Weather Cat 🇺🇸

Photographer, Lover of Weather, Constitutional Conservative. We are not a Democracy we are a Constitutional Republic. 🇺🇸

[Weather Cat 🇺🇸 @WxCat62]

In 2014 California voters approved Prop 1, which was a bond measure ($7.5 billion) to help with water infrastructure. 12 years later not one dam or reservoir has been built. Where did the $ go? Thank goodness the Federal Government is stepping in to help California's farmers, like raising the Shasta Dam. We grow a lot of food for America and we should not depend on foreign food. Thank you President Trump!

[Secretary Doug Burgum @SecretaryBurgum]

ICYMI: @POTUS’ Working Families Tax Cuts Act has provided over $889 MILLION for Western water projects that is supporting farmers and keeping food prices down!

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🇺🇸 LET’S GO! The Freedom 250 Air Show has OFFICIALLY kicked off here in DC, with NASA Administrator Jared @rookisaacman flying over in his PERSONAL F-5 fighter jets

Joining him were a NASA F-18 and F-15, which have been repainted as AMERICAN FLAGS

Absolute PATRIOTS over at NASA!

[Weather Cat 🇺🇸 @WxCat62]

Love this! ...and yes, it was my Dad who always had "the good stuff" 🧨😂🇺🇸

[Hunter Eagleman™ @Hunter_Eagleman]

Gen X and 4th of July! 🇺🇸

[US Homeland Security News @defense_civil25]

Air Force One flying over Mount Rushmore today!! 🇺🇸

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

In September of 1814, America was once again in trouble.

The young republic was only thirty-eight years old. The War of 1812 had gone badly. British troops had marched into Washington, burned the Capitol, set the White House ablaze, and now turned their sights toward Baltimore. If Fort McHenry fell, the harbor would be open, the city would likely follow, and another devastating blow would be dealt to the fragile nation.

Amid this uncertainty, a young American lawyer named Francis Scott Key sailed under a flag of truce to the British fleet. He had come to negotiate the release of a friend, a physician the British had captured.

He succeeded.

The British agreed to free the doctor.

But there was a catch.

Because Key and his companions had seen too much of the British fleet and learned too much about its plans, they were not allowed to return to shore. Instead, they were detained aboard a ship in the harbor and forced to watch the coming battle from behind enemy lines.

On the morning of September 13, the bombardment began.

For the next twenty-five hours, British warships unleashed somewhere between 1,500 and 1,800 bombs and rockets upon Fort McHenry. These were the “bombs bursting in air” and the “rockets’ red glare” of the song—not poetic embellishments, but terrible realities.

Key stood on the deck through the endless day and the long, terrifying night. Every explosion lit the darkness for a fleeting instant before the smoke swallowed everything again. Somewhere beyond that wall of fire stood the fort. Somewhere beyond it flew an American flag if it still flew at all.

He could not see.

He could only listen.

As long as the guns continued firing, there was reason to hope. The British would not waste ammunition on a fort that had already surrendered.

Then, just before dawn…

The guns fell silent.

For the first time all night, there was only stillness.

It was the most frightening sound of all.

Had the fort finally fallen? Had the defenders surrendered? Had the flag been torn down in the darkness while no one could see?

There was nothing to do but wait.

As the first light of September 14 slowly pushed back the smoke, Francis Scott Key strained his eyes toward the distant fort.

Then he saw it. Not a British flag.

The American flag. Still there. Still flying.

That flag was no ordinary banner. Months earlier, the fort’s commander had commissioned a Baltimore flagmaker, Mary Pickersgill, to sew a flag so enormous “that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a distance.” It measured roughly thirty by forty-two feet, carried fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, and was so large it had to be assembled on the floor of a brewery because no ordinary room could contain it.

That was the Star-Spangled Banner.

The very flag Key saw through the morning mist.

The very flag that still survives today in the Smithsonian.

Overcome by what he had witnessed, Key reached into his pocket, pulled out an envelope, and began writing. The words came from a heart that had spent an entire night fearing his country might disappear with the dawn.

He first titled the poem Defence of Fort M’Henry.

Within days it was printed and circulating throughout the country. Before long, people began singing it to a melody they already knew—an old British tune called “To Anacreon in Heaven,” originally written for a London social club. There is something beautifully ironic in that: America’s most beloved patriotic song borrowed the melody of the very nation it had just survived. It also explains why the anthem is so notoriously difficult to sing. It was never written for ordinary voices gathered in stadiums or school assemblies.

The song spread quickly and became one of America’s favorite patriotic hymns, but it would wait more than a century before receiving official recognition. Not until 1931 did Congress declare “The Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem of the United States.

[Weather Cat 🇺🇸 @WxCat62]

She is now in the Guinness Book of World Records! Congratulations Kelsey!

[Weather Cat 🇺🇸 @WxCat62]

Kelsey Pfendler made it to Honolulu!

[Hawaii News Now @HawaiiNewsNow]

Hundreds gathered along Magic Island Friday to watch solo-rower Kelsey Pfendler complete her record-breaking journey from California to Hawaii.

She began the journey from Monterey, California, to Oahu on May 21 and arrived at the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor Friday.

Pfendler shattered the current women’s record, 86 days, 10 hours and five minutes — but also broke through the men’s record of 52 days.

🔗: https://t.co/ymJjEpEtX3

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: President Trump just posted himself carved into MOUNT RUSHMORE after flying over it in Air Force One

Cue the MELTDOWNS 🤣

And this is the GOLDEN version! 🇺🇸

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

AIR FORCE ONE FLIES OVER MT. RUSHMORE — KICKING OFF AMERICA'S 250TH BIRTHDAY! 🇺🇸

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

UPDATE: The free nectarine giveaway in California is a success

This nectarine farmer is opting to give away his entire 125,000 lbs of ripe nectarines to the public for free

Reminder, he says this is because Big Agriculture in California made it impossible for him to harvest and sell his nectarines

A handful of large marketers and packers control the market and when smaller farmers get deals, the large corporations severely undercut these smaller farmers to drive them out of business

[Bureau of Reclamation @usbr]

A symbol of celebration is rising over Shasta Dam! 🇺🇸

Recently, crews installed two large 20-by-30-foot American flags on the towers at Shasta Dam, setting the stage for this weekend’s Freedom250 festivities.

The massive flags will stand as proud beacons overlooking the dam as we come together today and tomorrow to honor community, history and the spirit of America’s 250th birthday.

📸 1: Maintenance workers at the Northern California Area Office install one of two large flags on a maintenance tower at Shasta Dam.

📸 2: Each tower at Shasta Dam now displays a 20-by-30-foot American flag.

#Freedom250 #Reclamation

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Liberals who support this guy have no idea what this dumbass just did to his family.

- NO RETIREMENT
- NO BENEFITS
- NO VA
- FELON STATUS

He’s married with children. So no insurance, pay, health care, or education benefits for him or his kids.

Congrats, liberals. Another useful idiot that wasted his life…and you’ll forget and move on. How compassionate.
@RepAlGreen

[KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler @MCCCANM]

A guide to the 4th of July flyover, from right to left & top to bottom.

(I didn’t make this, but don’t know who to credit, sorry).

[Weather Cat 🇺🇸 @WxCat62]

The State of California still has one more week to count ballots. Insane!

[El Centro Sector Border Patrol @USBPChiefELC]

🔫 BREAKING: This illegal alien construction worker from El Salvador was busted by the Premier Sector on his way to #CulverCity, CA with 11 firearms, 23 magazines, and multiple rounds of ammunition!   

🚔Rap sheet:
• DUI × Multiple
• Suspended license
• Felony evading

This criminal and his illegally obtained arsenal are off the streets and out of your communities.

#PremierSector #USBP #CBP #DHS #Indio #losangeles

[Weather Cat 🇺🇸 @WxCat62]

@LuluGNavarro Only a socialist-commie would find America's might flying over DC for our 250th as "Nerve-wracking" or the "apocalypse". What are you scared of? There are a lot of US that would give anything to be there to watch.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 F-35 Lightnings are literally HOVERING over DC, dropping so low that they disappeared behind 12 story buildings

Before popping back up and rocketing around the Capitol and Washington Monument

And keep in mind: today are just PRACTICE RUNS. Tomorrow is going to be INSANE

[Weather Cat 🇺🇸 @WxCat62]

Very cool! It’s on ADS-B too!

[Brick Suit @Brick_Suit]

HOLY TOLEDO!*
We got ourselves a patriot in the air!

A Cessna with tail number N4936T just completed a USA 250th flight complete with map of the lower 48.

Impressive.👍

*And Cleveland.
https://t.co/tnu750f1UZ

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🔥 HOLY CRAP! A MASSIVE trove of America’s most elite military airpower just flew DIRECTLY over the National Mall

TWO B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers, TWO B-1B Lancer supersonic bombers, COUNTLESS fighter jets, refueling aircraft, and more

The NEW Air Force One will be joining this formation TOMORROW

This one today is just a placeholder 747. Had to save the real one for the real show 😉

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

B-1 Lancers and a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber flying over the National Mall for America 250 🇺🇸