[Scan-DC] Lots of Lightning by Bowie and Annapolis

[David I. Emery]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:41:33PM -0400, b_thom at juno.com wrote:
> As seen through my binoculars, whilst spying on the buildings with the
> satellite dishes in Suitland. The activity is so far away that I can't
> hear it, but I can see the many, many flashes. Expect downed trees and
> power lines, and fire department dispatches, in PG and Anne Arundel
> Counties both.

	BTW, I suspect the aformentioned satellite dishes are the NOAA
Suitland Md supercomputer weather forecast central...  those are mostly
used I bet to bring various kinds of weather data into the computer
center which runs the weather forecast models for North America and to
export other processed information to various users.

	I do know that NOAA has lots of satellite stuff, obviously there
because bad weather can knock out land lines (even fiber).... and when
there is bad weather you really want the weather forecast center
functioning with all its data.



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