Randi, "goodness that must be a new honey bee contraption of Dad's...what is next for these honey bees?"Halsey, "Oh my I think we should call the sheriff...it has a box attached to 100' of rope 80' up into another tree and a test tube attached to a huge balloon...whats in the box....get the binoculars....Ross what do you think...?"
Ross, "Yea call the sheriff...look at that yellow stuff in the test tube...how are we going to get that stuff down...call the national weather service too....my binoculars are not strong enough to read the letters on the box...lets see what the sheriff says..."
Conclusion: after the sheriff came out he said, "hum... this is a first for me....but I'm going to call someone I know who works for a weather station .... Yea this fits the profile for weather balloons coming out of Blacksburg. We may have to help get it down with the fire dept. give the National Weather service a call and have them call the county if they need help getting this out of your trees." He left us with the NOAA number.
Of coarse we called NOAA and talked to several people and Stephen from the Blacksburg office had us e-mail a few pictures to NOAA for ID . They are working on a plan for retrieval so that the equipment can be returned to Kansas where they recondition the equipment connected to the balloon to use again. Stephen invited us the visit the weather station for a tour and observation of a weather balloon launch for our efforts.
Oh by the way the yellow stuff in a the test tube it holds a antenna in place for the balloon tracking equipment.
This is so ironic as much as Ross watches the weather.
Stay tuned to the weather balloon retrieval experience.
"Goes to show ya:" If you are observant sometimes really interesting experiences come from out of the BLUE when you least expect it.
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