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AIN Blog: Trials by Mother Nature
NBAA put out a press release yesterday noting that there are “only 40 days left until NBAA 2011.” That's fitting, with Hurricane Irene’s liquid legacy thre

NBAA put out a press release yesterday noting that there are “only 40 days left until NBAA 2011.” That's fitting, with Hurricane Irene’s liquid legacy threatening to linger for a biblical 40 days and 40 nights.

It’s been quite a week for Mother Nature here in the eastern United States, starting with the Virginia earthquake on August 23 and, the following weekend, Hurricane Irene’s crashing entrance in North Carolina. The epicenter of the 5.8-magnitude quake shook Virginia hard and rattled cages as far away as Indianapolis, Toronto, Martha’s Vineyard and the Carolinas. Some ATC towers in the northeast were evacuated, and here in New Jersey many of us were treated to the uncommon sensation of feeling the ground shake for about half a minute.

Nigel Moll
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