“All ships, break and attack in three…two…one…now,” Jack counted down and felt his Avenger’s systems come alive around him. T&J shifted into the drumbeats of war, and he slammed the throttle forward to send them accelerating towards the Shang. Avengers,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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“I’m tired, boss…I’m tired of people being ugly to each other. I’m tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There’s too much of it. It’s like pieces of glass in my head, all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Wang Chung Five lifted above the ridge and Natalie and Jasmine opened up, sending autocannon rounds, streams of machinegun fire, laser beams, and missiles streaking between the combatants. Stray rounds ricocheted off the tank’s armor, flying off into the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Break,” Jack ordered and pulled the controls to the left. Thrusters flared and the formation of Avengers exploded into a chaotic mess of individually maneuvering fighters. Or so the complicated maneuver was designed to look to outside eyes. In reality[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The Shang are painting us with sensor sweeps,” Betty reported and glanced towards one of the displays where it showed a complex diagram of colors. “We’re scattering and jamming below detection levels. But I think they’re getting suspicious.” “Prepare to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We were recovering from one hurricane a week ago. Now we are being hit by another. And this is September 11. It is amazing the confluence of events that can happen on any of the three hundred and sixty five[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This has been an interesting week in America. Hurricane Harvey smashed much of the Gulf Coast into dust bunnies and flooded hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes. Fires in the west threaten cities and they would love[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hurricane Harvey is fading from the news. The hurricane itself is a thing of the past. But make no mistake that Harvey is still with us. A chemical plant is on fire right now because it lost power. It’s backup[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hurricane Harvey is no more. He is a few scattered storms generating merely six inches of rain or so in the Ohio River Valley. He’s a little bit of local flooding now, but his legacy lives on. Overloaded river systems[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hurricane Harvey is fading, but levies are still stressed to their maximum. Dams are beyond capacity and nearing their failure point. They have no choice but to dump water into neighborhoods that have survived the last week in order to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…