Les Crossan wrote:

Around 40 or so people are going to ride out the storm in the
USS Alabama, moored in Mobile Bay, Alabama.

What a daft thing to do, someone should tell them that they lost the
best part of 2 fleets to typhoons in WW2. It takes about a day or two
to fire up the engines on an old banger like that. I hope someone
brought it up to to pressure in plenty of time.

I wonder when they last ran the motors?