How cool is that???!!!!!
Check it out here (unfortunately, their website - hurricanehunters.com seems to be down).
Yesterday I got to see the inside of a plane used for Hurricane Hunting! It was the plane of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and I got to meet some of the men that fly in it. And I even got to see pics taken from the inside of the storm - the stadium effect.
Can you imagine - these are people that don't just see a storm - they fly into it! How I think of it:
"Oh look thunder, lightning, hurricane force winds and high pressures - let's fly into it"
These men must be (insert your word here)(my word is crazy!!!extreme!! cool!!).
In storms they can experience drops of 1000's of feet in seconds - any of you ever experience turbulence - you know a sudden drop of a few feet causes your stomach to get a little funny feeling and you feel a bit shaken - now imagine 1000's of feet. CRAZY!! they said it's like a roller coaster and everything and everyone is strapped down.
I'm getting such a rush thinking of it (can you tell??). For the first time ever I wanted to learn how to fly a plane (though, not necessarily fly it into a hurricane).
wooohoooo!
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
(to borrow lovely C's first line...)
"Today, I
laughed so hard I cried (and spontaneously too - no giddy build up, was taken completely by surprise). It was awesome."
(taken from C's post Feb 9th)
I couldn't say it better myself - so I just copied and pasted (C, I hope you don't mind)...
oh my goodness! I just had such a good laugh I'm tired. And I totally didn't expect it. Have you seen Little Miss Sunshine? I'm not recommending it by any means - but I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. (I'm still laughing).
Today, I also - looked for someone that I can't see...
don't ask me how or why. because I don't know. I just wish I could see them. Silly me.
Tulip
Sunday, January 23, 2005
unreasonable days... how great to be a woman (well, girl)
hallo
I've just watched a movie with Nat - it's called "A Room with a Veiw" - it's a splendid movie - and you should watch it sometime - a romance for romantics... this weekend I've had some quite unreasonable days. take yesterday for instance - I woke up mad and continued to be mad for the rest of the day - except when I took a nap (being mad is quite tiring) and when I sang with the gospel choir (what an experience to sing in Hebrew....). here are a few of the things I was mad at - my house was crazy cold, the weather is cold (-35 with the wind??!!), then I was late for meeting my friends, and I forgot to comb my hair (arrgg! hair) (I spent 10 minutes combing furiously in the jk washrooms that were provided for us in the temple - it's funny how you forget how low toilets have to be so that little kids can sit on them... how short we once were!). and my boots have quite given out - and I could not feel my toes... and then I was hungry. everything quite unreasonable really, and Hiedi rubbed my shoulders and laughed at me being mad, and I felt a little better. only then I wanted to burst into tears at the slightest disturbance (and indeed I did). then I came home and had chicken soup (the best cure for any malady).
today - today was a good day. church - a new class I've started - where we'll study a book - I'll tell you more about it in the days to come, then wonderful singing, then pastor Don.
then Nat and I watched a movie - as I've told you. we watched it first in 1st year - 4 years ago - and loved it. and today, as I watched I loved it all over again. but bitter sweet maybe - it's hard to fully enjoy a romantic movie when... well, when your feeling unreasonable. and I am feeling a bit unreasonable today. how? well, I'll be a little frank right now (and cringe in the near or distant future) - I miss my guy. it's one of those stupid things where your sure you're all better and then something happens - or nothing happens and then your thrown back to square one and a half, and you can't help yourself. do you know what I mean? (stupid boys that won't let you love them). ok, I've been frank enough, and will probably edit this later..
how nice it is to have a surface upon which to rant (a veritable 'Kailey's futon' upon which I can moan) and not be alone in doing so.
it's almost full moon tonight - almost full and beautiful.
talibah
I've just watched a movie with Nat - it's called "A Room with a Veiw" - it's a splendid movie - and you should watch it sometime - a romance for romantics... this weekend I've had some quite unreasonable days. take yesterday for instance - I woke up mad and continued to be mad for the rest of the day - except when I took a nap (being mad is quite tiring) and when I sang with the gospel choir (what an experience to sing in Hebrew....). here are a few of the things I was mad at - my house was crazy cold, the weather is cold (-35 with the wind??!!), then I was late for meeting my friends, and I forgot to comb my hair (arrgg! hair) (I spent 10 minutes combing furiously in the jk washrooms that were provided for us in the temple - it's funny how you forget how low toilets have to be so that little kids can sit on them... how short we once were!). and my boots have quite given out - and I could not feel my toes... and then I was hungry. everything quite unreasonable really, and Hiedi rubbed my shoulders and laughed at me being mad, and I felt a little better. only then I wanted to burst into tears at the slightest disturbance (and indeed I did). then I came home and had chicken soup (the best cure for any malady).
today - today was a good day. church - a new class I've started - where we'll study a book - I'll tell you more about it in the days to come, then wonderful singing, then pastor Don.
then Nat and I watched a movie - as I've told you. we watched it first in 1st year - 4 years ago - and loved it. and today, as I watched I loved it all over again. but bitter sweet maybe - it's hard to fully enjoy a romantic movie when... well, when your feeling unreasonable. and I am feeling a bit unreasonable today. how? well, I'll be a little frank right now (and cringe in the near or distant future) - I miss my guy. it's one of those stupid things where your sure you're all better and then something happens - or nothing happens and then your thrown back to square one and a half, and you can't help yourself. do you know what I mean? (stupid boys that won't let you love them). ok, I've been frank enough, and will probably edit this later..
how nice it is to have a surface upon which to rant (a veritable 'Kailey's futon' upon which I can moan) and not be alone in doing so.
it's almost full moon tonight - almost full and beautiful.
talibah
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