Recent content by FFM1938

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...

Maybe give it to the Sanitation Dept and they can use it to water the park grass!

Peace an comfort the families of those lost and those who survive with the scars that have not healed all these years later.

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...

Holy hell, that was a literal doorway size blowtorch. Those poor people.

Perhaps, but those who are dumb as a bag of them probably did

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

Im more surprised by the fact that the Arthur Kill is clean enough to have marine life of any kind, let alone whales.

National Enquirer with a sports section

Tunnel job with live 3rd rails? Sounds like tons of fun

I drove the Newark Bay Bridge several times a day when I was working at the port and the amount of go-arounds and near misses I saw with aircraft on the 29 approach was nuts.

Wild footage coming up on most major news sources now but a United Airlines flight landing in the crosswind runway (29) got so low they clipped a bakery truck with their landing gear. Driver survived with minor injuries...

My 1st job out of high school was doing maintenance and driving the work boat at an old waterfront club that had burned to the ground several times in its past. My brother, then a FF but now the Capt told me that in the event of a fire there again it would be a quick check then surround and...