14 March 2020 / 09:19 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 24 Esfand 1398/19 Rajab 1441/21 Ji-Mao 4718
CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease 2019
On the morning of 13 March, Idaho’s Governor Brad Little declared a State of Emergency over the CoViD-19 pandemic. Shortly after that President Donald Trump declared a National Emergency. Later in the day Governor Little revealed the first confirmed case of coronavirus in Idaho. Without warning the store I prefer to do my grocery shopping at, and the only remaining 24 hours operation in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area, suspended their overnight sales purportedly to “clean” the store as a result of the CoViD-19 pandemic.
“24 Hours of Savings WinCo Foods” re-opened at 05:00 (5am), I arrived at 05:30 and it was already mayhem!
The pics were taken with my phone cam which has a fogged lens. These checkout lines are what greeted me at 05:30, just 30 minutes after WinCo re-opened! They run to the back of the warehouse style store.
Many of the fresh meat items were gone, all the fresh ground beef was gone, by 05:30!
The empty shelves on the left side of the above pic used to be filled with pancake syrup. Pancake syrup, really, do you people need that much pancake syrup? The empty shelves on the right of the pic is where sugar used to be, all gone now.
The infamous toilet paper isle, this time WinCo was not able to re-stock before opening.
I bought $60 worth of food. I got in at 05:30 and didn’t get out until 07:00, the lines were that long, and despite most of WinCo’s check stands being open.
I stopped in at the next door Fred Meyer, they weren’t crowded, but were missing many items as well. An employee told me things have been getting crazy after 08:30 and they’ve been having trouble getting orders into corporate. One of the items I noticed they were out of was bottled water, mmmm, I don’t remember CoViD-19 being able to shut-off your water supply.
Fred Meyer at the former Pocatello Mall location
The employee I talked to pointed out something that makes sense; many people in eastern Idaho save up their money for the end of year holiday season, but people are now spending money like mad due to the CoViD-19 fear-mongering, on top of that people are already being told not to come to work, the result will be that many people here in eastern Idaho are not going to have money to spend for the end of year holidays.
MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE FOR EASTERN IDAHO: COVID-19 SHUTDOWN 24HRS WINCO?
Sign posted at Norfolk Naval Station childcare center in Virginia.
At the U.S. Army basic training base Fort Benning, Georgia; “At this time, there are no known cases of this virus reported on Fort Benning. Should a case come to our attention, the entire team will take immediate measures to address it.” For those concerned checkout 
U.S. Coast Guard evacuates Grand Princess passenger sick with non-CoViD-19 medical problem, 08MAR2020, San Francisco, California.
Tennessee Air National Guard Master Sergeant operates a 1-thousand-kilowatt-hour generator for a water treatment facility after the deadly tornado strikes of 02-03MAR2020.
In Laurel, Mississippi, members of the non-profit rescue group Team Rubicon take advantage of National Guard exercise Patriot South, to conduct hurricane rescue training, 05MAR2020.
South Carolina National Guard checks out emergency satellite communications equipment from FirstNet during Patriot South-20, held in Mississippi.
U.S. Army Group-Italy tries to demonstrate how far away from another person you need to be to avoid viral contamination (at least one meter).
Scientists at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research study samples of CoViD-19 in hopes of creating a vaccine
These U.S. taxpayer funded coastal patrol boats, called Defender, were given to the country of Djibouti on 22FEB2020, for use in patrolling their coastal borders!
U.S. Marine with Marine Wing Support Squadron 171, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, takes part in the U.S. taxpayer co-funded building of a school in Thailand, 23FEB2020.
This pic might look like a happy tour boat, but the reason there are Coast Guard personnel onboard is that it was an illegal operation! It happened near Bahia Hutchinson Island, 23FEB2020, the boat operator was ticketed for three violations of boating regulations.
Yet another abandoned boat found by the U.S. Coast Guard, this time on Tiki Island, 28FEB2020. For the past year it seems the number of abandoned boats found by the Coast Guard has gone up, from Hawaii in the Pacific to Puerto Rico in the Atlantic. It is bad luck for boat owners, or smugglers of drugs/humans?
Over the Atlantic Ocean the U.S. Navy (USN) is paying close attention to the Saharan Air Layer (SAL). The SAL can move 14-million-metric-tons (tonnes) of dust from Africa to the Caribbean every year, and with climate change it’s expected to get worse! The USN has joined with NOAA, NASA, and the National Weather Service to establish a ‘baseline’ in order to study health affects of the massive dust transfer and to create an early warning system for people in and around the Caribbean area.
The USN recently concluded data collection for their study of Monsoon Intra-Seasonal Oscillations (MISO) in the Indian Ocean. Researchers from University of Notre Dame, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and National Aquatic Research and Resources Agency in Sri Lanka, also took part. The purpose is to better predict rapidly changing weather patterns affecting the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and South China Sea.
On 24 February, NATO forces conducted a bomb search in a smoke filled house during the extreme cold weather training event known as Exercise Cold Response.
Also during Exercise Cold Response, NATO personnel conducted an ice dive, 25 February, to train for port damage repair, and hydrographic surveying in an extreme cold weather/ice environment.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began taking snowpack samples in North Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Measuring snowpack allows officials to estimate the amount of water runoff/flooding when the snow melts.
The US Army Corps of Engineers plans to increase releases from Gavins Point Dam in order to “…provide the greatest amount of flood risk reduction across the basin.” The dam affects areas of Nebraska and South Dakota.
New Hampshire Army National Guard flew to Alaska to take part in an extreme cold weather contamination training event. Note the Corona(virus) beer bottles.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that after years of upgrades to the Center Hill Lake Dam the lake is soon to return to ‘normal’ operations, and will allow the Nashville District to handle additional water flows into the reservoir.