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Please go out to sea. Thank you.
 
...I started to post something about this storm earlier...the fact is, they really don't know what route this thing is gonna take.

...but even if it does not make landfall, it's sure to be a rain maker up there.
 
Katrina, followed by Rita a month later, on the western end of Luzianna, (Lake Charles). Were examples of not only bullshit Engineering - (the moronic tin walls and BS lack of sump pump stations, revealed American Technology at its worst. I got out of Luzianna just a few months earlier, but had my 2nd Son, and a ton of friends, have to flee for 28 days, due to mandatory evacuation.

No power for those 28 days, although I gotta' say if it weren't for General Honoree, they'd still be finding corpses. Now their is a Man with pure Class.

No returning home either. The Natl. Guard would NOT allow anyone off of the Freeways, unless they were a Soldier, Doctor or Nurse.
 
Rick2583 said:
I don't want to be a part of anything like that ever again.
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What, no blow jobs.....? Sorry for the pun, Sandy was not and is not humorous, sad as hell. Mother Nature has to put Humans in their place at times, but not to these degrees.....

Rick, Vic or anyone in NYC, did they build a Sea Wall after Sandy, in any effected areas? One can't easily predict where or when a Hurricane will hit land.

I'm not sure if a Sea Wall would even make sense, as the entire Atlantic Shores, from the panhandle of tip of Fla., to Maine are all exposed. I can't foresee building Sea Walls on the East Coast, to the Gulf of Mejico....
 
Rick2583 said:
I don't want to be a part of anything like that ever again.
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I know that was some scary shit. I remember sitting in the pitch black listening to Transformers exploding, trees cracking and falling all over the cars and street. I don't think I slept at all that night.
 
Lillie said:
I know that was some scary shit. I remember sitting in the pitch black listening to Transformers exploding, trees cracking and falling all over the cars and street. I don't think I slept at all that night.
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I slept thru the entire thing......
 
Mattingly23NY said:
What, no blow jobs.....? Sorry for the pun, Sandy was not and is not humorous, sad as hell. Mother Nature has to put Humans in their place at times, but not to these degrees.....

Rick, Vic or anyone in NYC, did they build a Sea Wall after Sandy, in any effected areas? One can't easily predict where or when a Hurricane will hit land.

I'm not sure if a Sea Wall would even make sense, as the entire Atlantic Shores, from the panhandle of tip of Fla., to Maine are all exposed. I can't foresee building Sea Walls on the East Coast, to the Gulf of Mejico....
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No sea wall. Areas rebuilt and there were requirements that homes near shore areas had to be elevated. There's simply nothing you could realistically do to protect a vast coast from these storms. Not to mention something like Sandy truly was a hundred year storm. The sheer size of Sandy was something not often seen in many hurricanes.
 
Messiah717 said:
No sea wall. Areas rebuilt and there were requirements that homes near shore areas had to be elevated. There's simply nothing you could realistically do to protect a vast coast from these storms. Not to mention something like Sandy truly was a hundred year storm. The sheer size of Sandy was something not often seen in many hurricanes.
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Thanks Vic, your input/feedback/insights are always greatly appreciated....
 
BTW- on the Gulf Coast from Luzianna to Fla, all homes are built on stilts, and I haven't see any trees on the coast, that are over 15-20 feet tall, all sheered off by Hurricanes over decades. (A obvious reason NOT to buy a home on that eroding Coast.

A sight to see, esp in La. as some single wide Mobile Homes are literally sitting on top of a series of Phone Poles, with one helluva stairway, going halfway to the Heaven's.
 
Lillie said:
Well what's my excuse then.........:breakdance:
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Hmmm, perhaps standing on your head, do you turn the TV upside down too, when you spin on your head.......(I hope you know I'm only joking, or busting yer chops - LMAO....Kudo's Lil'
 
Mattingly23NY said:
Hmmm, perhaps standing on your head, do you turn the TV upside down too, when you spin on your head.......(I hope you know I'm only joking, or busting yer chops - LMAO....Kudo's Lil'
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I know you are............LMAO
 
In watching the latest weather reports it's clear the media just wants an early start on covering it's ass. They have what looks like 100 different models that show the storm doing everything from making a hard right turn to slamming right into the Mid-Atlantic. Not that I wouldn't take a storm lightly but I can't get worked up by what amounts to fear mongering about something they seem to readily admit they have no clue about yet.
 
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Last I heard is that it could hit us by Saturday, at what force no one knows yet.
 
Messiah717 said:
In watching the latest weather reports it's clear the media just wants an early start on covering it's ass. They have what looks like 100 different models that show the storm doing everything from making a hard right turn to slamming right into the Mid-Atlantic. Not that I wouldn't take a storm lightly but I can get worked up by what amounts to fear mongering about something they seem to readily admit they have no clue about yet.
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...lol...I talked about the weather geeks awhile back. Regardless if there's a real threat or not, Jim fucking Cantore and those of his ilk, all get a hard on during hurricane season...it's funny to watch really.

...do we really need 8 different people on The Weather Channel telling us essentially the same thing?...geeez, just show me the doppler radar and tell me what the temperature is gonna be...I can figure the rest out by myself.
 
Been through them in Jersey, South Carolina, the Far East (typhoons) and Florida. Worse thing is knowing they are coming and the media hype they get. If you live on the West Coast of Florida and you think one is going to turn in from the Gulf and hit you'd best haul ass. In '04 Hurricane Charley was going up the Gulf as predicted and I was ready to get the hell out of St Pete. It made a sudden turn and ripped up towns like Punta Gorda. Worst we got wind wise was 70 MPH gusts but the storm surges raised hell with the beach areas.
 
...^^^ yeah, I went through quite a few while I was in central Fla...but none of them were very bad...big difference in the wind between the coast and only 50-60 miles inland.
 
Messiah717 said:
In watching the latest weather reports it's clear the media just wants an early start on covering it's ass. They have what looks like 100 different models that show the storm doing everything from making a hard right turn to slamming right into the Mid-Atlantic. Not that I wouldn't take a storm lightly but I can't get worked up by what amounts to fear mongering about something they seem to readily admit they have no clue about yet.
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"You don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows" (Bob Dylan)

I've never seen as bad of Weather reporting as here in the Mojave. They say its gonna' rain, and it won't. They say sunny skies, and it pours.

One Winter, I rode my Motorcyle to work, with reports saying slight chance of showers. Not a sprinkle at 5 am on the way to work. At 8 am, it began to snow, by 12 Noon, there was a foot of snow on the ground with more to come.

I got a ride home (28 miles) with my buddy in his 4WD; as my bike was invisibly coated with snow.

the kicker is, on the drive home, we had the NWS on the radio, while the repeating forecast, said: "Slight chance of Showers today"......fkng idiots.
 
...lol ^^^...kinda like when they say "partly cloudy"....isn't that the same as saying "partly sunny"?
 
I think I was 10 when I learned that a night sky with no stars meant a pretty good chance of rain & that a night sky filled with stars meant no rain.

These clowns get paid a fortune for basically guessing.
 
Sandy was a nightmare!

Don't want to see the likes of that anywhere.

We are hoping it goes out into the Atlantic.
 
cagedlion said:
Sandy was a nightmare!

Don't want to see the likes of that anywhere.

We are hoping it goes out into the Atlantic.
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Yes, indeed. I don't want anything even close to the East Coast.
 
Is this where I introduce "Lt. Dan" "You call this a storm"?
 
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