1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Yeah but, that one was a bit much

 

Lots of assets were mobilized. That airspace is crowded. 4 canadair scoopers, 2 balckhawks, 2 bell choppers, an MD87 air tanker and 2 air for bosses overhead. Three more tankers just rolling in, dehavilland dash 8, c130H and an unknown type.

Oddly the scoopers and filling at Williams lake, I guess clear lake is too close to the fire zone.

 

This is de ja vu

 

I was living in FL when Hurricane Andrew hit. The strangest part was how people raided the grocery stores and Walmart. So Walmart turned the lights on the back of the store and rolled out pallets of batteries and flashlights and put them up by the door. So people queued up in lines to get their purchase limit of batteries, flashlights, and emergency stuff.

 

Is it? Did I ask you about that before? Shit.

 

Ya lol

 

Point well made

 

That happens every time here. It's worse during tourist season because renters don't know what to do so if a storm is a week out the friggin milk can still be gone sometimes

 

Haha sorry. Apparently I don't retain well if its not something I'm deep into.

 

Interesting to watch all this. Pretty sure this is a usfs plane

 

That only happens here before the first snow. I would rather have beer or wine. LOL

 

Fuckin cars man.
We were promised Jetsons mobiles by now when I was kid anyway. I take no responsibility for the state of things and repetitive inquiries lol

 

I never understand what people are doing with all that milk anyway.

 

It’s the perfect time for a gallon challenge

 

I saw that map earlier today.

I live pretty far inland - so I'm insulated from a lot of the worst if the storms but still . . . just takes one downed pine tree to wreck shit.

 

The lower the fat content, the shorter the shelf life. I bet most goes bad and is poured down the drain.

 

Gasp
Not into Golf Rs?
NOW I'm offended

 

I call them fire bosses and I don't know how that side works, but you will almost always have a twin turbo prop overhead while working fires. Obviously they have the birds eye view and can direct the assets where to go based on the fires movement. Most days I take time to find them to figure out where the active fires are as they are easy to find due to their flight pattern. Between that and NASA's assets up today watching the storm in the Pacific, been an interesting day watching ads-b data.

 

Anything that pushes hard off Africa you start to pucker up a bit until you know. Are you deeper south or mid Atlantic? Inland certainly helps!