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On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:33:41 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:

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On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 04:59:46 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Reading news accounts and viewing some of the images of areas in the
Philippines sure makes some of the stuff we are bitching about here seem
very trivial.

I bet they wish they had not thrown us out.

If nothing else, we would have had planes up in that storm and we
would have expanded our knowledge of what happens in a 200 MPH
cyclone.

We already know what happens in 200 MPH winds, but the Phillipines have
a lot of buildings that aren't built to any code.

Are you saying there was no science to be had investigating this
storm? Why do we fly hurricane hunter planes then?

No, I didn't say that.

One of the guys I worked with here was a flight engineer on a
hurricane hunter and I can assure you, there were crews here who
really wanted to fly that storm. If we were still at Clark, they would
have had the chance.

There's really not much to be had from going into the storm in a plane
except for meteorological data. It won't do anything to analyze what
will happen when it hits a land mass and buildings.