Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA29197; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 14:16:35 -0700 Return-Path: <hodges@Breakaway.Stanford.EDU-DeleteThis> Received: from Breakaway.Stanford.EDU by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA130977394; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 14:16:35 -0700 Received: from localhost by Breakaway.Stanford.EDU (8.6.10/inc-1.0) id OAA07754; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 14:12:47 -0700 Message-Id: <199510192112.OAA07754@Breakaway.Stanford.EDU-DeleteThis> Subject: of vortexes and other phenoms To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Date: Thu, 19 Oct 95 14:12:46 -0700 From: Jeff Hodges <hodges@Breakaway.Stanford.EDU-DeleteThis> X-Mts: smtp
Last eve while sailing off the end of the approach runways at SFO I saw a small
waterspout - such phenom having been mentioned in these hallowed pages before
(last winter/spring I believe). Anyway, it appeared after a 'heavy' went thru
for landing. I was south of the orange piers, and heading north towards them.
Was about mast high, and not terribly think with water. looked like a desert
dust devil. it traveled away from the end of the runway, across my path and
onwards. I lost sight of it behind my not-so-clear-anymore sail.
And then this reminds me to mention something I've been meaning to ask about...
I saw a ~whirlpool~ at crissy a month or so ago. It was SE of the north tower
about 200m and was within 5 min or so of a very large container ship having
gone out the gate. it was a hard flood tide coming back in. I was heading back
towards the coast guard station from the north tower and heard this sucking
noise in my path. came up on it, & sailed past. it was about 10 ft across and 3
feet deep and looked like a giant version of the whirlpools I used to create &
play with when draining the tub as a kid (ok so mebbe I still play with 'em, so
what's yer point?). Anyway, I hit a hole right near it (air eddy remaining from
the ship?), and fell in. Man, I didn't let go of that boom, managed to get a
puff in a few seconds and slogged on out of there. It was sittin' there sucking
away the entire time I was in the area (mebbe 45s). Anyone else ever see such?
and now back to our regularly-scheduled perl script debugging...
Jeff
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