I looked at the site. Not nearly as useful as the
liverpool site. Sure are a lot of ships in the
Houston ship channel!!

Don W.

Larry wrote:
Don W wrote in news:bn3Ig.18484
:


Are there any similar sites that track shipping
around the USA? I'd love to see a similar web
page for the Texas gulf coast.




http://www.aislive.com/

Once you sign up and get the world map, click on the USA. Once you open
the USA, you'll only see a few stars, the few sites on aislive. Click
the star out in the Gulf of Mexico south of Galveston and it will open
the map with all the contacts from the Mississippi to Corpus Christi.

It's a pay-me-money site, but they have a public freebie if you simply
sign up you can see ship traffic that's delayed an hour or more.

I can't imagine anyone paying to see aislive, which sucks in comparison
to the fantastic AIS Liverpool website. They all should have Liverpool's
software....

Man, the Houston Ship Channel looks like I-95 when the Yankees are goin'
South!

I think they're all trying to beat the hurricane before it gets in the
Gulf and tears up the coast, again. The current track takes it right
towards poor New Orleans, again, tonight!

It's gonna tear up a lotta new trailers! Wonder if FEMA provided them
with HURRICANE ANCHORS?!

Don W wrote in news:t3aIg.2768
:

I looked at the site. Not nearly as useful as the
liverpool site. Sure are a lot of ships in the
Houston ship channel!!


I would suspect there is quite a race to unload Houston and other possible
targets like New Orleans onto the ships and get as much product, especially
oil at $3/gallon out and away from the storm. Look at the tanker traffic.

Here's one of my favorite weather websites, spam free, from the students at
Plymouth State College in NH, who do a wonderful job at bringing us a huge
variety of weather data you'll find useful. This is the tropical weather
page I've used for many years:

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/tropical.html

When you get hot or come in from mowing the lawn, load up the Mt Washington
page and cool off. Yesterday there was a heat wave on the summit! It was
over 36F! Whew!...(c;



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