Both bomber and the bombed

Although these terrible times of airwar are nothing like the Grand Days of aeiral warfare (the modern period of airwar - specfically "firebombing" - started on the nite of 31 Dec. 1999 and petered out (((well, petered out 'violently'))) sometime during early 2002), certain advances in the past six weeks have put city after city in deep danger of destruction.

Since, say, Fall of 2002, there have been scant major raids that would even equal half of any of the great fire raids that happened weekly back then. There actually have only been two in the period since early 2002 and the last six weeks - the failed Market Garden II in January 2004 and the failed Suprise! Double Raid of 2006(?). Both of these raids were shockingly destructive and put shocking strain on the entire armed forces - but since they were distanced apart enough, the damages to the entire war effort weren't as terrible and draining as the earlier period of firewar.

But recent developments in supply and planning have given the airforce weapons again to raze entire cities in a single nite. Twice massive raids have been raised - one the bombing began @ 6pm and lasted through the nite - the bombers finally got back to base early the next afternoon; the second raid was more compact but also an entrance into hell.

Tonite the conditions were ideal for a massive raid tonite - Friday and Monday are days w/o work - but ... weather conditions ... have delayed the raid until the morrow.