26 years ago today

[Little-Acorn]

I was at the BMEWS radar site ten miles from the old Thule, Greenland. Was in the 2nd day of a four-day arctic hurricane (called Phase storms in those parts), fairly common around there in winter. No one is allowed to step outside any building till one of those is over. It was three more days before I could get back to Thule main base and see pics.

And a month before I next saw the sun.

[no1brownsfan]

I remember that day. I was in 7th grade, and at home sick with a nasty cold. I had just come down stairs, and my grandmother called to check on me and asked if I saw the space shuttle launch and that something had happened. So I flipped on the tv, and was absolutely stunned at what I saw!