This picture shows the grid squares and just how precise they are.

Notice the trails themselves coming off of them.

From this view above the contrails we get a good 3D effect.

By looking at them this way we can see just how deep they are.

There are many stories about what the purpose of contrails are. This has a lot of folks wondering

just what meaning they have, are they dangerous, will they harm us, and so on.

The only thing that makes any sense to me would be inoculation on a wide scale. Long before

people were aware of the Y2K situations involving terrorists, the government was well informed

of the possibilities of bio warfare. Anthrax seems to be high on the list, but no one knows for sure what

bio terrorism could befall us. If the government is innoculating us against something, I'd like to think it

was in our best interest. This scenario reminds me of UFO sightings. The admission would create panic

in many of the people. If we were told that we had a 90% chance of being poisoned people would

definatly freak out. Also, what better way to inoculate thousands people at the same time.

We also know that the coasts will be most vulnerable as they have the highest concentration of people. The last time we had major contrails here the hospitals were flooded with very sick people with flu like symptoms.

New Year's Eve should prove to be most interesting!

Virulent Flu Strain Taxes Hospitals

By TOM VERDIN .c The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A nasty strain of the flu is flooding Southern California hospitals with haggard patients, straining emergency rooms and forcing some medical centers to send the sick elsewhere.

Hospitals from Los Angeles and San Diego inland reported scores of patients suffering from the flu, pneumonia and respiratory ailments Saturday.

The crush of flu-suffering patients forced dozens of hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange counties to close their emergency rooms temporarily Friday and route patients elsewhere.

``It's a big one,'' said Joan Keller, a nursing supervisor with San Bernardino County's Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, where the critical care units were full Saturday. ``It's been heavy everywhere, from what I'm hearing.''

Nurses at Arrowhead and many other hospitals are working extra shifts to cover for colleagues who caught the bug and to care for the additional patients seeking treatment.

``I don't think anybody really knows what's causing it. Maybe it's a new strain,'' said Silvia Mieure, nursing supervisor at Northridge Hospital Medical Center northwest of Los Angeles. ``Typically people are sicker around the holidays because it gets colder, but the flu-type symptoms seem to be higher than last year.''

Admissions for flu and cold symptoms have bumped the daily patient count at the hospital by 30 to 40 since the first of December, she said.

One culprit may be a summer virus that has lingered because of a warm fall, said Dr. Steven Larson, an infectious disease specialist at Riverside Medical Clinic. Allergies fed by Santa Ana winds also have contributed.

AP-NY-12-18-99 1947EST