Ed Hesner

My wife & I have a son, daughter-in-law and 6 grandkids who live in Port Charlotte, Florida. Ian went right over the top of them yesterday and last night. I got a chance to talk to my son a little while ago. They've got a trashed yard, a blown over fence, a couple blown down trees, some significant roofing damage and a damaged vehicle, but, thank God, they're all ok, We worried about them all last night because there was no way to contact them, so we're sure glad to have been able to get ahold of them today.

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Many of us who live in Florida were soooo lucky that the hurricane took a different direction.  The state of Florida is really prepared for these awful events.  Ed, I hope your family will soon recover and get back to enjoying this beautiful state.  It will come back!

Gregg Wilson

Cow - a - saki

Gregg Wilson

                  They call me Yama-hoppy

                                            (I'm on a roll.......)     

Linda Pompeo (Worden)

Good ones Greg!  I sure wouldn't want to be on the bike if that cow decided to start hopping around!

Virginia.....Great news to know you were passed by and all is well.  My heart goes out to all of those that are struggling so hard  to try and clean up from the storm and just survive.

Marty Ellison



Marty Ellison



Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Marty, I remember that dance in the ballroom.  I don't know who put it on, but I loved it.  I can remember that it seemed like such a fancy event.  We were all dressed up in suits and dresses.  Good memory indeed!

Tim Jones (Jones)

My Dad, Glenn was head of the Boeing Photo and Motion Picture Unit, 1938-1978.  He was involved in the flight test of everything Boeing built during those years. 

This photo is the first commercial landing at Bow Lake Airport, later called Seattle Tacoma International Airport.   Aboard this DC-3 mostly Port of Seattle dignitaries. October 31, 1944

Ronald Goodmansen

In 1949 when we built our house on 9th Place South, my parents didn't even know the airport existed.  Now the neighborhood is gone due to expansion of it.

Lori Madden (Snyder)

My dad build most of the houses from 14th up to 16th and from 157 to 160. Some of the houses were bought and moved while others were just destroyed for the expansion of the airport, I use to live on 157th at the top as it was a dead-end street.

James (Jim) Mathews

Yep,the house my dad grew up in and my home also on 168th gone with the SeaTac expansion. After living there until graduation in 1964 we grew so accustomed to the take offs and landings right over the house we rarely even noticed. Great memories with my 5 brothers in the old homestead.

Gregg Wilson

My dad was a captain with Northwest Airlines. We moved from Portland to Burien in late 1948. When they were building Seatac, my dad would take me out to the airport and we would go underneath the airport. On July 4, 1949, they officially opened the airport. Two carrier wings from Bremerton(?) flew over Seatac that day. I was impressed, to put it mildly.

Marty Ellison

Before they extended the runway, we would climb over the fence at the north end at night then lay out at the top of the bank just short of the pavement while the airplanes landed.  Their landing lights were bright.  As we got more nerve, we’d work our way out to the center line where the noise and sensation was terrifying.  The jets made the most noise but the DC6s left prop vortexes that kicked up dirt and grass long after they passed by.  Great entertainment, too bad kids today can’t get that close to the action.
 

Al Peffley

My memory of the north area of the main runway was when you could still drive through the runway tower lights maintenance road gates off of Des Moines Way and then sit amongst the scotch bloom bushes to watch the planes land from the north. A guy could sit and neck with the girlfriend of his choice or drink a beverage of your preference (sometimes not soda pop, ahem) and watch in your car the planes land at SEATAC. The King County Sheriff's patrol (before they had Port Police) would monitor the north area and come into the road to run young tresspassers like us from the airport's north landing lights "private" property area. If they caught you in there, they would give you a "warning" ticket and threaten to call your parents if you were under 21 years old. My mother got one call. I was told to stay out of there (she tried not to grin when she scolded me for trespassing in 1964.)  I was 18 years old and a senior at HHS. Brian and I once drag-raced our Chevy's at the Southern end road tunnel that we called the "Tubes". I broke a rear axle running slicks during the brief 1/4-mile contest (I remember winning the match by exiting the west end portal - see current day photo below). It was an expensive lark for me since I worked at a Sunnydale service station for low wages and my father passed away while I attended high school. Those were definitely different days. I did not attend the dance at the airport, but did attend several weekend college parties out at the Airport Holiday Inn when I later attended HCC in the late and mid-'60's (after I turned 21.) I never thought in those days that I would end up working in the Aerospace Industry for almost 40 years...

"Meet you at the Tubes", Brian?

It was good to contact Brian again through this website several months ago. I enjoyed our brief talk after all of these years.

Al

Lori Madden (Snyder)

I moved to 157th in 1955 from West Seattle as soon as my dad finished our house. It was before there was a fence around the airport and only one runway. I remember running across the runway with my brother and sister to get to Lewis & Clark Theather.

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

I remember pasturing horses not far from the tunnels.  We used to ride our horses up there when they were expanding the airport.....until we also got kicked off the runway.

Gregg Wilson

Ask ANY astronomer. "What is the black material?"

Congruent with: "Why is deuterium oxide toxic?"

Al Peffley

Very cool looking [enhanced] galaxy picture or graphic, Gregg. I liked working with most of the people that I met at NASA. Bonnie and I always get a laugh out of the movies and TV shows when they add "sounds" in the simulation of outer space events. I enjoyed reading your book.

I worked on manned space, launch systems, on-orbit (in situ) robotic maintenance vehicles, and advanced satellite projects for NASA and USAF in the mid-1980's and '90's. We are very dependent as humans on our earth's environment to perform normal body functions and health mantenance. Sun storms emit harmful radiation particles on unprotected human bodies in space suits or space transportation transfer/orbit vehicles. The Apolo, Skylab, STS Space Shuttle spacelabs, ISS and unmanned probe programs have all collected a lot of data on the radiation effects on astronauts with extended stays in low earth orbit (LEO) and Moon visit missions. We designed "Safe Haven" capsule chambers with hollow walls that contained heavy water to shield long-duration space flight astronaughts from radiation effects caused by the sun and nuclear propulsion engines on proposed Earth to Mars transfer vehicles. Lead walls were not as effective against in situ radiation as the heavy water and composite metal walls with the types of radiation recorded on US-built manned LEO platforms. The only manned space program that I did not work on was Skylab (last mission photo from Wikipedia is shown below), but I did meet one of the astronauts (Bill Pogue) who spent an extended stay time on the Skylab on-orbt platorm, Mission SL-4 (1973-74). I met Bill Pogue while working on a Space Exploration Initiative program during the 1980's. I also worked  on an Advanced R&D NASA/USAF Delta Clipper Single Stage To Orbit Launcher project with McDonell Douglas and Boeing at Huntington Beach with Charles "Pete' Conrad, briefly in the early and mid-1990's. Pete was also a crew member(Mission Commander) on the Skylab SL-2 Mission. Pete was also on the Apollo 12 Mission to the Moon in 1969. Buzz Aldrin (of Apollo 11 fame) was more of a agressive type of personality than Pete or Bill (my impression after meeting and talking with each one of them.) I had the professional opportunitIes of a work lifetime that I would have never imagined while attending HHS and HCC. Buzz called me the "Coster" because I performed Life Cycle Cost analyses while working in Finance and System Engineering disciplines at Boeing S&C , McD, NA Rockwell, and LTV. God was good to me and my family over my aerospace career tenure. Here is a website description hyperlink of Skylab that seems pretty true to the program's history and source of the public domain photo from NASA archives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab

Changing (enhanced) Look, deep space quasar image from 2017 [Hubble?] scans.

Interesting stuff. I see that UFO's are in the news again.

Al

Gregg Wilson

Hi Al,

The black material is deuterium where it is polydeuterium. The photograph is real. A very major portion of the galaxy is polydeuterium. Deuterium is NOT an isomer of hydrogen. It is a separate element and should be #2 in the Periodic Table.

It does not have an open base proton, so it does not give off light (or any other radiation).

Instead, it combines with itself. All planets are originally formed as a polydeuterium globe. Outside radiation then causes radioactive decay on the globe. That is how ALL other elements are formed. So our normal matter Earth has a polydeuterium core, which is radioatively decaying on its surface. Hence volanoes, earthquakes, and more normal matter.

I don't know about UFOs. We were visited long ago by predecessors, who established the human race.

Al Peffley

I made the comments about the photo enhancement (not as a fake graphic coloring) because most of the real image photo files are not that colorful, depending on the spectrum that the satllite's telescope imager equipment operates in (UV, infrared, NIR, visible range, etc.) Colors are often selected by identifying the elements detected through spectrometry analysis of the recorded image. The visible colors, enhanced photo result is more pleasing and revealing to the human eye's color spectrum interpretation and shape/content distinctions.

I don't believe that our distant human relatives are transplants from another galaxy's planet. I have been told that the Mormons believe the exo-planet human origin story. I like the Christian human origin version better. I do believe that there are other similar human-like beings throughout the cosmos that are still visiting and have visited the earth. Some of their technology has been revealed to privilaged humans through being encounters interaction, alien pilot error crashsite incidents inspection, and spacecraft systems' malfuntion events ( re.: Nevada Areas 51 and 27 classified investigation and research projects).The Chinese CCP fears that we are the source of the so-called "TIC-TAC" technology UFO vehicle system sightings in the last decade (ref.; Clif High podcast from earlier this year)...

[Encounters Fiction or Fact?]

Scottish UFO sighting image (above); is this a releasesd artist-created graphic or an actual photo? The "TIC-TAC" vehicles that have been sighted and reported by our US military members are reported to be more rounded and kidney bean-shaped. None of the vehicles reported are balloon-shaped or have aircraft-like wings and visible propulsion systems, US Naval Air pilot and shipboard watch TIC-TAC sightings are the most commionly reported since 2010. Milton "Bill" Cooper has some interesting descriptions of UFO projects in his books and DVD offerings, I have been interested in UFO sightings subject matter since the Project Blue Book summary documentation from the USAF Wright Patterson Program Office sources was released in the 1960's. I have witnessed several UFO sightings and sounds around the Puget Sound areas with my father and friends before we graduated in 1964. Some say that visiting aliens are joining human military special forces personnel in closing and destroying human breeding and trafficking tunnels throughout the planet's satanic underground operations infrastructure. That isn't the image "Hollyweird" portrays of space aliens' visiting earth (to attack us, not to help us.) This is a fun topic to discuss for me.

Al Peffley

Reliable WEATHER INFORMATION SOURCE:

For those of you who do not know this source, the West Coast weather information and satellite images (GOES West Satellite) and regional radar scans can be accessed 24/7 at the UofW's Atmospheric Sciences' website provided below. East Coast satellite (GOES East Satellite) images can also be seen on this website. Enjoy! The information is constantly updated and more timely/accurate than most mass media weather forecasts on TV or the Internet cell phone apps. Have fun exploring the information options. I like the GOES West Satellite Infrared 8km scale images with overlaid fronts data markings and the regional forecast description listings for my SW WA & NW OR region from the Portland WFO the best for my weekly outside activity planning.

Was this weather information hyperlink helpful to y'all?

https://atmos.uw.edu/current-weather/data-forecasts/

Al Peffley

FOOD Costs and Winter Preparation on the West Coast - SITREP:

Friday our shopping bill was $125 for supplies (for two senior people) at our local WINCO discount supermarket. Our normal bill for the same food basket mix would have been well under $100 (or roughly half that cost with less meat protein.) Buckle up, and store some basic prep food supplies for mid-winter consumption (rice, flour, sugar, dried foods, canned meat, canned fruit & veggies, pancake mix, dried meat jerky & canned fish[rotate meats after one year with new containers], and powdered milk.) Pay attention to all canned food expiration dates! Costco has great prices on bagged rice and many canned food supplies. Don't forget to also store a few key medicine, vitamins, one water filter bottle per person [ these water filter bottles can be purchased at local outdoor backpacking suppliers or Amazon], and a medical emergency kit with your food supplies. Have some currency also stored away if banking debit/credit digital currency card readers do not work. This ifood supply information was reported  from a reliable Internet news source on 10/14/2002:

"A lack of rain and snow in central California and restricted water supplies from the Colorado River in the southernmost part of the state have withered summer crops like tomatoes and onions and threatened leafy greens grown in the winter. 

That has added pressure to grocery prices, putting a squeeze on wallets with no end in sight. 

The rise in food prices this year has helped drive U.S. inflation to its highest levels in 40 years. California's drought conditions, on top of Hurricane Ian ravaging citrus and tomato crops in Florida, are likely to push food costs even higher. Drought in an area known as the U.S. salad bowl has not only impacted fresh produce, but also pantry staples like pasta sauce and premade dinners."

Here is a great source for sealable (we use a curling iron to initially seal our mylar 1-gallon or quart food storage bags) These zipper-resealing, mylar food storage bags are of good quality for long term storage with oxegen/water removal control packets in the resealable mylar bags. The quart bags are nice for storing single meal quantities for two people. We like the gusseted-bottom bags for easy filling of dry food goods like flour or sugar. Free shipping on many purchase items for all CONUS location buyers. We use stackable, clean plastic pails with snap-on tops to store the mylar bags inside to guard against rodents. Store in a cool place and date all containers to assess shelf life and rotate emergency preparation food stock on a pre-planned schedule. Mice love unsecured candy - use metal containers for sweets and treats (they are barter items and special dessert sweets).

We learned of this mylar food bags source from a friend who used to live in Maine during harsh winters and does her own food drying.

Natural disasters can happen anywhere in the world that we live in. Be prepared. God Bless You, Al

https://www.topmylar.com/

Al Peffley

It's time to get the winter tires out again and get them mounted on your car or truck soon.

The weather forecast offices are predicting snow showers in SW Washington starting Monday night, the 7th of November. I don't know how far north the storm will dump some of the wet snow showers being predicted, but the cloud formation coming in from Asia is huge and very long across the Pacific Ocean (see satellite image link below)...

Be sure to unattach your hoses and cover your outdoor faucets (and some plants, if necessary - wet snow breaks branches on brittle plants that have not seen a lot of rain lately.) Winter seems to be coming early this year to the PNW. It was a great run of sunny days while it lasted this year. Take more vitamin D and some zinc daily to fight virus infections when the sun is not out. Keep dry and bundled up.

Be prepared for power outages if the snow collects over exposed power lines in your area. It's going to be a tough, cold winter for most of northern Europe because of Ukraine's civil war effects on trade, the Europeans shutting down their nuclear power systems, worldwide natural gas shortages, our self-inflicted energy crisis, and the WEF's "Great Reset". This too shall pass. People are waking up to the human-engineered health, food, energy, and economic rationing crisis. No amnesty for the guilty perps who caused inhumane problems for many people over the last three years.

Here is a hyperlink to the Goes West Satellite image of the clouds formation with pressure front marking overlays, of the first major precipitation storm of [early winter] this fall for the PNW The link image will be updated daily by the U Dub's server source. You can usually see the jet stream changes in the cloud formations shown in the satellite's image file. Watch for pressur front changes in the north and Pacfic Ocean systems; highs meeting lows cant cause quick changes in weather conditions in the Columba River Basin and on mountain pass highways (high winds, thunder storms, snow, etc.) Carry chans in your vehicles, even if you have winter tread or studded tires. The WSP tickets for required chain installation, pass  road areas are now over $500.

https://a.atmos.washington.edu/cgi-bin/latest.cgi?fronts-ir

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Al

Gregg Wilson

This is supposed to be a black hole, very close, and heading our way.

Very Very Scary!

Except they don't exist. Gravity is not attractive but repulsive.