[Ansteorra] IKE...OT a sobering moment

[SoldierGrrrl]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Paul Gilbert <niklas at pbgilbert.net> wrote:

> The difference was that the second photo showed...there was nothing
> there....
>
> Nothing there except muddy slabs, a broken up bridge, LOTS of water where
> there had been none and a few stripped up trees.
>
> Other wise there was nothing there, ho houses, no cars....
>
> Nothing but what is left when 100+mph winds and a 20 foot wall of water
> rolls thru.
>
> It gave all 15+ people several minutes of pause before we resumed our tasks
> of assembling the items we had been given.
>
> From what I have seen of photos from that same flight and from talking with
> folks on that plane, there are several cities in that area that have simply
> ceased to exist.
>
> I hope they got out....
>
> Paul Gilbert / Baron Niklas Vasilevich

I think I flew over that area today.  It is very bad, but from what
we've been able to tell, quite a lot of folx heeded the warning to get
out.

In Service,
Helena