Alternatively, he could come back all safe and sound in 3 weeks time and the 6 month old is Rosemary’s Baby.
The scriptwriters are going to have an absolute field day over this lot.
If they survive.
Glad your damn dam is damn fine though.
We are getting Houston people coming up to the lake. We understand how they feel. However, they are taxing our resources.
“I did hear the guys from [New Jersey] were fairly arrogant in their response.
Hoping we don’t run out of fingers plugging leaks in the dam. (tip of the hat to @Dutchie and Hans Brinker)
The second positive test result in Dare County was announced earlier today. The individual has been self-isolating since being tested last week and continues to be monitored. It is believed the individual acquired the virus through direct contact when out of the area. This is not a case of community spread. The individual’s spouse has also been tested but results have not yet been received. Dare County Department of Health & Human Services staff is conducting an active investigation into this individual’s activity. Anyone who is determined to have had direct contact will be notified by public health staff.
I live where Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia all meet. When the news was reporting West Virginia hardly had any Corona Virus the camp grounds and state parks began filling up with RV’s from New England.& DC. The governors of these three states have began closing all camp grounds/state parks etc.They are realizing that those from 3 to 5 states away that are heavily infected and school is out there (likely for the rest of the year) have come here to hold up until
this problem blows over.
I understand that in Kentucky their Governor Beshears is telling the state residents that if they cross the state lines to go out of state, that they will be forced to quaranteen themselves for 14 days upon returning…
Good to know Lee_Shore. Thx for info on Dare County. To RC.Joe, I am originally from London, Kentucky. How you get a retired offshore tugboat captain from there befuddles me. They are late (Kentucky) in my opinion to respond to this craziness. I hope my friends and relatives in Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennesee are gonna be ok. Those people are very strong headed, hopefully in the right way.
Read a story recently about a couple’s struggles just to get a test in West Virginia. It is not a safe zone either.
Admiral Chester Nimitz, father of the nuclear Navy was born on a ranch smack dab in the middle of Texas.
My pop , also from London KY was a bubble head. Crazy stuff.
There’s a museum in Fredericksburg, TX, his birthplace. Worth visiting if you’re ever near there.
Haven’t been to the great state of Texas since I retired.My son was in Galveston a few years ago at Texas A&M for a fast rescue boat course through MSC. One of the narrowest channels and heaviest traffic I ever encountered. Those pilots have balls of steel. Port Arthur and Lake Charles not much different, but much less traffic.
Maybe you’re thinking of this guy:
You’re right. I stand corrected.
Hyman was a stickler for perfection . Well known in our Nukey guys arena. My pop was on the USNS “Observation Island” for more than a few years. Pioneered the Polaris missles, then refitted for Posiedon which moved the ship from Canaveral to Norfolk. It then saw service on the west coast for a bit. When he retired, he did sea trials with a private contractor for new subs out of what he called “Rotten Groton”. Missle fire control dude. Had the pleasure to have a very nice lobster dinner with him and a few tug captains while upgrading with simulators in Newport, Rhode Island. I miss my golf partner dearly.
Were you planning on coughing on people during your trip? I can get on and off my boat without getting within 100 feet of anyone. Buying groceries, not so much 
I wasn’t living here back then but the obx dodged a bigger bullet than Covid-19. It was called Project Nutmeg.
While World War II effectively ended after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in many ways it was just the beginning of widespread awareness about the new nuclear type of military technology — and the U.S. military was eager to find more atomic test sites closer to home.
Partly this interest stemmed from issues over national security and the expense involved in continuing to conduct atomic experiments in isolated areas of the Pacific, but the military also wanted to quell growing public fears over radioactive fallout, which they believed were exaggerated. Using the codename Project Nutmeg, official efforts to locate suitable “continental proving grounds” began in the late 1940s under the direction of noted meteorologist and Navy Captain Howard B. Hutchinson.
A declassified progress report on Project Nutmeg written by Hutchinson in 1948 makes it clear that he strongly favored an atomic test site on the Atlantic Coast somewhere between Cape Hatteras and Cape Fear. Though he briefly mentioned several other possible sites on the West Coast and in the Midwest, he also declared that the southern portion of the Outer Banks largely lent itself to further investigation because of a belief that the area was “practically uninhabited.”
Hutchinson went on to further cite favorable meteorological conditions in the area, stating that the prevailing westerly winds were, “entirely satisfactory for removing the radioactive products…from the test sites out over the sea,” while going on to report that if there was by chance “an undesirable quantity” of fallout, the Gulf Stream could simply carry it away into the mid-Atlantic without causing serious harm to important fisheries.
In this report, Hutchinson did at least acknowledge the fact that aerial photography of the Atlantic Coast was still necessary before an appropriate site was selected — though he also noted that a request had already been submitted for that photography, which was slated for delivery in less than a week’s time.
Hutchinson’s apparent optimism that he had located an ideal nuclear test site on Hatteras Island and areas farther south was thankfully unfounded. Less than a year later the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission issued a memorandum in response to the study’s findings. While it praised Project Nutmeg for gathering valuable information, and agreed that “atomic weapons could be conducted safely at a site along the Carolina coast,” other concerns were raised.
Most notably, military flyovers had determined that the Outer Banks was not quite as “uninhabited” as they were led to believe, and in fact the area had increasingly been improved and developed — risking considerable expense and other bureaucratic headaches if they tried to relocate the island’s population while also restricting local waterways and air traffic.
Though the commission’s recommendation may not have decisively put an end to speculation about the viability of using the southern Outer Banks as a nuclear testing ground (particularly, as the report noted, if a national emergency arose), it was the beginning of the end – to the relief of untold millions who live on or visit these shores.
Had no idea, you learn something everyday. Perhaps my dad and my brides dad knew about the shenanigans going on back then, both were born in the 20’s and 30’s and both served in our armed services. Thx again for your information. It will be a topic of discussion among many when I get to see my friends and dear tenants when I am allowed to return to awesome Outer Banks again.