Ya, September 04 was crazy. Was on patrol for all three hurricanes (Frances, Ivan then Jeanne) all within 23 days of each other.

Yup. I was privileged to take a direct on the nose hit from Charley, Frances and Jeanne. Was out of power for a total of 43 days. I cook with propane, so I was the hero of the neighborhood. Kept them from starving and ate like a king.

Had trees down all over for a mile in every direction. Trying to get out of my neighborhood was like being a rat in a maze and there was no cheese!:D:D:D Lotsa smushed cars.

Good luck guys with that weather front.


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Maru Mod - Re-Energized

Fully updated & compatable with SH4 v1.5 with no cross rostered ships.. :yeah:

I Hope!!! :hmmm:

Got it s7rikeback. Thanks.

RR & Navigator, both you be careful... I live in the land of the tornado, and I just cannot imagine, being in the middle of a hurricane, having it spawn tornadoes, like SH4 spawns SubHunter groups... :lol:

We don't understand tornadoes. This far south tornadoes take shingles off houses, tops off trees and the like. Where you're from they polish a line half a mile wide to bedrock.

I'd much rather deal with hurricanes. They come with a week of warning and you can defend yourself against most of them. There is no defense against a midwest or plains state tornado. Nothing can stand in their presence. And they come with much less warning: sometimes a couple of minutes, sometimes an hour. But you NEVER get a week to prepare.

So, closed the business. Came home at about 3:00 pm and spent some time thinking, then put up some plywood just for grins. If you don't need it no harm is done. https://goo.gl/photos/rzDnH6ojXP67Dc3PA

I sure wish Subsim had a way to embed video like every other bulletin board in creation!

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...psybgnllhu.jpg

You can see that Daytona Beach and me, 20 miles west of it, are covered up with the first dense rainband right now. Rain is surprisingly light and wind is 15 mph or less. You look at the radar and say "holy crap!" but the reality is much calmer. It won't stay that way another six hours that's for sure. By daybreak I won't have any electricity and it will be weeks before I get it back. I'll find ways to post, but getting work done on the mod just can't happen. This is about to get interesting!
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...psprrayq1a.jpg

Latest forecast slowed this puppy down. Now greatest strength for Navigator and I will be tomorrow 6am to 6pm. That's about a six hour delay from previous forecasts.

Will grab this tonight after I get home from work, my friend. Does the Name.cfg include the warships names also or is this similar to your last release?

Great work as always. :salute:

Just a head's up for everyone who is doing some testing on the v0.26 Beta. Would you please pay attention to the sounds your hear when you go to periscope depth or surface or crash dive, I'm hearing a ringing bell when I crash dive instead of the "Aoogha, Aoogha." Please report back on your findings hear.

Thanks. :yeah:

I never paid the sounds a bit of attention lately cdrsubron7... oldmanitis...

In the meantime, pay attention to the WIP / Propbeaneez Stuffz area of the Google Drive. I got the NACA4 to run in the game, though I have no clue as to real names of the ship, we'll have to deal with that later. But I have it rolled into an add-on mod that I'm testing right now, but should have up, barring issues, here within the hour "Beta26AddOn.yz"... tootsies crossed for the mod, but especially the Floridians and those others soon to be in the path of Matthew. Don't take your eye off of Nicki (Nicole) trying to chase after Matthew...

Up periscope! Come to radar depth for radio transmission. Brace for extreme surface conditions! Sparky, do we have the ability to use the radio? Amazing!

Well, here's what we're looking at on radar at 04:28 Friday morning.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...psaa0x2zlt.jpg

Right now the wind is probably 20 mph, but we have had some higher winds at times during the night. Radar says we have a fundamental change in the hurricane tonight, as the eye looks MUCH larger. Looks like we're in what is called an eye wall rebuilding cycle, which diminishes the wind strength of the hurricane while it is taking place. This is a very good time for that to happen.

Power has glitched a couple of times during the night, in spite of relatively low winds so far. Our power grid is very fragile, in spite of the fact that these storms come to Florida often. The power companies aren't paid for reliability and when they get blown down the state just lets them charge the customers to rebuild. It was about $300 per customer to rebuild after the hurricanes of 2004. Why build a robust system when you can rebuild it at a profit when it breaks? Power outages are a way of life in Florida, even without a hurricane. I was out for most of a day last month because of a 30 mph wind. It's pretty inexcusable.

But we have power in DeLand. There is power in Daytona at my business, as Teamviewer reports the computer is online. Barometric pressure right now (thanks to my cell phone and CPUx!) is 998 mbar, a pressure altitude of about 410 feet. Anything below 1000 is hurricane city. At 02:00 the central pressure of Matthew was 937 mbar. We have a ways to go.

Matthew looks to keep the eye offshore, which is supposedly good news, as it keeps some of the higher winds offshore. However if the eye comes ashore it will diminish the intensity of the storm, so it's a good news-bad news situation no matter what happens. Of course there is a time delay from when the eye comes ashore and when the storm diminishes. That means bad news for the point of impact and anything within 50 miles of that.

But it is still surprisingly quiet except when we get a rain band and that doesn't last all that long. When we get the hurricane force winds I'll get some video and especially the sound. The sound is most memorable because with all that horizontal rain, there isn't that much to see in the central parts of a hurricane. The air is opaque.

Down scope! Take her to 200. Secure wireless. We'll pop up after sunrise and see if we have power to transmit. Just a reminder. When I do lose power I won't be getting it back, probably for several weeks. Possibly Daytona will get it back sooner than DeLand and I'll be able to post from work. Possibly Daytona will be damaged too much, because of its shoreline position, to be repaired before DeLand. But higher population means higher priority for power restoration. Maybe cell towers will resume operation before the main power grid. We'll see.

I'll try again after sunrise!:up:

ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE ROUTINE R 111230Z OCT 16 ZYB FM MESSAGE ORIGINATOR PLUS OFFICE CODES IF APPLICABLE// TO ACTION ADDRESSEES AND OFFICE CODES UNLIMITED NUMBER// INFO COMMANDS THAT HAVE A NEED TO KNOW BUT REQUIRE NO ACTION// UNCLAS //N02319// MSGID/GENADMIN/ORIGINATOR’S PLA// SUBJ/MESSAGE FORMATS AND PROCEDURES// REF/A/DOC/NCTC LEESBURG FL/OCT16/-// AMPN/REF A IS DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FROM HURRICANE MATTHEW RMKS/1. TWO PALM FRONDS DOWN IN BACK YARD. SMALL PIECE OF MOSS ON TOP OF LIBERTY BOAT. NO POWER LOSS OR INJURIES..// BT

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Hang in there, guys. Our prayers are with you. :salute:

According to this map, communications with RR may be far and few between for awhile.

http://fplmaps.com/

Lot of power out around Deland and Daytona where the eyewall is passing by.

It's been a whirlwind of the last 30-35 days, especially with RR, what with the MS update, trashed Windows, Linux install, trashed windows... etc.

All CTDs and others interested, I put a "Beta26AddOn.7z" file in the WIP / Propeaneez Stuffz folder in the not-so-secret-anymore Google Drive, if you all wanna see if it cleans up some more of your install. It ~should~ go in via JSGME just fine, but... It tries to finish what Jeff-Groves and s7rikeback were doing that did not get into the beta. However, I am by no stretch of the imagination, an "experienced" modder, so be governed accordingly. It should "fix" the Bismarck issue with the ship, but leave the Sea and Islands alone... I got the NACA4 in there as an American "Old Merchant", but the particular instances of any ships of that class that you encounter will have some ~strange~ names, just so they stand out "Toobee", "Ornot", and "TwoBee", or something to that effect. It will use the NACA3 textures, and you may have some strange side-effects...

It should look like this - maybe - if your computer does like mine
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...pstp74lkl5.jpg

There will still be trash left behind, but chip away at the stone... More updates coming to the Campaign and Single Mission layers as time permits later tonight, but as cdrsubron7 says: "National League Baseball is ON THE AIR!"... Go Cubbies... Calm down Matthew!!! Stay away Nicole!!!

Keep your head down RR
And good luck :up: