Jake Donovan wrote:
From what I have heard from reliable folks, almost all hangers at Whiting
lost their roofs. No word on the aircraft. We were going to take the NAS
SAR to Whiting but time constraints stopped us.

I saw what I thought was an NAS P'cola SAR H-3 flying there this
morning and a few days ago. Not sure why...?

Just about all the aircraft made it up to Memphis, and they will get
flown back starting in a few days. A handful got left behind in the
hangars, and AFAIK they didn't fare too badly. The gate guard
aircraft suffered varying amounts of damage- the helos are beat up
bad and missing a lot of parts, the front canopy on the T-34 slid
open, while the T-28 has been away for painting for a few months.

The rest of the buildings had varying damage, mostly in the roofs.

The base has been used by the National Guard for the past week.

Lastly, as for when things will return to normal, I doubt there will
be many or any "X's" even next week, but right now there is a winging
planned for next Friday.

Oops, one more thing- one of the gate sentries at Whiting, who was on
the base through the whole thing, told me that sometime before the
power went out and around the time of the eye making landfall, the
lawn sprinklers came on in the middle of the storm...