He has seen airplanes snap strings, and police officers called in because the kites have been spotted on radar.
Below -50, nobody can fly in or out; metal landing gear on airplanes snap like twigs, and engine oil turns to jelly.
News outlets rushed to charter airplanes and snap up extra seats on aid flights, but that was the easy part.
Roland Mouret, known for his light hand, reprised the 1960's, sending out Cardin-like coats striped with black patent leather, and some conical breast plates held by straps that made you think of the plastic parts of a model airplane, before they're snapped apart.
In other parts of the world, of course, elevator cables were snapping, airplanes were crashing, ships were sinking, motor vehicles were breaking their axles, bridges were collapsing, and on and on.
Cell service is creeping in, you see a few more people trying to text, and some bring their airplane-mode devices out to snap pictures, yet face-to-face communication rules.
The problem with dongles is that you can lose them, they can snap off in tight airplane quarters and they work for only one device at a time.
You snap a picture of the airplane at the gate, and post it to Facebook: "About to set off for a great bachelorette weekend with the girls in Miami!
That's where he snapped a photo of the airplane dancing in the glowing sky.
Wal-mart is rolling out RFID for inventory tracking (in combination with databases), while tool-maker Snap-On is using it to help airplane factories keep track of expensive equipment.
