OT: Florence (Hurricane)

[Charliebball]

sure hope they have some boats...............

 

[JordyG]

Just like a woman..... Florence cant make up her mind where she wants to go.

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Once again while watching this I come away impressed with George's stellar reflexes. No wonder he was able to dodge all the slings and arrow thrown his way while in office.

 

[JordyG]

sure hope they have some boats.....

Or a butt load of rebreathers.

 

[JordyG]

Hhhhmmmmm....

I look at the house on the right and Sam Kinison comes to mind:

I don't have to re-watch the Kinison again. "Go where the food is", "I'll bet the camera man could've given them a sandwich", "Get all your stuff, we'll load up the truck, we'll make one trip. We'll take you where the food is", "See this? This is sand. You know what this is going to be in a thousand years? It's Going To Be Sand!!!! Nothing grows here. Nothing gonna grow here".

 

[triaddukefan]

My Gosh Wilmington

 

[triaddukefan]

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

All of my hopes go out to these folk who are under the gun while facing another "Storm of a lifetime" hitting our coastline. I hope you're prepared, hunkered down, and/or somewhere further inland. I've all my appendages crossed for y'all.

The hyperbole is bothersome to me because when it doesn't turn out to be as strong as predicted, people on the coast are less likely to evacuate when there is an even greater threat.

 

[j66kicker]

I don't have to re-watch the Kinison again. "Go where the food is", "I'll bet the camera man could've given them a sandwich", "Get all your stuff, we'll load up the truck, we'll make one trip. We'll take you where the food is", "See this? This is sand. You know what's this is going to be in a thousand years? It's Going To Be Sand!!!! Nothing grows here. Nothing gonna grow here".

Loved it! ("You don't need a care package - you need a U-HAUL!")

Sam said his father was a preacher, and he thought if he had become a preacher his sermon would go something like this: "I am from the church of Hell. In one year you will wear my mark, YOU WILL WEAR MY MARK!!!"

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Hurricane Florence prompts volunteer group America's Cajun Navy to send more than 1,000 people to help

 

[RockyMTblue2]

And This Bud's For You:

So nice of a foreign company to gives us some help.

Anheuser-Busch sending 300,000 cans of water to Hurricane Florence victims

Can haul it home in a Dodge/Fiat truck.

 

[triaddukefan]

A little pre-landfall humor

 

[triaddukefan]

One more

 

[Vowelguy]

One more

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A++++

 

[Vowelguy]

Triad, c-leghorn, et al:

Hope it's not the big one this time.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Red and Moms Mabley, cut from the same cloth. @Jordy this is for you in the Spam, music, etc. vein:

Remarkable life. They say the best humor comes out of pain. Something to that.



Meanwhile the storm surge is starting to do its dirty work.

 

[JordyG]

Red and Moms Mabley, cut from the same cloth. @Jordy this is for you in the Spam, music, etc. vein:

Remarkable life. They say the best humor comes out of pain. Something to that.



Meanwhile the storm surge is starting to do its dirty work.

Moms Mabley. "My husband is old as water and twice as weak."

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Moms Mabley. "My husband is old as water and twice as weak."

Like Red she had some comedy routines that were, to say the least, quite raunchy.

 

[Bigboote]

I saw this on the Post website today. As someone commented, Darwin Award, climate change version:

Opinion | These cable-news interviews with people riding out Hurricane Florence are incredible

 

[triaddukefan]

I was driving past the convention center/hotel here Wednesday night, and saw plenty of power crew trucks parked in the hotel parking lot just waiting to be called into action. Here is a pic of some of the Electrical Crews from out of state staged in the parking lot at the Mall across from the hotel.

 

[Charliebball]

I was driving past the convention center/hotel here Wednesday night, and saw plenty of power crew trucks parked in the hotel parking lot just waiting to be called into action. Here is a pic of some of the Electrical Crews from out of state staged in the parking lot at the Mall across from the hotel.

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gotta start getting those power lines underground..............our infrastructure in most of the country is 50+ years old and counting..........what a mess

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Yes, agreed @Charliebball , but we seem to forget basic infrastructure and go for multibillions underground supercommutter trains and similar boon doggles. Would you want Elon Musk overseeing that! There is another thing that cannot be buried, but ...

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Pressed for time, this stop sign disaster is shorter:

 

[Charliebball]

Yes, agreed @Charliebball , but we seem to forget basic infrastructure and go for multibillions underground supercommutter trains and similar boon doggles. Would you want Elon Musk overseeing that! There is another thing that cannot be buried, but ...

agreed..............I live in northern NJ and my power goes out on a monthly basis during any kind of rain storm, ice storm, car accident taking down poles/power lines etc...............only the fanciest newly constructed neighborhoods have eliminated overhead power lines.............it's like we're living in an underdeveloped country.............we've invested in a nice generator which can be a bit inconvenient and I'm sure glad we did...........

 

[RockyMTblue2]

agreed....I live in northern NJ and my power goes out on a monthly basis during any kind of rain storm, ice storm, car accident taking down poles/power lines etc.....only the fanciest newly constructed neighborhoods have eliminated overhead power lines...it's like we're living in an underdeveloped country...we've invested in a nice generator which can be a bit inconvenient and I'm sure glad we did......

When we lived in Fairfield Cty, CT we had a behemoth generator that ran about 6 circuits; they are much better now, but yes it allowed peace of mind for the all to frequent power outages.

 

[Charliebball]

When we lived in Fairfield Cty, CT we had a behemoth generator that ran about 6 circuits; they are much better now, but yes it allowed peace of mind for the all to frequent power outages.

mine runs everything in the house but staggers a bit with the A/C on.....................wanted to get one of those whole house natural gas operated generators but didn't think it was worth the $10K investment..................starting to have second thoughts about that.............