20 Apr
2001
20 Apr
'01
7:10 a.m.
Our power was off for 4 hours in a recent thunderstorm and the first thing I
tried to do when it went off was try to login to look at the National
Weather service Doppler image of the storm. My UPS keeps the cable modem
and router up but the PC was dead. I was holding a flashlight in my mouth
when I tried. It's actually pretty neat to see the image and recognize that
the storm cell is probably over my house.
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
20 Apr
20 Apr
8:16 a.m.
New subject: National Weather Service (Was: 25 SIGNS...)
Quoting "McFadden, Mike" <mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu>du>:
Our power was off for 4 hours in a recent thunderstorm
and the
first thing I tried to do when it went off was try to login to look
at the National Weather service Doppler image of the storm. My UPS
keeps the cable modem and router up but the PC was dead. I was
holding a flashlight in my mouth when I tried. It's actually
pretty neat to see the image and recognize that the storm cell is
probably over my house.
Ah, the National Weather Service. They and the National Severe
Storms Laboratory are down the road from my home in Norman, Oklahoma.
They're at the Max Westheimer airpark, which has quite a few large
doppler radar spheres lying around. I took a tour at NSSL once, and
was simply amazed at the quantity of computers I saw. Raised floors,
big iron -- they had it all. This was almost 10 years ago, so I don't
remember exactly what I saw. I think I'll go again sometime soon.
I called recently to find out what happened to their surplus stuff,
but it was a disappointment. They are required to take it all to
Tinker AFB for storage/scrapping/whatever, and there was no way for me
to make any kind of offer.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
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