The Nasty Weather Thread

[TitoFan]

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 . Puff puff pass..

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.

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 .

@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.

[walrus]

Already 450,000 people without power, oh snap

[brocktonblockbust]

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

[El Kabong]

......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

[Spicoli]

Already 450,000 people without power, oh snap

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.

[walrus]

Already 450,000 people without power, oh snap

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.

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 it’s up to 600,000 now without power. Glad it wasn’t as bad as the news hounds said. It is a good time to catch up on reading.

[TitoFan]

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.

[Master]

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?

[TitoFan]

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?

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.

[El Kabong]

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.

Duke Power estimated 3 million would be affected. So 1 million ain't so bad.

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.

[El Kabong]

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.

[Spicoli]

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 . Puff puff pass..

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.

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 .

@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.

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 .

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.