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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stealth on September 15, 2004, 06:23:49 am
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So i was just listening to the 6:00 news, and apparently the New Orleans mayor told the city that he recommends evacuating. he said if it's absolutely necessary to stay, that people must go to the second floor, and bring an axe, so if necessary they can get to the roof; but he said he doesn't recommend anyone try to "sit out" the storm. apparently there's lines of cars going out of the city, and it's taking like half a day just to get out of the city limits.
Not that any of this suprises me, i called this on Monday night. Since the storm was already moving in the direction of New Orleans i'm suprised people didn't leave sooner.
For those of you who don't know, New Orleans (city) in Louisiana is dozens of feet below sea level. It keeps sinking further and further down every year. so if it gets hit by this hurricane, there's not even going to be a city left anymore. :blah: :shaking:
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oh no! All the whores and French cuisine, gone!
seriously, best of luck to whoever is caught in Ivan's way. I'm thankful for never having to have lived through a storm of that proportion.
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Good luck to them..
I'm glad of the boring UK weather right now.
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well just watch in the next few days... i guarantee you that if it hits the city, there's not going to be a New Orleans anymore... it's going to be a disaster zone.
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God damn. Where am I going to get my fix of drunken girls flashing their boobs from now! :hopping:
Seriously though I think you could be right about how bad this will be if it hits New Orleans.
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Damn.
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Golly ****ing gosh.
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(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40073000/gif/_40073864_hurricane_ivan17_map416.gif) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3655550.stm)
When was the last time a hurricane went as far into the continent as this one is predicted to, BTW?
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That could get very nasty. The hurricanes usually fizzle out very quickly when they lose contact with the ocean, but this may be an exception...
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but New Orleans is practically ON the ocean...
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Indeed, but I was looking at the path through to Tenesee....
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aldo_14: the low always goes that far inland on that kind of track - just normally by the time it's fully inland it's weakened to less than tropical storm, just because s are strong, wet low pressure system
here watch her come ashore on the WSR88-D radar network http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p20-r/si.kmob.shtml
note: ivan has weakened from category 5 (156+ mph) to a category 4 (131-155) before even coming ashore (current max sustaned winds of 136 mph gusting to 154)
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Yeah weve gotten the remnants of hurricanes way the hell out here in west texas
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Originally posted by Kazan
aldo_14: the low always goes that far inland on that kind of track - just normally by the time it's fully inland it's weakened to less than tropical storm, just because s are strong, wet low pressure system
here watch her come ashore on the WSR88-D radar network http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p20-r/si.kmob.shtml
note: ivan has weakened from category 5 (156+ mph) to a category 4 (131-155) before even coming ashore (current max sustaned winds of 136 mph gusting to 154)
Ah, right. (I kind of made a assumption that it wouldn't be losing strength inland, which is pretty a bloody daft assumption in retrospect. I should have known that already, to be honest...)
Cheers.
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the remnants of Andrew made it all the way to iowa
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looks like that _might_ _almost_ make it to were I live
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Stupid pansies are thinking about canceling cross country meets in Nashville (highschool) on Saturday because of rain....
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Well I would hope that New Orleans could at least be spared until I can see what Mardi Gras is really like.
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"My memory is muddy, what's this river I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking, man, and I don't want to swim."
-The Tragically Hip
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Meh, I never liked those southern states anyway. Too many rednecks.
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Well I would hope that New Orleans could at least be spared until I can see what Mardi Gras is really like.
Man I went last year and I highly recommend you go, well if the NO is still there:doubt:
and watch the stereotypical southern state comments jackass, just cuz i live in a southern state doesnt mean im a redneck, im orignally from new jersey
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"America, were even bigeted aganst our selves"
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Originally posted by JR2000Z
Meh, I never liked those southern states anyway. Too many rednecks.
Neither do the gods, apparently :p
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Ferget Naarlens, looks like Pensacola's bull's eyed!
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Well......at least that bastard didn't hit me.......I already got the last 2 storms.
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Ouch! I would not want to be in Mobile right now...
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The hurricane's outer layers are probably going to get to me while i'm in school, and they didn't close it... beautiful. The projected path pretty much ends where I live, too :p
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I'd like to see that. We had a so-called hurricane here once, but it was not all that exciting. It knock over 15 million trees though...
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Exactly how far BSL is NO? I keep thinking its some 10-20+ feet, but my parents insist its about 3...
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Originally posted by DragonClaw
The hurricane's outer layers are probably going to get to me while i'm in school, and they didn't close it... beautiful. The projected path pretty much ends where I live, too :p
it ends right where you live, eh?
you know, they say the Hurricane increases up to three times in strength when it gets within 10 miles of its predicted destination :nod:
;) J/k
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Originally posted by Stealth
people must go to the second floor, and bring an axe
;7
j/k
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Originally posted by Clave
Good luck to them..
I'm glad of the boring UK weather right now.
[color=66ff0]Yeah, it really irks me when people over here whine about it raining so much. I usually ask them 'when was the last time you had to evacuate your home due to a hurricane?'.
I find the weather here quite agreeable.
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Originally posted by Tiara
;7
For safety reasons, not for kinky dutch sex games, you fool.
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[q] I usually ask them 'when was the last time you had to evacuate your home due to a hurricane?'.[/q]
Do you get punched a lot? :p
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*watches the sky, hopes he doesn't get a tornado*
Georgia, especially western Georgia where I am, is hunkering down and hoping we don't get tornadoes (there's already been a warning farther south).
We're not in the storm path, thank God, just on the edges. Good luck to everyone who gets caught in it and may whatever divinty you belive in watch over you.
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Originally posted by vyper
[q][color=66ff00] I usually ask them 'when was the last time you had to evacuate your home due to a hurricane?'.[/color][/q]
Do you get punched a lot? :p
[color=66ff00]Only when sparring in wing chun and then that's usually because the first year girls aerobics class takes place in the same gymnasium as our class.
It's mostly worth it though.
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Originally posted by Rictor
seriously, best of luck to whoever is caught in Ivan's way.
I'll try to be careful. ;)
Good luck over there.
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Originally posted by Solatar
Stupid pansies are thinking about canceling cross country meets in Nashville (highschool) on Saturday because of rain....
Queers. You've never truly run a cross country meet until you do it in a thunderstorm.
Editz0r: Spelling.
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The previous Hurricane, that wrecked Florida made it as far north as here in Southern Ontario Canada. It dumped alot of rain on us and caused some local flooding. No hurricane force winds or anything like that...but they can come pretty far in.
Southern Ontario has been historically been hit by one hurricane. Called Hazel. Before my time but it made its way, maintaing strenght, all the way into the great lakes area.
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Yeesh, take a look at Ivan's maps on NOAA's site (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov). How often do you see a projected path that potentially takes it back out to sea?
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Hey everybody!
I'm reporting from the less ravaged areas north of Birmingham.
The damage in coastal regions is high, with the most dramatic being the collapse of the I-10 near Pensacola. Fully 400,000 Alabama Power customers are out of power what with the fallen trees and everything, once you add local PCs that number is around the 1,000,000 mark. The wind was pretty bad eariler, but nothing like the 50mph mark that the weather people were talking about earlier. The biggest threat from this beast is the water. There are reports of flooding in many areas, and with probably about 8 inches of rain fallen and a bit more to come there will likely be more flooding in the low lying areas. Personally, my family is out of power and this report is coming to from a laptop with 46% of a battery left, there is a little roof damage and a minor leak but overall everything rode out fine, Wal-Mart(the major supply source for both food and emergency supplies in the area) never closed and had batteries when everyone else was out of them.
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So is NO gone yet?
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Queers. You've never truly run a corss country meet until you do it in a thunderstorm.
I look forward to the day when I get to.:p
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Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80
I'll try to be careful. ;)
Just as well. Does your wrath know no end?!? :p
Seriously though, this is nuts. Never had a hurricane, volcano, or earthquake around Australia ever. We're so tame... then again, we've got all the poisonous animals. :)
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Originally posted by JC Denton
Yeesh, take a look at Ivan's maps on NOAA's site (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov). How often do you see a projected path that potentially takes it back out to sea?
That's not that unusual. I seem to remember one hurricane from several years ago, Jerry I think, that hit Florida and was then downgraded to a tropical depression. When its remnants hit the Gulf, it re-intensified back into a hurricane. The forecasters were calling the thing "Jerry 2" :p.
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Originally posted by Setekh
Just as well. Does your wrath know no end?!? :p
Seriously though, this is nuts. Never had a hurricane, volcano, or earthquake around Australia ever. We're so tame... then again, we've got all the poisonous animals. :)
Correction - you never get them. There is a whole other half of the continent that does regularly get cyclones you know.
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Originally posted by Solatar
I look forward to the day when I get to.:p
Indeed. Fear the corss country.
You Jv or Varsity? Good times?
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So was New Orleans wiped from the face of the Earth or not?
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That'd make for a great "Girls gone Wild! ~ Under the Sea ~ !" edition.
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"Girls Gone Wild 38 - Boobies-N-Looting"
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Originally posted by Setekh
We're so tame... then again, we've got all the poisonous animals. :)
and Koala Bears (lil cute *****es that they are)
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And here comes Jeanne. Woot. :doubt:
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what is this?! 3 or 4 major consecutive storms in the span of a month or so.
its either God, or HAARP.
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El Nino!
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La Chupacabra!
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Is that some kind of anteater?
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It's a goat-eating mexican monster.
Like El Masko Diablo, but with less spandex.
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It's a snake thing that eats sheep and small children.
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"Hey Grif, chupathingy. I like that. Got a ring to it."
/gratuitious RvB quote :p