To: NCC-1701
For what it's worth...when Hugo came through Charleston in 1989, it picked up the aircraft carrier
Yorktown, moored at Patriot's Point, out of the mud and moved it five feet forward and five feet left. That's what somebody at Patriot's Point told me when I went and visited in 1991.
The power of these things is just unimaginable.
}:-)4
2,899 posted on
08/29/2005 9:49:45 AM PDT by
Moose4
(Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
To: Moose4
That's nothing; during Hugo the USS Narwhal (SSN-671) broke it's mooring lines and had to submerge in the Cooper River channel. Hurricane mooring lines consist of six 3/4 inch steel cables, doubled.
2,929 posted on
08/29/2005 9:55:40 AM PDT by
Doohickey
(If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
To: Moose4
"...The power of these things is just unimaginable...."
You're not kidding. I just sit in awe of things like this. Raw, natural power unleashed. And there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
2,935 posted on
08/29/2005 9:56:30 AM PDT by
NCC-1701
(ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH!)
To: Moose4
Re: "For what it's worth...when Hugo came through Charleston in 1989, it picked up the aircraft carrier Yorktown, moored at Patriot's Point, out of the mud and moved it five feet forward and five feet left. That's what somebody at Patriot's Point told me when I went and visited in 1991."
Momma Nature can do just about what she wants...
3,008 posted on
08/29/2005 10:06:22 AM PDT by
sonofatpatcher2
(Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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