July 08, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Charleston, South Carolina.
The runway melted. Seriously.
Lat summer, we had a Cadillac bumper melt here in Del Rio, Texas, but, hell, this is Texas and so we were probably lying about it. It was probably a Ford bumper.
Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.
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Oooh, don’t make me get all weird on you about Fords.
To-o-o-o late!
1Wow!
2Maybe it isn’t Global Climate Change. Maybe the devil is just giving previews to folks who have no respect for God’s creation.
3Correction: This happened at Reagan National in D.C. The plane was bound for SC. Still a really funny story considering Jim DeMint is one of the premier corporate owned climate change denialists.
4from the private airfield onboard Stately Hacienda Mike….
“Never say Never”, but … This story has set my BS meter abuzzing. Of course I have no experience with South Carlina runway construction, but even the podunkus concrete airfields of which I am familiar here in temperate north east Texas are constructed of rebar and several inches of concrete. Even in the hellish summer of 1980 I dont recall any melting. Some of the grass strips dried up and blew away or spontaneously combusted but they didnt melt.
5Mule Breath, a fair number of us refer to that airport by its old and proper name: National.
6In 1980 we moved from Texas to Nebraska, stopping in Salina, KS. The hotel manager told us to park the truck on the grass or the tires would sink into the paving. It was only 112 that day. Global warming has been going on for some time!
7from the internet operations center … in north east Texas…
Sainted USMC brother and gainfully employed airline pilot says
“Simple. It wasn’t concrete but rather asphalt. I am pretty sure this is poor journalism. On runways that are rated for passenger jets, I am pretty sure they are concrete. The tarmac is a term misused but normally refers to the apron or ramp. These areas can be asphalt but don’t take landing impact loads. It’s unlikely the aircraft sunk while trying to take off. More likely while parked at the gate and trying to taxi for takeoff.”
8It wasn’t concrete. It was tarmac, or, in this country, asphalt.
9All the flights in Alexandria, Egypt (in or out) are at 2-4am–because the tarmac is so soft that you can’t be on it any other time–and boy, when you step off that 2am flight into the humid heat of the Nile delta–the smell knocks you back, hard!! Not for the timid of heart! I shudder to think what hotter temperatures are doing to those poor folks–cheap nylon burkas–stuffed into the minibuses it was like being in a football locker-room, no showers and that was 2002–went for the Library at Alexandria’s reopening– intense, impressive and beautiful, something the Arab Emirates did wonderfully!
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