Helicopter Day
It's helicopter day at my office. I'm on the 18th floor of an office building facing the Texas Capitol, with floor-to-ceiling windows, and I sit almost directly next to those windows, so I had an interesting vantage point for all this SimCity craziness today.
First, there was the Life Flight helicopter that I'm used to seeing lift off/land at the nearby hospital. For no obvious reason, it came barreling northbound on Congress Avenue at a height slightly LOWER than the floor I'm on, and then banked hard left towards the West, basically at a 90 degree angle with the ground and the rotors at almost full power. This is unusual. They never fly that low, and never that fast, and the hospital is to the east, not the west from here. I'm assuming that he was an immediately available eye-in-the-sky for the second helicopter...
Second, there was the Police helicopter three or so blocks to the Northwest, that was hovering above a man that was carrying a large rifle near the Capitol building.
Third, and presently, is a small group of Army helicopters(two Apache attack helicopters, an Apache Scout, and a Blackhawk) that are orbiting around the Capitol just above the height of my building.
What's next for this SimCity madness? A UFO? Volcano? Geraldo?!?
First, there was the Life Flight helicopter that I'm used to seeing lift off/land at the nearby hospital. For no obvious reason, it came barreling northbound on Congress Avenue at a height slightly LOWER than the floor I'm on, and then banked hard left towards the West, basically at a 90 degree angle with the ground and the rotors at almost full power. This is unusual. They never fly that low, and never that fast, and the hospital is to the east, not the west from here. I'm assuming that he was an immediately available eye-in-the-sky for the second helicopter...
Second, there was the Police helicopter three or so blocks to the Northwest, that was hovering above a man that was carrying a large rifle near the Capitol building.
Third, and presently, is a small group of Army helicopters(two Apache attack helicopters, an Apache Scout, and a Blackhawk) that are orbiting around the Capitol just above the height of my building.
What's next for this SimCity madness? A UFO? Volcano? Geraldo?!?