corps made irresponsibility was communication on the battlefield where in those days looking for somreason to stay in business. this is the way bureaucracy's always work. this institution was created and served its purpose and america was at peace and the signal corps said instead of the disbanded they said we have to find something else to do and came up the idea we will take over the weather service. it sounds like a boondoggle but they took this responsibility very seriously. they began predicting weather, the first to issue a daily weather forecast and worked out a system. the texture of everyday life that we have completely forgotten but they set up a system where post offices and train stations and government offices would fly flags each day to tell people what the weather was. that is how you got your whether. he would glance over at the train station and you would know the codes that white men to clear and blue meant rain and there was a special one particularly alarming was a red flag with the black circle in in a moment of the weather change would be a sudden frost and that is co