Rear Admiral: Mid-Atlantic Bases Are Ready For Florence
AUSTIN, Texas — Navy Region Mid-Atlantic is ready for the Hurricane Florence, said Rear Adm. Charles Rock, the region’s commander.
With about 300,000 servicemembers, family members, reservists and retirees in the storm’s path, he said they are “taking it very seriously” as they prepare for the storm projected to strike the East Coast of the United States by Saturday morning.
“Our focus is first on safety of our assets and safety of our personnel. As soon as the storm passes and we have the opportunity to ensure our facilities are safe and personnel are safe, roadways are safe, we’ll open our installations again to get back to training and readiness,” Rock said.
As of Wednesday, the Navy ordered evacuations for low-lying portions of Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia and 11 counties of North Carolina in conjunction with evacuation orders issued by those states.
In Virginia, Rock said much of the Navy’s facilities are outside the evacuation area, known as flood zone A. He said one portion of the base in Virginia Beach susceptible to flooding and wind damage is Dam Neck Annex, where about 1,400 sailors and family members live. They were moved Wednesday.
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They’re also evacuating the baby nukes out of Goose Creek to (IIRC) Ft. Jackson.
Just wrap them in plastic trash bags and throw a mattress over the pile.
Leave a sniper behind for looters.
I’m guessing NHSparky was referring to baby nuke SAILORS… that the training base for them… (not that your idea wouldn’t still be an option..)
Ya, I looked it up after the fact.
Best I stay in my end of the pool.
The shallow end.
LOL.. no worries brother, I would have had no clue what he was talking about either, if my brother hadn’t decided to be a squid… and spent a few months there. I actually picked him up at the front gate once upon a time…
Baby nukes = Thorium?
Baby nukes = small hot peppers?
Navy slang is weird…
It’s worse than that, 11B. Navy “Aeronautically Designated” students, O’s or E’s, are all called “Nuggets.”
And it’s not a compliment.
Funny connection, My little brother trained at Goose Creek, and I’ve got a good friend at Ft. Jackson..
LOL, just talked to my friend (she’s in charge of EMS for the base).. said they already transported one of the snowflakes, IN AN AMUBLANCE, cause he had the SNIFFLES…..
Sortie and scatter before the winds, heading north by north east @ flank speed? How far out they gotta go to be out of the “zone”? How long will it take to get to a “safe spot”?
During Hugo, the USS Narwhal couldn’t get underway, so they submerged at the pier.
That is clever.
One might arrange one heck of a joke by walking someone past the dock just as she resurfaces.
“Watch closely for signs of divers…”
Isn’t that called “duck and cover”? LOL
Actual flank speeds are classified, advertised is 30+ kts, about 34.5 mph.
While this isn’t me in the pic, on the rotor head helping the maintainers fold the blades, it sure could have been.
Good stuff here & thanks swabbies. Figure they can’t/aren’t going to maintain flank speed too long, just kinda tricky trot along at 20 – 25 kts, head out toward the deep water, using the charts of the projected coverage and ride it out. Head back in following the rear of the storm. Would figure it’s way yonder rougher on the surface boys than the bubble heads. Don’t think I’d like to ride out a storm in a sub, submerged at the dock in really shallow water. And damn sure would not want any thing at all to do with flight ops. Those cats in the WC130Js flying into that? No thank you. My boys aren’t that big and/or brassy.
45 years ago, maybe, probably. Now? Oh hellz to the nix, nein, nacho fool, NO WAY!
Yeah, we would be prepping the helo to shove it into the hangar and tie it down tight before the really bad weather hit.
Good times!
When did the Navy move their mid-Atlantic region HQ to Austin, Texas? I didn’t know the Colorado River had deep water access. The last Navy I saw there (I was at Bergstrom for 4 years) was the Old Navy store on Ben White Blvd. Ha!
I’m sure that the hospitals on those bases will see a big surge in births come April!
According to Accuweather’s radar map, the outer rain band of Florence is on the coast of North Carolina now, at 8:15PM EDT.
Prayers up for anyone who in in its way.
Almost forgot: on the Doppler map, it looks like the eye of the storm is heading right toward Wilmington, NC.
Amen!