Wind Itself News Today

Hurricane standards, theyre hunkered down tonight, and people who did need to evacuate did have the option to go to shelters, but by and large, people were fooled into believing, because it looked like it was going to be a category one hurricane, that they did not need to evacuate, most of the shelters are sparsely populated. richard, you know, were going to see how things turn out in the next couple hours, the wind itself, when it begins to pick up, i can feel a couple breezes right now, the re...

7:00 and 8:00 p.m. wind out of the east at about 10 miles per hour. the wind itself, certainly nothing to be worried about, but a slick runway and then if the pilot comes in too hard and too long, in other words, doesnt give himself enough room to actually run the plane, that becomes a problem. and if you hit the arrester beds, which is what happened in this case last night, the plane went off the end of the runway and then into this crushable concrete material designed to stop a plane when it i...