Hurricane Dorian

[Bill E. 703]

8 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Big worries for you, man. I can watch safely online whereas I have to think a whole lot of your 'stuff' must be right there on the coast ready to be battered repeatedly. It can't be a good feeling. 

My big natural disaster was that 8.0 Sichuan earthquake eleven years ago. I got a good shaking for a minute and a half(plus two weeks of constant aftershocks in the thousands) , a good scare, a good story, and a week off work. But all my stuff was still intact and I didn't even lose internet access. Mother Nature is not going to be so kind to you.

They seem to be thinking it will be a ways out offshore when it goes by but it could be rough.  I moved here in 1999 and did not go through a storm for 15 years.  Now this is the third one in four years.  Pretty shitty.

[sderk 1,040]

Where is Al Gore when you need him!!

[Voltaire 5,316]

23 minutes ago, iam90sbaby said:

It’s not even raining here

I couldn't imagine being in hurricane alley during this time of year. This one's safely far away. That one's far away, that one too. It's like a big relief when it's somebody else's town and somebody else's nightmare. Maybe your turn was five years ago and you never know if the next one or the one after that will get you. Then the seasons change and you're feeling good about things for nine months.

I've had 47 years of watching them on TV. One year in Detroit we got really heavy winds and rain from the remnants of what had been Hurricane Fran that had found their way that deep inland. We got bad snows in winter in Detroit; in Panzhihua weather is hardly a concern. We never get anything worse than a heavy rainfall and sometimes December and January come and go and winter never shows up.

[Voltaire 5,316]

54 minutes ago, sderk said:

Where is Al Gore when you need him!!

That's what I was thinking after the first two Democratic debates.

[Baker Boy 1,699]

Hurricane Dorian downgraded to Category 2 storm,

[supermike80 1,910]

I think I've mentioned this before.  But every year, as predictable as the sun rise, my Florida aunt will post a picture of her thermometer showing mid 70's while I'm freezing in Michigan in January. 

I'd love to post a pic of these things  when she does it, but that wouldn't be nice

[RLLD 4,230]

Have the Dem's attributed this storm to Trumps racism yet?

[supermike80 1,910]

2 minutes ago, RLLD said:

Have the Dem's attributed this storm to Trumps racism yet?

They can't.  Theyre still up in arms about him golfing

[Baker Boy 1,699]

45 minutes ago, RLLD said:

Have the Dem's attributed this storm to Trumps racism yet?

Democrats railed against Trump even before the storm makes landfall over the state -- accusing him of playing racial politics

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hurricane-dorian-storm-trump-fema

[posty 2,696]

https://embed.air.tv/v1/iframe/k8FZC8pNQWizhT0gFYXpgw?organization=wJiaPTouTlSDiJOoEDkiQw

"YANIQUE: “Yes. Good morning, Amy. Good morning, Juan. Thank you for having me again. The truth is that the storms that are hitting the Caribbean with this intense magnitude are historic, unprecedented, and these storms are manmade storms. When I was growing up in the Caribbean, we would get really dangerous storms once a decade, and now we’re beginning to see them regularly. The Virgin Islands was hit by two category 5 storms only two years ago while President Trump indeed was our president, category 5 storms Irma and Maria in 2017. And to see now that the coverage is saying things like Dorian is going to hit the United States later today is incredibly insulting, an ongoing insult to the people of the United States Virgin Islands because Dorian hit the United States Virgin Islands on August 28 when it hit Saint Thomas and Saint John. It’s — as Dr. Campbell said, it is quite ironic and saddening that the people who are most vulnerable to these manmade storms are the ones who in all cases are not the contributing factors to the carbon emissions that are causing these storms”

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Looks like Trump has a weather machine now...

[Bert 1,128]

3 minutes ago, posty said:

https://embed.air.tv/v1/iframe/k8FZC8pNQWizhT0gFYXpgw?organization=wJiaPTouTlSDiJOoEDkiQw

"YANIQUE: “Yes. Good morning, Amy. Good morning, Juan. Thank you for having me again. The truth is that the storms that are hitting the Caribbean with this intense magnitude are historic, unprecedented, and these storms are manmade storms. When I was growing up in the Caribbean, we would get really dangerous storms once a decade, and now we’re beginning to see them regularly. The Virgin Islands was hit by two category 5 storms only two years ago while President Trump indeed was our president, category 5 storms Irma and Maria in 2017. And to see now that the coverage is saying things like Dorian is going to hit the United States later today is incredibly insulting, an ongoing insult to the people of the United States Virgin Islands because Dorian hit the United States Virgin Islands on August 28 when it hit Saint Thomas and Saint John. It’s — as Dr. Campbell said, it is quite ironic and saddening that the people who are most vulnerable to these manmade storms are the ones who in all cases are not the contributing factors to the carbon emissions that are causing these storms”

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Looks like Trump has a weather machine now...

I guess he found W's hurricane machine.

[taco breath 424]

wait, some of you guys like trump? 

[Voltaire 5,316]

4 hours ago, posty said:

 

Looks like Trump has a weather machine now...

He should aim all his hurricanes at Cuba.

[sderk 1,040]

4 hours ago, posty said:

https://embed.air.tv/v1/iframe/k8FZC8pNQWizhT0gFYXpgw?organization=wJiaPTouTlSDiJOoEDkiQw

"YANIQUE: “Yes. Good morning, Amy. Good morning, Juan. Thank you for having me again. The truth is that the storms that are hitting the Caribbean with this intense magnitude are historic, unprecedented, and these storms are manmade storms. When I was growing up in the Caribbean, we would get really dangerous storms once a decade, and now we’re beginning to see them regularly. The Virgin Islands was hit by two category 5 storms only two years ago while President Trump indeed was our president, category 5 storms Irma and Maria in 2017. And to see now that the coverage is saying things like Dorian is going to hit the United States later today is incredibly insulting, an ongoing insult to the people of the United States Virgin Islands because Dorian hit the United States Virgin Islands on August 28 when it hit Saint Thomas and Saint John. It’s — as Dr. Campbell said, it is quite ironic and saddening that the people who are most vulnerable to these manmade storms are the ones who in all cases are not the contributing factors to the carbon emissions that are causing these storms”

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Looks like Trump has a weather machine now...

Stinkin' Trump and his policy to destroy all the black/brown people of the world through any means possible.

[GobbleDog 996]

23 hours ago, Voltaire said:

I couldn't imagine being in hurricane alley during this time of year. This one's safely far away. That one's far away, that one too. It's like a big relief when it's somebody else's town and somebody else's nightmare. Maybe your turn was five years ago and you never know if the next one or the one after that will get you. Then the seasons change and you're feeling good about things for nine months.

I've had 47 years of watching them on TV. One year in Detroit we got really heavy winds and rain from the remnants of what had been Hurricane Fran that had found their way that deep inland. We got bad snows in winter in Detroit; in Panzhihua weather is hardly a concern. We never get anything worse than a heavy rainfall and sometimes December and January come and go and winter never shows up.

Disaster is everywhere.... hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, earthquakes, etc.

Detroit Michigan is the safest place in America?  .... from a mother-nature standpoint? 

[Voltaire 5,316]

3 hours ago, GobbleDog said:

Disaster is everywhere.... hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, earthquakes, etc.

Detroit Michigan is the safest place in America?  .... from a mother-nature standpoint? 

I see blizzard is on your list. We get really bad winters but no matter how cold, we never worry about out house getting wiped out. My hope is that global warming will gradually improve winters. I haven't been there for winter since 2001 but I understand they've been getting milder although this past winter was rough and broke the trend.

Panzhihua is much nicer. Summer isn't too hot whereas winters hardly exist when they show up at all.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

1 hour ago, Voltaire said:

I see blizzard is on your list. We get really bad winters but no matter how cold, we never worry about out house getting wiped out. My hope is that global warming will gradually improve winters. I haven't been there for winter since 2001 but I understand they've been getting milder although this past winter was rough and broke the trend.

Panzhihua is much nicer. Summer isn't too hot whereas winters hardly exist when they show up at all.

Yeah... Panzhihua is right where that deadly as fock earthquake was a few years back, no? 

I made a mistake coming to Shenzhen. The heat and humidity is focking brutal, and that's coming from a southerner. I sweat through two or three shirts a day for much of the year. And typhoons are no joke. The one last year was scary as fock. Especially as you know you are sitting in a shittily built crap hole with zero likely evacuation help. 

[lickin_starfish 1,937]

AOC and Bernie are attributing hurricanes to humans. What kind of braindead idiots fall for that schit?

[Voltaire 5,316]

30 minutes ago, titans&bucs&bearsohmy! said:

Yeah... Panzhihua is right where that deadly as fock earthquake was a few years back, no? 

I made a mistake coming to Shenzhen. The heat and humidity is focking brutal, and that's coming from a southerner. I sweat through two or three shirts a day for much of the year. And typhoons are no joke. The one last year was scary as fock. Especially as you know you are sitting in a shittily built crap hole with zero likely evacuation help. 

No.

Maybe. 

Panzhihua did have a minor earthquake in 2008. I'd be shocked if that's what you're talking about. It was only a 6.1 but it was plenty dangerous enough as it killed 41 people. That was August 2008. I wasn't here at the time, I was still living in Chengdu.

Four months prior, in May of 2008, Wenchuan,  just west of Chengdu (in the same province), got hit with an 8.0 earthquake that killed upwards of 87,000. That was the one I'd dealt with. I remember hearing about how Panzhihua got a 6.1 that shook for eight seconds and I thought "Ha. Amateurs. We had aftershocks that big." California got a 6.4/7.1 in July and I felt the same way. Meh.

The 8.0 you're thinking of was in a smaller city just west of Chengdu. At the time, I lived in western Chengdu near third ring road, and the major arterial road to the earthquake was also the big road near my house. The government confiscated all the cranes and bulldozers and whatever else equipment they found useful from private construction companies, put their projects on hold, and shipped them all out down the road new my house.... or at least tried to, they'd also had a massive traffic jam frustrating their efforts.

[IGotWorms 4,058]

So how focked is the Bahamas? 

[Voltaire 5,316]

4 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:

So how focked is the Bahamas? 

So focked that the Beach Boys now sing the lyrics "Bermuda, Terre Haute, c'mon pretty mamma"

[Cdub100 3,907]

1 hour ago, IGotWorms said:

So how focked is the Bahamas? 

I'm assuming it's pretty bad. They basically had a cat 5 parked on their doorstep for 2 days.

[jerryskids 6,793]

3 hours ago, IGotWorms said:

So how focked is the Bahamas? 

Video looked bad.  Whole sections looked destroyed. 

[Voltaire 5,316]

I'm looking forward to hearing from Bill; seeing how his boat, equipment, and shop made out. You have to figure in his line of work he's right on the water. Hopefully he could move as much stuff as possible to higher ground. One silver lining is that slow-ass moving hurricane gave him plenty of time to prepare.

[IGotWorms 4,058]

18 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

Video looked bad.  Whole sections looked destroyed. 

Yeah that’s what brought up my question. Looks like the whole place is destroyed but I don’t know if that’s just one part

[Djgb13 2,339]

Only thing that we’ve had today is a small light rain and that’s it. It’s stopped raining and there isn’t much wind. Looking for it to pick up later tonight. Went out to the beach to check out how it looks offshore and it’s pretty dark out that way 

[sderk 1,040]

On ‎9‎/‎3‎/‎2019 at 12:43 PM, supermike80 said:

They can't.  Theyre still up in arms about him golfing

I tuned into Progress Politics xm radio for a bit yesterday while in the car. Some chick host that was filling in for some other liberal was ranting on and on about Trump playing golf. Yelling and saying "God-damn him" over and over again. She said that she wished he had some venereal disease that wouldn't go away and "only if Jesus was real" hoping Jesus would make sure of it or something I guess. 

And then she mentioned how  the hurricane affected her vacation because she had to watch the horror of what was happening rather than just enjoying her vacation (not in the hurricane area). But Trump was playing golf! "God-damn him".

Not sure what the point was. But holy crap was she mad. She does not like Trump. I guess that is Progress Politics?

[Fireballer 2,642]

13 minutes ago, Djgb13 said:

Only thing that we’ve had today is a small light rain and that’s it. It’s stopped raining and there isn’t much wind. Looking for it to pick up later tonight. Went out to the beach to check out how it looks offshore and it’s pretty dark out that way 

You staying put?

[Djgb13 2,339]

7 minutes ago, Fireballer said:

You staying put?

Yup. Lot of people are. Streets are dead though. Bars are still open though lol 

[sderk 1,040]

17 hours ago, GobbleDog said:

Disaster is everywhere.... hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, earthquakes, etc.

Detroit Michigan is the safest place in America?  .... from a mother-nature standpoint? 

The Midwest isn't bad. Tornados are frightening, and I have been close to more than a few, but they usually are out in the open for the most part and can be avoided. Devastating if one comes through your neighborhood, but hurricanes, fvck that. Lived in Florida for 3 years in St. Pete, mandatory evacuations twice, and the hurricanes moved and ravaged other parts of the state. Worked as a contractor on a utility in New Orleans when Katrina hit there. Holy fvck. The people there were never the same. Fvcking dumbest locale in the nation to live is N.O. But I do watch NCIS New Orleans even though it's a bad show.  

[cbfalcon 825]

I just saw sources high in the government saying Alabama is in trouble. Maps show it in big danger 

[Mike Honcho 5,270]

5 minutes ago, cbfalcon said:

I just saw sources high in the government saying Alabama is in trouble. Maps show it in big danger 

Are you referring to the 'sharpie' map?  

[Djgb13 2,339]

What’s really pissing me off is all the cops sitting on the roads trying to catch people speeding. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,424]

35 minutes ago, Djgb13 said:

What’s really pissing me off is all the cops sitting on the roads trying to catch people speeding. 

Did your mom evacuate? 

[bandrus1 413]

58 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

Are you referring to the 'sharpie' map?  

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2074

 

time to impeach 

[Gladiators 1,987]

10 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Did your mom evacuate? 

I can confirm she is safe. Sucked me off like it might be the last time, which was nice. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,424]

2 minutes ago, Gladiators said:

I can confirm she is safe. Sucked me off like it might be the last time, which was nice. 

I was wondering why it went right to voicemail. Tell her I said what's up. 

[Gladiators 1,987]

5 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I was wondering why it went right to voicemail. Tell her I said what's up. 

She said she had to get to your place next. Should be there in 5 min. Enjoy

[Djgb13 2,339]

30 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Did your mom evacuate? 

No but I evacuated all over your moms t1ts 

[lickin_starfish 1,937]

Pooped on them?