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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

USAF gives up on sandbagging Offutt AFB!

2019-03-18

The @usairforce personnel @Offutt_AFB had to give up on sandbagging after filling 200k+ bags. One-third of the base is flooded. 60 bldgs damaged, 30 inundated, including 55th Wing HQ. Summary @OWHnews , more to come later: http://t.co/5yqz0Hlspl
— Steve Liewer (@SteveLiewer) March 17, 2019

Posted by:3dc

#4 thanks Steve. the navys version of a b52

Posted by: USN, Ret. 2019-03-18 10:20

#3 maybe with all this flooding the P-6M might not have been such a bad idea, huh?

As God is my witness, I thought that was funny.

Martin P6M SeaMaster

Posted by: SteveS 2019-03-18 09:51

#2 maybe with all this flooding the P-6M might not have been such a bad idea, huh?

Posted by: USN, Ret. 2019-03-18 09:30

#1 ...This one will be easier to fix than Tyndall, though in the end just as bad. The Nightwatch force will have to be redeployed for a while, and that ain't gonna be easy. The tankers and other specialist birds will be able to operate somewhere else fairly easy.

Keep this in mind though - in the early 90s, the USAF leadership decided as a matter of policy that it is impossible to mission-kill a United States Air Force base with anything short of a nuclear weapon. Since then, we've had (in no particular order) Clark AB, Homestead AFB, Myrtle Beach AFB, Tyndall AFB, and now Offutt AFB go down from natural disasters.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2019-03-18 04:35

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