And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I can tell you from 24,000 hours of experience that you can see these clouds from afar and tell yourself "Yeah, those are active, but we're above it, so we've got nothing to worry about."
And very often you'd be wrong. Those clouds can grow faster than most planes can climb. By the time you get to them, they can be right at your altitude and then you're in the tops of these boiling clouds and everything that is inside them. Best to avoid them on the upwind side.
I can tell you from 24,000 hours of experience that you can see these clouds from afar and tell yourself "Yeah, those are active, but we're above it, so we've got nothing to worry about."
ReplyDeleteAnd very often you'd be wrong. Those clouds can grow faster than most planes can climb. By the time you get to them, they can be right at your altitude and then you're in the tops of these boiling clouds and everything that is inside them. Best to avoid them on the upwind side.
Truth. You don't wanna be anywhere near that. Turn while you can.
DeleteI can remember when life moved so slowly that I could lay back on the grass on a warm day and just watch them form.
ReplyDeleteNow, that's the day I want to set the flux capacitor to return to.
ALL DAY LONG
DeleteAn aviation weather instructor told us that a thunderstorm could throw hail 40 miles.
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