> just received this interesting data point from a > friend. > > "Thought you might like to pass this on. Looks as > though a lot of parades are > going to get rained on. I live within 10 miles of > Westover Reserve Airbase > (101st Airlift Command). This base is the last stop > for any aircraft leaving > the country for anyplace in the middle east or > Europe. Kind of like the last > gas station before you enter the desert of the south > west. > > Well anyway. The planes have been leaving since > about 3:00 am at the rate of > four an hour / every hour. That's one plane every > fifteen minutes. From 3:00 > am until 3:00 pm is 12 hours X 4 = 48 planes, but > that's only the ones I know > of. Normally I'd say something big is going on but > not this time. At that > rate... Something HUGE is going on, really huge. > > My bet is that something is going to hit the fan, > like never before, very > soon."