Hurricane Isabel's now a category 5! (eek.)

[TheStinger]

My Mun is flying to Atlanta this afternoon(arrives erly evening Atlanta time) anyone know how planes deal with hurricanes. can a 767 fly over one. I think concorde can but thats not excatly normal.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Feephi
Is it absolutely necessary to have TV reporters stand right in the most vicious part of the hurricane as they transmit their live TV report? If that was my job, I would file a grievance with the union!

EVERY Hurricane, someone stays that close..HOWEVER...they usually get inside once conditions deteriorate to the point of severe, which it is getting close..I am in jacksonville and we have been having 35-45 mph with a few higher gusts, wind driven rain...we are on the west side...the.."safer" side of the hurricane...becuase the northeast quadrant is allway the "most" dangerous with the counter-clockwise rotations of a hurricane...

I just kinda "listen out from inside my sturdy home we own..

Peace

Grandpa Troll & Isabel

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by TheStinger
My Mun is flying to Atlanta this afternoon(arrives erly evening Atlanta time) anyone know how planes deal with hurricanes. can a 767 fly over one. I think concorde can but thats not excatly normal.

They usually "fly around" as opposed to flying over....

Just remember this..Hurricane Hunter in doing reconaissance flight actually fly into the eye..now you talk about a job being "all-it-can-be"..NOW THATS ENTERTAINMENT!!!!




Peace

Grandpa Troll & Isabel..."kickin it"

[TCO]

We just have teensy bit of rain so far. This is really dumb.

[Jon Miller]

nothing here really so far

UMD has been closed, but I think it is more a response to things like the Metro closing

I should use this to catch up on my HW

JM

[TCO]

I am going to get caught up on personal admin. First will go out for breakfast. This whole thing is a ho-hum.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Adam Smith
Head up folks.

Most schools, DC, and Federal government closed Thursday, and almost certainly Friday. Washington area subways and busses stop running 11 am tomorrow, most local passenger rail service closed tomorrow.

TCO:
I hope you mean Wilmington, DE, not Wilmington NC

Everybody's overreacting.

Classes cancelled, and I'd just finished preparing my conference section's plans.

[Drake Tungsten]

We just have teensy bit of rain so far. This is really dumb.

Sounds like the typhoon that hit here during my first week. Pretty anti-climactic.

[Jon Miller]

hey KH, how have you been doing?

did you do well on your tests?

how are you finding classes and the like?

(what is your conference section?)

Jon Miller

[Adam Smith]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse Everybody's overreacting.

Agreed. Metro sure looks silly for closing early, which is what was driving everything else. A light breeze here, spitting rain. I was outside with the kids kicking a soccer ball.

[The Mad Monk]

Overreacting's fun!


WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
hey KH, how have you been doing?

did you do well on your tests?

how are you finding classes and the like?

(what is your conference section?)

Jon Miller

Pretty decent (I hope). If I didn't pass EM then I lose my job and have to TA little freshman ****s. Still waiting on results for both tests.

My conference section is EM 301 (i.e. vector cal for a few weeks followed by electrostatics followed by magnetostatics etc.) Griffiths 1-6 (7?)

I got the sol'n manual to Griffiths, which is sweet (along with a desk copy). Whcih is good, because I'd never bought it and it's a handy reference when you don't feel like wading through Jackson.

[Jon Miller]

I used Wangness in Undergrad

so you are actually teaching a class?

that is cool, all our physics TAs here do is teach discussion or lab (occasionally profs let you have a little more freedom like assigning HW, but not often)

it would seem like it would be a little late to switch things up for a test (at least this semester)

I passed my classical and was a percentage point or two away from passing the quantum so they are kind enough to give me an Oral in the near future (I am kinda worried about it though, sometimes I freeze up in front of people) (if I pass te Oral I count as passing the test)

Jon Miller

[Drake Tungsten]

I used Wangness in Undergrad

I'm guessing "Wangness" is some guy's last name, but don't tell me if it is. Allow me to savor the thought of someone using their mystical wangness to get through their undergrad work.

[TCO]

he meant mystecism. Now it is getting a little tougher and he needs to use "the going gets tough, tough get going."