I hope someone gets to see it.
]]>It’s a skill, Jill, learning to fly with the throttle as well as the stick to get out of the turbulence. You have to go in low for accuracy, but there’s not a lot of room for a mistake.
]]>I’m really hoping we don’t have a plane go down over here. These pilots are brave (and, yes, slightly insane) souls. Greatly admired, however.
]]>Ha. HaHa. HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!
A few years back, the Perseids were so numerous and bright that they actually were visible from Houston. I went out to the swimming pool, leaned back on a chaise lounge, and stared upward. I saw five streaks in the same number of hours… and considered myself satisfied.
The irony is that there are kinds of streetlights that not only do not emit nearly as much light pollution, but are also more efficient in lighting streets, and thus save energy costs. A lot of the newer company parking lots west of town are built that way, but the lights near my home inside the Loop are mostly the old kind. Besides, it’s still 86°F at 10pm… I think I’ll blow it off this year.
(Best of luck, Jill; I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you…)
]]>20K+ 12K gallons a drop.
Updated: That would be Tanker 910.
]]>Looks like we might get a DC-10 Supertanker in the neighborhood.
http://firefighterblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/dc-10-supertanker-to-zaca-incident.html
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