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Damage on Wake less than feared, flyover shows (photos))
Air Force Link + Coast Guard Photos ^
| September 5, 2006
Posted on 09/06/2006 2:12:19 PM PDT by HAL9000
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:12:22 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: conservative in nyc; kingu
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:12:39 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
(Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
To: HAL9000
Thanks for posting that.
A few days ago, I wondered how badly the island would look after the Typhoon passed over it.
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:13:48 PM PDT
by
MplsSteve
To: HAL9000
Thanks for the ping.
The runway looks like it is in pretty good shape, and the buildings look like they have sustained some wind damage, but I would have been shocked if they didn't. Things look fairly good, considering the island just got hit with a Super Typhoon, though.
To: HAL9000; Doohickey
Well, duh! 8<)
Runways and taxiways are genrerally flat and well-paved.
unless beach erosion wiped out whole parts of the lagoon, the runways would be good.
I understand the runway took about 700 flights last year -several of them emergency landings, so for a remote island with no active naval or AF base, it was pretty busy anyway.
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:19:26 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: conservative in nyc
High-resolution versions of the photos are available at the source link.
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:19:30 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
(Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
To: HAL9000
The makers of this particular satellite dish are going to want to use this shot in an advertising campaign.
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:19:49 PM PDT
by
gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
To: zot
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:20:07 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
To: HAL9000
When will cable be back on?
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:20:11 PM PDT
by
Tulsa Ramjet
("If not now, when?")
To: gridlock
What's the state flower of West Virginia doing on Wake Island?
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:23:09 PM PDT
by
Ramcat
(Thank You American Veterans)
To: HAL9000
It would be interesting to see a wide view of the whole islan, but overall it looks a lot better than I would have first guessed.
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:23:15 PM PDT
by
Rev DMV
To: gridlock
The makers of this particular satellite dish are going to want to use this shot in an advertising campaign. The dish has some damage that was not apparent in the low-res photo. Check the hi-res version.
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:23:47 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
(Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
To: HAL9000
Thanks for the update.
There's more remaining than I expected too.
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:25:31 PM PDT
by
blam
To: HAL9000
Wow, incredible that there's not that much damage considering it supposedly caught the edge of the eyewall. Good news, for sure, especially that the tanks didn't spill everywhere.
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:26:24 PM PDT
by
kingu
(No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
To: HAL9000
What happened to the French Guy that supposedly stayed on the Island.....or was that just urban myth????
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:28:03 PM PDT
by
PigRigger
(Donate to http://www.AdoptAPlatoon.org - The Troops have our front covered, let's guard their backs!)
To: PigRigger
Somebody made a post on a bulletin board somewhere (not sure where) as if it was a cut and paste of an AP article - it wasn't - the whole French meteorologist story was a fake.
To: HAL9000
and the stop sign made it too
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:32:45 PM PDT
by
camas
To: HAL9000
looks like it was not as bad as Katrina. In the pic of the runway there is a building very close to the water that looks pretty intact.
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:38:46 PM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: camas
What looks like a basketball hid behind the building on the middle left of the image. The high-res images, though, show a lot more damage than the low-res ones imply - looking at how virtually every tree is stripped, as well as chain link fences are crushed.
It almost looks like seaweed is on the ground everywhere, but that just might be the well scrubbed former leaves from the trees.
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posted on
09/06/2006 2:39:30 PM PDT
by
kingu
(No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
To: HAL9000
Hey...... what happened to Thomas Cavanaugh the French astronomer?! ;-)
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