Weather Conditions in Baghdad

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

I was looking up zip codes for Baghdad (for tax purposes) and I came across a site that included the local weather.

Temperature: 70 degrees
Conditions: Smoke

What a fucked up place.

[stevedeshazer]

1. Sounds like San Bernardino

Mr. Zip goes to Baghdad?

[msongs]

2. actually, in San Bernardino today it is more like 85 and semi-smoggy nt

[orleans]

3. smoke....how bizarre.....i wasn't aware smoke was a weather condition. n/t

[Breeze54]

4. This is the time of year for sand storms.

You think 'smoke' in Iraq is odd? :wtf: Not anymore it's not. It's the norm. :(

Think bombs and explosions and people's limbs on fire as they fly across the road.

:puke:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. It's Raining Men...

nt

[Breeze54]

7. Extemely crass comment considering 8 of our own were blown up and killed this weekend!

You should be watchuing this:

FRONTLINE presents BUSH'S WAR
March 24 & 25, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/#

Asshole. :grr:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. I've seen it...

And it's called "gallows humor." Not to everybody's taste, and I'm sorry if you were offended.

[Ordr]

12. Brutal gallows

but witty, nonetheless

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Do they have a 100 year forecast?

Because that's how long we're gonna be in there..........no matter who's in charge here.

[Breeze54]

8. I doubt that unless McLame gets in and I doubt that!

Ugh!

[lpbk2713]

10. "Forecast calls for lots of thunder .... but no rain."

:shrug:

[bdamomma]

11. it wasn't fucked up until we got there.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

13. Neither was New Orleans...

That boy has just got the Golden Touch, doesn't he?

In a previous life, he may have been the Mayor of Pompeii.

[bdamomma]

15. he is not a well man, he needs to be booted out.

why doesn't the Congress just start impeachment hearings? or do they want more dead people.

[DemoTex]

14. I remember flying missions during the rice field burn-off season in Viet Nam.

Horizontal visibility .. zilch. Vertical visibility .. near the same. I had to shoot a low-fuel low-visibility (1/2 mile haze-smoke) emergency approach into Nha Trang one day with the GCA (ground-controlled-approach) down. We put a radio operator on the bomb-sight (which we used for position updates) to watch for the edge of mountainous Hon Tre island as we passed over it on the NDB (ADF) non-precision approach to Nha Trang. Once past Hon Tre, we descended to 200' over the water (minimum descent altitude was 600' .. but this was an emergency!). When the radio op spotted Nha Trang beach through the bomb-sight, we descended a little more and then spotted the beautiful runway at 12 o'clock in perfect position for a landing! Had we not seen the runway by the time we crossed the beach road, I was going to do a steep-climbing course reversal (to stay out of the mountains to the west of Nha Trang) back out to cross Hon Tre again and ditch in the South China Sea.

I took the radio/bomb-sight operator (who was an enlisted man) and the rest of the crew to the officers club where we proceeded to reduce our own personal visibilities in an alcoholic haze and thick cigarette smoke.

Talk about Fox-Uniform!

[undeterred]

16. One of the Air National Guard from Truax in Madison

came home last week and he said the weather was just turning really hot over there.