If you lived up here in Sunny Buffalo during the XMas storm a few years ago State of Emergency was broadcast essentially as "you are f'd, we cant get to you even with heavy equipment. Try not to die"
It took 2 days for the local DPW to fight their front end loader down my street to make it wide...
Looking at the wx in the area it does appear that the accident aircraft flew through a storm cell and likely a downburst immediately prior to landing which gave them a pretty hefty tailwind to contend with. At that point or pretty much anytime after that they should have aborted their approach...
Terrible all around, and I feel for the families who have just lost not one but two souls from their lives. BZ to the NYPD and FDNY crews and to the nearby ferry who stopped this from being a real disaster.
When I worked on City Island and up in Boston as a USCG licensed mariner there were...
We have a 4 building multi-unit "high end" 3 floor apartment complex that was recently completed and made entirely of wood frame and is quite literally an accident waiting to happen. Of course, bike and battery scooter storage is on the 1st floor. Our local FD is well equipped but undermanned...
Rock-filled waters aplenty around City Island. When I worked there at a boat rental agency we had at least 1 a month if not more go OOS due to running aground or banging up the engine. Not many people know how to actually read a chart anymore
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