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| !!!!!AAAGhhhhh!!!!! HURRICANE; Here we go agin, same old sh_t again | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 25 2011, 11:49 AM (2,570 Views) | |
| metroschultz | Aug 25 2011, 11:49 AM Post #1 |
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Please just call me; "Schultz"
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HURRICANE Well, the newsies are at it again, The world is coming to and end, the storm of the millennium is headed our way, buy stuff, stuff you don't use, stuff to sit on your shelf till next hurricane, buy more stuff, Fill your gas tank (that's actually a good idea) draw all your money from an ATM and keep it secure. (really? the bank isn't secure anymore?) This may be the big one, or not. I believe we (the humans here) make too big a fuss over possible inconvenience. The P.O. gave us 2/two/dos different safety meetings yesterday about hurricane preparedness and general safety. a 2 page list of stuff we should have on hand, just in case. If it is the One there isn't a thing you can do to stop it. Common sense should be your guide. we have become spoiled and complacent in our daily citified lives. If power goes out, you camp in your house for a few days. We camped in ours for 8 days after Isabel. I ran the Geo with an ac inverter for a fan and TV. (BTW, a metro will run a day and a half just above idle on a full tank) We had barbecue with the neighbors as we used our perishables. we played UNO till the wee hours by candle light. I still had to go to work. We sat in the shop the first day, without power, and played cards by emergency lamp. C'Mon people, you are adults, get over your selves and stop scaring the kids. Do what is necessary and let mother nature do her thing. We'll clean up when she's done. |
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| Deleted User | Aug 25 2011, 12:01 PM Post #2 |
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| Tofuball | Aug 25 2011, 12:07 PM Post #3 |
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Strange Mechanic
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EARTHICANE! |
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| idmetro | Aug 25 2011, 12:31 PM Post #4 |
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HURRIQUAKE!!! DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER! |
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| Coche Blanco | Aug 25 2011, 04:13 PM Post #5 |
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Troll Certified
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RANGER DILL DOBINSON!RANGER! amirite? |
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| nerys | Aug 25 2011, 05:59 PM Post #6 |
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Grr
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its actually looking to be pretty bad here. (I work outside AC in egg harbor city) they are calling for 10 inches and upwards of 100mph winds (mays landing 5 minutes from here is going to be the bullseye. I believe they are even calling for MANDATORY evacuations of a large portion of this area (I don't recognize MANDATORY evacuations as lawful so glad I live in PA :-) |
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| Johnny Mullet | Aug 25 2011, 08:07 PM Post #7 |
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Fear the Mullet
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I pray for all those on the East Coast. Be safe guys! |
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| TheKid | Aug 25 2011, 08:25 PM Post #8 |
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Earthquakes..Hurricane and other major natural glitches. Famine and, oh yes Wars and rumors of it. Where have I heard all this before? Hmmm.... All happening in a short time span. |
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| Stiffchezze | Aug 25 2011, 08:31 PM Post #9 |
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Sir Metrologist
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I understand Nerys, I'll be that guy sitting on his roof with water all around. When I'm asked why I didn't leave, I'll respond "I leave when it gets bad." As some one who as been through more than a couple of Hurricanes, mandatory evacuations just mean that if you do not live there you have to leave. If you do live there, you are on your own if everything goes to hell in a hand-basket. Sometimes they will get you to sign a release and get your next of kin just in case. They can't make you leave. But they can try to scare the hell out of you to try to get you to. In all seriousness, to everyone affected, don't screw with these things. If your in a bad place, get out. It's not worth it. This is your decision, and yours alone. And don't complain that FEMA didn’t rescue you when you didn't head the warnings on the front side. Good luck. I'll say a prayer for you folks. |
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| Good bye | Aug 26 2011, 01:05 AM Post #10 |
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Please be safe you guys and gals, Mother nature appears top be a little pissed this month and it is only August. |
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| billy508 | Aug 26 2011, 08:31 AM Post #11 |
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Good post Metroshultz. It is always a tough call to make whether to evacuate or not. The storm surge and trees are my 2 biggest worry. Sometimes the HYPE is just over whelming is almost degrading. All of sudden people think you do not have enough sense to understand simple things and it is their duty to tell you the same stuff, over and over again., In my area most of the damage coming from areas that should not have been built on in the first place. Last week I started noticing a lot of metal carports and such being build. I guess people just forget. Hurricanes are natures code enforcement When you see the video of hurricanes, what do you see blowing down the streets? That's right. Big sheets of tin and pieces of signs. A lot of the crap that blows down is not well built or built in the wrong place. You have been there before so you know what to do. Good luck to everyone. If someone want to start a Hurricane tread as the storm approaches, I will help. If you live near the water. a old VHF radio turned to Channel 16 will provide some interesting info. Every stay safe. |
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| BillHoo | Aug 26 2011, 01:01 PM Post #12 |
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Just as an FYI: The Question: I roughly recall that the motto of the U.S. Postal Service is in part, "Neither snow nor rain nor dark of night . . ." How does the rest go? Who wrote it? And where does it appear? The Answer: Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. Postal Service has no "official motto." The familar sentence you are thinking of is this: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. This is commonly misidentified as the creed of our mail carriers, but actually it is just the inscription found on the General Post Office in New York City at 8th Avenue and 33rd Street. Here's how the official Web site of the U.S. Postal Service describes the origin of the inscription. This inscription was supplied by William Mitchell Kendall of the firm of McKim, Mead & White, the architects who designed the New York General Post Office. Kendall said the sentence appears in the works of Herodotus and describes the expedition of the Greeks against the Persians under Cyrus, about 500 B.C. The Persians operated a system of mounted postal couriers, and the sentence describes the fidelity with which their work was done. Professor George H. Palmer of Harvard University supplied the translation, which he considered the most poetical of about seven translations from the Greek. —The Editors Read more: Post Office Motto — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/post-office-motto.html#ixzz1W9vXdVQb |
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| BillHoo | Aug 26 2011, 01:14 PM Post #13 |
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I have four deep cycle marine batteries and a 3000 watt inverter to run the fridge and a few appliances. Normally this setup is kept charged with an 85 watt set of solar panels, but I don't expect the sun to shine for a few days. I'm planning on using my wife's Honda Civic Hybrid's power management to keep the charge cycled much as the gentleman below did with his Prius: The newspaper reports that John Sweeney, a resident who lost power, “ran his refrigerator, freezer, TV, woodstove fan and several lights through his Prius, for three days, on roughly five gallons of gas.” http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/prius-its-not-just-a-car-its-an-emergency-generator/ |
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| JellyBeanDriver | Aug 26 2011, 01:56 PM Post #14 |
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I'm prepared - for something, but nothing really happens here in CA except for wildfires and for those you just leave. |
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| Potter | Aug 26 2011, 05:52 PM Post #15 |
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Col. Potter
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Stay dry Beach Dweller.. we'll have our umbrellas ready in the mountains... im not expecting much... its just a cat 1 border cat 2. i don't remember this much media coverage for hurricanes when i lived down south, especally for just a cat 1 or 2 hurricane, now if it was a 4 or 5 like Katrina or Andrew i could understand but not this pissy little one (this is comming from someone who has been thru hurricanes before) Just put all the loose stuff indoors ( like garbage cans, ect) and tie down your metro and just hang on. |
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