[Rhodes22-list] Cold weather hits the tropics!

[brad haslett]

Herb,

Your WX arrived here about five hours later. We ran
about  1 1/2 hrs late into Memphis this morning and
arrived shortly before noon.  No big deal, just
outstanding Christmas package volumes and a late sort,
thus, late departing airplanes, thus, late arriving
returns (the a/c never stop moving but for
loading/fuel/crew changes).  Passing through 7000 feet
the temp was +12C which even accounting for ram rise
was warm given that it was +1C on the ground. Warm air
aloft above cold ground temperatures mean only one
thing. I told my crew  "this does not look good for
the outbound".  Sure enough, about 3pm we started
getting freezing snow pellets.  After the Air Florida
accident in the early 80's the chemists came up with a
de-icing fluid with almost an hour hold-over time. 
It's worthless in freezing ice pellets.  We had to
spray the engine nacelles prior to engine start to
keep from sending ice chunks through the compressor
blades, then head for the "car wash", then a second
"car wash" just prior to take-off.  Long story short: 
I ran the clock out at 16 hours of duty.  The good
news is I get to sleep in my own bed tonight.  The bad
news is it took over an hour to drive home (normally
20 minutes) and it will be worse getting back to work
tomorrow.  I hate cold weather!  If anyone gets their
Christmas present a day late, sorry, my buds busted
their ass today to make it happen.  Some days you're
the windshield, some days the bug. "Tomorrow,
Tomorrow, there's always Tomorrow"

Brad


--- Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:

> It's a little after 9 pm here in N TX right now, but
> it hit here hours
> ago. I was out buying a printer for my wife's
> Christmas present (no one
> jump for it, it's what she asked for) around 2, and
> could only go about
> 20 down hwy 26 because of the snow. Bad weather,
> bad. Go away. Hope it's
> warm enough to go to to Louisiana again this
> weekend, plan on spending
> next week out there working on the Coronado.
> 
> >>> jdwhite at utpa.edu 12/22/2004 12:49:39 PM >>>
> Wellll...my gloating over our warm and tropical
> clime is about to come
> to 
> an abrupt halt. We're due to get a big inflow of
> very cold air starting
> 
> tomorrow, in fact freezing temperatures and sleet
> are even in our
> forecast. 
> To top it off, I am the regional coordinator for the
> sea turtle
> stranding 
> network, and will be on call (and probably at the
> lab) throughout the
> event 
> including Christmas day and beyond (it's scheduled
> to warm up by the
> first 
> of next week). The problem is our bay is quite
> shallow, and rapidly
> falling 
> water temperatures sends the critters into a state
> of shock, so the
> next 
> several days will be sea turtle central here at the
> lab as we try and
> take 
> care of them until the water warms up enough to
> release them back into
> the 
> wild. Gosh, it's so romantic being a marine
> biologist.....
> 
> Doesn't look like I'll be roasting my nuts by the
> home fire this
> Christmas eve!
> Happy Holidays ya'll.
> jw
> Jim White
> Le Menagerie
> 
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