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Weather Radar picking up an anomoly above Jackson KY RIGHT NOW. UFO?
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Bracing for a winter weather storm. Looking at weather maps and suddenly there is this 20 mile diameter disk shape the radar map seems to be picking up.
Nothing I thought. Then it didn't go away or disappear. Now it has been several hours. I've looked at dozens of weather maps from different origins. They all show it. Whatever it is, it IS there.
I encourage others to look at this for themselves. I don't post links on this website, but ANY weather map of the Jackson KY area will show it. It is just off center of the town of Jackson. It will be easy to see.
Can anyone in that area provide more detail? I've seen several "cloaked" looking orbs floating in this general region for years now. They look like what you would imagine a giant crystal ball in the air. Reflecting and bending light around it. You see it by the unusual bending of light around it.
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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Educate yourself,
This review is from: While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within (Hardcover)
Bawer writes with intelligence and passion. He reveals the problems that European face as a result of their appeasement of Islamic fundamentalism, homophobia, and religious intolerance. In Bawer's view this corresponds to the appeasers of Nazi Germany over half a century ago. Can Europeans see the similarities and draw appropriate conclusions? The threat of radical Islam is real. Bawer makes his case moderately but eloquently and powerfully. Whether one agrees with Bawer's views or not, this book may not remain unread.
41 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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Civilizational suicide,
This review is from: While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within (Hardcover)
In this absorbing work, Bawer examines the psychological, moral and political aspects of Europe's current predicament and its reaction to the threat posed by large unassimilated minorities in its midst. One of the most fascinating revelations concerns the monolithic multiculturalism of the continent's academic, media and political establishment. Political journalists are part of this ideological club so they consider mainstream politicians as colleagues. One consequence is that the ideological range of the European media is quite narrow. Rigid adherence to multiculturalism renders the integration of immigrants impossible with the result that members of these communities turn to Islamism for inspiration.
Beneath the surface tolerance and welfarism, there lurks something sinister in Europe today, something that the sanctimonious political correctness, anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism of the elites cannot cover up. Bawer exposes Europeans' nativism and intense awareness of ethnicity as manifested through subtle discrimination and the bigotry revealed in private discourse. Reared as bureaucrats, European politicians aspire to lucrative positions at the EU and the United Nations. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not result in gratitude towards the USA but increased resentment. The first manifestations of the clash of civilization have been the murders of Van Gogh and Fortuyn, the Madrid bombing & London bombings, the 2005/6 riots in France and the uproar about the Danish cartoons. These are just the beginning of an ominous cultural conflict. The denial evident amongst the political and intellectual elites shows disturbing similarities to the 1930s. The elites employ the potent stigmatic "populist" indiscriminately against all those who challenge the consensus, maligning the leaders and mocking the members of such parties. Some of these movements are suspect but there are also parties firmly rooted in classical liberalism. The consensus obsessed Eurocrat elites have a hostile view of classical liberalism which they consider Americanism. The welfare state is soft Leftism based on multiculturalism and moral relativism. What is most disgraceful about the current European mindset is the phony tolerance, for example the European view of unassimilated minorities as "colorful" but Europe's refusal to meaningfully integrate them into society. Europeans are happy to dole out welfare money but not prepared to give these people proper employment. When applied to European politics, the word "sophisticated" indicates ideas removed from observable reality plus a peculiar selectivity that leads to idolization of the EU & UN and disparagement of Israel & the USA. The pieties of multiculturalism obscure a very tenacious ethnocentrism & the implications of the declining birthrate of native Europeans versus the rapid rise in the numbers of immigrants. European elites remained in deep denial after the murders of Theo Van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn. Bawer's observations on the passivity of bystanders are particularly disturbing, especially the examples provided from the Netherlands and Sweden. The rhetoric of "solidarity & community" is just welfare state sloganeering. Dependence on the state has undermined individual responsibility and established a deadly pattern of indifference. It is clear that the continent, especially Old Europe, is in deep trouble. Bawer sees it poised between Islamism and native Neo-fascism. It might also be a type of Christian fascism that is embraced by a panicked population amidst serious economic and social turmoil. Part of the problem is that Europe mostly lacks a decent Right, except perhaps amongst the libertarian parties of Scandinavia. The senescent Christian Democrats have accepted the tenets of welfarism whilst fascist tendencies characterize many European "conservative" parties. The welfare state consensus has never been properly challenged except in the UK where Margaret Thatcher positively transformed the country in the 1980s. That is why British society is in a better state today. In part three: Europe's Weimar Moment, the author looks at the liberal resistance and considers future prospects. First the consistency of newspaper editorials from across the continent in response to the Madrid bombing is dissected: Expressen (Sweden), The Guardian (UK), De Volkskrant (Netherlands), Dagbladet and Aftenposten (Norway) all sang the same wildly irrational tune. Pim Fortuyn is discussed as an early example of liberal resistance in the Netherlands who was demonized by the consensus media. Other individuals who saw the danger and have acted upon it include Ayaan Hirsi Ali, British comedian Rowan Atkinson, author Melanie Phillips, Sabine Herold & Guy Milliere in France, the now departed Oriana Fallaci and Denmark's Queen Margrethe and prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. In the Afterword to the paperback edition, Bawer shows how dhimmitude is on the march. The elites still explain away delinquency, suppress reports of violence and continue to smear defenders of freedom with labels like "secular fundamentalist, extremist or single-issue fanatic." There were further riots in France in 2006, the cartoon controversy in Denmark and the Pope's speech at Regensburg. In all cases, there was a craven response of appeasement and accelerating tendency towards self-censorship. Free speech is not only being criticized but also outlawed and prosecuted as Bawer shows with reference to cases in Norway, Belgium and Britain and the notorious Ad Dura hoax in France where Israel was falsely accused. Responsible reporting is found in a few papers such as The Times, Telegraph & Daily Mail in Britain, De Volkskrant in Holland and Denmark's Jyllands-Posten. Crime continues to rise at an alarming rate, illustrated by the situation in Berlin, Oslo and Stockholm and antisemitism is on the march again, Bawer shows with reference to an article in Der Spiegel and the disgusting statements of a prominent Norwegian writer. Thus the process of Europe's betrayal by its ruling class continues through the inversion or suppression of truth. For more information on the recent history and the current state of Europe, I recommend Icarus Fallen by Chantal Delsol, The Changing Face of Antisemitism by Walter Laqueur, Eurabia by Bat Ye-or, The Force of Reason by Oriana Fallaci and Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's Too by Claire Berlinski.
28 of 33 people found the following review helpful
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Wake up and see the hijabs!,
By Drinse "Drinse" (Calgary, AB,) - See all my reviews
This review is from: While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within (Hardcover)
This is the type of book that the multicultists will disagree with, or even hate. They are stuck in their disbeliefs and their refusals to see the truth, even when it happens before their eyes. In dealing in great depth with the problems of Islam in Europe, Bruce Bower is showing us the future for the rest of us, the non-Muslim world.
Reviewers like poor Angel, from Ottawa, can't understand what's in this book, because it's ideas don't mesh with their multicult idealism and self-deception. In fact, she is a perfect example of the type of people that make up the European elites (and the Canadian elites, for that matter). They refuse to see the actual story, or accept that something must be done, about the takeover of Europe by Muslims. She instead sets up the strawman argument that there is no "conspiracy" among Muslims to take over the world. Well, there doesn't have to be, since one of the tenets of the new Muslim order is that the new Caliphate has to be established, and it is only a matter of time. And they all believe it, so there doesn't have to be any formal "conpiracy". They just act in concert automatically. "Moderate" Muslims (if there are really such people) don't even bother to speak their minds, since they know it is useless. Bowers' point is that Europe's elites (including the media and academia) have pushed their left-wing ideas on to the people for so long, so steadily, that the ethnic European people themselves live in a world of perpetual political correctness, and practise self-censorship for their own security and safety. Reviewers like Angel prefer to believe that the depradations of Muslim youth are not happening, but they are. Europe is on it's way down, and there but for the grace of God and our own vigilance, will go Canada. This book will open your eyes to the truth of radical Islam, as it is happening, today, every day, in Europe.
13 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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To Angel from Ottawa,
By Chris (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within (Paperback)
Perhaps you ought to read this book in depth and analyze its arguments and concrete examples supporting those arguments before disparaging it?
Your post is completely worthless.
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Very poor,
By C. J. Thompson "Arctic John" (Pond Inlet, Nunavut Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within (Paperback)
The idea of any religious extremist gaining serious political power is a frightening one to my mind, whether those extremists be Muslim or Christian. Whether that is ever likely to happen, or whether those who suggest it might are just unreasonable fear-mongers, is something I don't know. I should like to learn more, of course, and thereby reach my own conclusion one way or the other, but I am afraid that after getting a third of the way through this book, I decided it was not going to be a trustworthy and unbiased source and I put it down. I am not saying that I did so because I took a fundamental exception to Mr Bawer's conclusions, rather, the way the book is written makes me doubt the author's objectivity and reliability.
In the first place, Mr Bawer makes it clear in the opening passages of the book that he is gay. Naturally, that fact hardly dis-entitles him to an opinion on the subject at hand, but his personal experiences with homophobia and his clear (not to mention quite rightful) disgust with the hardcore Islamic position on homosexuality are emphasized repeatedly from the beginning. Eventually, I could not help but begin to feel that his personal affront at Islamic anti-gay hatred (again, perfectly understandable), has unfortunately colored his ability to be objective. As I read on, this feeling was only compounded. The thesis of the work, encapsulated in the subtitle, is not at all well, or clearly developed. It is haphazard, very unfocused, and seems to leap from topic to topic without a clear common point. Structurally, it is very poor, but my real problem with the book the fact that the points that are introduced consist, in the main, of very little more than wild over-generalizations and unsupported, anecdotal 'facts'. In one passage dealing with the evil of 'political correctness', Mr Bawer mentions that a Scandinavian person in the public eye was fined in Court for making racist comments and then he expresses the view that the comments were not racist at all. Why one wonders, does he not then actually quote the supposedly objectionable speech thus allowing the reader to draw his or her own conclusions? Were those words actually more capable of being construed as racist than the author would have us believe or (as I suspect) is he only repeating a vague story he has heard without bothering to look up the actual facts? I really don't have anything positive to say about the book. The more I read, the more I became convinced that this author has not done any proper research and has merely spouted his own half-formed opinions. It is a diatribe... more suited to the 'conspiracy theorists' than those looking to learn more about an important issue. I am sorry I wasted my money.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
No more than fear-mongering,
By Angel (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within (Hardcover)
I remember going to conference on black crime in Detroit in the early nineties. The audience was filled with nice pious frightened whites. They were frightened to death of perceived threat of black crime so much so that many of them lived in gated communities, moved into the suburbs in order to escape this threat. At that time, I wondered how much of this threat was real and how much self-magnified.
The same thing occurs with the fear of Islam, which is composed of more than a billion adherents worldwide. Given those numbers it is impossible to perceive some sort of conspiracy theory that most Muslims worldwide are involved in or that most Muslims in Europe are involved in some sort of clandestine operations. It's like any conspiracy theory - it's just a theory not fact. In this case based on fear aroused from violent incidents. Of course, the violence isn't one-sided as proven by Iraq, Afghanistan and other places where Western armies have intervened in shaping the Islamic world and they have not hesitated to use weapons at their disposal. True crime among blacks in the US is higher than white neighbourhoods. In Canada, suicide rates are far higher on Indian reserves. These sociological differences are rooted in history and not race or ethnically based. In the same way some young Muslims have been radicalized for various socio-political reasons but to ring the alarm bells and to call off multiculturalism and pluralism is merely playing into fears not rising above them. The lesson to be learned from Hitler and the Third Reich is less about the evils of appeasement because the parallels between radical Islam and Nazi Germany just don't exist. Radical Islam is a phantom enemy that exists as much in the European imagination as in reality. Our stereotypes of Muslims inform us of our own prejudices, not of an objective reality that can be proven, since Islam does not exist as a homogeneous whole. Muslims like Christians are diverse in their beliefs and practices, ranging from highly conservative to highly liberal. Therefore, we cannot minimize these differences in order to create the enemy-in-our-midst scenario that we like. It is the same type of thinking as the Red scare that plagued Western democracies during the Cold War. I would suggest that people read more intelligent books on Islam, such as, "The Trouble with Islam Today" by Irshad Manji, where she constructively challenges both Islam and Western stereotypes of it. |
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Public meeting to discuss Workington Hall's future
Last updated at 11:39, Friday, 15 February 2013
A meeting to find a shared vision for the future of the neglected Workington Hall will be held next week.
Workington Heritage Group wants to revive the fortunes of the Grade I listed building and hopes to have it open to the public in time for Christmas.
But before they move to the next stage of their plans they need to hear what the people of Workington would like to see done with it.
This will allow them to attract the funding needed for a feasibility study to find out how much the preferred option would cost.
Representatives from the county, borough and town councils, the civic trust and the Workington Sports councils have been invited to the meeting on Tuesday at 9am.
Helen Fowler, of the group, said: "The aim is to get as many ideas as possible about the future of the hall. We want to hear their visions and comments.
"This time we mean business. We are determined."
She said the meeting was by invitation to keep the numbers "manageable".
"But at every stage we will keep the public aware and consult with them," she added.
The press have not been invited to the meeting but will be kept informed of the results.
Jmercia Haughan, of the group, also stressed that members wanted to help improve the surrounding parkland not just the hall itself. One of the ideas is to bring a walled garden back into use, said Ann Wareing of the group.
Allerdale council has pledged that money from the sale of Curwen Lodge at the entrance to Hall Park will be used to support the initiative.
Chris Rolle, head of business and property, said: "We have sold it to the Derwent and Solway Housing group with a view to the property being brought into use for domestic purposes, following a long period when it was empty.
"The proceeds from the sale are intended to be used within the Hall Park area to support other projects and initiatives such as the walled garden."
Ben Brinicombe, project and regeneration manager for Derwent & Solway, confirmed that the housing association had bought it for about £50,000.
The Grade I listed hall fell into disrepair in the 1970s and has been out of bounds to the public for nearly a decade amid safety fears.
But members of the Workington Heritage Group hope the hall, which has been added to the English Heritage at risk register, will be made sufficiently safe to be reopened as a ruin.
A steering group, formed in 2005, considered ways of using and improving the space but when a study commissioned by the council said that renovations would cost in the region of £15m, the idea was thrown out.
A more manageable figure of £9.6m was agreed upon to be drawn from various funding bodies.
Previously the ruin was used to stage Shakespeare plays. It was also open for guided tours, school trips and medieval re-enactment. It was even used as an outdoor ice rink at Christmas, attracting thousands to the town.
The hall's neglect was described as "criminal" by a members of the Curwen family. The family lived on the site from the early 1200s but gave the hall to Workington Borough Council shortly after World War Two on condition that it became the town hall.
Former Workington man Andrew Doyle, chief executive of The Land Group, previously said he wanted to create a £10 million business centre in the ruins of the hall.
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Roy Makes It Plain.
Screw Roy Del!
If he hasn't got the guts to to be his own man then #$%$ him.
He is a #$%$ liability. You should have known that the way he welcomes Niggle slagging off his wife!
What I call a castrate Derek, along with nervous Nigel the backstabbing boy lover!
cheers, Derek-
Very fuzzy pic of you Sarah. Just as well, you look a right Munter!!! You can use a plastic bag you know, they have tiny holes in so kids don't suffocate...............Give my regards to Rik!!!
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I'm Sarah now??
Still afraid to check post histories I see kipper, ask Abbie to show you how it's done!
sorry Roy, I meant Cheers, Sarah!
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Jeff co-founded the Weather Underground in 1995 while working on his Ph.D. He flew with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990.
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 11:52 AM GMT on June 26, 2012
Florida, the Sunshine State, continues to be the thoroughly sodden state, thanks to torrential rains from slow-moving Tropical Storm Debby. On Monday, Debby spawned an area of intense thunderstorms that blew up over the Florida Panhandle, just east of Apalachicola. A weather station in Wakulia County, 4 miles east of Saint Marks, Florida, recorded 12.99" on rain in just 12 hours, bringing the 48-hour rainfall total at the site to 20.96". Several other stations in Wakulia Country also recorded rainfall amounts in excess of 20 inches, and the heavy rains caused moderate to major flooding on area rivers. Debby did not spawn any tornadoes on Monday, thankfully.
Figure 1. Radar-estimated rainfall from Tropical Storm Debby shows an area of extreme rainfall in excess of 15 inches has affected the Florida Panhandle.
Dry air and high wind shear continue to disrupt Debby. Our Wundermap for the surrounding ocean areas shows that winds at almost all buoys and coastal stations along the Gulf Coast were below 25 mph at 7 am EDT. Visible satellite loops show Debby has virtually no heavy thunderstorms near its center of circulation, which will severely limit its potential for intensification. The heavy thunderstorms of Debby are mostly on the east and north sides. Upper-level winds out of the west creating a high 20 - 25 knots of wind shear that continues to drive dry air into Debby's core. This dry air can be seen on Water vapor satellite loops. Ocean temperatures are about 27.5°C (81°F) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, which is about 1°F above average, but these waters do not extend to great depth, which will limit how strong Debby can get.
Figure 2. True-color visible Terra satellite image of Debby taken at 12:30 pm EDT Monday June 25, 2012. At the time, Debby had top winds of 45mph. Note the heavy thunderstorms on the north side of the center, which were dumping extremely heavy rains over the Florida Panhandle that caused major flooding on area rivers. Image credit: NASA.
Forecast for Debby
Debby's slow motion will make rainfall the primary threat from the storm, though tornadoes will continue to be a threat over the next few days. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has placed most of Florida in its "Slight Risk" area for severe weather today. The slow motion of Debby will inhibit intensification of the storm by stirring up cooler waters from the depths to the surface. Debby's close proximity to land places a portion of its circulation over land, which will also tend to slow down intensification. Wind shear is expected to remain in the high range through Wednesday, and given the storm's other problems, significant intensification before landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast is unlikely.
Denver's 105°: hottest temperature in city history
The mercury soared to 105° in Denver, Colorado on Monday, tying the record for the hottest temperature ever measured in the city. The city also hit 105° on July 20, 2005 and August 8, 1878. Yesterday's 105° reading was the city's fourth consecutive day in the triple digit heat. The city's record streak of 100°+ days is five, set in 1989 and again in 2005. Denver's forecast today calls for highs of 100 - 104°, so the city will likely tie its all-time mark for consecutive 100°+ days.
In many respects, the extreme heat that has scorched Colorado since Saturday is the state's most intense heat wave in recorded history. According to wunderground's weather historian Christopher C. Burt, Saturday's 114° reading in Las Animas tied for the hottest temperature ever measured in the state of Colorado. Two other 114° readings have occurred in Colorado history: in Las Animas on July 1, 1933, and in Sedgwick on July 11, 1954. Colorado Springs tied its all-time record for warmest temperature ever measured on both Saturday and Sunday, with readings of 100°. The record heat in Colorado has exacerbated numerous destructive wildfires, and the Governor reported over the weekend that half of the nation's firefighting fleet has been deployed to Colorado. On Sunday, a wildfire that grew to more than 3 square miles near Colorado Springs drove 11,000 residents (2% of the city's population) out of their homes. In Fort Collins, the mercury hit 102° on Sunday, just 1° below the city's all-time hottest temperature of 103° set on Jul 21, 2005. The heat did no favors for firefighters struggling to the contain the massive 81,000 acre High Park fire fifteen miles northwest of Fort Collins. The fire is the second largest and most destructive wildfire in Colorado's history, and is 45% contained. La Junta, CO hit 110° on Sunday, tying its all-time hottest temperature record, set on June 28, 1990. Today is the last day of exceptional heat for Colorado, as the ridge of high pressure responsible slides to the east, bringing record-breaking heat to the Midwest instead.
Jeff Masters
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Quoting Patrap: Been waiting for you Pat.. :) |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:I hope it was a mild stroke, and you are still in one piece after all that.:) |
Quoting Hoff511:yes prayers for you and your family |
Quoting SrChiefFan1: He wont. |
Quoting gator23:I feel ya on that one. |
Quoting waterskiman: The Feds won't respond without a request from the Florida Governor. FEMA has boots on the ground already. This isn't the POTUS's call to send in FEMA/DHHS but up to Scott to request. |
Not to put him down, im not, but Levi did gloat when it was going west. he kept posting "more models shifting west" yet when they shifted east not a peep. |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:All the best to you and your family.� Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery. |
Quoting jrweatherman: Yes he was and he stuck his neck WAAAAAAAAYYYYYY out |
Quoting wunderkidcayman: quiet, wkc, whenever you say so, these storms develop :) |
omg ya TA13 so sorry misread the earlier comment.....thanks GeorgiaStormz |
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Quoting Tribucanes: I stated about 6 days ago or 2 days before the invest that the more logical solution would be for it to be in the eastern GOM with the GFS, infact I mentioned the system will intake dry air and get sheared and said it will be between 50mph-80mph at landfall. It was a guesscast cause I don't make predictions more than 3 days out. I stuck to it cause I have the GFS model over the Euro with systems in the GOM and out to 60W and north of 20N. Outside of that..The Euro is the slightly better of the 2 good models. My landfall as a made the prediction ended up being Hernado-Levy County... at first I said it could be as early as Monday or Monday night (some say it did briefly touch land) but quickly said it will be Tues night into Weds. Overall.. I don't think Debbie was a hard storm to figure out.. just peeps went with the wrong models. Never Trust the CMC,Nogaps models.. if you go by that then you might as well use a farmers alnamac.They are correct 1-2 times a year so the odds are under 15% of the time. GFDL is a decent model.. but did horrible as it was all over the place on this.. still is. HRWF is hit or miss.. it's a good model under 20N I feel. So in all, if there was a hard part, it was determining if enough moisture would return around her center. I still feel she will get some more around her eastern side tonight and Weds as she crosses florida. |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:I am so sorry hope that these is a better day to you. |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13: My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. |
Quoting Tribucanes: i think you meant TA13 comment 2000 |
Uhh I still see Debbie isn't dead...I see the blog is in a depress mode now.Gonna get off and come back later. |
A whole page of yakking but not one Image. Lordy, even the TV Met is cranky. |
Quoting LoneStarWeather: I upgraded to the two hump model.. Better mileage between the oasis and work... |
GeorgiaStormz, I pray it was a minor stroke. These things always happen in threes so I hope your in the clear there. So sorry to hear your misfortune. |
I don't know about you guys but I think we need to keep an eye out on the tropical wave in the central atlantic could be our next system |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13: Good grief man...nobody deserves that in 24hrs. Well wishes and good vibes! |
No low forming off the east coast of Florida, storm forming in Atlantic will be Debby. All the energy from Debby that was ejected NE will just continue as a blobbed mess, but not form. That's the prediction at least. I think the GFS may be right here too. Debby's never catching up to the energy she ejected NE. That energy I believe has a chance at development. Debby will still restrengthen when she finally gets to the Atlantic but the blob to the NE of her will be it's own entity by then in my opinion. The blob is hugging the east coast and looks like it has no intention of heading westward quickly so an invest on this blob would be very cool to get. There's no low associated with the blob NE of Debby yet is there? |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13: Oh gosh I am so sorry and OMG you're right what a horrible night. I hope your Mom recovers quicky and you and your Grandpa are okay, too. |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13: :O oh wow. |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13: You know with a post like that we are all looking for updates: Are you doing OK? Is Mom alright? How bad was the accident? Any injuries? My thoughts and prayers and with you and yours. |
Quoting Tygor: Obviously you've never been to Texas... Only the extreme west area of the state is classified as desert. And we do have air conditioning and running water! |
Debby definitely didn't do Dallas. |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:Sorry to hear that. Best wishes for you and your family. |
Quoting ncstorm: Whatev... |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13: Prayers sent your way and to your family! |
Quoting Chucktown: So the HPC is writing discussions filled with semantics?..the HPC?? because you do know that what you quoted is what they wrote..sorry but I will take the HPC discussion over an insensitive blogger anyday.. |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13: oh wow, is your mom ok? and you and your grandpa? and what happened with the lightning? |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13: i AM SENDING PRAYERS YOUR WAY |
Quoting GeorgiaStormz: No. My mom had a stroke, I got in a minor wreck with my grandpa, and I was almost struck by lightning. At 3 AM. |
So, did the GFS pan out? By that, I mean, is there a new low off the SE coast from all of the convection blown off of Debby? That's a pretty amazing feat of computer wizardry if the GFS was able to forecast the shear stripping the convection off of Debby and spinning it up in the Atlantic! Also, does anyone remember if the GFS had Debby in nearly stationary in the Gulf on it's run 6 or 7 days ago? Thanks. |
Quoting hurricanejunky: yeap it would be cool if we can add our location somewhere on this blog so we all know where here is and all theses , we got, and im ,by me , in myarea ect ect ect lol |
Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13: is all this tropical mayhem getting to you? |
Quoting ncstorm: The hot weather is going to happen regardless of what happens with Debby after it gets into the Atlantic. The Omega block that has kept most of the southeast with below normal temps for the past 3-4 weeks is finally going to break down to allow that large ridge to finally move east. It has nothing to do with Debby. Oh sorry, maybe the heat index will be 110 vs. 105 if Debby does intensify some and creates a bit more subsidence, bottom line its still hot. Is a 5 degree difference when its that hot matter. Pulleeze, stop with the semantics. |
Next band coming onshore is packing a little punch but wow these are thin bands Debby is sending into Florida now. |
Let's hope they get power back on before the heat wave. Never lost power here in Jax, but my heart goes out to those west of me without power. I can't even sleep without the A/C on on normal nights. :( |
We got a 31 mph and 30 mph gust this morning without any accompanying rain. Sustained winds still in double digits. We were at 1003.6 mb early this AM but now pressure is at 1004.7 mb and gradually increasing. Debby sure is packing a punch for a minimal TS... |
Drakeon and several others here nailed it along with the GFS. I remember one poster giving Drakeon less than a one percent chance of being right. Nailing this one is like hitting for the cycle, rare and extremely impressive. |
For West Palm Beach... |


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Now, fast-forward to the wedding day. We'd all been watching the weather reports for a week. There was no doubt about it: the storm was coming at noon. Chris and Jody's City Hall appointment was at 2:30. We would make the best of it.
I came to their house in the middle of a heavy downpour, and together we laughed as lightning struck, and thunder rattled the windows. But City Hall was a fortress, a calm and classic place where we could forget the weather and focus on the importance of the day. The ceremony was sweet and everyone was happy. There were wedding crashers and silliness. And of course we weren't going to let rain spoil our parade. We decided on a walk around the couple's neighborhood. Jim walked and shot, and I did my best to keep the camera dry. Chris, handsome and chivalrous, kept his new wife dry under their new umbrella.
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During our last visit to New York visiting my parents, we had the pleasure of taking portraits of our good family friends — Sean, Terry, and their daughter Charlotte. Charlotte, one and half years old, was a total natural in front of the camera. She looked like a perfect little doll in her sweet little dress and party shoes. She powered through over an hour of photography with a little extra help from her grandma, who came by for part of the shoot, and a trusty power snack — "ca" or crackers. She had us all smiling and laughing with her many expressions and putting on her Patty-Cake A-game for the camera.
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As a bonus, Madie has contributed her own words to this post describing some of her favorite details and moments of the day. It's a pretty unique and awesome opportunity for us to have one of our bride's narrate the photography. Even though this is our longest post yet (most epic-est, you might say?), be sure to read Madie's contribution below the photos.
But first: the photos.
VENDOR CREDITS // Dress: Amy Kuschel, San Francisco | Floral arrangements: Fioribei, Berkeley | Venue: Presidio Yacht Club, Fort Baker, Sausalito | Lodging: Cavallo Point Lodge, Sausalito | Catering: Kate McMillan Catering | Groom/groomsmen attire: Tommy Hilfiger, shoes by Cole Haan | Bridesmaid attire: Amsale | Music: DJ Sam Isaac | Cake: Sweet Adeline Bakeshop, Berkeley | Cake design & late-night Oreo cookie bar: Sweet Kiera, San Francisco | Menu and print design: Cole Stipovich Design & Photography, San Francisco
Our wedding was such a collaborative effort with our very talented family and friends. We were very lucky to have my father and brother Jim and Cole Stipovich of Natural Light Photography as our wedding photographers. We all thought pretty carefully about whether it was a good idea to have family photograph the wedding, and ended up making the right call. On the one hand, my dad would have photographed the whole thing anyway, even if we had hired someone else (you can't get the camera out of his hand), and growing up in this family has given me pretty strong opinions about photography (especially wedding), and I knew I might be a 'nightmare client' to anyone else- and likely not happy with the end product. One look at the beautiful photos of our day confirms why I wanted my family on the job!
The inspiration behind our design and decor really came from the natural surroundings of our incredible venue! I like to call it "California Coastal", which is not the same thing as "Nautical", which feels very East-Coast Preppy to me, and while cute, has never really been my style. We took the coastal idea and ran with it, from collecting trunk-loads of driftwood for the tables from Northern California beaches (I recommend San Gregorio State Beach), to the poppies that decorated the cocktail tables in the bar. As part of the table-scape, I took inspiration from an old Martha Stewart project and decided to make mini succulent terrariums that would both decorate the long farm-style dinner tables and serve as a beautiful, lasting favors for guests to take home. The succulents were sourced from all over the bay area (sometimes one or two at a time, in a pocket!) and from the SF Flower Mart. They were assembled in a group-effort planting day in Alex's mom's backyard, about a month before the wedding, so they would have time to take root and not look too stunned. People ended up calling them our "love plants" and I occasionally get updates like, "Your love plant is still growing!" which makes me so happy!
My uber-and-multi-talented brother Cole also designed our invitation suite with us, and I did the watercolor backings and assembly by hand. He also designed the menus and seating charts. Our caterer was a local talent and family friend, Kate McMillan, who is so lovely and easy to work with. She instantly understood our desire for California coastal food- nothing too fancy, just casual and delicious. We did not hire a wedding coordinator, but had key day-of help in the form of Kristi Mollard, who is a close family friend and a tornado of efficiency.
Alex and I both love pelicans, and after watching pairs of them fish for hours around the Fort Baker marina, it became an obvious choice for our little totem. Cole designed the lovely little pair by hand, and it was used on our invites and in grand scale with huge painted, wooden cut-outs which decorated the dock, made by my sister Vale and brother-in-law Mark. Apparently no project was too daunting!
Another DIY project was our flags we set on the dock, for which the inspiration came from the actual yacht flag for our venue, the Presidio Yacht Club. It is painted on the building above the dock. I just adapted the color of the center diamond to my two favorite colors, blue and citron green. They were constructed in another happy work-party day with crucial help from my mom, sister, and best friends Linsey and Jess, and I loved seeing them fly above the ceremony. There is just something so celebratory about flags!
I also collaborated with my crazy-talented sister-in-law Kiera Stipovich (Sweet Kiera) on the design for our cake. She helped distill all my scattered thoughts and ideas into one gorgeous citron-colored 4-tier cake, which was executed by Sweet Adeline Bakeshop. Kiera also made our late-night snack of homemade oreos (my favorite) and milk, and of course wowed everyone with her presentation skills.
So it really was a family affair, and we wouldn't have had it any other way. From all the meaningful design details to the quintessential Bay Area location to our hand-written vows, the day was such a perfect representation of us, our love, and the joining of our families.
Finally, one last shot from the archives – The happy newlyweds the next morning!
Happy Anniversary Madie and Alex! | Before the Big Day
One year ago today, our sister Madie got married. A one year anniversary is decidedly a perfect opportunity to (finally) blog Madie and Alex's big day on the NLP blog — so big that we'll have to break it up into two parts. Part one starts with some special pre-wedding day moments that we are so glad we were able to capture. There is so much excitement and anticipation in the planning and preparation of a wedding. Those moments when it's just the couple (and maybe the bride-to-be's brother and his camera) scouting out their newly discovered wedding venue at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, or getting their wedding certificate at San Francisco City Hall (one of the more significant "checklist items") can be almost as romantic as the wedding day itself.
Then there was the Wedding Rehearsal and Rehearsal Dinner, where Madie and & Alex walked their bridal party through the same steps they would be doing the following day. Following the rehearsal, they joined up with their closest friends and family across the bay for a beautiful backyard dinner at the mother of the groom's home in Berkeley. A bountiful garden, a taco truck, twinkly lights, and white papel picado strung around the perimeter of the courtyard. It was the most perfect setting for a warm summer night dinner party, mingling with the friends and family that traveled near and far in honor of Madie and Alex.
It doesn't get any better than that! … Well, actually .. it did the very next day!
… To be continued soon with the epic wedding day post.


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USS Sargo (SS-188)
Sargo making 18.8 knots (35 km/h) during sea trials off Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1 November 1938
Career | |
Builder: | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down: | 12 May 1937[1] |
Launched: | 6 June 1938[1] |
Commissioned: | 7 February 1939[1] |
Decommissioned: | 22 June 1946[1] |
Struck: | 19 July 1946[1] |
Fate: | Sold for scrap, 19 May 1947[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Sargo-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement: | 1,450 long tons (1,470 t) standard, surfaced[3] 2,350 long tons (2,390 t) submerged[3] |
Length: | 310 ft 6 in (94.64 m)[3] |
Beam: | 26 ft 10 in (8.18 m)[3] |
Draft: | 16 ft 7 1⁄2 in (5.067 m)[3] |
Propulsion: | 4 × Hooven-Owens-Rentschler (H.O.R.) 9-cylinder diesel engines (two hydraulic-drive, two driving electrical generators)[2][4] 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries[3] |
Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced[3] 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged[3] |
Range: | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3] |
Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[3] |
Test depth: | 250 ft (76 m)[3] |
Complement: | 5 officers, 54 enlisted[3] |
Armament: | 8 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, four aft) 24 torpedoes [3] 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun [3] four machine guns |
USS Sargo (SS-188), the lead ship of her class of submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sargo.
Her keel was laid on 12 May 1937 by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 6 June 1938 sponsored by Mrs. Chester W. Nimitz (wife of the later admiral), and commissioned on 7 February 1939, Lieutenant E. E. Yeomans in command.
Sargo batteries[edit]
Sargo was the first vessel equipped with a new lead-acid battery designed by the Bureau of Steam Engineering (BuEng) to resist battle damage, based on a suggestion by her commissioning commanding officer, Lieutenant E. E. Yeomans.[5] It quickly became known as the "Sargo battery". Instead of a single hard rubber case, it had two concentric hard rubber cases with a layer of soft rubber between them. This was to prevent sulfuric acid leakage in the event one case cracked during depth-charging.[6] This remained the standard battery design until replaced with Sargo II and GUPPY batteries in submarines upgraded under the Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program after World War II. Each battery's capacity was slightly increased by installing 126 cells instead of 120; this also raised the nominal voltage from 250 volts to 270 volts, which has been standard in US usage ever since, including the backup batteries of nuclear submarines.
Pre-war service[edit]
After shakedown along the eastern seaboard of South America, Sargo departed Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in July 1939 for duty with the Pacific Fleet. Transiting the Panama Canal, she arrived at San Diego, California, in mid-August. She operated in the eastern and mid-Pacific for the next two years, including a practice 40-day war patrol between Midway Island and the Marshall Islands in the fall of 1941. She departed Pearl Harbor on 23 October 1941, arrived in Manila on 10 November, and was there when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December.
War patrols under Tyrell D. Jacobs[edit]
The next day (under the command of torpedo specialist Tyrell D. Jacobs, Class of 1927),[7] the submarine got underway for her first war patrol, which took her along the coast of French Indochina and to the Netherlands East Indies. Off the major Japanese base at Cam Ranh Bay, ULTRA directed her to three cruisers on 14 December, which Sargo was unable to gain position to attack when they appeared as scheduled.[8] Expecting a convoy, she went in closer, and that night detected a freighter, firing one torpedo; it prematured eighteen seconds later. Confidence in the Mark VI shaken, she switched to contact pistol afterward.[9]
On 24 December, she found two freighters, firing two torpedoes at one, one at the other, from about 1,000 yards (900 m), scoring no hits.[9] Temporarily losing depth control, she broached, and the target turned away; Sargo fired two stern tubes at 1,800 yards (1,600 m), with no more success.[9] The next day, she sighted a pair of merchantmen, but was unable to gain firing position. Some time afterward, she came on two more merchantmen and fired two stern torpedoes at the rearmost of them, from closer yet, 900 yards (800 m); both again missed.[9] By now frustrated, after eight torpedoes with zero results, when two additional merchantmen came in view an hour later, Sargo took extra pains to get it right, pursuing for fifty-seven minutes[10] and making certain TDC bearings matched perfectly before firing two torpedoes at each ship, at an average of 1000 yards; all missed.[9]
After her skipper discovered the torpedoes were running too deep, and correcting the problem,[11] Sargo detected a target at dusk on 26 December[10] losing, then regaining, contact, and running ahead, so be able to get good position. Then weather intervened, and the ships escaped.[10]
A few days afterward, a big, slow tanker gave Sargo another opportunity, and again, the approach was meticulous, firing one torpedo at a close 1,200 yards (1,100 m). It missed. In exasperation, Sargo signaled headquarters, questioning the Mark 14's reliability[9] on an open radio circuit.[12]
On 20 January 1942, she assisted in the rescue of the crew of S-36 after she ran aground on Taku Reef in the Makassar Strait. Sargo remained surfaced, relaying distress messages to friendly aircraft and surface ships. After the rescue by the Dutch merchant ship Siberote, Sargo headed for Java, and arrived at Soerabaja on 25 January.
Here, she offloaded all her reload torpedoes (keeping only those in her tubes)[13] and three-inch ammunition, and took on one million rounds of .30-caliber ammunition desperately needed by Allied forces in the Philippines. She sortied 5 February, avoiding the usual traffic lanes, and arrived in Polloc Harbor nine days later. After delivering her vital cargo to Mindanao, she returned to Soerabaja with 24 Boeing B-17 specialists[13] from Clark Field on board.
Sailing from Soerabaja on 25 February, she headed for Australia and was one day out of Fremantle when she was attacked by an Australian plane which mistook her for a Japanese submarine.[14][15] Although a near miss by a bomb caused minor damage, Sargo arrived safely at Fremantle on 5 March with 31 passengers from Java.[16]
War patrols under Richard V. Gregory[edit]
During March, amid the panic over potential Japanese invasion of Australia, Sargo (now commanded by Richard V. Gregory, Class of 1932)[17] was detailed to guard Darwin's approaches.[18] Nothing materialized.
On 8 June, Sargo put to sea for her fourth patrol, conducted in the Gulf of Siam off Malaya. She attacked only one target, a small tanker, with only three torpedoes, but failed to score, then returned to Australia on 2 August.
The fifth war patrol, from 27 August to 25 October, was in the Celebes Sea and South China Sea. In a submerged attack off Vietnam, French Indochina, on 25 September, she fired two torpedoes at the 4,472-ton cargo ship Teibo Maru. When these did not sink the target, three more were fired; all missed, including one circular, which exploded off her stern,[18] presaging another deadly failing of the Mark 14. Sargo then surfaced and finished off the crippled freighter with gunfire.[19]
War patrols under Edward S. Carmick[edit]
On 29 November, she departed Brisbane and conducted her sixth patrol (now commanded by Edward S. Carmick, Class of 1930)[20] en route to Hawaii. On the last day of 1942, she made a submerged attack on an enemy tanker off Tingmon Island, firing a spread of four torpedoes. Heavy explosions were heard, accompanied by grinding noises usually associated with a ship breaking up. JANAC did not confirm the sinking. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 21 January 1943 and proceeded to San Francisco Bay for a three-month overhaul in the Mare Island Navy Yard.
Returning to Hawaii on 10 May, she departed on 27 May for her seventh patrol which took her to the Truk-Guam-Saipan shipping lanes. On 13 June, she intercepted a three-ship convoy, escorted by a subchaser. That night, she made a submerged attack, sinking the passenger-cargo ship Konan Maru southeast of Palau. The next day, she fired torpedoes at another of the cargo ships but could not learn the results of her attack, since she was forced to dive to escape the subchaser's depth charges. Sargo arrived at Midway Island on 9 July, where she was credited with one ship sunk for 6,600 tons (reduced postwar to 5,200).[21]
She departed Midway on 1 August for her eighth war patrol, again at Truk and in the Mariana Islands. She made no contacts and returned to Pearl Harbor on 15 September for refit.[22]
War patrols under Philip W. Garnett and post-war fate[edit]
On her ninth war patrol (now commanded by Philip W. Garnett, Class of 1933),[23] 15 October to 9 December, Sargo operated off Formosa and in the Philippine Sea. On 9 November, she torpedoed the cargo ship, Tago Maru, southeast of Formosa, and finished off the stricken ship with gunfire. Steaming north, she torpedoed and sank the passenger ship, Kosei Maru two days later east of Okinawa. Afterwards, she picked up a Japanese soldier, clinging to floating debris, survivor of another sinking. Sargo returned to Pearl Harbor on 9 December 1943, credited with two ships for 15,900 tons; postwar, it was 6,400.[23]
Sargo's tenth patrol, 26 January to 12 March 1944, was conducted north of the Palau Islands. Despite ULTRA alerting her, she failed to be in position to intercept Admiral Koga when he appeared.[24] Still, she made four attacks and fired all her topedoes.[25] She sank the transports Nichiro Maru (6,500 tons)[25] on 17 February and Uchide Maru (5,300 tons)[25] on 29 February; this time, the wartime credit, one ship of 7,000 tons, remarkably, increased.[26]
After refit in Pearl Harbor, the veteran submarine departed on her eleventh war patrol on 7 April, along the southern coasts of Kyūshū, Shikoku, and Honshū. On 26 April, she torpedoed and sank the cargo ship Wazan Maru in Kii Suido, approaching Osaka Bay. She returned to Pearl Harbor on 26 May and steamed east to the west coast of the United States for a major overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard.
Returning to Hawaii in September, Sargo got underway for her 12th patrol on 13 October and operated off the Bonin Islands and Ryukyu Islands. Two trawlers were damaged by Sargo's three-inch (76 mm) deck gun and machine guns.
On arrival at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, on 7 December 1944, she was assigned to training submarine crews until 13 January 1945, when she proceeded to Eniwetok Atoll. There she acted as a target for ASW training. As the war ended, she returned via Hawaii to the United States, arriving at Mare Island on 27 August. Decommissioned on 22 June 1946, she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 19 July 1946. Her hulk was sold for scrap on 19 May 1947 to the Learner Company of California.
Sargo was awarded eight battle stars for her service in World War II and received the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation.
- ^ a b c d e f g Friedman, Norman (1995). U.S. Submarines Through 1945: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. pp. 285–304. ISBN 1-55750-263-3.
- ^ a b c d e f Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 269–270. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
- ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 202–204
- ^ Friedman, p. 265
- ^ The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia, Sargo-class article
- ^ He was one of a handful of "Gun Club" members to try and fix the numerous problems of the notorious Mark 14 torpedo, following bitter personal experience. Blair, Clay, Jr. Silent Victory (Lippincott, 1975), p.140 & 902.
- ^ Blair, p.139-40.
- ^ a b c d e f Blair, p.140.
- ^ a b c Blair, p.141.
- ^ Blair, p.141. Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) would wait months to do the same.
- ^ Jacobs' courage here is exemplary, recalling Ned Beach's a generation later in relation to Tang-class' terrible "pancake" diesels. It could have gotten him court martialled for insubordination, and he knew it, not to mention being detected by the Japanese. On his return, he was upbraided by his commanding officer, Admiral John Wilkes. Blair, p.169.
- ^ a b Blair, p.174.
- ^ Dunn, Peter. "US SUBMARINE ATTACKED BY A HUDSON BOMBER OF 14 SQUADRON RAAF OFF THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN COAST". www.ozatwar.com. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
- ^ Blair, p.185. This sort of mistake would become depressingly common during the war. For instance, Blair, pp.210 and 285, just in the first half of 1942.
- ^ The Australian bombing would be the last straw for Jacobs, who went to shore duty at BuOrd. Blair, p.185.
- ^ This made him the youngest officer so far to command a fleet boat. Blair, pp.185, 192, 285, & 906.
- ^ a b Blair, p.192.
- ^ When Sargo returned, Gregory was removed. Blair, p.286.
- ^ Blair, p.921.
- ^ Blair, p.931.
- ^ Not unexpectedly, Carmick was relieved. Blair, p.939.
- ^ a b Blair, p.939.
- ^ Blair, p.570-1.
- ^ a b c Blair, p.571.
- ^ Blair, p.942.
- Blair, Clay, Jr. Silent Victory. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975.
- Lenton, H.T. American Submarines. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1973.
- Sargo stories by Bart Bartholomew at SubmarineSailor.com
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here. The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia, Sargo-class article
External links[edit]
- Historic photos of diesel-powered USS Sargo (SS-188) on Navsource.org, includes photo of SSN-583 during construction viewed by SS-188 crewman
- Photos & video of dedication of memorial to the crew of USS Sargo (SS-188) from the crewmen of nuclear-powered USS Sargo (SSN-583) at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas
- The National Museum of the Pacific War - Wikipedia page (includes link to official museum website)