Recent Event Highlights: Night Flight - Midvale to Salt Lake City, UT, Backup on 5 Freeway North Due to Road Closure, DriveAbout 105 - Highway One, DriveAbout 104 - Highway One, DriveAbout 103 - Highway One, DriveAbout 102 - Highway One, and 8 more...
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I-215 flows with vehicles below at Midvale, flying above I-15 towards Salt Lake City's downtown area. Video ends just south of there. Taken from a Glastar kitplane at night.
At approximately 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 28, as I was attempting to make my way north on Interstate 5 from Santa Clarita, CA to Bakersfield, CA — where the final exam was taking place for one of the three I was teaching that session at DeVry University — I encountered a massive backup on Interstate 5 North in Castaic. Apparently a tractor-trailer had broken down a few miles up the pass and the entire freeway was closed to northbound traffic. How far up the pass the truck was I was unsure, just as I still cant entirely understand how one broken down truck can completely close down a freeway. Nevertheless, there was no way I was getting to Bakersfield on the 5 north anytime soon. I was able to get off just in time to avoid getting stuck in it, but was amazed at how far the backup extended: basically from the Hasley Canyon overpass presumably all the way up the 5 to where the truck was actually stopped. As you can tell by the short clip I filmed, the backup I passed while driving on the southbound freeway was easily three to five miles, but the entire backup was most likely closer to ten if you were able to follow it up all the way to where the traffic was first stopped. Fortunately the final I was giving was one that did not require my immediate presence (students had been given it via PDF the week before and asked to complete various tasks in Microsoft Word and Excel — some students had even finished it before the last Nevertheless I was determined to get to Bakersfield I felt it was my duty and obligation. Plus it was the last night of and I wanted to see my students and celebrate their achievement. So, I continued on the 5 south, merged onto the 14 north, drove all the way to Mojave where I intersected with and merged onto Highway 58 West and drove all the way to Bakersfield. The entire effort took me roughly 2.5 hours, but I finally made it to by roughly 7:15 p.m. that night (class began at 6:00 p.m.) and assisted my students!
**Category 2 Hurricane Ike** Chase Summery: Tyler Constantini, Mike Scantlin and I headed to Texas on the 12th of September to ride out Hurricane Ike and film as well as report on its furry as it hit the Galveston Bay and the surrounding Houston Metro. After assisting my Uncle and Aunt install their finnal hurricane shutters early in the morning, Tyler, Mike and I embarked down Interstate 45 towards the Johnson Space Center and arived th shortly after sundown at the Hilton across the street from the space center and near the coast of Clear Lake. By this time the surge was already rising, joining the lake and the nearby Galveston Bay into one large body of water. The hotel where we first started filming at is where Jim Cantore and the Weather Channel as well as MSNBC and NBC and a smaller hand full of local stations were broadcasting out live footage from their sat trucks. We were suprised to see that the surge, well over four hours before the eye would make landfall, was already spilling into the parking lot. On the side of the hotel facing the space center (away from the bay) you will notice that a large area of the Wall had been blown out by the storm. This WAS done by the storm according to the staff person I asked and the winds at the time of th film had YET to reach hurricane force and were just tropical storm force. The area of lost plaster was large enough to drive a full sized semi truck through. Later that night after we left Clear lake when we began to become worried that the surge would block us into the hotel's lot and that we would be come trapped and in fact we were right as this happened to the media crews here which at one point were ordered inside by the local police due to the life threatening conditions that hit there not too long after we had left. We evacuated back to the top of a 6 story parking garage in the Theater District where we watched as power lines arched and transformers blew. Remember, that isn't lightning... those are power flashes. Hurricanes have little to no lightning in them and you can tell they are power flashes by the eerie aqua or green color. Once the eye wall began to move on top of us we ventured out into the downtown area where we started to film the effects of the storms winds as they raced through the large towers that formed the city's skyline. As we passed between the towers the winds began to pick up more and more and we started to see more and more signs of windows being blown out until the inevitable happened and the vehicle was struck with a large piece of glass.... right next to my head! I yelped in horror due to how close it was to me. The camera's mic auto adjusted for the sound of the glass striking the car, turning down the mic's sensitivity for a brief moment. We quickly learned our lesson and headed back to the shelter of our parking garage where we waited out the rest of the storm down one level from the top. The following day we found it a bit troublesome trying to leave the downtown area due to the massive flooding going around it. That scene of us driving over the flood on the interstate was an area where the water had raised well over 15 feet and that WAS NOT storm surge... but rather was strictly freshwater flooding. Before we got on the freeway we were blown away (no pun intended) by just how damaging the hurricane was as just a Cat 2. The storm also gave me quite a surprise on the way home leaving power out around I-45 till we were 3/4ths of the way to Dallas from Houston and even in my home of NW Arkansas there was widespread tree damage and power outages due to Ike which was a tropical storm when it affected my home town. **Hurricane Ike was a CAT 2, Hurricane with winds at landfall blowing at 110mph and has been rated the 3rd Costliest tropical system to hit the US and the 4th costliest Disaster in the nation's historty. Hurricanes and tropical storms are exetremely dangrerous. DO NOT chase them unless you have had training and are not alone and are with an experianced expert. If you are in a mandatory evacuation area head the warnings and leave before it is too late. Please keep your prayers and thoughts with those affected by this system. All footage is copyrighted to Joseph Bart Comstock.** hurricane, tornado, severe weather, severe, weather, meteorology, bart, comsotck, bart comstock, flood, flooding, floods, surge, thunderstorms, tropical, cyclone, tropical cyclone, category 2, category 3, cat, nasa, texas, texas city, kemah, natural, disaster.
Interstate 15 in Las Vegas is undergoing changes to reduce congestion and increase safety in this corridor. Watch this time lapse video of demolition captured by the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada's FAST camera system. Learn more about FAST or the Freeway and Arterial System of Transportation at rtcsnv.com. You can see a higher resolution version of this video at: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7947822346403292191&hl=en
The One... In the U.S. state of North Carolina, U.S. Route 1 is a major north-south state highway west of Interstate 95, passing along the fall line through Laurinburg, Southern Pines, Sanford, Raleigh, and Henderson. North of Henderson, US 1 is paralleled by Interstate 85, but the rest of the route is an independent corridor, upgraded to a divided highway or freeway in most areas. From the South Carolina state line, US 1 passes through Rockingham, Southern Pines and Sanford. In stretches in Aberdeen and Sanford, the highway shares its route with US 15-501. From Southern Pines to Raleigh, U.S. 1 becomes a freeway with controlled intersections, and is known as the Claude E. Pope Memorial Highway. It overlaps a portion of Interstate 440 in Raleigh, then heads north along Capital Boulevard. US 1 travels north through Youngsville, Franklinton, and Kittrell to Henderson, where the highway then parallels Interstate 85 into Virginia. It generally follows the fall line between the Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain on its course through the state. The general route of US 1 in North Carolina was first part of the Capital Highway, an auto trail organized in 1909 to encourage counties along the route to improve the road between Washington and Atlanta. It differed from US 1 north of Norlina, where it ran via Emporia and Roanoke Rapids, and between Southern Pines and Rockingham, where a route via Pinehurst - where the association's president lived - was followed. The Quebec-Miami International Highway, organized in 1911 and renamed the Atlantic Highway in 1915, also followed this corridor, overlapping many parts of the Capital Highway. It initially followed even less of US 1 than the Capital Highway, only taking the same route between Raleigh and Cameron and south of Rockingham, but was modified to match the Capital Highway by 1920, and by 1924 it completely agreed with US 1 in North Carolina. The state assigned the Highway 50 designation to the road by 1922. Emiliano Martino Hilary Thavis Gaia Groove
The One... In the U.S. state of North Carolina, U.S. Route 1 is a major north-south state highway west of Interstate 95, passing along the fall line through Laurinburg, Southern Pines, Sanford, Raleigh, and Henderson. North of Henderson, US 1 is paralleled by Interstate 85, but the rest of the route is an independent corridor, upgraded to a divided highway or freeway in most areas. From the South Carolina state line, US 1 passes through Rockingham, Southern Pines and Sanford. In stretches in Aberdeen and Sanford, the highway shares its route with US 15-501. From Southern Pines to Raleigh, U.S. 1 becomes a freeway with controlled intersections, and is known as the Claude E. Pope Memorial Highway. It overlaps a portion of Interstate 440 in Raleigh, then heads north along Capital Boulevard. US 1 travels north through Youngsville, Franklinton, and Kittrell to Henderson, where the highway then parallels Interstate 85 into Virginia. It generally follows the fall line between the Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain on its course through the state. The general route of US 1 in North Carolina was first part of the Capital Highway, an auto trail organized in 1909 to encourage counties along the route to improve the road between Washington and Atlanta. It differed from US 1 north of Norlina, where it ran via Emporia and Roanoke Rapids, and between Southern Pines and Rockingham, where a route via Pinehurst - where the association's president lived - was followed. The Quebec-Miami International Highway, organized in 1911 and renamed the Atlantic Highway in 1915, also followed this corridor, overlapping many parts of the Capital Highway. It initially followed even less of US 1 than the Capital Highway, only taking the same route between Raleigh and Cameron and south of Rockingham, but was modified to match the Capital Highway by 1920, and by 1924 it completely agreed with US 1 in North Carolina. The state assigned the Highway 50 designation to the road by 1922. Emiliano Martino Hilary Thavis Gaia Groove
The One... In the U.S. state of North Carolina, U.S. Route 1 is a major north-south state highway west of Interstate 95, passing along the fall line through Laurinburg, Southern Pines, Sanford, Raleigh, and Henderson. North of Henderson, US 1 is paralleled by Interstate 85, but the rest of the route is an independent corridor, upgraded to a divided highway or freeway in most areas. From the South Carolina state line, US 1 passes through Rockingham, Southern Pines and Sanford. In stretches in Aberdeen and Sanford, the highway shares its route with US 15-501. From Southern Pines to Raleigh, U.S. 1 becomes a freeway with controlled intersections, and is known as the Claude E. Pope Memorial Highway. It overlaps a portion of Interstate 440 in Raleigh, then heads north along Capital Boulevard. US 1 travels north through Youngsville, Franklinton, and Kittrell to Henderson, where the highway then parallels Interstate 85 into Virginia. It generally follows the fall line between the Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain on its course through the state. The general route of US 1 in North Carolina was first part of the Capital Highway, an auto trail organized in 1909 to encourage counties along the route to improve the road between Washington and Atlanta. It differed from US 1 north of Norlina, where it ran via Emporia and Roanoke Rapids, and between Southern Pines and Rockingham, where a route via Pinehurst - where the association's president lived - was followed. The Quebec-Miami International Highway, organized in 1911 and renamed the Atlantic Highway in 1915, also followed this corridor, overlapping many parts of the Capital Highway. It initially followed even less of US 1 than the Capital Highway, only taking the same route between Raleigh and Cameron and south of Rockingham, but was modified to match the Capital Highway by 1920, and by 1924 it completely agreed with US 1 in North Carolina. The state assigned the Highway 50 designation to the road by 1922. Emiliano Martino Hilary Thavis Gaia Groove
View della costa lungo la One in una giornata in cui le onde sono gigantesche. "There is no way you could describe how incredible these waves were...they look much smaller on camera!" -Hilary In the U.S. state of North Carolina, U.S. Route 1 is a major north-south state highway west of Interstate 95, passing along the fall line through Laurinburg, Southern Pines, Sanford, Raleigh, and Henderson. North of Henderson, US 1 is paralleled by Interstate 85, but the rest of the route is an independent corridor, upgraded to a divided highway or freeway in most areas. From the South Carolina state line, US 1 passes through Rockingham, Southern Pines and Sanford. In stretches in Aberdeen and Sanford, the highway shares its route with US 15-501. From Southern Pines to Raleigh, U.S. 1 becomes a freeway with controlled intersections, and is known as the Claude E. Pope Memorial Highway. It overlaps a portion of Interstate 440 in Raleigh, then heads north along Capital Boulevard. US 1 travels north through Youngsville, Franklinton, and Kittrell to Henderson, where the highway then parallels Interstate 85 into Virginia. It generally follows the fall line between the Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain on its course through the state. The general route of US 1 in North Carolina was first part of the Capital Highway, an auto trail organized in 1909 to encourage counties along the route to improve the road between Washington and Atlanta. It differed from US 1 north of Norlina, where it ran via Emporia and Roanoke Rapids, and between Southern Pines and Rockingham, where a route via Pinehurst - where the association's president lived - was followed. The Quebec-Miami International Highway, organized in 1911 and renamed the Atlantic Highway in 1915, also followed this corridor, overlapping many parts of the Capital Highway. It initially followed even less of US 1 than the Capital Highway, only taking the same route between Raleigh and Cameron and south of Rockingham, but was modified to match the Capital Highway by 1920, and by 1924 it completely agreed with US 1 in North Carolina. The state assigned the Highway 50 designation to the road by 1922. Emiliano Martino Hilary Thavis Gaia Groove
delirio melodico dopo una giornata a guidare sulla mitica One, che in ogni caso ci offre un drive memorabile lungo la costa Ovest degli stati uniti. "Ok, this was not my but we had fun singing to the wind and waves." -Hilary In the U.S. state of North Carolina, U.S. Route 1 is a major north-south state highway west of Interstate 95, passing along the fall line through Laurinburg, Southern Pines, Sanford, Raleigh, and Henderson. North of Henderson, US 1 is paralleled by Interstate 85, but the rest of the route is an independent corridor, upgraded to a divided highway or freeway in most areas. From the South Carolina state line, US 1 passes through Rockingham, Southern Pines and Sanford. In stretches in Aberdeen and Sanford, the highway shares its route with US 15-501. From Southern Pines to Raleigh, U.S. 1 becomes a freeway with controlled intersections, and is known as the Claude E. Pope Memorial Highway. It overlaps a portion of Interstate 440 in Raleigh, then heads north along Capital Boulevard. US 1 travels north through Youngsville, Franklinton, and Kittrell to Henderson, where the highway then parallels Interstate 85 into Virginia. It generally follows the fall line between the Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain on its course through the state. The general route of US 1 in North Carolina was first part of the Capital Highway, an auto trail organized in 1909 to encourage counties along the route to improve the road between Washington and Atlanta. It differed from US 1 north of Norlina, where it ran via Emporia and Roanoke Rapids, and between Southern Pines and Rockingham, where a route via Pinehurst - where the association's president lived - was followed. The Quebec-Miami International Highway, organized in 1911 and renamed the Atlantic Highway in 1915, also followed this corridor, overlapping many parts of the Capital Highway. It initially followed even less of US 1 than the Capital Highway, only taking the same route between Raleigh and Cameron and south of Rockingham, but was modified to match the Capital Highway by 1920, and by 1924 it completely agreed with US 1 in North Carolina. The state assigned the Highway 50 designation to the road by 1922. Emiliano Martino Hilary Thavis Gaia Groove
lasciata la meravigliosa San Francisco dirigendoci a Portland passiamo per la storica "One", la quale ci offre panorami indimenticabili della costa statunitense. The One... In the U.S. state of North Carolina, U.S. Route 1 is a major north-south state highway west of Interstate 95, passing along the fall line through Laurinburg, Southern Pines, Sanford, Raleigh, and Henderson. North of Henderson, US 1 is paralleled by Interstate 85, but the rest of the route is an independent corridor, upgraded to a divided highway or freeway in most areas. From the South Carolina state line, US 1 passes through Rockingham, Southern Pines and Sanford. In stretches in Aberdeen and Sanford, the highway shares its route with US 15-501. From Southern Pines to Raleigh, U.S. 1 becomes a freeway with controlled intersections, and is known as the Claude E. Pope Memorial Highway. It overlaps a portion of Interstate 440 in Raleigh, then heads north along Capital Boulevard. US 1 travels north through Youngsville, Franklinton, and Kittrell to Henderson, where the highway then parallels Interstate 85 into Virginia. It generally follows the fall line between the Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain on its course through the state. The general route of US 1 in North Carolina was first part of the Capital Highway, an auto trail organized in 1909 to encourage counties along the route to improve the road between Washington and Atlanta. It differed from US 1 north of Norlina, where it ran via Emporia and Roanoke Rapids, and between Southern Pines and Rockingham, where a route via Pinehurst - where the association's president lived - was followed. The Quebec-Miami International Highway, organized in 1911 and renamed the Atlantic Highway in 1915, also followed this corridor, overlapping many parts of the Capital Highway. It initially followed even less of US 1 than the Capital Highway, only taking the same route between Raleigh and Cameron and south of Rockingham, but was modified to match the Capital Highway by 1920, and by 1924 it completely agreed with US 1 in North Carolina. The state assigned the Highway 50 designation to the road by 1922. Emiliano Martino Hilary Thavis Gaia Groove
:::::Please read this description::::: Watch in HD at this link below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybyLbBZfV0 ... The making of this film was extremely difficult, i never expected, or have had the problems i had. I had 73 cameras going. 30 outside mounted cameras and 43 in the cab things seemed to be going good till i farted. And the cameras all went bonkers i never thought that farting would have a impact on my equipment, it could have been the cheese omlet, i am not quite sure but i never seen that happen before. Interstate 84 (I-84) is an interstate highway in the Western United States that runs from Portland, Oregon (intersecting I-5) to Echo, Utah (intersecting I-80[1]) and via I-86 Pocatello, Idaho (intersecting with I-15). It follows roughly the same route as the Oregon Trail. (There is also a separate I-84 in the Northeastern United States.) Starting in Portland, where it is referred to as the Banfield Expressway, the interstate runs through the Columbia River Gorge parallel to the Historic Columbia River Highway to The Dalles. It then continues along the Columbia River until it veers in a southeasterly direction at Boardman. East of Pendleton it heads through the Blue Mountains region of eastern Oregon and then crosses the Snake river into Idaho Crossing central Idaho, I-84 passes through Boise (a spur, I-184 connects to the city center), near Twin Falls and through Burley and Rupert. East of Rupert it veers to the southeast and crosses the Utah border. The highway runs concurrently with I-15 between Tremonton and Ogden, running through Brigham City. I-84 terminates at an intersection with I-80 in Summit County near Echo. The west end of I-84 in Portland The west end of I-84 in Portland The western section of I-84 was known as I-80N until May 1, 1980[2]. There was also an I-80S, which is now numbered I-76. Changes in federal guidelines discouraged the use of suffix letters on interstate highways. As a result these two were renumbered. Contents Main article: Interstate 84 in Oregon In the Portland metropolitan area, I-84 is sometimes referred to as the Banfield Freeway or simply "the Banfield", although the official name is the Banfield Expressway. The freeway is named after Thomas H. Banfield, chairman of the Oregon Transportation Commission from 1943-1950. East of Pendleton, Oregon, I-84 traverses the infamous Cabbage Hill grade (a 6% grade). This grade is legendary for the fact that the westbound lanes switchback twice on its descent into Pendleton. Eastbound lanes feature what are the tightest curves on the Interstate system, even though those curves are on the uphill (eastbound) direction. This grade is also well known due to the fact that it features such a great distance between eastbound and westbound lanes, nearly 2 miles (3.2 km) between directions of travel at points. Idaho Main article: Interstate 84 in Idaho I-84 enters Idaho at a crossing of the Snake River just east of Ontario, Oregon. From there, it continues on to the major cities of the Boise metropolitan area, including Caldwell, Nampa, Meridian, and Boise (where I-184 connects travelers to downtown). From Boise, I-84 continues on towards Twin Falls after passing near several small towns (such as Mountain Home, Glenns Ferry, and Jerome). Just east of Jerome I-84 passes within 5 miles (8 kilometers) of Twin Falls, but does not cross the Snake River Canyon or into Twin Falls County. Access to Twin Falls is afforded by an intersection with US 93. After Twin Falls, I-84 continues through Burley and Heyburn. Approximately 7 miles (11.3 kilometers) east of Declo in rural Cassia County, I-84 splits into two branches. One continues as I-84, heading southeast towards Utah. The other is straighter and is known as I-86, heading to American Falls and Pocatello. Utah Main article: Interstate 84 in Utah From Idaho, I-84 enters Utah at a point approximately 7 miles (11.3 kilometers) from Snowville in Box Elder County. It proceeds southeast towards Tremonton where I-84 joins the route of I-15. Just south, at Corinne, Utah, I-84 joins the route of the First Transcontinental Railroad which the highway follows to the its terminus. I-15/I-84 pass to the west of Ogden where I-84 separates from I-15 and follows the Weber River. As the freeway passes through Weber Canyon it also passes through several small farming communities, including Morgan, where the Browning Arms Company headquarters can be seen from the freeway. Also visible in the canyon is Devil's Slide, an unusual rock formation just off the freeway. [4] Farther up the canyon is the 1,000-mile (1,600 km) tree, planted by Union Pacific Railroad workers to mark 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from the railroad's origin in Omaha, Nebraska.[5] The freeway ends at Echo, a near ghost town that before served as a stopover for the railroad, at a junction with Interstate 80. Also near the junction is Echo Reservoir and Echo Dam.
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...say a 14-year-old girl is dead after she ran into the middle of Interstate 15, stopped in traffic and was hit by a tractor-trailer. Coroner's officials say Crystal Pasalis of Adelanto was standing on the freeway's southbound side early Tuesday when she was...
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This video encompasses US 6 westbound from where it is a limited access freeway in Windham to Columbia. There is a break, then the video picks up when US 6 & 44 meet the western terminus of I-384. From there, I went the whole length of I-384, briefly merged with I-84 and finally exited onto US 5/CT 15 to bypass Hartford to the south. This is my first serious attempt at a speed/ time lapse road video. I sped up the video to 1100%. Also, the video looks MUCH better before youtube's horrible compression gets a hold of it. Comments/feedback are welcome.
Way To Las Vegas, Interstate 15
A lone pilot died after his plane crashed in the hills of the Cajon pass, Interstate 15 freeway in California.
Travel westbound on Interstate 80 in Salt Lake City approaching Interstate 15 and downtown Salt Lake.
Travel northbound on Interstate 15 north of Tremonton, Utah.
This a tour of hartford: I-84W to CT-15 South to I-91S, I turned around at CT-3 to CT-2 but did not film that part, then back to I-84W for a mile then to I-91N to I-291E to I-84E...got all that?
President George Bush's Air Force One flies over the Midwest on 9/11. On 9/11, I was photographing planes flying over our farm, located north of Columbus, Ohio. The video was taken after it is thought that the planes were to be grounded. The first plane was in sight around 10:16 -- 10:17 and probably was looking for a place to land. (Next is a view of an Interstate freeway.) The second was a group of what appeared to be three (but possibly was four) planes flying at a very high altitude, which I taped from 6:00-6:03 PM. These planes were flying so high that all I could photograph were the contrails and the camera kept losing its focus on them. I assumed one of these planes was Air Force One carrying Bush because there was a newspaper article the next day that gave Air Force One's trajectory as passing over this location at about the time I saw the planes. Also, this was a formation of three planes and the Bush plane had fighter jet escorts. The planes had been grounded when I taped the afternoon segment (of the three contrails). It is thought that one fighter plane flew on each side of Bush's airplane. However, when they were over central Ohio, one plane left the formation and flew to the south. I was unable to photograph this clearly, but at the end of the tape orally said that that I had originally seen three planes and one swooped away as I was trying to film them. According to the information I have, Bush gave the authority to shoot down commercial flights at about 10:30 AM. It is unclear exactly where Bush was during the 9/11 day. It is thought he landed and then took off from several airports. He was probably on his way from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska to Washington, when he flew over Ohio. Even today, Bush's actions and locations on 9/11 are unclear and unexplained. Bush planned to attend a publicly announced event at the Booker Elementary School in Florida on 9/11. At 8:33, that morning traffic controllers believed Flight 11 had been hijacked, but NORAD and the FAA did not appear to know it until about 8:40. Media reports of Flight 11's crash into the World Trade Center began around 8:48. Flight 175 veered off course around 8:42 and Flight 77 began to go off course about 8:46. Although Flight 93 apparently wasn't hijacked until about 9:16, by about 8:50 it was apparent that at least three planes had been hijacked. At 9:03, Flight 175 crashed into the World Trade Center South Tower. Around 9:00, Secret Service agents burst into Vice President Cheney's office and carried him into the White House basement. Bush was reading a story, The Pet Goat, with children at the Booker school and did not leave until about 9:16-9:20. He wasn't in much of a hurry and continued chatting with people. At 9:16, NORAD was notified that Flight 93 was hijacked and at around 9:24, it was notified that Flight 77 was heading toward Washington. At around 9:26 someone decided to stop all airplane takeoffs in the US. Bush's motorcade was ready to take off for the Sarasota airport around 9:35. A minute later Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. Air Force One and Bush at his publicly announced meeting may have been targeted and may have received threats beginning the previous day. Air Force One with Bush in it took off around 9:27. It climbed almost straight up for about 10 minutes to gain a high altitude. It did not have military fighter protection. Someone ordered the hijacked airliners to be shot down. Bush's plane circled near Sarasota until 10:35. Bush began to zigzag across the country. By 11:30, six fighters protected Air Force One, but it is unclear when they arrived. Air Force One arrived at a base near Shreveport, Louisiana about 11:45. US airspace was declared clear, except for some emergency and military flights, around 12:16. Air Force One left Shreveport around 1:30 and arrived at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska around 3:00. Air Force One left Offutt around 4:30 and landed at Andrews Air Force Base around 6:34. It was said to have been escorted by two F-15 fighters and one F-16. (It is possible that I initially saw 4 planes, rather than 3, for one may have been flying directly behind and in the contrail of another.) Another video, 9/11: Mystery Plane (CNN), shows a mystery plane that flew right over the White House on 9/11. However, what I saw were either three (possibly four) planes flying together at first. Then one flew away to the south.
The Empire Strikes back over California
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