The Week of March 8, 2020 –APC, RAIN, The Corona Virus, and Project Updates
The featured image this week is an east elevation view of the towers, which stood tall against a thin layer of afternoon clouds that fanned out from the east valley to the pacific ocean.
Introducing this Week With Photos
A screenshot of one of the many notices from one of Loma Linda University Health websites inviting alumni to Homecoming weekend. Dr. Richard H. Hart, MD, DrPH, President of LLUH is pictured at the left.
This last weekend (March 5 -9), the Loma Linda Campus hosted its annual alumni reunion for all eight (8) schools. There had been chatter of rain during the weekend, but the storm clouds held off until Monday when scattered showers appeared in and around Loma Linda.
And so, on Monday night (03.09.20), despite the in-climate weather, a thin layer of clouds opened just enough for me to snap this image of the full moon, which is known in many quarters as the “Worm Moon.”
More importantly, the threat of a global coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic had become part of the national conversation as well as on the Loma Linda University Health Science campus.
The above image is a screenshot of the March 2, 2020, Los Angeles Times webpage. Such news articles and media coverage keeps this virus front and center.
The rain is now expected for the rest of the week and the threat of the coronavirus continues to be a topic of conversation. But on the job site, the work (mostly in the interior where the temperatures are hovering in the high 60s to low 70s) goes on.
A screenshot of the Weather.com website for the city of Loma Linda, California
Hopefully, the scheduled rains on Wednesday will not cause a delay in the dismantling of the aerial lift tower. In this case, Mother Nature is the scheduler.
Then to top it all off, the return of Daylight Saving Time in the early hours of Sunday morning (March 8, 2020) began its annual one-hour misalignment of one’s circadian rhythm.
A screenshot of a humorous World War I poster courtesy of washingtonpost.com
All during the week, the stock market whipsawed during the trading hours to a point where words meltdown and panic caused by the coronavirus were batted around by the gee-whiz talking heads on network and cable TV.
At the end (March 13, 2020, the week dropped 3,583 points, which was the worst week since October 2008.
The above chart is Courtesy of CNN.com:
The Week of Cloudy Skies and Rain
An interesting clip that shows the clouds as they form over the west valley and over a four-hour period than, for the most part, clears out. (March 11, 2020).
As the Week Began, we Had no Idea How the Week Would End
By the end of the week, the nation and the world had received the news that the Coronavirus had become a Pandemic. Who knows where we go from here!
(The following linked article is by Donald G. McNeil Jr.)
As The Week Began in the Early Predawn Hours on the Construction Site, We Wondered How the Week Would Pan Out.
A Delightful Phenomenon Was Evident in the Predawn Hours
This timelapse features the moon as it moves (during a 45 minute time period in the predawn hours) from behind the Adult Hospital tower and sets behind the Loma Linda University Health Medical Center. Note the diffraction and interference phenomena where the light of the moon seemingly carves out the side of the building (at the same diameter of the moon) at about the halfway point. As the moon extends further out from behind the tower, the curvature lessons. Although this phenomenon (most likely a Fraunhofer line) is not rare, one must be at the right place at the right time to enjoy the event. Many thanks to my friend Don Farley, M. S. for confirming this phenomenon. (March 9, 2020)
The Week Ended With President Donald J. Trump Declaring a National Emergency Over the Coronavirus
After graduate school Dennis accepted a position at Loma Linda University. He worked there for 42 years in the areas of administration and financial management, also teaching accounting and management to dietetic students at the School of Public Health. Through the years Dennis has chronicled the growth of the campus, including the construction of the Drayson Center and the Centennial Complex and the razing of Gentry Gym. He is the author of "The Mound City Chronicles: A Pictorial History of Loma Linda University, A Health Sciences Institution 1905 - 2005." dEp 09.30.2016 🔨
