To the anon lb who wanted sauce on the NYC precip totals:
https://www.weather.gov/okx/
Follow the first pic, click local radar
Click the station next to West Babylon
Change the BREF.RAW dropdown to 2nd pic related
Updated pic
Orange is 4"+ of rain in one hour
Doppler works by sending out a signal and getting that signal back
Something blocks the signal, no data
Pretty common actually
In 1998, Clinton bombed the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan
"Chemical weapons"
Nope, just parasite-killing medicine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/02/afghanistan.terrorism3
Just so happens that the Democratic Republic of the Congo was having an outbreak of the Marburg virus in 1998
https://www.who.int/csr/don/archive/disease/marburg_virus_disease/en/
They were also undergoing a civil war in 1998
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War
…something something playbook
Who profited?
Mining metals, ores…
Operation Infinite Reach indeed