Following passage of the waterspout, the crew prepares to drop the anchor for the TAO buoy. The anchor is composed of railway wheels. This is the last anyone will see of these railroad wheels for a very long time. Operations on the NOAA Ship GORDON GUNTER.

Coatings Specialist, James Payton, painting buoy components.

6-Meter Buoy being relocated through parking lot.

3 10-meter Hurricane Buoys prior to deployment.

Field Technicians preparing 10-Meter Buoy for deployment.

Welding 10-Meter Buoy hull.

10-Meter Buoy reconditioning.

Field Technicians preparing 10-Meter Buoy for deployment.

Technicians preparing 3-Meter Buoy for sub-surface instrumentation.

Ballast adjustment of 6-Meter NOMAD Buoy.

Prepping hull of 10-Meter Buoy.

Assembly of crow's nest on 10-Meter Buoy.

10-Meter Buoy being relocated for launch.

Engineers with TAO Buoy.

10-Meter Buoy being relocated for launch.

10-Meter Buoy being relocated for launch.

Pre-launch checkout of 10-Meter Buoy.

Pre-launch checkout of 10-Meter Buoy.

TAO Buoy.

12-Meter Buoy hull preparation.

Extreme Environment 6-Meter Buoy prior to deployment.

3-Meter display buoy with Hurricane Hunter aircraft.

NOAA tsunami buoys - DART surface buoys.

NOAA tsunami buoys - DART surface buoys.

A NOAA tsunami buoy - DART surface buoy - with pressure sensor. The DART system provides real-time tsunami detection as waves travel across an ocean basin. The stations consist of a bottom pressure sensor that is anchored to the seafloor and a companion moored surface buoy.

Ceremony in Phuket, Thailand, where the MV SEAFDEC ship was ready to set sail to deploy the first Indian Ocean tsunami detection buoy.

The MV SEAFDEC ship was ready to set sail to deploy the first Indian Ocean tsunami detection buoy.

Moose finds new use for weather instruments at experimental Forest Service meteorological site.

Moose finds new use for weather instruments at experimental Forest Service meteorological site.

Moose finds new use for weather instruments at experimental Forest Service meteorological site.

Moose finds new use for weather instruments at experimental Forest Service meteorological site.

Moose find new use for weather instruments at experimental Forest Service meteorological site.

Following the devastation of Hurricane Rita, Southern Region HQ put out a call for assistance for stricken Weather Service employees. Central Region Electronic Systems Specialists Michael Gill, Pat Baye, Alan Johnson, and Bill Whitlock responded and helped not only restore critical Weather Service systems but helped repair homes of fellow NWS employees.

This home belonged to the Lake Charles WSFO IT specialist who had closed on it one week prior to the hurricane. Fortunately no one was hurt. Central Region employees spent many hours here and at other homes chain sawing through the mass of debris and helping remove fallen trees.

Following the devastation of Hurricane Rita, Southern Region HQ put out a call for assistance for stricken Weather Service employees. Central Region Electronic Systems Specialists Michael Gill, Pat Baye, Alan Johnson, and Bill Whitlock responded and helped not only restore critical Weather Service systems but helped repair homes of fellow NWS employees.

Looking down the main street running through Lake Charles. Without a government badge or media pass, nobody was allowed beyond the exits of the interstate entering the town. Every exit was blocked by armed National Guard and State Police.

The National Weather Center at Norman, Oklahoma. This brand new building had been dedicated on September 29, 2006.

Men's Room does double-duty during tornado warnings at Will Rogers World Airport.

A balloon's eye-view from 96,925 feet. Dr. Hall and his student Allen Jordan attached a camera to an atmospheric weather balloon that attained a maximum height of approximately 100,000 above sea level. This image was taken at 96,295 above sea level and captured a magnificent view of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains and the curvature of the Earth.

A Jack in the Box sign crushed a vehicle during Hurricane Rita.

A house either floated off its foundation or was blown off its foundation and landed on this vehicle. There are many instances of vehicles going through buildings but few of buildings going through vehicles.

A U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) station.

A U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) station.

A U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) station.

A U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) station.

A U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) station.

A U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) station.

A U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) station.

Site maintenance being performed at a U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) station.

Site maintenance being performed at a U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) station. The visible smoke in the background is from a forest fire in Glacier National Park, a fire which led to the evacuation of St. Mary Village a few hours after the photograph was taken.