Ike beat Tina and now SFLA?

[Manny]

Doesn't look too pretty....

[Gravy]

florida is the dirty whore and mother earth is running the train!

[Mikey]

not another one....

[Gil]

hope we dodge these fuckers

[jose]

florida is the dirty whore and mother earth is running the train!

:rofl: :rofl: nicely put

[Gil]

florida is the dirty whore and mother earth is running the train!

PEDO APPRVD QUOTE

[Latnballer]

Currently a Cat 3, might strengthen to a 4 by the time it's near us.

[Gh0st]

:( :( :(

[Mikey]

:( :( :(

ill protect you






:big:

[Gh0st]

ill protect you






:big:

I'm sure you will :rolleyes:

[Mikey]

I'm sure you will :rolleyes:

nah, youre right.

[SpdRcrChk]

i knew it was a matter of time before the ike vs. tina jokes sprung about

[iSS Mike]

I knew it cat 3 already.

I had seen the satellite imagery this morning and it was still a TS, but something about the way it looked on the sat image was just not right. It looked to good of a storm to be just a TS. I guess they finally flew into the storm to check it out. Cause they had not done that yet. They were making estimates in the 5pm advisory.

[Manny]

I knew it cat 3 already.

I had seen the satellite imagery this morning and it was still a TS, but something about the way it looked on the sat image was just not right. It looked to good of a storm to be just a TS. I guess they finally flew into the storm to check it out. Cause they had not done that yet. They were making estimates in the 5pm advisory.
They fly into a storm as soon as it becomes a depression. The "bermuda high" is what is keeping this storm from going north.

[iSS Mike]

They fly into a storm as soon as it becomes a depression. The "bermuda high" is what is keeping this storm from going north.

I would love to go for a ride in the hurricane hunter plane. lol

[Latnballer]

I would love to go for a ride in the hurricane hunter plane. lol

werd....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbT-YpW-44w&feature=related

[jose]

would really suck if NYC got hit by a hurricane.

[iSS Mike]

Ike is the Category 4 status.

[Gravy]

would really suck if NYC got hit by a hurricane.
why is that? its about time NY gets cleaned up! :lawl:

[NiZMo1o1]

Ike is the Category 4 status.
might be more they said ,135mph

[BONH]

awesome, i need a new windshield!

[jose]

why is that? its about time NY gets cleaned up! :lawl:

I hope those New yoricans cant swim. :lawl: :hsughno:

[Steven]

god damn, sustained winds of 145mph

whoever gets hit by this thing is going to get rocked.

hurricane party at my place?

[Ralph]

corny ass thread title

[NiZMo1o1]

god damn, sustained winds of 145mph

whoever gets hit by this thing is going to get rocked.

hurricane party at my place?

pics of your mom / sister ?

[Vakane]

holy cat 4 batman...

[iSS Mike]

That shit is gusting to 180 at the moment.

[Vakane]

are we on the cone?

[SpdRcrChk]

are we on the cone?

yeah. just about right smack in the middle of it.

i'm leaving work early today to do a favor for a friend. as soon as i'm done, i'm picking up some gas jugs and filling them up. lol

[iSS Mike]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0908W5+gif/083712W_sm.gif

and here are the individual comp models.
http://icons-pe.wunderground.com/data/images/at200809_model.gif

[Vakane]

yeah. just about right smack in the middle of it

I could derail the storm by blocking florida with my penorz..:wiggle:

[Eric@TCGMiami]

would really suck if NYC got hit by a hurricane.

That's right... The Discovery Channel once had a special on that, because NYC is NOT ready for a storm that can delivery rapid floods, they had No pumps at the time of the documentary. So all of the city would be in trouble as it would be underwater including the subways.

[RFFG]

de pinga

fkn meeting today @ work regarding this chet as well...

[Domiken]

That's right... The Discovery Channel once had a special on that, because NYC is NOT ready for a storm that can delivery rapid floods, they had No pumps at the time of the documentary. So all of the city would be in trouble as it would be underwater including the subways.

We should be ok. As long as its not more than a category 4. The subway's pumps if turned off will flood in 3 days. So its not that big of a deal, the underground tunnels can handle it. We usually get some strong winds up here from the north during winter, im talking like 60-70mph winds at night, and it feels like the building (made by messicans 2 years ago) that I live in is going to collapse.

[Copper]

http://www4.wsvn.com/images/weather/wxcentral/stills/cone3_org.JPG?20080904131645

Looks like Ike's path is aimed square at us as of right now.

[RFFG]

well i get paid for those days

:D

[Phil]

NY will be fine we had hurricane gloria in 85, most people have generators to keep power


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gloria

[Copper]

well i get paid for those days

:D

X2.... :cool:

[BONH]

X2.... :cool:

x3 :cool::cool::cool:

[nissanfan60]

NY will be fine we had hurricane gloria in 85, most people have generators to keep power


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gloria

but it was a weak storm by the time it hit new york. if new york was to get a direct hit like we are nothing will be left standing.

[Phil]

but it was a weak storm by the time it hit new york. if new york was to get a direct hit like we are nothing will be left standing.

I dunno, if we can handle feet of heavy snow melting in the winter and being on the buildings im sure we can handle a lil pussy fart from that bitch mother nature

[Phil]

I dunn what the thugs are gonna do, bitch will prob start bustin caps in the air to fend the storm off

[nissanfan60]

I dunno, if we can handle feet of heavy snow melting in the winter and being on the buildings im sure we can handle a lil pussy fart from that bitch mother nature

one thing is handling haevy snow and melting water, and another is handling 145mph winds and or more then that, i saw the documentry on that and they said even thought a cat 2 hurricane was to have direct impact on new york, just because the way the buildings are place there the cat 2 storm would feel like if there was a cat 4 storm flooding streets, subways, and destroying everything in its path.

i wouldnt wish that on anybody or any city or state, but they said it has happened before and it will happen again.

and one more thing that i just thought about is those buildings were made years ago with out the standards we in miami have today since hurricane andrew.

[Phil]

one thing is handling haevy snow and melting water, and another is handling 145mph winds and or more then that, i saw the documentry on that and they said even thought a cat 2 hurricane was to have direct impact on new york, just because the way the buildings are place there the cat 2 storm would feel like if there was a cat 4 storm flooding streets, subways, and destroying everything in its path.

i wouldnt wish that on anybody or any city or state, but they said it has happened before and it will happen again.

and one more thing that i just thought about is those buildings were made years ago with out the standards we in miami have today since hurricane andrew.

their was severe flooding in the city a year back and in huntington station and numerous other towns. the city I think can handle a serious storm. long island wont have a problem either considering its so hilly. we have el nino for years now. im sure they will be fine

[nissanfan60]

their was severe flooding in the city a year back and in huntington station and numerous other towns. the city I think can handle a serious storm. long island wont have a problem either considering its so hilly. we have el nino for years now. im sure they will be fine



maybe this will change your thinking takes a little bit to read but skim throught it and you will find what your looking for.

http://www.nypress.com/18/29/news&columns/aaronnaparstek.cfm

[Phil]

fuck cant see it at work.


Im just going by 23 years of living in NY

[nissanfan60]

fuck cant see it at work.


Im just going by 23 years of living in NY

hope this helps..


THE BIG ONE
Experts say it’s only a matter of time before a major hurricane strikes New York City. When it comes, you may want to have your evacuation plan nearby. If not, meet the fishes.
By Aaron Naparstek

Imagine the following: It’s a beautiful Labor Day weekend. Sunny, cloudless, 80 degrees. Backyard barbecues are fired up all over the metropolitan area, and the beaches of New York City, New Jersey and southern Long Island are jam-packed with bathers. The only sign that something unusual is happening is the relatively big waves rolling up on Coney Island. It’s a surfer’s paradise. Mike Lee isn't enjoying the long weekend. For the last two weeks, Lee, the Director of Watch Command at New York City's Office of Emergency Management, has been observing a series of weather systems form off the western coast of Africa, organize themselves into the familiar swirling pattern of tropical storms, and line up like airplanes coming in for a landing on the Caribbean. One of those storms, a category-4 monster hurricane with sustained winds of 140 m.p.h., is violently churning the ocean 350 nautical miles off the coast of Georgia.



A hurricane like this one can usually be counted on to curve eastward and die a harmless death over the Atlantic. But with a large area of high pressure hovering just off the east coast, the computer models at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are largely in agreement: This one is heading north, tracking a direct hit on New Jersey somewhere north of Atlantic City. Like the legendary "Long Island Express" of 1938, the fastest-moving hurricane ever recorded, it's moving quickly.



While no human or computer can ever be completely sure what a hurricane is going to do, this is looking like a worst-case scenario for New York City, the kind of scenario "that gives emergency managers serious gastrointestinal distress," says Lee. Because of its counter-clockwise rotation, the right side of a hurricane is the most powerful part of the storm. The right side of this storm is fixing to land a haymaker on New York Harbor. If it makes landfall during high tide, the devastation will be unprecedented.



With the storm expected to hit within 24 hours, Mike Lee is in constant communication with Mike Wyllie, meteorologist-in-charge at the National Weather Service's New York office in Upton. The OEM's emergency operations center, meanwhile, is buzzing, while the mayor and his chiefs are hunkered down in the situation room. They have an incredibly difficult decision to make, a decision that has never before been made in New York City. They are preparing to order the evacuation of 900,000 New Yorkers whose homes are in the path of catastrophic flooding in the event of a category-4 hurricane. They will provide shelter for nearly a quarter million. And while the storm is still far enough away that it could drift off course and miss New York City completely, a full evacuation may take up to 18 hours. They need to decide now. The fact that a mayoral election is only two months away doesn't make the decision any less complicated. An unnecessary evacuation could be a political catastrophe.



Though it sounds like science fiction, the above scenario is all too plausible. "Try to tell someone in Sheepshead Bay that they have to evacuate immediately because within the next 24 hours they'll have 30 feet of storm surge on their neighborhood," says Mike Lee, before pausing to let you think about three stories of ocean water roiling through your own neighborhood. "They'll laugh at you—absolutely laugh at you," he says. "I mean, I barely even believe it."



I met Lee at this year's Long Island/New York City Emergency Management conference and spent some time with him at the OEM "bunker" in Brooklyn. It turns out that the region's emergency managers aren't only worrying about terrorism these days. The big topic of discussion at the Melville, Long Island, Hilton was hurricanes. And the strong consensus is that the metropolitan region is due for a big one. Overdue, in fact.
























The 1938 Long Island Express, a borderline category-4 hurricane that plowed into West Hampton, causing widespread death and devastation across New York, New Jersey and New England, was the last major hurricane to hit the region. Statistically speaking, "a storm of that magnitude may repeat every 70 to 80 years or so," Lee says. "So, do the math. Whether it happens this year, next year, or in five years, it's going to happen." And with this year's hurricane season forecasted to be even busier and more dangerous than last year's record-setter, "It's just a matter of time," Lee says.



Though it is rare for big hurricanes to hit the New York metropolitan region, there are a variety of "oceanographic, demographic and geologic characteristics that greatly amplify any hurricane" that comes our way, according to Nicholas Coch, a professor of coastal geology at Queens College. In many ways, Coch explains, "The New York City area is the worst possible place for a hurricane to make a landfall."



New York's first vulnerability is psychological. This is a city where children playing in the dirt are told by their mothers to "get up off the floor." We tend to forget that we have any connection whatsoever to the natural world. The vast majority of the city's eight million inhabitants simply have no idea that a hurricane can happen here.



"We live in a complacent coastal city," Lee says. "A lot of people don't even think that there are beaches here," never mind 478 miles of coastline. In fact, New York City is behind only Miami and New Orleans on the list of U.S. cities most likely to suffer a major hurricane disaster. Compounding the problem is the fact that many of the New Yorkers who lived through 1985's Hurricane Gloria believe they've experienced the worst of what nature has to offer. "That wasn't a hurricane," meteorologist Wyllie says. The storm was billed as a category-2 that weakened before it hit and came in at low tide. "Gloria was nothing."



New York's second vulnerability is demographic. During the decades of calm between major hurricanes, the city grows and forgets. During the great hurricane of 1821, only 152,000 people lived in New York City. When the next major, direct hit came in 1893, the city's population was 2.5 million. At the time of the 1938 storm, Long Island wasn't a densely populated suburban sprawl; it was a rural home for oyster fishermen, potato farmers and wealthy industrialists. The same storm today would wreak incredible havoc. AIR Worldwide Corporation estimates $11.6 billion in New York losses alone.



More than 20 million people live in the greater metropolitan region. Many live on coastal land, reclaimed swamp and barrier islands. Much of Lower Manhattan is built on landfill. Places like Rockaway, Coney Island and Manhattan Beach "are stretches of land that nature has created to protect the mainland from hurricanes," Lee says. "In our civilization this is also the most desirable land to develop and build on. We're not going to undevelop it. So we now have to deal with the threat."



Coch, the six-foot-seven-and-a-half professor once nicknamed "Dr. Doom" because he was the first scientist to widely publicize New York City's hurricane history and vulnerabilities, put it more poetically in a 1995 New York Times interview: The only difference between now and then is that "now we have millions of people to offer the God of the Sea."
























New York City's biggest vulnerability is the most unyielding—geology. The New York bight is the right angle formed by Long Island and New Jersey with the city tucked into its apex. "Hurricanes do not like right angles," Lee says. "[They allow] water to accumulate and pile up."



Couple this with the fact that New York resides on a very shallow continental shelf, and as a big storm pushes north, New York Harbor "acts as a funnel." As storm surge forces its way into the harbor and up the rivers, it has nowhere to go but onto land. New York City, it turns out, has some of the highest storm-surge values in the country. "When we see a category-3 storm making landfall in Florida, it may only have a 12-, 13-foot storm surge," Lee says. "For us here, a category-1 storm can give us 12 feet of storm surge."



Storm surge is the dome of seawater that is lifted up and pushed forward in front of a hurricane. It acts almost like a mini-tsunami, causing sea levels to rise rapidly and violently. Most people believe that high winds and rains are the main dangers of a hurricane. In fact, inland flooding caused by storm surge is the big killer. In 1821, stunned colonial New Yorkers recorded sea levels rising as fast as 13 feet in a single hour at the Battery. The East River and Hudson Rivers merged over Lower Manhattan all the way to Canal Street. According to Coch, the fact that the 1821 storm struck at low tide "is the only thing that saved the city."



To get a sense of the damage that storm surge can do to New York City, call 311 and ask them to send you a full-color copy of the New York City Hurricane Evacuation Map. It is a truly mind-boggling document. If a storm like the Long Island Express makes a direct hit on the city, everything below Broome Street will be inundated, some parts under as much as 20 and 30 feet of water. Chelsea and Greenwich Village are completely flooded, with the Hudson spilling over all the way to 7th Avenue. Likewise, the East River and East Village become one, with ocean water surging all the way to 1st Avenue. If you haven't evacuated before the storm, forget it. During the storm, Manhattan's east- and west-side highways vanish. Tunnels and bridges become unusable.



The outer boroughs also get hit hard. Opposed to that new Ikea being built on the waterfront in Red Hook? Don't worry. There's a decent chance it won't be there after a moderate-size hurricane. Residents of Williamsburg-Greenpoint should seek out a male and female of each species and get in their arks. In a kind of one-two-punch effect, a major hurricane will push ocean water down from the Long Island Sound into the Upper East Side, South Bronx and northern Queens, flooding those areas severely. Vast stretches of southern Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island will be devastated. The map shows Atlantic Ocean storm surge reaching as far inland as Flatbush, just south of Prospect Park, with 31.3 feet of water atop Howard Beach.



"A lot of people say, 'How can you come up with these numbers? Thirty feet, that's ridiculous. It's science fiction.' Actually," Lee says, "It's science fact." Hurricanes in the southern U.S. have proven the Army Corps of Engineers' storm-surge calculations to be accurate within a few inches.



For a taste of what will happen to the city's infrastructure, we can look at the damage wrought by the great nor'easters of the early 1990s. During those storms, the L train had to be backed out as the 14th Street tunnel began filling with water, and the FDR highway was so badly inundated that 50 motorists had to be rescued by dive teams. In the event of a direct hit by a category-3 hurricane, surge maps show that the Holland and Battery Tunnels will be completely filled with sea water, with many subway and railroad tunnels severely flooded as well. The runways of LaGuardia and JFK airports will get flooded by 18.1 and 31.2 feet of water, respectively.



Then there are the winds. The city's two million trees will be a huge problem. "New York City's trees haven't been stressed in years except for an isolated severe thunderstorm or two," Wyllie says. They've had plenty of time to grow and wrap their roots around underground phone, electric, gas and water lines. As they are uprooted in the heavy winds, a lot of infrastructure both above and below ground is going to get wrecked.



As for skyscrapers, "The impact of catastrophic winds on high-rise buildings is still a little vague," Lee says. "We don't feel we have enough data on that."



We do know that hurricane wind speeds multiply at higher altitudes. At 350 feet, the height of high-rise buildings on the Battery and the towers of the George Washington Bridge, hurricane winds will be twice as fast as they are on the ground. Newer, glass-skinned towers are not likely to do well in those conditions. Neither will human beings caught outside amidst flying debris. To give a sense of the unbelievable force of hurricane winds, Lee shows a photo from one of the four storms that struck Florida last year. It depicts a blunt piece of two-by-four driven straight through the trunk of a palm tree.



"It would be nasty," Wyllie agrees. "If you get sustained winds going 80 to 90 miles per hour in the city—whoa, you can't believe the destruction. We've never seen that. And as you go up 200, 300 feet," he considers that for a moment. "That'll be 100, 110 mph winds. Watch out."
























Professor Coch, whose business card reads "forensic hurricanologist," believes that the best way to understand New York City's hurricane future is to study its past. He became New York City's leading hurricane historian virtually by accident.



After the nor'easters of December 1992 and March 1993 devastated Rockaway, Coch sent a group of his coastal-geology undergrads to observe the Army Corps of Engineers replenishing beaches with sand dredged from the sea. The students reported back that "the beach was covered in garbage. Coch remembers telling them, "Get used to it. This is New York City." But they said, "No, this is funny garbage." In the dredged-up sand, Coch's students found hundreds of artifacts—plates, whiskey bottles, teapots, beer mugs, lumps of coal and, what proved to be the most telling clue of all, an old hurricane lamp. Mystified at how a treasure trove of 19th-century objects could have wound up underwater hundreds of feet off the coast of Rockaway, Coch and his students began investigating. It took them about two years to unravel the mystery of Hog Island: New York City's version of Atlantis.



It turns out there was once a small, sandy spit of an island off the southern coast of Rockaway. In the years after the Civil War, developers built saloons and bathhouses, and Hog Island became a sort of 1890s version of the Hamptons. During the summers, the city's Democratic bosses used Hog Island as a kind of outdoor annex of Tammany Hall. That all ended on the night of August 23, 1893, when a terrifying category-2 hurricane rolled up from Norfolk, Virginia, and made landfall on what is now JFK airport.



The storm was a major event. All six front-page columns of the August 25, 1893 New York Times were dedicated to the "unexampled fury" of the "West Indian monster" and the damage it wrought throughout the region. Dozens of boats were sunk, and scores of sailors perished. In Central Park "more than a hundred noble trees were torn up by the roots," and thousands of sparrows lay dead on the ground. "Gangs of small boys roamed through the Park in the early hours of the morning collecting the dead sparrows and picking their feathers."



At the brand-new Met Life building at Madison Avenue and 23rd Street, a heavy-iron fence was torn away by the wind, plunging 10 stories and crashing through a stained-glass dome before landing on a mosaic "including quantities of costly Mexican onyx." In Brooklyn, at Wyckoff and Myrtle Avenues, "the water in the street was up to a man's waist," and residents used ladders to get in and out of their houses. Most of the boats moored at the Williamsburg Yacht Club were "sunk, driven ashore or demolished." The East River rose "until it swept over the sea wall in the Astoria district and submerged the Boulevard." At Coney Island, 30-foot waves swept 200 yards inland, destroying nearly every man-made structure in its path and wrecking the elevated railroad.



"Hog Island largely disappeared that night," Coch says. "As far as I know, it is the only incidence of the removal of an entire island by a hurricane."



Hurricanes, Coch reminds, "operate on a geologic scale."
























Will New York City get hit by the Big One this season? It's impossible to say. But we do know this: The risk of a major hurricane hitting the metropolitan region is significantly greater than it has been in a long time. Meteorologists have observed that Atlantic Ocean hurricanes tend to wax and wane over roughly 20-year cycles. Nineteen ninety-five marked the beginning of a period of above-normal hurricane activity. We are now in the middle of that cycle. The same climate conditions that made last year's hurricane season so active are in place and even augmented this year. Low wind sheer and sea-surface pressure and a favorable African easterly jet stream all create ideal conditions for Atlantic hurricanes. El Niño, the unusually warm current that appears in the tropical Pacific off the coast of Ecuador every three to seven years, tends to dampen hurricane activity in the Atlantic. This year there is no El Niño.



Additionally, scientists say that man-made global warming is increasing the odds that tropical storms will dump on New York City with greater frequency and intensity. Tropical Atlantic sea-surface temperatures have steadily risen over the last decade. Hurricanes are essentially gigantic steam engines; they gain power from warm seas.



"With global warming there is more moisture in the atmosphere," says Dr. Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "This moisture is the main fuel for hurricanes and tropical storms." This year, tropical Atlantic sea-surface temperatures are the warmest they have ever been in recorded history, about two degrees Fahrenheit above normal. And while there is debate within the hurricane research community as to how much impact global warming ultimately has, there is no longer any question that global warming is contributing to more extreme weather events around the world.



Whatever the causes, forecasters are confident that 2005 will be a busy hurricane season, busier even than last year's. Meteorologists are forecasting 15 named storms, eight of them hurricanes, four of them "intense" hurricanes. In an average year, about 10 storms get names, six become hurricanes and two become intense.



New York City's hurricane season runs from August to October, peaking around September 10. To prepare for a storm, Lee suggests that New Yorkers call 311 or go online, find out what evacuation zone they're in, and develop a plan. If a storm comes rolling in and the city tells you to evacuate, take heed. "People who decide to ride out a storm need to know that in the middle of it they can't call 911 and say, 'All right, come get me. I'm ready,'" Lee says. "We will not be able to come and get them. Once they've made the decision to stay, they've made that decision for the long haul. That's a very serious decision."



If the Big One hits this season, Lee may be taking his own advice. The first OEM "bunker" was located in the World Trade Center—in hindsight, a lousy location. A new OEM building is currently under construction on the bluffs of Brooklyn Heights. Until its completion, the city's emergency managers are working in a converted warehouse on the Brooklyn waterfront. In the event of a direct hit by a category-3 hurricane, New York City's Office of Emergency Management will find itself under 22.4 feet of storm surge.



Lee's not too worried about it, though. The city has a duplicate Office of Emergency Management in an undisclosed location.

[nissanfan60]

and if you want when you get home watch this.


http://www.whatifweather.com/index.html

[Eric@TCGMiami]

^^ Just woke up... I AM NOT READING THAT SHIT

[Phil]

good thing im from long island lol

[Manny]

Even a Cat 1 hurricane can be devastating to the city of NY. As you go up on a building, the wind pressure on a building rises exponentially. A building is officially considered a skyscraper usually around 30+ floors or so. At that height, the actual pressures the wind puts on a building is actually greater than the total weight of the building. When you add 70+ mph winds (which is un-normal for the city), you just can't imagine how great the pressure is. I am sure the buildings in NY don't carry the same wind load codes that Florida.

[Latnballer]

Back to Miami...so yeah....a lady from Miami-Dade emergency management came by the store today and told me to be ready. They had a meeting and if the path for this sucker doesn't change by Sunday they are going into evacuation/emergency disaster preparedness mode.

[Robi]

5pm update just rolled in. The models keep pushing it south of the keys with a sharp turn north. I have a flight out of MIA at 5pm on wednesday hopefully it wont get too delayed.

http://icons-pe.wunderground.com/data/images/at200809_model.gif

Source
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200809.html

[BONH]

meh.. i was kinda hoping it would hit us..

[Robi]

meh.. i was kinda hoping it would hit us..why? have you ever been in a hurricane?

[dr. pinkerton]

meh.. i was kinda hoping it would hit us..

i don't know, as exciting as Andrew was with th explosions of transformers and power lines in front of my house with the mix of scary as fuck howling winds..... the next morning was not that pretty. not having power and having a full family (6 people) stay in my house for 2 weeks because their house was completely leveled to the ground in Perrine was not fun as well. plus the tornadoes.

hurricanes are impressive and all but too be honest as I get older, I realize that the destruction and torment they put on people's lives is not as fun.

[Dirtydsm]

hurricanes are good for the economy

[Mafia_Insurance]

hurricanes increase the production of babies

[Boosthappy]

hurricanes are good for the economy

but dont forget they are also bad for next years insurance rates, the last storm almost doubled our rates for 2 years.

[jose]

but dont forget they are also bad for next years insurance rates, the last storm almost doubled our rates for 2 years.

fuck the ins. companies. fuck em. bunch of thieves. they still haven't made it right for most of the people in Louisiana from Katrina.

[Boosthappy]

fuck the ins. companies. fuck em. bunch of thieves. they still haven't made it right for most of the people in Louisiana from Katrina.

The problem with Katrina was that people had homeowner polices but no flood policies and your insurance doesn't cover floods. Which is stupid because here in Florida its required almost everywhere, in Louisiana it wasn't.

[jose]

The problem with Katrina was that people had homeowner polices but no flood policies and your insurance doesn't cover floods. Which is stupid because here in Florida its required almost everywhere, in Louisiana it wasn't.

there were a lot of clear cut cases where it was wind damage and the ins. company refused and insisted it was flood damage.

[Boosthappy]

there were a lot of clear cut cases where it was wind damage and the ins. company refused and insisted it was flood damage.

yeah same thing here will happen here without floor insurance, but you think if you know you live 30 feet below sea level you would pay the policy especially since its so cheap...

[Boosthappy]

Well I went to Lowes and Winn-Dixie I am ready for this very expensive blow job.

[ek9vboi]

GF gotta get gas, hopefully the pumps are not a) empty b) packed. she needs it for school, not so much cause of the hurricane.

me, i can give two shits. ill hop a ride to work and park teh whip inside. my house is covered on all ends... oh shit, i need to go snap some pics of the crib so they cant tell me jack shit about not fixing it with the money from the 1st hurricane.

[Eric@TCGMiami]

GF gotta get gas, hopefully the pumps are not a) empty b) packed. she needs it for school, not so much cause of the hurricane.

me, i can give two shits. ill hop a ride to work and park teh whip inside. my house is covered on all ends... oh shit, i need to go snap some pics of the crib so they cant tell me jack shit about not fixing it with the money from the 1st hurricane.

The best time are at these late times.... The pumps are usually slow.

[BONH]

why? have you ever been in a hurricane?

yeah.. plenty of them...and tornados, earthquakes, and a typhoon.

:hsughno:


business goes up. like what happened after homestead

YEAH SON

[Gravy]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0908W5+gif/144613W_sm.gif

[Gravy]

no shutters for me

[ROB]

Damn!!


You lucky SOB's


RIP Cuba???

[Steven]

no shutters for me

samre here for now. if it goes a little farther north ill consider it however. im just going to scoot all the patio furniture against the wall and hope for the best.

[SpdRcrChk]

great. just covered the windows for nothing.

i got gas last night like a 3am.

[Phil]

I aint doin shit for the hurricane

[Gravy]

great. just covered the windows for nothing.

i got gas last night like a 3am.
i was at the gas station last night at about midnight. i wasnt there to top off i was on E...i could only put 13 bucks cause the station ran out of gas

[SpdRcrChk]

yeah when i got to the station, they only had premium. which was fine. i just topped off.

[ROB]

Its better to be safe than sorry.

[flexnix]

Newest update. Video.

http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html?clip=6584&from=hp_video_1

[jose]

cuba's not having a good year, and from the looks of it neither will Louisiana

[Eric@TCGMiami]

Halliburton's Weather Machine FTL
lawl

[Robi]

Talk about dodging the bullet! Although weather is extremely uncertain, the forecasters do not see it heading north until it reaches the warm waters of the gulf.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0908W5+gif/024713W_sm.gif

[Eric@TCGMiami]

^^ talk about the bad luck LA is having...

[Robi]

Yep cat 4 hurricane once it hits the open water again.

[ROB]

Damn they are out to get LA for sure..

[Robi]

uuuuf! aimed to Texas now.