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
I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
In the Philippines, at least five people are dead and as many as 200 sick with leptospirosis. The cases have sprung up in the southern city of Cagayan de Oro, which has suffered flooding caused by typhoon Washi.
Leptospirosis causes high fever, internal bleeding and organ failure. It’s spread by rodents.
More than 1,200 Filipinos have been killed by typhoon Washi.
“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.
21 September 2011, Typhoon Roke is moving up the Pacific coastline of Japan, after coming ashore south of Tokyo at Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Sustanted winds are 144 km (89.4 miles) per hour, with gusts up to 155 km (96 miles) per hour recorded at Hachioji City, near Tokyo.
During the past 24 hours, more than 400 millimeters (15.74 inches) of rain has fallen in Tokai region and Yamanashi Prefecture, and more than 200 mm (7.87 inches) of rain fell in northeastern Japan.
At least four people have died, three are missing. More evacuation orders have been given to at least a half million more people.
The damaged nuclear plant, Fukushima Daiichi, has escaped typhoon damage from previous storms, but Roke looks like it will make a direct hit.
Roke is moving fast and should be approaching the northeastern Honshu prefecture of Fukushima. Already 200 mm of rain has fallen in Fukushima since September 20. The nuclear plant is already flooding with rain water.
Work to stop the further spread of radiation, like the steel wall around the ocean intakes, and specially treated tarps over the exploded reactor buildings, has been halted. Tokyo Electric says their workers have tied down everything they could think of that might get blown away.
TEPCo says reactor 1 and 2 have rain water pouring in from the roofs, and Reactor 6 basement is totally flooded. TEPCo officials insist that none of the radioactive water will leak out. Yeah right, how many times now have they made such promises?
Typhoon Roke is about to hit land, near Tokyo, but has already killed two people, and two people are missing.
A man was killed trying to fix a drain on his roof, and another man was killed when he went to look at a rising river. A 4th grade boy, and an 84 year old man are missing.
Roke’s wind and rain are causing major damage on land, even though the center of the storm is still offshore. Currently it’s near Cape Muroto in Kochi Prefecture.
In Gifu and Hyogo prefectures, an evacuation advisory covers about 110,000 people. In the southern Kyushu prefecture of Miyazaki, nearly 40,000 people have been advised to leave due to risk of mudslides.
In Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, more than one million people have been told to evacuate due to the rising water levels of the Tenpaku and Shonai rivers.
Tropical storm Roke stalled long enough over the warm water near Okinawa, to build into a Typhoon. Japan’s Meteorological Agency says Roke will track northeast over the seas south of the island of Kyushu, before heading for Honshu, then Hokkaido.
Already parts of Kyushu have been hit with massive rain. Since Thursday about 1,000 millimeters (39 inches) have fallen on the southern island.
Typhoon Roke was moving at 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) per hour as of Monday noon, packing winds of up to 144 kilometers (89.4 miles) per hour. It’s expected to pick up speed.
The Japanese Meteorological Agency says Roke has stalled because three high pressure systems in the east, west and north are blocking its path.
The problem is that Roke is stalled over warm water near Okinawa. The high water temps could help it become a Typhoon. Japanese weather officials say Roke could be stalled near Okinawa for three days.