Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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They’re crazy as a shit house rat at times, but clever…and their engineers are good at updating old shit with new technology.

This pic was taken several years later when I was running the military ramp at KCIA during the height of OEF; contracted Ukrainian IL76 that had the cockpit updated to some weird mishmash of IL76 and IL78 ..with some extra shit thrown in for good measure.

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Back in the mid-80s when we were still trying to make nice w/the Russkies, we hosted an IL-76 crew at McChord AFB (way before all the joint base bullshit)…we flew C-141s at the time; the IL-76 was/is a blatant copy/ripoff of the 141.

I got to fly a sortie with them, and it was pretty cold rainy that day, with a lot of slush building up on the wings, so we had them de-iced at the end of the runway. I shit you not, their ground crew mechanics ran out and caught the deicing fluid in buckets, and then rigged up charcoal filters to pour it into big 5-gallon (or whatever the equivalent was in liters) glass bottles!

If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I’d never believe it. Maybe they were just putting on a show for us, or did it to fuck with us as a laugh at the stereotype, but I doubt it. They were some hard-drinking mother fuckers. Interesting visit!

Edit: red Friday rules

In his book, Viktor Belenko who defected with a MiG-25 to Japan, really made a big deal about his fellow Russians drinking the alcohol intended for use in the jets. Some of the book seems like he played up certain aspects of Soviet culture to appeal to his Western/American audience, but I've always wondered just how prevalent that kind of thing was.
 

yucatan and north? don't see it on nat'l weather service which is usually reliable. if true,yea a horror story.
Here’s an actual screenshot I just took on my radar app. Even yesterday, it didn’t look like in your pictures. I think someone enhanced those for effect. The storm is currently only a tropical storm and unless it stalls and gains a lot of energy, it will just pour a lot of rain down. Of course it could stall…

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Here’s an actual screenshot I just took on my radar app. Even yesterday, it didn’t look like in your pictures. I think someone enhanced those for effect. The storm is currently only a tropical storm and unless it stalls and gains a lot of energy, it will just pour a lot of rain down. Of course it could stall…

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NOAA is saying a CAT ONE when/if it hits TX.
 
Here’s an actual screenshot I just took on my radar app. Even yesterday, it didn’t look like in your pictures. I think someone enhanced those for effect. The storm is currently only a tropical storm and unless it stalls and gains a lot of energy, it will just pour a lot of rain down. Of course it could stall…

I don’t believe his screenshot is radar. It looks like an infrared satellite image. A lot of times when looking well off shore radar doesn’t show weather systems well.
 
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Here’s an actual screenshot I just took on my radar app. Even yesterday, it didn’t look like in your pictures. I think someone enhanced those for effect. The storm is currently only a tropical storm and unless it stalls and gains a lot of energy, it will just pour a lot of rain down. Of course it could stall…

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The pics were IR satellite from NOAA
 
unless it stalls and gains a lot of energy

It probably won't stall.

IIRC Camille stalled in '69 because of huge High pressure systems parked just north of it.

A week or so ago there was a hugh High pressure system parked on top of SE Texas delivering onerous heat. But that High pressure dome has moved on and was replaced by a Low which is probably why Beryl is turning more north. But not quickly because there's a big Low to the west of it as well.

It's possible that High in the Texas panhandle might move down as Beryl makes landfall which could extend the days of rain in SE Texas and S Louisiana.

If Beryl takes a hard right across the gulf it might have more time to build and be bad news for the SE Louisiana barrier islands, MS, AL and the FL panhandle ... otherwise I think it's mostly just a lot of rain and enough surge to cover the Texas barrier islands.

The great thing about hurricanes is nobody really knows where they're going until they do so all they can do is make as many people as possible worry about it until it passes then say "phew, that was a close one".

I'm not a weatherman but I've been picking up shit before and after hurricanes since Carla and Betsy. :ROFLMAO:


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