Archive for April, 2009
We have now been under the same storm for about two weeks. We have been in Condition 2 for over 48 hours. Fleet Ops is fighting a loosing battle moving snow around. We monitor the radio traffic, mostly for entertainment, and it seems they spend a good deal of time pulling each other out of [...]
Not great for Narnia but pretty fun down here… Photo by Andrea Rip A couple of VMF workers with all their gear loaded on a sled. If you look behind the sled you will know why they are using a sled instead of their truck… The snow drift, which the guy on the left is [...]
Got word that we lost power at JSOC, turned out to be a false alarm but I did get to go out in the Con 1. 66kts winds and blowing snow and ice, -49c windchill. I LOVE MY JOB! Kind of fun working on servers when they are swaying back and forth… Our weather guys [...]
Predicting 45-65 kts winds with weekend. We just got dug out from the last storm. looks like someone is sitting just off screen and blowing as hard as they can…
What would happen if you opened your front door or a window during a 104mph blizzard? What about your truck engine under the same conditions? We are all about scientific research here… Photos by Curt B ~ tripster69 [at] gmail.com
This is an unprocessed photo, I will clean it up later. But you can see the drift on my right. Not the biggest one on station but pretty high. This storm started Saturday night, it is Tuesday morning now and it is still going. We sit at Condition 2 which is restricted travel. Some of [...]
So much for the condition 1 pool. This is a serious storm. Looks like we will get an extra day off. Con 1 means no traveling. Hunker down and hold on tight! 83kts winds! WOW! In living color and HD and 1080p… and its cold.
I love my job… Today we are enjoying a fairly strong storm. 72 kt winds and wind chill down to about -40. Not that cold but it is pretty windy. The storm is supposed to last until tomorrow sometime. We are at Condition 2 now and expecting to go to 1 here pretty soon. Condition [...]
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