Video of U.S. Coast Guard rescuing people from one of three ships near Port Aransas, Texas, 26 AUG 2017:
Signet Enterprise, one of three ships in distress
Another ship in distress?
Video overflight from Port Aransas to Port O’Connor, Texas, 26 AUG 2017:
25 AUG 2017: U.S. COAST GUARD CONDUCTS 1ST RESCUES DUE TO HURRICANE HARVEY!
In the cockpit of a WC-130J Super Hercules out of Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, tracking Hurricane Harvey
Cockpit HUD (heads up display)
Weather (WX) officer station
Video of C-130J Super Hercules tracking Hurricane Harvey:
Sun setting behind Hurricane Harvey
Loading the dropsonde cannon
A dropsonde, or expendable wx recon device
Video of Texas Army National Guard soldiers and Texas Task Force One Swift Water Rescue Team prepping for Hurricane Harvey, city of Bryan, 25 AUG 2017:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District
12th Flying Training Wing T-6A Texan-2 moved inside hangars at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph
Video of Texas National Guard 176th Engineer Brigade prepping for Harvey to hit Victoria, 25 AUG 2017:
HC-130J Hercules Combat King-2 at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, stands by for possible rescue operations following Hurricane Harvey
Video of Georgia HC-130J takeoff for Texas:
Video of Georgia HH-60G PaveHawk takeoff for Texas:
T-1A Jayhawk training aircraft were flown from Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, to Tinker AFB, Oklahoma
European made HC-144 Ocean Sentry on standby at Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas
Video of U.S. Coast Guard SeaHawks based at San Diego, California, deploying to Texas for Hurricane Harvey:
Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi conducts a search and rescue mission for 12 people aboard a 160-foot vessel taking on water prior to Hurricane Harvey near Port Mansfield, Texas, 25 AUG 2017
European made MH-65 Dolphin helicopters at Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas
23 October 2016 / 19:05 UTC-07 Tango 01 (03 Aban 1395/22 Muharram 1438/24 Wu Zu 4714)
Record flooding in Princeville, North Carolina. The National Guard’s 875 Engineer Company drained over 80-million gallons of flood water off a one square mile area in Princeville. It took six days:
North Carolina National Guard’s Rapid Reaction Force deploys:
U.S. Coast Guard, and others, help refloat a barge grounded by the hurricane in Avon, North Carolina:
Joint Task Force Matthew officially ends flight operations in support of the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief mission in Haiti:
Georgia National Guard 810th Engineer Company assists the Humane Society of South Coastal Georgia after Hurricane Matthew:
The following are hurricane rescues conducted by Department of Defense and state militias from 08 October to 09 October 2016.
U.S. Coast Guard, Bull River, Georgia:
South Carolina National Guard home rescue:
U.S. Coast Guard, marsh rescue at night, North Carolina:
U.S. Coast Guard multiple rescues in Pinetops, North Carolina:
Georgia National Guard, aftermath cleanup:
South Carolina National Guard MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) distribution:
Florida National Guard JOC ops:
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 29 October 2012, Federal Emergency Management Agency boss, Craig Fugate, suggested that Presidential elections be postponed, or even canceled, because of the mess caused by hurricane Sandy: “It [elections] needs to be safe and secure. This will be led by states and their election commission supervisors.”
This is because of the flooding and electrical shortages, which are also affecting several nuclear power plants: Constellation Energy Nuclear Group’s 630MW Nine Mile Point 1 nuclear reactor, in upstate New York, shut down. Investigation ongoing as to why. Power reductions at Exelon’s Limerick nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, and at Dominion’s Millstone plant in Connecticut. New Jersey’s Exelon’s Oyster Creek remains on alert because of flooding: “Oyster Creek is still in an alert but may be getting out of it as long as water levels continue to drop.”-Neil Sheehan, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
The NRC reporting that half a dozen nuclear plants were shut down, or have reduced power output because of the hurricane.
President Obama declared New Jersey, and New York, major disaster areas (most of the north east has been declared emergency areas).
FEMA is now in charge of the declared disaster/emergency areas. Since FEMA director, Craig Fugate, wants Presidential elections delayed or suspended, then he could probably get his wish.
Under U.S. State of Emergency laws, Congress is not needed to make such decisions. The National Emergency Act allows such declarations to remain in effect for two years, and can be extended by Presidential decree.
In fact, the United States has been in various states of emergency since Bill Clinton’s first term as President. Bush Jr and Obama have only expanded on those emergencies (in the name of fighting terrorism).
Now we have Hurricane Sandy wreaking havoc across the most populous part of the United States (home to a crap load of nuclear power plants), and reports that even Mitt Romney will kowtow to FEMA and Obama’s emergency declarations (some reports say Romney will reverse his anti-FEMA stance). Sounds like the perfect political storm.
“This is a storm of epic proportions. We’re not out of the woods with this.”-Jeff Osiensky, National Weather Service
A storm as strong as a category 3 hurricane/typhoon hit the coast of Alaska the night of November 9. Anchorage saw ocean surge of 10 feet above normal. The last time a similar storm hit Alaska was in November 1974.
The Weather Service says Alaska can expect three to four inches of snow for November 10. There is “a potent upper level disturbance” rotating around the Bering Sea.
Ironically, Wednesday’s planned test of the new National Emergency Alert System was cancelled in Alaska because of the weather, I’d say that shows the new Emergency Alert system failed.