Bruce Hebbard

Software developer #weather #missing #GIS-#USNG #SAR(fan) #AvGeek #AI #CompSci #UMich/CSE

[Caring Guy💙🇺🇸🌈✌🏻 @caringguy1957]

Powerful story, but parts of this are embellished.

Heather Penney absolutely deserves respect. She and Marc Sasseville did scramble in unarmed F-16s on 9/11 prepared to ram a hijacked aircraft if necessary. That part is true.

What’s not true is the dramatic setup here. She was not “already in the air on a routine training flight” and then ordered back. She was on the ground at Andrews in a briefing room when the attacks happened. She didn’t land into chaos, she watched it unfold like everyone else.

And the timeline matters. Flight 93 crashed at 10:03. Penney and Sasseville didn’t get airborne until around 10:42. They were never chasing Flight 93 in real time like this post makes it sound.

That doesn’t make her courage any less real. It just means facts matter. Heroism doesn’t need Hollywood embellishment to be heroic.

[NWS Weather Prediction Center @NWSWPC]

A High Risk for Excessive Rainfall has been issued for portions of the Central Gulf Coast today. High Risks are not issued lightly & indicate the potential for both widespread & life-threatening flash flooding.

🛑NEVER walk or drive into flood waters. Turn around, don't drown!

[Bruce Hebbard @blhebbard]

Same.

[Eyewitness News @ABC7NY]

LaGuardia Airport runway to temporarily shut down after 'depression' found: officials https://t.co/nlKQpSjFrv

[Bruce Hebbard @blhebbard]

RT @NHC_Atlantic: Jun 17 10AM CDT: First Tropical Storm of the season forms in the Atlantic Basin. Here are the Key Messages for Tropical S…

[PGPDNEWS @PGPDNews]

STILL MISSING: Please help us locate Ms. Rowley by sharing her image. https://t.co/WQwmAoygwy

[White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool]

Pool Report 14/Another flyover

A B-1 bomber flew over the Claw from the south at 11:34 p.m.

It was extremely loud and likely woke up people who went to bed early around downtown DC.

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Sun. Jun. 14, 11:40 PM

[Flightradar24 @flightradar24]

Operations at DCA were held while a B-1 conducted a flyover of the National Mall and White House a few minutes ago. https://t.co/2SIy4ECsGI

[Metro Forward @wmata]

We're celebrating one year of Automatic Train Operation across all Metro Rail lines! 🔴🟠⚪️🔵🟢🟡🚇🎉

The stats speak for themselves: ATO has saved customers LOADS of time over the past year! It makes our trains safer, more reliable, and gets you to your destination faster!

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Today, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope leaves NASA Goddard for the Port of Baltimore to begin its journey to the Kennedy Space Center.

This August, Roman will launch into space, broadening our understanding of our solar system & universe.

Excited to see it on the move!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

[MichiganAI @michigan_AI]

Would you rent your time & skills to #AI agents?

@UMichCSE Prof. Michael Wellman weighs in on https://t.co/3RhZd6rFOm, a newly launched platform designed so that humans can help AI agents who need assistance in the physical world.
🔗https://t.co/TXgfPGb1W2

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Somali referee Omar Artan, who was set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup finals, has been denied entry to the United States.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

A Nepali climbing guide who went missing on Mount Everest and was believed dead has been found alive after crawling alone almost to Base Camp, officials say. His wife had even begun to offer last rite prayers for his soul. https://t.co/VkUisOi804

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Nearly 40 years after his snub by FDR, President Gerald Ford invited legendary Olympian Jesse Owens to the White House in August 1976. To Owens' shock, Ford proceeded to not only honor him, but present him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

It was a long-overdue recognition for a man whose triumphs had transcended sport. Owens, son of a sharecropper and grandson of enslaved Americans, had stunned the world at 1936 Berlin Olympics by winning four gold medals in the face of Adolf Hitler’s white supremacist propaganda.

His dominance on the world stage not only shattered Nazi racial ideology but also made him a global icon of resilience, excellence, and dignity.

Yet when he returned home to the U.S., Owens received no call from the White House, no ticker-tape parade. President Franklin D. Roosevelt never sent a letter, made a phone call, or invited him for a visit, reportedly fearing backlash from Southern voters.

Owens would later say, “I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.”

Ford’s invitation in 1976, at the nation’s bicentennial, served as a symbolic correction to that wrong.

In presenting the Medal of Freedom, Ford called Owens “a young man who possibly didn’t realize the greatness of his own accomplishments” and acknowledged the profound impact Owens had on the world. For Owens, it was more than a medal, it was long-delayed validation from the country he had so proudly represented.

© Historical Photos

#drthehistories

[Aviation @xAviation]

Slow motion of a Boeing 777’s triple bogie gear touching down. The front and rear wheels spin up first while the center tyres stay still until the struts compress and the aircraft fully settles onto the runway. Peak engineering

📹: j_aviation_photo

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

"I before E, except after C."

[MichiganAI @michigan_AI]

Thrilled to congratulate Michigan AI Director Prof. @radamihalcea for being elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the most prestigious honors a U.S. scholar can receive! 👏🥳
https://t.co/cDHD4ha7SI

[WTOP @WTOP]

A large slab of concrete fell onto Interstate 395 under the 7th Street SW overpass in D.C. on Monday.

https://t.co/Kumsf0TfBt

[CBS New York @CBSNewYork]

Colbert interviewed actor Jeff Daniels during the hour-long broadcast that leaned heavily into Michigan-centric jokes.
https://t.co/AhlzJFJkLg

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

The flooding we witnessed on Thursday was a reminder that natural disasters can strike without warning — and that emergency preparedness saves lives.

I was grateful to join emergency responders yesterday at New York City’s Continuity of Operations Full Scale Exercise Training, a 10-day summit that equips frontline workers with protocols for large-scale emergencies and natural disasters.

As climate change intensifies extreme weather, you can rest assured that our city has prepared for the worst, so we can protect New Yorkers when it matters most.