Our wind speedometer broke. We had 100 mile-per-hour winds for four-plus hours with gusts up to 150 mph. I would characterize the damage as heavy, but not catastrophic.

It won't be quite as bad as this morning, but wind gusts of 45 miles per hour can be felt on your car.

Forty-mile-per-hour gusts are enough to start pulling big conifers down. And with six weeks of precipitation, it will take a little less effort to pull them down.

It's like trying to hold back a 50 mile-per-hour gale. You can do it for so long before it gets a hold of you.

Sixty mile-an-hour winds, over five hours, will raise seas from dead calm to about 19 feet.

It takes about three to four times more maintenance man-hours per flight hour to maintain than the newer Hornet. Retiring the extremely relevant but maintenance intensive Tomcat was a way to save the exhaustive efforts of our people and better spend their labors.