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“I interpreted the data myself” //// HAW, HAW!!!!
That was a good one. What do you call putting your entire fist up your ass?
Evidently the sidewalks are heavily puddled. On the upside, sex toy and porn sales spiked.
Here is what I learned in the DC area-
Hurricane + beer = no problems
Hurricane + vodka = no worries
Hurricane + wife + no power = beer + vodka
#21 The term is a bobbo, oh wait that’s when you put your head up your ass.
I was quite entertained by the CNN coverage making a huge show of the Hurricane… Almost looked like the Oscars or something…
Al “Slum Lord” Gore is now calling those who don’t believe in man made global warming “this generation’s racists”.
Apparently, conflating them with Nazis and middle east muslims who deny the WW2 Holocaust happened (aka, “global warming deniers”) is no longer deemed to be sufficiently effective in demonizing those who believe any global warming is a completely natural phenomena that’s been going on since the end of the last Ice Age and will continue until the start of the next Ice Age.
Me? I call anthropogenic global warming alarmists fools and con artists who have turned junk science into outright crap science. The climate models the alarmism is all ultimately based on as “science” aren’t worth the hard drive space their executables take up since they can’t predict the KNOWN PAST for any length of time without FAILING BADLY.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/28/gore-global-warming-skeptics-are-this-generations-racists/
The northeast U.S. coast dodged a bullet this time — looks like fewer than 100 deaths attributable to the storm, but an increase in the power of the storm of only a few percent would likely have killed many more and damaged infrastructure enough to make a noticeable dent in the country’s GDP. Better safe than sorry, I say. Of course, it’s always possible to go overboard, but IMHO, the warnings were mostly within allowable limits.
How annoying is it to click on a picture link only to be presented with a gallery of photos with no indication of where the picture you were interested in resides?
Am I right?
yet more media fearmongering over nothing. gotta keep the sheeple afraid. more nonsense. IT KNOCKED A GUTTER OFF THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET! OH THE HUMAINTY!
A downed power line and a couple trees knocked over is all we suffered around here. Supposedly there is “massive flooding” in low laying areas near the ocean. I’m hoping to wake up tomorrow to find that the ocean has reclaimed Boston, but I’m guessing no such luck.
Had a storm a couple of months ago that knocked out power to roughly 30 counties, not limited power, no power period. Rural electric crews had all the power back on within two days. Funny thing, the national media never even mentioned that a quarter of Missouri and a third of Iowa counties were without power and suffered significant thunderstorm damage. This was after the Joplin tornado by a few weeks. If its not east coast or west coast it apparently doesn’t exist to the national media. Some east coast shmoe can’t get his ipad to connect and his socks get damp and oh dear god its the end of the world. It did however get matt lauer, ann curry, and al roker to work a weekend.
I live across the Hudson river from NYC.
This was a non-event.
No power outage, no flooding, no disruptions in the flow of closest neighbors and friends (its party time,) helped by no disruption in the flow of booze (Ya, hic, ay!)
There was a hell of a lot of rain (5″ in 24 hours,) but I don’t have to shovel rain. (If it had been snow it would have been scary.)
Right now there’s less sequelea than there was from last winter’s snow storm. (Fuckin’ cheap-ass Healy laid off all the snow removal crews the week before the storm. Jersey City was a mess for months.)
The fact that it happened on a week-end and that NYC had shut down its MTA system and the PATH system was also down meant that everybody was staying put for the duration.
#24–Bada bing==good one. Humor from defining the words you are using. Most excellent. Lets see if you have finally gotten around to doing that on our other thread.
Not holding breath as I go look………
Keep up the good work.
I live outside of DC and the hurricane was just a strong rain storm, but I was still very happy to see most shops were closing by late afternoon or early evening( 2-3 hours in advance of the storm arriving).
Two winters ago we had a major blizzard. There were all kinds of stories about places selling non-essential shit staying open to chase that last sale and stranding their employees. That probably had an effect.
Good to see DC having some class, even in a small way.
Category 1… yawn… Gloria (1985) was a category 4. We didn’t get all worked up about that kind of thing. I was at Camp LeJeune, NC at the time. Young, dumb jarhead… hurricane warning, everyone is supposed to be in helmet and flak jacket if outside the barracks… so what were we doing? Playing football. OD approached a group of us gathered around the bench (stacks of beer cases) and said, ‘what the hell are you Marines doing?’… Our response, ‘WINNING, SIR!’ as we grabbed another beer and headed back out onto the field.
We were lucky we didn’t all die… or get written up and called to stand in front of the man… death would have been preferable.
It seems that most of the lame stream has now moved on from NYC to focus on the hardest hit southern states. But CiaNN keeps spouting the bullshit of how horrifically impacted NYC is. The rain, wind, and FEAR all across NYC.
I’m now convinced that the CiaNN wants to portray NYC residents as a bunch of pussified morons that shit their pants over a weak-ass earthquake and cower in fear over a bullshit storm.
I just love how since Irene didn’t flatten NJ and NYC everyone is acting like this was a non-event. Trust me no one is more disappointed that NYC was spared than the places that weren’t.
Mayor Bloomberg came on the tube with a stoney face and declared Irene to be the greatest emergency of the century. And the local stations hyped it to death so that each puddle of water was a potentially deadly flood zone that could swallow your children at any time. TV reporters were chastising NYers for being outside and railed against people in NJ for watching the waves as the hurricane approached. Con Ed was getting ready to cut off lower Manhattan’s power below preemptively until people got wind of it and Con Ed had to back down. All in all, a typical day in a city run by a corporate fascist panty waist of a mayor.
As Hurricane Irene moved north and away from Florida, it caused strong winds from the Gulf of Mexico to blow eastward over the state thus carrying very warm and humid air. Tampa had an overnight low of 86°F. That’s an all-time highest daily low temperature for the city.
The Gulf of Mexico water may be hotter than normal. If a tropical system is in the Gulf of Mexico, watch oil futures jump up in price.
#39 continued –
The high temperature on that record day was in the low 90s. Low 90s high and an 86°F low. It was that humid.
Hope everyone pulls through O.K.