DaveG

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

And then there were 1,696‼️

Here are the biggest winners and losers from every NFL team’s 2026 roster cuts ✂️

Full breakdown here: https://t.co/Jx0bah9kXH

[DaveG @napali67]

@Ojeda4America @xJonNYC WTAF?!

[Scott Bateman MBE @scottiebateman]

I posted yesterday about the Airlink flypast in Cape Town and like many professional pilots, I was aghast.

The reaction to this flypast has been fascinating.

For some, it was spectacular. A moment of national pride, flown by experienced South African aviators and apparently carefully planned, rehearsed and approved.

I understand that.

But here’s why so many professional aviators are uncomfortable with what we saw.

Aviation is extraordinarily safe precisely because we question ourselves.

We debrief. We challenge. We report. We investigate. And sometimes, even when something was legal, authorised and went exactly as planned, we still ask…

Was that really a good idea?

That isn’t negativity. It isn’t disrespect. And it certainly isn’t an attack on South African aviation.

It’s mature safety culture.

The lead aircraft reportedly cleared the stadium roof by around 40–50 feet. Hundreds of professional aviators around the world have looked at those images and expressed concern.

That deserves more than “nothing to see here”.

Perhaps the eventual conclusion will be that everything was conducted entirely within the approved parameters. But a mature safety culture should still be capable of saying: we planned it, we approved it, we flew it, and with hindsight, perhaps the margins were tighter than they needed to be.

Because aviation didn’t become one of the safest forms of transport by defending everything that worked.

It became safe by relentlessly examining the things that nearly didn’t. And this is wholeheartedly one of those times.

Every time pilots challenge something, file a report, admit an error or question an accepted practice, somebody flying tomorrow is a little safer because of it.

That’s why professional aviators can sometimes sound overly cautious. The flypast fun police!!

We’re not trying to take the spectacle out of aviation. Quite the opposite in fact.

We’re trying to make sure everyone gets to enjoy it again tomorrow.

[LaughBreak: Dad Jokes ‘N More @MediocreJoker85]

During a visit to the United States, the Pope turned to his limousine driver and said, “I’ve always wanted to drive one of these things.”

Being a devout Catholic, the driver didn’t dare refuse His Holiness, so they switched seats.

A few minutes later, the Pope was flying down the highway at over 80 mph.

A state trooper clocked him, turned on his lights, and pulled the limo over.

The trooper walked up, looked inside, and immediately returned to his patrol car. He radioed the police chief.

“Chief, I’ve got a problem. I just pulled over a limousine with a very important VIP inside.”

“Who is it? The mayor?”

“No, Chief. Much more important.”

“The governor?”

“No, sir. Even more important.”

“Don’t tell me it’s the President!”

“No, Chief. Somebody even more important.”

“Who could possibly be more important than the President?”

The trooper lowered his voice.

“I don’t know who the guy in the backseat is, but he’s got the Pope driving him around.”

[Matthew Klint - Live And Let's Fly @LiveandLetsFly]

FAA Rejected American’s Ask On Boeing 787 Wing Cracks https://t.co/Y0FdG9KnvG

[DaveG @napali67]

@KFANRosen Very well said Mark…..

[Grand Canyon NPS @GrandCanyonNPS]

🚨 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE REQUESTED

The NPS is asking for information about more than 20 individuals who may be missing or unaccounted for following the Aug. 29 flash flood in Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area.

If you know of hikers/backpackers who were in the Bright Angel Creek corridor Aug. 29—or had a campground reservation there—please contact NPS Investigative Services Branch:

📞 888-653-0009
📧 [email protected]
This includes those who may have been on the North Kaibab Trail between the trailhead and Phantom Ranch, at Bright Angel Campground, or in “the Box” north of Phantom Ranch.

https://t.co/Bywrohwc44

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Deer synchronized prancing through a snow covered Calgary yard.

📽: 12jlg5/reddit

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

🚨⚠️ Mediterranean sea transport sucks!

Let me say it

Tourists treated like animals — Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, none of them excluded

They all suck: they sail in rough waves, bad weather, people getting sick

Enough is enough
There needs to be proper regulation

And meanwhile today, for reasons still unknown, a ferry between Cyprus and Turkey capsized

(A video from a few days ago with rough seas on that route 👇)

[Grand Canyon NPS @GrandCanyonNPS]

⚠️ UPDATE: Significant flash flooding in Bright Angel Canyon has closed Phantom Ranch, Bright Angel Campground, the entire North Kaibab Trail to Phantom Ranch, Black Bridge, Silver Bridge and the Colorado River to river traffic until further notice.

As of this morning, 62 people have been evacuated. Additional evacuations are planned today. No injuries reported.

Nearly all footbridges spanning Bright Angel Creek were destroyed. Additional thunderstorms and heavy rainfall are possible today and Monday, with potential for more flash flooding, debris flows and rockfall.

https://t.co/n5yz7tHx2O

[DaveG @napali67]

@SteveNomadic Well articulated

[Ben Schlappig @OneMileataTime]

Is American Really Losing $1 Billion A Year At Chicago O’Hare? Here’s What The Data Shows
https://t.co/duHP8WlE3K

[GopherHole.com @GopherHole]

Negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full.

😳😳😳

[Sam Stein @samstein]

EXCLUSIVE: In leaked audio of private meeting, a House Republican concedes Trump is exhausting GOP voters, says the Lake America name change stunt doesn't help, and frets about her reelection in an R+9 district in a deep red state.

via @JoePerticone

https://t.co/MXmEeeqTYZ

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

“She is further distorting the world for a man who, with every passing year, is detaching more and more from reality. His world is narrowing to a pinhole” https://t.co/4yNuM0pMqr

[NewsNation @NewsNation]

Ninety Americans remain missing after floods and mudslides ravaged the border region between Nepal and Tibet. Sunny Patel and his family are desperately searching for his father, who was in the border region when the flash floods struck.

MORE: https://t.co/ANAZ0NQ0zW

[DaveG @napali67]

@atrupar Sticking with that take will help her lose the election, which is ideal…….

[World News Tonight @ABCWorldNews]

Video shows a Wisconsin father at a youth football game run onto the field and tripped a nine-year-old player, leaving parents stunned. Police say he admitted to wrongdoing, was cited and banned from attending games. @Morganorwood has details. https://t.co/BFjE284itP

[MyRadar Weather @MyRadarWX]

This is the scariest weather alert ever issued in the United States.

21 years ago today, at 10:11 a.m. on Sunday, August 28, 2005, the National Weather Service in New Orleans, Louisiana released the infamous "doomsday statement." It was a first-of-its-kind warning, and is downright chilling.

Moments earlier, Katrina had intensified into a Category 5 behemoth with 175 mph winds, and was on a crash course with southeast Louisiana. Forecasts called for a Category 4 or 5 strike on New Orleans within 24 hours.

Robert Ricks Jr., a forecaster at the New Orleans NWS office, issued the following dire warning:

National Weather Service New Orleans LA
10:11 AM CDT Sun Aug 28 2005
...Devastating damage expected...

Hurricane Katrina, a most powerful hurricane with unprecedented strength, rivaling the intensity of Hurricane Camille of 1969.

Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks, perhaps longer. At least one half of well-constructed homes will have roof and wall failure. All gabled roofs will fail, leaving those homes severely damaged or destroyed.

The majority of industrial buildings will become non-functional. Partial to complete wall and roof failure is expected. All wood-framed low-rising apartment buildings will be destroyed. Concrete block low-rise apartments will sustain major damage, including some wall and roof failure.

High-rise office and apartment buildings will sway dangerously, a few to the point of total collapse. All windows will blow out.

Airborne debris will be widespread and may include heavy items such as household appliances and even light vehicles. Sport utility vehicles and light trucks will be moved. The blown debris will create additional destruction. Persons, pets, and livestock exposed to the winds will face certain death if struck.

Power outages will last for weeks, as most power poles will be down and transformers destroyed. Water shortages will make human suffering incredible by modern standards.

The vast majority of native trees will be snapped or uprooted. Only the heartiest will remain standing but be totally defoliated. Few crops will remain. Livestock left exposed to the winds will be killed.

An inland hurricane wind warning is issued when sustained winds near hurricane force, or frequent gusts at or above hurricane force, are certain within the next 12 to 24 hours.

Once tropical storm and hurricane force winds onset, do not venture outside!"

Within an hour, the mayor of New Orleans issued the first-ever mandatory evacuation of the city.

Katrina came ashore on August 29 as a slightly-weakened 125 mph Category 3 hurricane. The worst damage didn't come from wind, but rather levee failures.

Rob Perillo, a longtime meteorologist in Lafayette, Louisiana, described the statement as "one of the first hurricane bulletins that ‘humanized’ the forecast."

Josh Morgerman, the world's most prolific hurricane chaser, concurred.

"It turned out that Katrina’s winds were nowhere near as strong as what’s described in that bulletin, the water impacts were actually *worse* than feared—both the levy failures in the city and the gargantuan storm surge in Mississippi," he wrote. "So, in the end, despite how crazy it sounded, the bulletin was right. It correctly predicted a massive, catastrophic, generational impact."

Bryan Norcross, the "Hero of Hurricane Andrew", which hit South Florida in 1992, discussed the challenge of communicating an "extreme, unsurvivable event" like Katrina.

"The only choice is to assume the odds are 100% that it will occur," he wrote. "If you're responsible for communicating the hazard, you don't want to leave any room for 'maybe it won't be so bad.'" He said the New Orleans NWS office had taken the same approach.

Forecaster Robert Ricks was the one who pulled the trigger on the bulletin, but the language actually came from Barry Goldsmith, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Tampa Bay back in the 1990s. (Nowadays he works as warning coordination meteorologist at NWS Brownsville, Texas.) He had originally drafted the language “based on wind-related impacts that could be expected with the landfall of a Category 5 hurricane.”

“[It was] based on real-world history of such impacts from prior events across the United States and its territories,” wrote Goldsmith in an email. “Rather than only stating Category 5 wind speeds – in this case, 160 mph - and a short description of generic impacts, the statement included wording that began with a harrowing description of the length of recovery.”

Roughly 10 months after Katrina's passage, National Weather Service completed a service assessment evaluating the forecast. They lauded the unconventional approach forecasters had taken.

“Due to the unprecedented detail and foreboding nature of the language used, the statement helped reinforce the actions of emergency management officials as they coordinated one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history,” wrote the National Weather Service in a service assessment published in June 0f 2006. “This statement was highly effective.”

The agency called it a “significant moment for [the National Weather Service].”

[Paul Douglas @pdouglasweather]

Soggy Pronto Pup Alert: a warm frontal boundary will spark heavy T-storms late tonight and Saturday morning, possible MCS (Mesoscale Convective System). Wet start to Saturday but it should dry out by midday

Best chance of small hail/gusty winds in the metro: 5 am to 10 am