In The Zone
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Wasn't it his brother that was hitting on her?Does Evilgrin's buddy still still hook up with Stephanie Abrams?
Wasn't it his brother that was hitting on her?Does Evilgrin's buddy still still hook up with Stephanie Abrams?
May have been. So awesomeWasn't it his brother that was hitting on her?
Hang in there. If you need help please call someone.You would think that any normal person who just survived a Category 4 Hurricane in the midst of the worst global pandemic of the last 100 years would feel somewhat invincible right now (especially since trained meteorologists described the storm surge as “unsurvivable”).
Yet here I am, sitting in the dark, alone in my house sipping bourbon, convinced that my demise is imminent in some humiliating and bizarre fashion. Leading candidates for the cause of my impending doom include: bitten by rabid ground squirrel; slipped on cat vomit; and any death in which the coroner’s report included the phrases “power tool” and “in the groin region.”
Perhaps I need to start drinking a lot more or I should make that call to my physician asking him to “increase my dosage,”
Thanks for caring, but I hoped everyone would understand the post was in jest. I thought the small furry animal references would give it away.Hang in there. If you need help please call someone.
Stand-alone gasoline-powered generators are expensive for most people, and tricky to use. I can say the prices have come down over the last 15 years or so and they are becoming more common ... but far from ubiquitous. I doubt more than one middle-class home in ten, locally, has a stand-alone generator even now. Keep in mind, also, that gasoline to fuel the generators can be hard to come by in the aftermath of a bad storm and it is difficult and dangerous for private residences to bank substantial quantities of gasoline for a significant length of time. Having a gasoline generator can help a lot, but it is by no means a perfect solution for a multi-week power outage.Generators not an option? Solar?
Lot's of people here have generators. You can hear the sound of them everywhere. It's not really an option for me. You need gasoline or diesel and there no stations open in the Parish. You can't get fuel. Folks staying here are driving to Lafayette or Beaumont daily with as many gas cans as they can possibly carry to get fuel. I am working 12-15 hours a day, so driving elsewhere isn't an option. I can stay at work where there is a generator and AC, but you know, the cat and everything.I don't live in a hurricane region, I get pissed when my lights are off for 20 minutes let alone days.
Generators not an option? Solar?
That sucks. I hope the various crews get to your area soon.I'd just like to give a big F U to Laura. She wreaked havoc on central and north LA as well, which was unexpected to say the least. We were prepared for some wind and some rain but we had sustained gusts of 50-70mph for the better part of 6 hours, and we are ~3.5 hours from the Gulf coast. I've never seen anything like what we got in my entire lifetime. Some areas here are still without power with dismal estimates (weeks!) on when they might have it restored. We just got power back last night and internet late this afternoon, after losing power early Thursday morning. It was 88 degrees in my house yesterday and we finally found a friend that had power day before yesterday so we bugged out until last night. My work is closed for the week. Still trees down all over but most or all roadways have been cleared and power slowly getting restored. Still have a couple coworkers without power. Heard on the radio that they had dispatched most of the "extra" line crews down south where they expected the brunt of the damage to be, which left us vulnerable up here. I managed to get by with only one broken window pane from a flying limb, a fridge/freezer and chest freezer full of ruined food and a detached garage which took a hit from a thankfully rotten tree that fell over and disintegrated on the roof and didn't cause much damage. I'm calling that a win all things considered as I know that many were not so fortunate.
They named a storm after my sweet grandmother?
Still don't get why this is your go to website. The post processing they do makes my eyes bleed.
just what my fingers type out of habit. I'll try to remember for the next one.culdeus said:Still don't get why this is your go to website. The post processing they do makes my eyes bleed.
It's windy, 20-30 mph winds, and rainy, with 2-4 inches or more expected everywhere in South Florida. The danger appears to be early next week when the system strengthens to a minimal hurricane and meanders near New Orleans for 2 or 3 days, due to weak steering currents. It could be a big rain event there.@NWSWPC: Tropical Depression Nineteen: The center is moving across the southern end of the Florida Peninsula and is expected to become a Tropical Storm over the Gulf of Mexico later today or tonight. Heavy rain is possible across southern/west-central FL toward the central Gulf Coast. https://twitter.com/NWSWPC/status/1304714822165106694/photo/1
Bring your kayak with you?Any thoughts on the disturbance heading toward the Caribbean? We are in St. Lucia until Friday.
Sandals resort or other?Any thoughts on the disturbance heading toward the Caribbean? We are in St. Lucia until Friday.
We'll be wet, but fine. The low areas that always flood will flood, the rest will deal with water in the streets for a bit.The danger appears to be early next week when the system strengthens to a minimal hurricane and meanders near New Orleans for 2 or 3 days, due to weak steering currents. It could be a big rain event there.
Sandals Grande. Just saw TD 20 is moving away from here. They are forecasting some clouds and occasional rain.Sandals resort or other?
Latest models are all over the place with intensification. NHC even notes in 0500 update-Doug B said:We'll be wet, but fine. The low areas that always flood will flood, the rest will deal with water in the streets for a bit.
The initial concern with Sally is whether or not it can "miraculously" blow up from a tropical storm to, say, a Cat 3 hurricane within 12-18 hours as storms seem to do more often in recent years. Sally's circulation area looks like it's going to be to be too much over land for it to really go crazy and intensify to that level.
Yeah ... Mother Nature is slapping me in the mouth for being nonchalant and 'forgetting the lessons of Katrina'.Latest models are all over the place with intensification. NHC even notes in 0500 update-Doug B said:We'll be wet, but fine. The low areas that always flood will flood, the rest will deal with water in the streets for a bit.
The initial concern with Sally is whether or not it can "miraculously" blow up from a tropical storm to, say, a Cat 3 hurricane within 12-18 hours as storms seem to do more often in recent years. Sally's circulation area looks like it's going to be to be too much over land for it to really go crazy and intensify to that level.
And now a Vicki listed too when I clicked on the second link. And 2 more X's on the map. One behind Vicky and one south of Texas in the Gulf.
A combination of they weren't needed, and there aren't many names. We have only gone through 21 names twice.Wonder why?
Yep. Up to Cat-2. Could be Cat-3 by landfall, which looks to be around late Tuesday PM/early Wednesday AM.NHC will come out with a special advisory because Sally is getting strong so fast. This #### is insane.
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