Yep we are pier side just down the river from the French Quarter.. you will see us on wavy 10.. a news crew is aboard... bumped into one of the today show ladies and her dingleberry fell to the deck.. oops.. anyhow life is good and yes we are busy... Gen Honore and others have been dropping in and out in the past few hours... this is now the "flag ship" of the reconstruction search and rescue process....
Like I said we are pretty busy and the situation is pretty fluid... Sam and I went topside a little while ago and saw lots of police cars around the area a couple of big convoys; 100+ trucks heading into and out of the city. We also saw a fire burning in the distance.
We embarked a bunch of medical staff so things are definitley getting interesting.
One of the interesting things today was coming up the Mighty Mississippi River and flying off the ship while it went up the river...very unusual for a ship of our size to conduct flight ops...however at this time period a lot is unusual...making and breaking a lot of rules. Lots of damage along the river, shrimp boats and barges on the banks, a lot of flooding, the trees with no leaves cows wandering around.. all pretty quiet...
While we were FCFing we almost got run over by a big 4 engine joint star's aircraft... pretty crazy.. but hey I am still here to talk about it so it is all good..
Oh, by the way, who wants a Hurricane and a Muffaletta? Benjeas and coffee tomorrow .. yummy!
Later,
Nutz
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Fly carefully out there dude. I'm up for a Hurricane. You deliver?
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