Wake Island
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Hubby and I saw that on the news last night and looked at each other and said, "They are F'd!" 
kwillia
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They showed an arial view of the island on T.V. last night... the entire center of the island is water...Jameo said:
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desertrat
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It's a coral atoll on an old volcanic crater. I was there a LONG time ago. Beautiful place. I'll bet not many palm trees will be left.kwillia said:They showed an arial view of the island on T.V. last night... the entire center of the island is water...
CHECK IT OUT
Darkprincess
Just hanging around
Where is it at?
Darkprincess
Just hanging around
It looks nice.desertrat said:
Kwillia, did the news say how many people live on the Island?
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kwillia
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Status: TerritoryDarkprincess said:
Total area: 2.51 sq mi (6.5 sq km)
Comparative size: about 11 times the size of the Mall in Washington, DC
Population (July 2003 est.): no indigenous inhabitants; 200 civilian contractors.
Economy: The economic activity is limited to providing services to U.S. military personnel and contractors on the island. All food and manufactured goods must be imported.
Jameo
What?!
kwillia said:They showed an arial view of the island on T.V. last night... the entire center of the island is water...
CHECK IT OUT
Damn! My company had some job openings out there a while back and I was researching the island cause I had never heard of it. Good thing none of the jobs looked very interesting
Lenny
Lovin' being Texican
desertrat said:
It's all George Bush's fault. If he hadn't destroyed the American economy, if he hadn't destroyed the Kyoto accords, if he hadn't cut spending for American schools, if he hadn't favored big business over the little guys, if he hadn't breathed when first born, none of this would be happening.
OldHillcrestGuy
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I spent about 2 hours of my life on Wake Island, never heard of it till the plane taking me to Okinawa landed there for fuel. Its really really small as we were coming in to land, I thought we were landing on a sand dune. Didnot look like more than 20 acres of land.
When we took off I'll never forget it, seemed like we sat as far back on the runway and cranked those engines up to the max just so that we had enough power and runway to take off.
When we took off I'll never forget it, seemed like we sat as far back on the runway and cranked those engines up to the max just so that we had enough power and runway to take off.
OldHillcrestGuy
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Merlin99 said:
Guess that was a good thing, but what was kind of frightening there were alot of old planes off to the side of the runway that were messed up looking, almost as if they were left from World War 2 and had maybe crashed landed there or even bombed there. This was in 1968 when I passed through there.
kwillia
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Typhoon Ioke knocked out Wake Island's weather sensors on Thursday as it lashed the isle with some of the central Pacific's fiercest winds in over a decade, the National Weather Service said.desertrat said:
Forecasters monitoring the 2.5-square-mile atoll's wind and temperature gauges from Hawaii said the instruments blew out as the storm approached with winds of up to 155 miles per hour and gusts of up to 190 mph.
