Damage to USS Alabama air park (pics)

With all due respects to those impacted by the storm, and realizing there are much more serious pronlems out there….

I do hope they repair the H-19/S-55…a milestone helicopter that needs to be preserved. Luckily there are spare tailbooms out there.

Looks like the outside stuff is okay, wheres the Sub dissapeared to though!

You can view an overhead view of the damage by following this link…
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24541700.jpg

Judging by the Albatross outside, it shouldn’t be too badly damaged if it was tied down properly. The GMC CCKW truck in the hangar seems to have got off pretty well, at least from the side i can see.

All very sad. Any damage to the B-25 on display outside?
Coert

I lived in the Ft. Walton Beach, FL area (in the Panhandle) for six years in the early 90s, and went through Opal, which was a borderline category 3 hurricane back in 94. Unless you’ve actually BEEN in one, it’s hard to comprehend steady 110+ MPH winds… I will confess to going outside our house and standing up and leaning into the wind at a very steep angle. After a few minutes of being nearly run through with high-speed raindrops, however, I managed to get enough synapses firing correctly to head back inside!

Flooding, on the other hand, is a disaster I hope to NEVER experience in my life…

Lynn

Thanks for posting those Lynn.
As you said, compared to the rest of the destruction this doesn’t really matter.

Bent and battered but not destroyed looks a reasonable summary.

AFAIK, we’ve only had one hurricane in the UK in living memory, which I managed to sleep through, and the devastation was staggering. I suspect that was a strong breeze compared to what the Gulf Coast has just experienced. We’re always complaing about our weather but we don’t get the extremes. I can’t imagine the ferocity of a storm that could shift the Alabama.