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Lyle has a hoverboard. Should work fine
In a car then, that would be achievable?Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
Well here's Flo....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_eeZVLp5a0
That's what a hurricane looks like folks.
I was watching the news channel they reported this storm will drop 10 trillion gallons of water. That is sick
I'll admit it I root for flying stop signs every time I see some puffed up media hound standing in the rain shouting up the dramatics. She looks tattered starting late yesterday but has slowed dramatically but fortunately looks like some of the rain bands have thinned. Also found the perfect Lyle meme ;D. Puff puff pass..
https://i.imgur.com/13eYunw.jpg If you say it with an accent a couple of times it's even better ;D. Hang in there man.
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Originally Posted by Spicoli
Yeah, Jim Cantore is notorious for that. He's like a little kid who never grew up and loves to brave the winds for the camera. One of these days he's gonna get billboarded, and that'll be the end of the "weatherman battles hurricane winds" act.
I hear u, the media coverage is crazy but when sandy hit up here it was a category one but due to a bunch of storms that year, six years ago, there was so much saturation the water flooded to the extreme. Even after six years areas are still fucked up and it was one of the most expensive storms in US history. I was bringing supplies to people in Long Island who lost everything. It was very sad. The damage was heartbreakingQuote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
In addition these storms have a financial impact on all of us. Truckers have better bargaining power and productivity takes a hit. The implications of these things is far reaching
Its really ridiculous, half of them act like it's a chance to cut wwe promos. They just showed a guy walk beyond a property fence drop off to stand IN the wetland-marsh water to illustrate flooding :cwm13:.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFanQuote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
Yeah, Jim Cantore is notorious for that. He's like a little kid who never grew up and loves to brave the winds for the camera. One of these days he's gonna get billboarded, and that'll be the end of the "weatherman battles hurricane winds" act.
Yeh it's a mass collective in hurricane prone areas. They piggy back and basically the 'category' is more spectacle for the masses. Locals however know that a 3 early in the year followed by one or two slow tropical storms in just as devastating especially if you're below sea level. The activity of a season paves the way and you never fully just 'dry out' or 100 percent recover as you revert to basics in the aftermath and very much live day to day week to week. Still though there is a certain respect and awesomeness when people come together to get through. Brings out the best of many.Quote:
Originally Posted by walrusI hear u, the media coverage is crazy but when sandy hit up here it was a category one but due to a bunch of storms that year, six years ago, there was so much saturation the water flooded to the extreme. Even after six years areas are still fucked up and it was one of the most expensive storms in US history. I was bringing supplies to people in Long Island who lost everything. It was very sad. The damage was heartbreakingQuote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
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I can't tell if those are violins or rum bottles.
It's Brock. They're both.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
It's true it's a dual useQuote:
Originally Posted by SpicoliIt's Brock. They're both.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
Why the violins then
the violins get taken out and played really well like a well-oiled machine whenever people with multimillion-dollar homes get hit with a storm and there's some storm damage and instead of being able to drive there three Jaguars into Mercedes they have to take a bus for a little while etcetera EtcQuote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
Meanwhile in India there are over 1 billion people who survive on less than 75 us cents per day and I never hear anybody talking about how we quote-unquote all came together so beautifully to come to their rescue and how we all came together for the sake of humanity for those people
if you ever noticed nobody came together for the sake of humanity for all those black people after Katrina or all those bangladeshis like 200, 000 of them they got washed out to sea every couple of years by the Cyclones there in the Bay of Bengal
It's only multimillion-dollar white people from New England who had some storm damage or had their roof ripped off that we all have to come together for to rescue I mean God forbid they don't eat their caviar and their Kobe beef steaks for a couple of weeks and maybe have to eat some Japanese noodles out of a cup oh boo hoo oh whoa whoa whoa woe woe to them what one to them wall to them all the suffering out there in Montauk on Long Island bwaaaaHAHAHA
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How's Lyle doing? Any updates? Hopefully he hasn't done a Tito. No, I don't mean bumming a man! I mean going awol for several months.
Tito did that???? πππππΆπΆπΆπΆ
Yes, had us worried. Diva came back with a smile.Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust
I am not saying I hope a house lands on your head or anything but......Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbustthe violins get taken out and played really well like a well-oiled machine whenever people with multimillion-dollar homes get hit with a storm and there's some storm damage and instead of being able to drive there three Jaguars into Mercedes they have to take a bus for a little while etcetera EtcQuote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
Meanwhile in India there are over 1 billion people who survive on less than 75 us cents per day and I never hear anybody talking about how we quote-unquote all came together so beautifully to come to their rescue and how we all came together for the sake of humanity for those people
if you ever noticed nobody came together for the sake of humanity for all those black people after Katrina or all those bangladeshis like 200, 000 of them they got washed out to sea every couple of years by the Cyclones there in the Bay of Bengal
It's only multimillion-dollar white people from New England who had some storm damage or had their roof ripped off that we all have to come together for to rescue I mean God forbid they don't eat their caviar and their Kobe beef steaks for a couple of weeks and maybe have to eat some Japanese noodles out of a cup oh boo hoo oh whoa whoa whoa woe woe to them what one to them wall to them all the suffering out there in Montauk on Long Island bwaaaaHAHAHA
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A disaster is a disaster, however woke or unwoke you are. Mullet or no Mullet.
Doing just fine Florence moves like old people fuck....MAYBE it'll be at my city today, MAYBE.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gandalf
I'm sure the storm is no joke, but right now it's just overcast here and breezy.
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Originally Posted by El KabongDoing just fine Florence moves like old people fuck....MAYBE it'll be at my city today, MAYBE.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gandalf
I'm sure the storm is no joke, but right now it's just overcast here and breezy.
Yep. Weakening and stalling. The stalling part's the bitch. While it makes up it's mind which of the Carolinas to hit, it's dumping truckloads of rain.
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Originally Posted by SpicoliIts really ridiculous, half of them act like it's a chance to cut wwe promos. They just showed a guy walk beyond a property fence drop off to stand IN the wetland-marsh water to illustrate flooding :cwm13:.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFanQuote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
Yeah, Jim Cantore is notorious for that. He's like a little kid who never grew up and loves to brave the winds for the camera. One of these days he's gonna get billboarded, and that'll be the end of the "weatherman battles hurricane winds" act.
@Spicoli
Right on cue! Hahaha!
Sat down to eat breakfast and happened to tune in to the Weather Channel. Who else, but Jim Cantore standing in knee-deep water in Wilmington..... getting blown a bit by some strong gusts..... yelling into the camera and boasting how only two minutes earlier, he and his producer were barely missed by a flying ventilator fan cover that slammed down nearby. LMFAO!!
Right now I'm cursing at Florence for her bad aim.
Already 450,000 people without power, oh snap
But a disaster is not really a disaster though is it. I'm not talking about the North Carolina hurricane right now either just so you know. That is definitely a disaster. But when we talk about rich people like the rich scumbags in California who get there 25 million dollar Mansions burned down in wildfires I have no sympathy at all in fact I think it's very funny. I feel like telling them let them eat cake hahaha poor little babies
......well anyway
The storm has finally reached me. It's nothing at all so far just breezy with some rain. It'll certainly be in full effect later tonight early tomorrow morning. I've already had some branches fall, but that is life with these old ass maple trees. If anything is fucked up in the area tomorrow I'll try to upload some pics but I'm betting it'll be pretty lame around here...no storm surge to worry about etc
Big puffed up Jim is definitely the diva on the mount when it comes to coverage. Plenty of fans in the heat over there, stay positive ;D.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFanQuote:
Originally Posted by SpicoliIts really ridiculous, half of them act like it's a chance to cut wwe promos. They just showed a guy walk beyond a property fence drop off to stand IN the wetland-marsh water to illustrate flooding :cwm13:.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFanQuote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
Yeah, Jim Cantore is notorious for that. He's like a little kid who never grew up and loves to brave the winds for the camera. One of these days he's gonna get billboarded, and that'll be the end of the "weatherman battles hurricane winds" act.
@Spicoli
Right on cue! Hahaha!
Sat down to eat breakfast and happened to tune in to the Weather Channel. Who else, but Jim Cantore standing in knee-deep water in Wilmington..... getting blown a bit by some strong gusts..... yelling into the camera and boasting how only two minutes earlier, he and his producer were barely missed by a flying ventilator fan cover that slammed down nearby. LMFAO!!
Right now I'm cursing at Florence for her bad aim.
This ugly girl is the guest that won't leave, getting worse on the backside tonight. Almost reminds me of Rita that was basically an after thought just a couple of weeks after Katrina. That ho almost doubled back after it passed and caught a lot of just returned evacuees and ones beginning repairs. Hopefully Florence picks up the pace and clears fast come day break but tonight could be harry.
That's the kicker. Frankly people lose it once you go beyond maybe 5-7 days sitting in silence so loud it's deafening and heat so constant it burns through you. You don't sleep..you stew. What we take for granted is tremendous. The every day small things.Quote:
Originally Posted by walrus
Dude that tornado that hit my area hard put people some in my town out out for close to a month. I got lucky only six days without power. Every time I walked into a room I would flick a light switch out of habit. It took the cell phone towers as well so I had nada. Tornados are weird, one town over everything was fine. Last I heard itβs up to 600,000 now without power. Glad it wasnβt as bad as the news hounds said. It is a good time to catch up on reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpicoliThat's the kicker. Frankly people lose it once you go beyond maybe 5-7 days sitting in silence so loud it's deafening and heat so constant it burns through you. You don't sleep..you stew. What we take for granted is tremendous. The every day small things.Quote:
Originally Posted by walrus
I think I read the latest figure was about 1 million without power now. That's pretty bad. At least it should all be restored quicker than it was down here when Maria hit. I personally was 2 months without power, and was one of the lucky ones.
Do you have back up generators?Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
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Originally Posted by MasterDo you have back up generators?Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
Well I do. But many people don't. I used to own one that could power the whole house, but now I just have a Honda 2 KW one. It powers the basics, but I can't hook up the whole house to it. Thinking of upgrading sometime next year.
The issue is that it should never take 6 months to a year to get power restored after a natural disaster like that.
But with Maria there were two realities: Our electrical infrastructure really wasn't up to snuff, and Maria totally demonstrated that. Two... Maria was a Cat 5 and smashed right through the middle of PR, the worst possible scenario from a hurricane.
Duke Power estimated 3 million would be affected. So 1 million ain't so bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
Things are fine here, wind comes and goes but nothing serious. I think Flo shot it all on the coast.
No need to worry about me what with being so far from the action...its not even all that bad of a rainstorm really. Typically in a hurricane the rain feels like you're being pummeled with nails....this is actually quite pleasant.
I'm sure not everyone is as well off as I am currently. I feel bad for those folks, but the community comes together for stuff like this. Did anyone read about Waffle House and what they've done? Sent in "jump teams" to give local employees the time off to look after their homes and families and even provided shelter for a few people....what an awesome gesture, love me some Waffle House! Smothered, Covered, & Peppered if you know what I mean.
Well not so much as a flooded basement for me....which makes me very happy as I personally installed the french drain in front of the basement and it has worked beautifully.
We got a massive downpour of rain, a real gullywasher, a frog strangler but that and some wind gusts is all we had and the wind gusts didn't take down many limbs at all.
...... and now there's tropical storm Kirk. West Africa just keeps on pumping these bastards out. I'm telling ya, if the whole protruding bump of NW Africa were to suddenly sink into the ocean Atlantis-style, I wouldn't shed any tears.
It's a goddamn hurricane factory.
~kirk~ ....fuckin A, next will be ~lang~
Lang would've been good, Brock. Definitely better than the name already chosen............... Leslie. :-X
http://www.stormfax.com/AtlanticStormPronunciations.jpg
#Kirland Leslie
Now that's more fitting isn't it π
Been a minute since we've had the Puckerfactor kick in but Michael has been terribly slept on all around. All of the sudden it went from 'meh tropical something or whatever' to the real deal since yesterday. Let it never be said that being on 'the other end' of a storm is easier. More so when you can't get a goddamn straight answer and plan of action! People who live along common tracks and regions tend to take turns dodging, tracking and formulating 1001 possibilities. Watching a neighbor take one on the chin while hoping it's not so bad but under your breath glad it's not on your back. It's weird like that. Sitting here with family within 200 miles of projected landfall tomorrow. On the coast line. Beautiful view when it's not filling your house. Was told the plan was to drive out west then cut north this morning but as of tonight that has not happened. If I had a wall close I might be tempted to put my head through it, or go to sleep after the first attempt. Apparently I'm the least stubborn thick headed individual in this family after all. Who knew. bit of a random rant but man this one is bad. I'll pray for the jog West by some fluke and take it.