posted on 09/12/2017 7:00:19 AM PDT by shove_it
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Have 10,000 people in the FL Keys who did not follow mandatory evacuation orders. Now they need to be bailed out.


2 posted on 09/12/2017 7:01:41 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: shove_it

Those Keys are just a chain of little flat islands all the way out into the ocean. I can’t imagine anybody wanting to ride that out. Even the storm chasers didn’t go out there!


3 posted on 09/12/2017 7:02:18 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: shove_it

When did the City of Miami get an aircraft carrier?


4 posted on 09/12/2017 7:02:56 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: Delta 21

Military surplus, no doubt.


5 posted on 09/12/2017 7:04:26 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Delta 21

Writing skills and standards aren’t what they used to be.


6 posted on 09/12/2017 7:05:00 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Delta 21

>>>When did the City of Miami get an aircraft carrier?<<<

About the same Obama visited all 57 states.


7 posted on 09/12/2017 7:09:05 AM PDT by BJ1
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To: Delta 21

“When did the City of Miami get an aircraft carrier?”

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If you click the link, you’ll see the article was picked up by the AP. The dash is not copied after “MIAMI-” when I copied the first sentence of the article for some reason unknown to me.


8 posted on 09/12/2017 7:21:09 AM PDT by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: SamAdams76

Chasers did go there...and now they can’t get out. Jim Edds rode it out in Big Pine Key. Others were in Key West. I’ve been following them on Twitter.


9 posted on 09/12/2017 7:22:12 AM PDT by Raebie
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To: shove_it
The Iowa Jima and New York are good choices. The "Linc" is like using a 100# sledge hammer to put in finishing nails in fine furniture.

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10 posted on 09/12/2017 7:25:50 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: shove_it

Hmmmmm. I wonder if a case could be made for un-mothballing an old (non-nuke) carrier and assigning it to FEMA.


11 posted on 09/12/2017 7:41:31 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: C19fan

Not all the people who stayed in the keys need to be “bailed out”.


12 posted on 09/12/2017 7:43:32 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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Hmmmmm. I wonder if a case could be made for un-mothballing an old (non-nuke) carrier and assigning it to FEMA.

For use every ten or twelve years or so? Kind of a waste of resources, don't you think? The U.S. Navy should be able to provide assets at times like this.

13 posted on 09/12/2017 7:44:45 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: shove_it

Florida’s liberal stupidity newspaper the company owns a Tampa Newspaper also. It is as dumb as they come with facts. The paper is so bad they deliver it for free the only worse 1 is a local rag like the Village Voice....jerks galore we affectionately call it the Hulio Herald as half the paper is printed in Spanish and they also print a Spanish version called “El Nuevo” personally if its laying on the floor I will look at it for the weather and then throw it away there are only 3 counties in our Florida that support democrats and the herald is printed in Dade County the 3 lib counties are Miami Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach. Broward has the same problems that Trump is fighting in the swamp....Dade is Havana north and Palm Beach is rich New York Libs who moved to Florida to get rid of the high taxes.....


14 posted on 09/12/2017 7:56:16 AM PDT by straps (Go Trump)
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To: shove_it

“Miami authorities” sent and aircraft carrier.... I wonder what the Navy Admiral has to say about this.


15 posted on 09/12/2017 7:59:37 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Lower Deck
"For use every ten or twelve years or so? Kind of a waste of resources, don't you think?"

I don't know, which is why I asked the question.

We have had incidents far more frequently than "every ten or twelve years" where a FEMA capability could have been useful.

Just off the top of my head...Katrina, recent flooding around Baton Rouge, Harvey in Texas, and now Irma in Florida. These are just the ones directly affecting my immediate family.

Here is a list just of hurricanes:

https://www.mapsofworld.com/hurricane/dates.html

Certainly use of Naval vessels is a good thing, but a vessel specifically equipped for the purpose might prove useful.

16 posted on 09/12/2017 8:02:11 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: rdl6989

And thats pretty much where I stop reading the article. Facts matter. I refuse to be lied to.

...and if anyone feels it necessary to give me flak over not clicking on the article to read more inaccuracies before I post an uninformed opinion, I turn their attention to posters who admit in their 1st response that they didnt read the entire article before posting, nor do they know if it is worthy of discussion but wasted the bandwidth and posted it anyways just to keep the pot stirred.


17 posted on 09/12/2017 8:08:26 AM PDT by Delta 21
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“I don’t think I saw one trailer park where almost everything wasn’t overturned.”

Cheap flimsy trailers and he’s surprised and shocked? I’m surprised and shocked 100% weren’t blown a hundred miles out to sea never to be seen again.


18 posted on 09/12/2017 8:09:01 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Delta 21
When did the City of Miami get an aircraft carrier?

On loan from one of my former employers.

19 posted on 09/12/2017 8:17:45 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Just off the top of my head...Katrina, recent flooding around Baton Rouge, Harvey in Texas, and now Irma in Florida. These are just the ones directly affecting my immediate family.

And just what could a carrier have done that couldn't have been done by land? I suspect the carrier will sail around a bit, maybe fly some supplies to the keys. But 99% of the disaster recovery resources will come down I-95 and I-75. Just like they came down I-45 and I-10 for Harvey.

But two your point, the Navy ships in question are all well over 30 years old, some are pushing 60. Navy ships are expensive to run, labor intensive, and at a point where spare parts are impossible to get. Keeping an old Navy ship around on the off chance you will need to use it is a pretty high-cost solution in search of a need.

20 posted on 09/12/2017 8:18:00 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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