Just in time for another early/busy hurricane season?
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jessica Kendziorek, 05APR2022.
The Hurricane Hunters (53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron) based on Keesler Air Force Base, in Mississippi, decided to ‘go back to the future’ by painting their new WC-130J Super Hercules in retro Cold War through early 2000s style.
WC-130 Hercules, July 1977. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Curt Eddings.
A USAF WC-130 Hercules from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, ‘Hurricane Hunters’, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. USAF photo dated 1995.
About to drop a DropSonde during the 1995-96 Hurricane Season. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant John K. Mcdowell, December 1995.
On the right you can see a bare metal WC-130J waiting for its new retro ’90s look, on Robins AFB, Georgia. USAF photo by Kisha Foster Johnson, 05APR2022.
The 53rd WX Recon Squadron WC-130Js are undergoing depot level maintenance on Robins AFB, Georgia, and are being painted in the retro 1990s look before being sent back to Keesler AFB.
USAF photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jessica Kendziorek, 05APR2022.
USAF photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jessica Kendziorek, 05APR2022.
You can compare the current paint scheme to the new retro look. USAF photo by Joseph Mather, 05APR2022.
In the background, the first WC-130J with the retro paint-job about to land at Keesler AFB. In the foreground, the modern Hurricane Hunters’ tail colors. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Kristen Pittman, 05APR2022.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Kristen Pittman, 05APR2022.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Kristen Pittman, 05APR2022.
This light grey Hurricane Hunter is being used as a MedEvac during a Homeland Security ‘Life Saver’ training event, in May 2004. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Ramon Reynaldo.
Light grey WC-130J about to hunt down Hurricane Katrina, 04OCT2005. FEMA photo by John Fleck.
A case of ‘hail nose’. This is what happens when a Hurlburt Field, Florida, based C-130E gets hit by a hailstorm while in flight. March 1987, U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant C. A. Thompson.
The damaged C-130E Hercules landed at Naval Air Station New Orleans, Louisiana. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant C. A. Thompson.
Awaiting the repair crew. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant C. A. Thompson.
Damaged SKE (Station Keeping Equipment) radome. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant C. A. Thompson.
Damage to the leading edge of the wing. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant C. A. Thompson.
Broken formation light. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant C. A. Thompson.
Gotta have that metal tape, and I don’t mean that cassette tape of the latest ’80s metal band. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant C. A. Thompson.
A bit of damage to the engine intake. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant C. A. Thompson.
A new nose for the old Hercules. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant C. A. Thompson.
Replacing the ‘greenhouse’ glass. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant C. A. Thompson.
New glass. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant C. A. Thompson.
With hail damage repaired, the crew of the C-130E used reflective tape to give it a new name; Hail Buster! USAF photo by Technical Sergeant C. A. Thompson.
On 21-22 July 2021, Southern Japan was hit by Typhoon In-Fa, in Philippines is was called Typhoon Fabian, whatever you call it the U.S. Marines in Southern Japan were ready.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Alex Fairchild.
On Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, U.S. Marines dug in for the 2021 Typhoon season: “Today we handed out upwards of 3-thousand-5-hundred MRE’s. We have been preparing all week, and it has been a daunting task, but as Marines we are and have to be prepared for anything that comes our way.”-Private First Class Anthony Prophet, Marine Wing Support Squadron 172, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Alex Fairchild.
Marines on Camp Foster filled sandbags, boarded up buildings, tied down anything that could blow away, secured sources of water, protected anything electronic, and even collected trash: “When it comes to bulk refuse [re-fuuss, as in trash, not ree-fyuse as in reject], we keep our typhoon cage open through Tropical Typhoon Condition of Readiness 2 so that any trash that isn’t contracted for pickup can be disposed of.”-Sergeant Shane Holum, Camp Services
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Alex Fairchild.
USMC video report, by Corporal Brennan J. Beauton, explaining that Camp Lester and Plaza Housing were also prepped:
U.S. Navy SeaBees and USMC Engineers actually practiced boarding up buildings on 08JUL2021. USMC video report by Corporal Ryan H. Pulliam:
A fire began today on June 14th, 2021, this afternoon around 15:30, according to Eastern Idaho Interagency Fire Center. Deputies are asking residents to evacuate.
This is as far as anyone was allowed to drive, the Sho-Ban Fire Department was asking everyone to turn around. They were also visiting residences. Below is some footage of the fire as we drove away. About halfway in you can see the Fire Department vehicles. (Which oddly smelled like gasoline…)
“I heard about the flooding about 30-minutes after the first dam collapsed. I received a call from my command around 11pm last night to come in right away and have been working since.”-Private First Class Lydia Humphrey, 1073rd Maintenance Company, Michigan Army National Guard
In northern Michigan the Edenville and Sanford Dams failed between 19-20 May 2020, but the state’s National Guard was already activated for the CoViD-19 lock-downs, so response time was fast. 130 of the 1-thousand activated Guard personnel were diverted to flood response.
Officials also said evacuation warnings had been heeded by most residents so there wasn’t much rescuing going on.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, is now figuring out how to prevent more dam failures in Midland and Gladwin counties, due to severe weather.
Back in April 2020, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported that The Great Lakes were at record water levels and that significant erosion and flooding was ongoing.
It’s been six years since I last wrote one of my Japan, Modern Day Atlantis articles, but its looks like 2018 is another big-bad-year for Japan. The original story of Atlantis wasn’t just about a natural disaster, it was about human ignorance, arrogance, immorality and never ending wars.
The following is an incomplete list of main stream news articles from the first eight months of the Gregorian year 2018, concerning the Modern Day Atlantis of Japan.
24 JUN 2017 (13:05 UTC-07 Tango 06) 03 Tir 1396/29 Ramadan 1438/01 Bing Wu(6th month) 4715
“Depending on the weather, it can severely degrade if not stop the mission. Depending on what’s going on, you could have turbulence so severe that it prevents aircraft from flying or dropping bombs.”-Staff Sergeant Caleb Custer, USAF 380 Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron Weather Flight
The United States Air Force has inadvertently revealed the biggest threat to their taxpayer burdening billion and trillion dollar weapon systems; radical weather!
USAF weather-personnel at an undisclosed location in the Middle East.
Climate change is real, but the Earth has always undergone severe, sometimes catastrophic climate change, and at times when there were no humans on the planet. Whether the radical weather is caused by humans, or just part of the planet’s cycle, it drastically affects those hi-tech aircraft: “Without a legal weather brief, the aircraft could not even get off the ground…. ….It is one of my biggest frustrations with this job. It can go from beautiful to completely horrible in the blink of an eye with no warning whatsoever.”-Master Sergeant Randy Jones, USAF weather operations flight chief
18 March 2017 (18:10 UTC-07 Tango 06) 28 Esfand 1395/19 Jumada t-Tania 1438/21 Gui Mao 4715
For a long time biologists (and other scientists) have known that the shape of a animal’s nose depends on what type of climate it lives in, now more proof that your nose knows when the climate is about to change.
Pennsylvania State University published a study which concludes that you can’t blame the shape of your ugly snot-and-hair-filled nose totally on your parents, the climate affects its shape as well.
After looking at noses all over the world, using 3D scanning, researchers proved that people in cold-dry climates tend to have skinnier noses, and people in hot-humid climates tend to have fatter noses. Interestingly they say people in colder climates breed like rabbits: “People with narrower nostrils probably fared better and had more offspring than people with wider nostrils, in colder climates. This lead to a gradual decrease in nose width in populations living far away from the equator.”
The research into nose shape is considered important because the nose is the first line of defense for your respiratory system.
Oh, and by the way this is more proof that pollution is not the cause of climate change.
On 09 October 2016, U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal personnel responded to calls of cannonballs hitting Folly Beach, South Carolina.
Turns out Hurricane Matthew dug up some U.S. Civil War era cannonballs. During the War Between the States, Charleston was the site of several naval battles, including the use of some of the world’s first armored battleships, called monitors (aka Ironclads).
On May 6, 2012, Japan’s Kanto region was hit by tornadoes. Now May 12, the Japan Meteorological Agency says the events were bigger than first thought.
One tornado hit Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures, leaving damage zone 31 kilometers (19 miles) long and 650 meters (403.8 miles) wide! It is the second largest recorded path of destruction in Japan in the past 50 years!
Three other tornadoes hit on the same day, in Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures. The three tornadoes formed at the same time!
Japanese weather experts say a sudden and strong upward movement of air was generated by fast building clouds. The Super Cells measured up to 20 kilometers (12 miles) wide!
WC-130J WX HUNTERS DEPLOY
ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON BEGINS EARLY, AGAIN,1ST WC-130J HURRICANE HUNTER LAUNCHED!
C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES
WC-130J & WP-3D
WHAT IS A DROPSONDE?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FLY YOUR C-130E THROUGH A HAILSTORM?
AIRBORNE HURRICANE HUNTERS, WHEN DID IT ALL START?
TORNADO FORECASTING, IT STARTED WITH THE USAF IN 1948!
1989 7.3IDI DIESEL AMBULANCE COLD START
