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Florida Braces for Milton as the Storm Generates Windgusts of Up to 175 MPH

miltonmeetsposeidon.jpg
A statue of Poseidon looking out over the ocean in Progreso, Mexico,
as Milton menaces the sky. (Martin Zetina/AP)

Message to Floridians on the coast: seek higher ground!

Floridians are finishing last-minute preparations as Hurricane Milton approaches, with the storm expected to have life-threatening impacts from Wednesday into Thursday.

Milton, now a Category 4 storm, had maximum sustained winds of 150 mph and was moving in an east-northeast direction at 9 mph, the hurricane center said in a Tuesday update.

Well, that's good news -- it had been category 5. Hopefully it will fall again to a category 3, which would be damaging and dangerous but not catastrophic.

But:

Milton is expected to bring a deadly storm surge, destructive winds and flooding rain, Fox Weather reports. Forecasters warned of a possible 10- to 15-foot storm surge in Tampa Bay. It is the highest surge ever predicted for that location and has led to evacuation orders for communities all along the coast.

The storm surges may flood coastal lands with up to nine feet of storm-driven ocean -- or even possibly as much as 10-15 feet.

Let us pray the storm loses power.

The storm could also bring widespread flooding, with 5 inches to a foot of rain forecast for the Florida peninsula, and even up to 18 inches in some places.

Eleven Florida counties under mandatory evacuation orders are home to about 5.9 million people, according to county-level population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Media outlets showed masses of cars attempting to evacuate Florida's west coast on I-75 and State Road 56. Some are heading toward the Orlando metro area, where one resident is prepared to sell her home should it flood again.

...

The hurricane is going to impact communities still reeling from Hurricane Helene just weeks ago, and will likely devastate areas hit by Hurricane Ian in 2022.

...

Over the weekend, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 51 of the state's 67 counties.

And meanwhile the Throat THOT is pestering Ron DeSantis, trying to get some FaceTime by LARPing as a "Real President" while he's actually trying to save lives.

For a while it's been the case that governors and mayors show they're Strong on Storms by taking an alarmist position. This is justifiable to some extent, because if the worst happens, then anyone in the storm's path will be left to fend for themselves for 24-48 hours, and maybe up to 10-14 days under the Harris-Biden Administration.

But here is the blunt warning from Tampa's mayor:

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor issued a dire warning for those who choose to stay behind in mandatory evacuation zones as Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida.

"Helene was a wake-up call, this is literally catastrophic," Castor said on CNN. "If you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you are going to die."

Milton might be the most devastating hurricane we've ever seen in decades:

Wait is back up to Cat 5? I'm not sure what the latest information is.

Video of hundreds of vehicles fleeing St. Petersburg.

Here's the storm hitting Cancun. I don't know, from this video, it doesn't appear Biblical. A big storm, yes, but maybe it's not a town-eraser.


More video from space here.

DeSantis has cops escorting fuel trucks into the evacuated areas, so that there will be fuel available post-storm.

DeSantis continues to blast Kamala's attempt to cosplay as the president: "She's not even in the chain of command."


Even CNN is turning on the Throat GOAT for her dangerous gamesmanship in trying to distract DeSantis as he prepares for a possibly epochal storm:

Unbelievably, MSNBC brought on non-scientist TV Clown Bill Nye on to explain how to stop hurricanes: he literally said "Vote" (for Kamala).

Posted by: Ace at 04:22 PM




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1 Derp

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at October 08, 2024 04:22 PM (elaR+)

2 Message to Floridians on the coast: seek higher ground!

=======

Obi-wan already took it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

3 There is no high ground in Florida.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 08, 2024 04:23 PM (63Dwl)

4 I came.
I saw.
I derped.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at October 08, 2024 04:24 PM (elaR+)

5 The histrionic language will backfire if this storm doesn't do epic damage. Statements like those made by the Tampa mayor do as much harm as they do good.

Posted by: My Sweet Lord at October 08, 2024 04:24 PM (zVDqY)

6 Milton might be the most devastating hurricane we've ever seen in decades:

Can we beat off any harder?!

Posted by: The Weather Channel at October 08, 2024 04:25 PM (abcTK)

7 Why can't these storms ever take out a Hamas demonstration?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 08, 2024 04:25 PM (52RXy)

8 If Harris can stop storms, she could start with this one and give a demonstration.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:25 PM (n7h9X)

9 15' is high ground.

Posted by: fd at October 08, 2024 04:25 PM (vFG9F)

10 Scott Jennings is a treasure to listen to. I have no idea why CNN has given him a platform. Grateful for it, but perplexed. He runs mental rings around the others on every panel I've seen him on.

Posted by: LizLem at October 08, 2024 04:26 PM (QAK8m)

11 I was in FL when a tropical storm made a close pass.
I can't imagine what a major hurricane would be like.
Prayers for any morons in the path of Milton.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at October 08, 2024 04:26 PM (elaR+)

12 The other day Bill Nye predicted that the Nationals are going to win the 2026 World Series, so yeah......

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 08, 2024 04:26 PM (LxER7)

13 The small eye on this storm is the tell. It's going to be a bad one, but I'm praying for everyone there that it diminishes before it hits land.

Oh, and Bill Nye can go f*ck himself.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 08, 2024 04:26 PM (k9OZB)

14 The 1 pm position from the Weather Service still has Milton not far from Yucatan. Delay in reporting? I guess the next update will show it has hustled, since they say it's moving ENE at 8 mph.

I wonder, too, if the storm will hit at low tide, or high? If high, that will add to the surge.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 04:27 PM (J2vNu)

15 >>> The histrionic language will backfire if this storm doesn't do epic damage.

I don't think so. Backfire how? Be embarrassed later?

no one can predict these things very well. Maybe doing coke for two weeks won't addict you but I don't think someone would be embarrassed to warn, "Lay off the coke or you'll wind up an addict."

Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 04:27 PM (KRtlO)

16 Better safe than sorry . I'd be out of there

Posted by: It's me donna at October 08, 2024 04:27 PM (IyPmt)

17 Hmmm. Throat thot vs throat goat.

The right tool for the right job.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 08, 2024 04:27 PM (FmJcu)

18 >>> Scott Jennings is a treasure to listen to. I have no idea why CNN has given him a platform

might have been hired by that Licht guy that CNN then fired because he was upsetting the Wokies too much.

Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 04:28 PM (KRtlO)

19 Tracking south of St. Pete's. Tampa might not get the worst of it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 08, 2024 04:28 PM (IG4Id)

20 Lived in Tampa for a few years. One thing that always stuck out to me was that the city would get hit with smallish flash floods, and then an hour or two would go by and it was like it didn't happen.

Main roadways would have feet of water and then nothing.

I really hope this thing tapers off. Tampa is a killer city, especially if you like cheap sports and cigars.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 08, 2024 04:28 PM (KbCG3)

21 Unbelievably, MSNBC brought on non-scientist TV Clown Bill Nye on to explain how to stop hurricanes: he literally said "Vote" (for Kamala).

I believe it. These are people who think that "climate control" is a matter of pushing a button on a remote, not understanding that that only works in closed systems like the inside of building.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 08, 2024 04:28 PM (hB7mE)

22 Iirc, like pot, cocaine is more psychologically addictive.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 08, 2024 04:28 PM (FmJcu)

23 Message to Floridians on the coast: seek higher ground!

--

[looking around] Umm.

Posted by: Floridians at October 08, 2024 04:29 PM (wzAuc)

24 Democrats, riddle me this: if we bowed the knee and enacted the Green New Agenda, what is the maxiumum number of hurricanes you will allow a season, and the maximum permitted category per hurricane, so we know your insane edicts are working?

It's like they think/pretend they can play God and just ban or eliminate hurricanes if we submit to green totalitarianism.

Posted by: LizLem at October 08, 2024 04:30 PM (QAK8m)

25 Whew, praying for Florida.

And new appreciation for California. Yes, we are run by communists, but our biggest threat is the occasional earthquake. Florida and the coast just get one blow after the other.

Stay safe, yes, get to high ground.

Posted by: PJU at October 08, 2024 04:30 PM (RRCAT)

26 >>>I really hope this thing tapers off. Tampa is a killer city, especially if you like cheap sports and cigars.

how is it for hookers and blow?

>>>Iirc, like pot, cocaine is more psychologically addictive.

Really? Hm.

Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 04:30 PM (KRtlO)

27 "I don't think so. Backfire how? Be embarrassed later?"

I get it, but it's the same reason we tune out climate alarmism. The risk is that if the storm doesn't "live up to the hype" the next time residents will tune it out. Measured language is always better. "Orders have been given. Be out by the deadline." Etc.

Posted by: My Sweet Lord at October 08, 2024 04:30 PM (zVDqY)

28 15 I don't think so. Backfire how? Be embarrassed later?

no one can predict these things very well. Maybe doing coke for two weeks won't addict you but I don't think someone would be embarrassed to warn, "Lay off the coke or you'll wind up an addict."
Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 04:27 PM (KRtlO)

========

Decades of apocalyptic language has already backfired.

People do not take hurricanes seriously anymore. Not everyone, obviously, but a significant portion of people who live in the SE just don't believe that any hurricane will destroy everything.

Sure, there is the occasional Andrew or Hugo, but most of the time, the hurricanes blow over a few trees at most and move on. I've stood at the windows of my house and just watched category 2 storms pass through. That inures you to the messaging a good bit.

5 is different, which is probably why the evacuation is so big, but the apocalyptic language on every hurricane that comes close does have a negative overall effect over time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, terrorizing teenagers with Michael Myers at October 08, 2024 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

29 Unbelievably, MSNBC brought on non-scientist TV Clown Bill Nye on to explain how to stop hurricanes: he literally said "Vote" (for Kamala).

I believe it. These are people who think that "climate control" is a matter of pushing a button on a remote, not understanding that that only works in closed systems like the inside of building.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 08, 2024 04:28 PM (hB7mE)

Doesn't work all that well inside either. Its getting near 100 and I wear a sweater due to over-AC because of the idiotic large windows offices tend to use because of dopey architects.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:30 PM (n7h9X)

30 >>>3 Message to Floridians on the coast: seek higher ground!

--

[looking around] Umm.

Posted by: Floridians

that's why God made Georgia

Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 04:30 PM (KRtlO)

31 I think I prefer the hurricanes to the commies.

Actually, I am sure I prefer the hurricanes to commies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 08, 2024 04:31 PM (FmJcu)

32 In 1969 Camille, I think I recall the weather people saying, topped out at close to 200 mph winds before landfall. That might have been gusts and not sustained winds. Either way, I'm not surprised at what it did. There was an apartment complex near the beach in MS, Gulfport or Biloxi or one of those towns. It was leveled to the foundation.

During Camille a fishing boat was hurled up onto land and came to rest on the inland side of U.S. 90, which runs right along the water. The boat stayed there for decades as a terrible reminder of what these storms can do.

After Katrina? It was gone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 04:31 PM (J2vNu)

33 I guess the next update will show it has hustled, since they say it's moving ENE at 8 mph.

Hmm, still 450 miles away. It would really have to scoot to make it by Wednesday evening.

Posted by: t-bird at October 08, 2024 04:31 PM (7a3bZ)

34 I know not a thing about drug addiction beyond nicotine though. Justlistening to people who have partaken.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 08, 2024 04:32 PM (FmJcu)

35 Surprised those Hurricane Hunter aircraft can get off the ground..big steelies.

Posted by: A dude in MI at October 08, 2024 04:32 PM (/6GbT)

36 There is no high ground in Florida.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 08, 2024

***
Western North Carolina has high ground -- mountains, in fact. It didn't seem to do much good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 04:32 PM (J2vNu)

37
I pity the poor Floridians who will not have the benefit of having heard Red Kammie speak of how she was raised in the middle class with a neighbor who owned a small business and was like a second mother to her. Imagine facing the adversity of Milton without that inspiring tale of hope to give them the strength to persevere.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 08, 2024 04:32 PM (xG4kz)

38 I'll take the under. As bad as hurricane wind is, it's when storms stall and saturate and flood that's been the killer.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 08, 2024 04:33 PM (wBaIH)

39 t's like they think/pretend they can play God and just ban or eliminate hurricanes if we submit to green totalitarianism.

Posted by: LizLem

======

We'll be better off with sustainably grown, vegan hurricanes

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 08, 2024 04:33 PM (uDA99)

40 If Harris can stop storms, she could start with this one and give a demonstration.
Posted by: Oldcat

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!

Posted by: Kamdalf at October 08, 2024 04:33 PM (DgGvY)

41 >>>Western North Carolina has high ground -- mountains, in fact. It didn't seem to do much good.

oof, yeah

Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 04:33 PM (KRtlO)

42 Milton might be the most devastating hurricane we've ever seen in decades...

Great, fueling months of non-stop global-warming climate change hysteria.

Unbelievably, MSNBC brought on non-scientist TV Clown Bill Nye on to explain how to stop hurricanes: he literally said "Vote" (for Kamala).

They're already on it, it seems. Not unbelievable at all sadly...and the implied deification of Harris reminds me of Obama "The Lightbringer" (PBUH) lowering the seas and healing the earth by his mere election and presence.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 08, 2024 04:33 PM (JCZqz)

43 Using Wiki data, the lowest Milton pressure was 897 yesterday around 7pm. That was the fifth lowest Atlantic hurricane pressure.

Wind speed was 180, which was tied for 6th highest with three or four other storms.

Next report is in a half hour, but it was still a Cat 4 last time. Probably a Cat 5 now, which we will see soon.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 08, 2024 04:33 PM (Cus5s)

44 Why is this Jennings dude on Chicken Noodle News?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 08, 2024 04:33 PM (1FWWQ)

45 My little brother and wife live in Clearwater, they are outside the evacuation area as of now. But they are surrounded by such zones. He's a civil engineer and she's a nurse. She stays at the hospital during hurricanes because so many nurses live in evacuation zones and have to leave. He works in water treatment so he stays too. They live on what they think of as very high ground at 15 feet above sea level. They've never been flooded, well see how this goes.

Prayers up for everyone in the path of danger.

Posted by: Just Lily at October 08, 2024 04:34 PM (4YbKM)

46 Whew, praying for Florida.

And new appreciation for California. Yes, we are run by communists, but our biggest threat is the occasional earthquake. Florida and the coast just get one blow after the other.

Stay safe, yes, get to high ground.
Posted by: PJU at October 08, 2024 04:30 PM (RRCAT)

Hey we had a hurricane here in CA a few years ago, AND an earthquake too. They tried to blow it up and granted the desert areas are unprepared for even a baby hurricaine's winds . I did find on YT a sensible weatherman who didn't minimize or maximize the situation which was refreshing.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:34 PM (n7h9X)

47 31 No hurricane ever promised paradise and delivered a police state. So, yeah.

Posted by: Shrill Austin hipster at October 08, 2024 04:34 PM (aePWa)

48 Mean Dude #3: If I were you, I'd be . . . *flicks open a Milton*

Boon: Leaving! What an excellent idea.

An emergency evacuation of the Dexter Lake Club commences . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2024 04:34 PM (Aqu9a)

49 I'm on the east cost very close to where it is supposed to pop back out to the Atlantic and amp back up to a hurricane again. All is good though I have 100 rolls of Scott TP. Almost a weeks worth with two women in the house.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 08, 2024 04:34 PM (/lPRQ)

50 That Milton dude seems like kind of an asshole.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at October 08, 2024 04:35 PM (+J/Au)

51 Nye=douche

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at October 08, 2024 04:35 PM (ytSiK)

52 Unbelievably, MSNBC brought on non-scientist TV Clown Bill Nye on to explain how to stop hurricanes: he literally said "Vote" (for Kamala).

-
PARTY OF SCIENCE?! Rachel Bitecofer Thinks Printing 'Climate Change' in FL Textbooks Will Stop Hurricanes

https://is.gd/y2Q3Dh

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at October 08, 2024 04:35 PM (L/fGl)

53 The highest point in a place like St Petersburg is ~9 meters. But the real problem is fresh water , food and electricity.

This is an interactive topic map of Florida. The highest point in 345 feet.

https://tinyurl.com/3dtn4zxb

Posted by: Marcus T at October 08, 2024 04:35 PM (gPomr)

54 Good luck Floridians

Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (fwDg9)

55 How unusual is it for hurricanes to form in the Gulf, rather than the Atlantic? Particularly with this strength?

Posted by: Moki at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (wLjpr)

56 Bill Nye is not a scientist.

He's a engineer.

Posted by: Just Lily at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (4YbKM)

57 blaster acres is in Florida. The high point is 7m.

Posted by: blaster at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (xhfG9)

58 >>how is it for hookers and blow?

Tampa is or was when I was working there the adult entertainment capital of the country.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (iLPNt)

59 >>Western North Carolina has high ground -- mountains, in fact. It didn't seem to do much good.

They also let people build in areas they shouldn’t. People knew where the streams, flood zone, hooked coming off the mountains and potential mudslide zones were.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 08, 2024 04:37 PM (gPomr)

60 This one looks to actually be a bad one for Florida.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 08, 2024 04:37 PM (N1DT3)

61 Before the last thread fades to distant willowed memory, one thing I wanted to comment on:

222 205 If I am not mistaken, Coates was on one of those ancestry shows only to learn that he was descended from a slave owner. Posted by: Darth Randall at October 08, 2024 04:05 PM

I love these shows. Don Cheadle found out his ancestor was a black slave to a native american. (And this inconvenient fact belies the whole point of Juneteenth; that was NOT the final day that slavery was removed from the US. It was years later, when we finally convinced the native americans to stop owning black slaves, and I think we basically had to buy them out to make it happen.)

Wanda Sykes thought her whole life she was the product of slavery, and found out on one of these shoes that, I think, her ancestors came from a love match between a white women and black man, if I recall.

The looks on their faces...their souls are gutted, you can see it. I felt a little sad for them, but also a little schadenfreude. So sorry that history is inconvenient to your narratives sometimes! But truth just is.

Posted by: LizLem at October 08, 2024 04:37 PM (QAK8m)

62 Kamala Harris will bring sustainable, electric hurricanes for all Americans.

Posted by: Bill Nye the Retard Guy at October 08, 2024 04:37 PM (OguvZ)

63 >>>Western North Carolina has high ground -- mountains, in fact. It didn't seem to do much good.

oof, yeah
Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 04:33 PM (KRtlO)

Mountains force rain laden air up, cooling it and dumping all the water in one spot where on flat land it would be smeared over a long way along the storm track. And then the rain speeds downhill rather than slowly drain.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:37 PM (n7h9X)

64 Seek higher ground?

Head for the hills doesn't seem to be all that effective recently.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 08, 2024 04:38 PM (qV16T)

65 People do not take hurricanes seriously anymore. Not everyone, obviously, but a significant portion of people who live in the SE just don't believe that any hurricane will destroy everything.

--

Hurricanes are perennially in our Top 5.

Posted by: UPI Coaches Poll of Things That Can Sometimes Destroy Everything at October 08, 2024 04:38 PM (wzAuc)

66 Milton is at 155 mph sustained winds right now.
1mph lower then 156mph Cat 5 threshold.
It makes not real difference.

The only glimmer of hope right now is that the storm is expect to come in south of Tampa toward Sarasota which would lessen then impacts of the storm surge.

We just have to keep watching the track.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2024 04:38 PM (6ydKt)

67 55 How unusual is it for hurricanes to form in the Gulf, rather than the Atlantic? Particularly with this strength?
Posted by: Moki at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (wLjpr)

I've been told there's a meme floating around that it NEVER EVER HAPPENS and this is a dead giveaway for Glowbull Enwarmening. However, in my 29 years of observation, it does happen now and again, albeit not nearly as often as the ones forming in the Caribbean or Atlantic.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 08, 2024 04:38 PM (LxER7)

68 The more I see of this Scott Jennings guy, the more I like him.

I hope all our Hordelings in the path of the storm stay safe.

Posted by: bluebell at October 08, 2024 04:38 PM (bS+DD)

69 >>>Western North Carolina has high ground -- mountains, in fact. It didn't seem to do much good.

oof, yeah
Posted by: ace

Population centers are almost always in valleys on banks of the rivers that made those valleys. Bad place to in a 100 year flood.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 08, 2024 04:39 PM (/lPRQ)

70 Bill Nye, the idiot guy.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at October 08, 2024 04:39 PM (TN5A0)

71 DeSantis has cops escorting fuel trucks into the evacuated areas, so that there will be fuel available post-storm.


Um, if everyone in the evacuated area is fucked, won't the pre-positioned trucks be fucked too?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 04:40 PM (aKxz7)

72 no one can predict these things very well.
Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 04:27 PM
****

True.

My house sits about 300 yards from open water of the Gulf. Prior to Sally's arrival in 2020, the National Weather Service predicted the storm surge along my section of the coast to be 2-4 feet.

No big deal, I thought, as my property sits 8 feet above sea level with another 2 feet or so up the steps into the home.

Wrong.

We got a couple of feet of water intrusion inside our home from the surge. We knew this from the mudline on the walls.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 08, 2024 04:40 PM (Y1sOo)

73 a reminder: usa today 09/11/17:

The one-two punch of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have thrust President Trump into one of the most perilous roles of any modern president: That of responder-in-chief.

Disasters -- both natural and man-made -- have become critical tests of presidential leadership. If the crisis response is perceived as quick and efficient, the president gets the credit. If it's slow and bureaucratic, the president can pay a political price.

And by most accounts, the Trump administration has handled the double-barreled hurricanes competently -- if not always empathetically.

[your turn, joe, kamala]

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 08, 2024 04:40 PM (CWTWj)

74 Bill Nye is a Church of Global Warming Bishop

Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2024 04:40 PM (fwDg9)

75 "Mountains force rain laden air up, cooling it and dumping all the water in one spot where on flat land it would be smeared over a long way along the storm track. And then the rain speeds downhill rather than slowly drain."

Plus the amount of land area across which the water can drain off is substantially less. A few narrow river gorges versus an entire flat plain. So the damage gets focused intensified.

Posted by: My Sweet Lord at October 08, 2024 04:40 PM (zVDqY)

76
When will meteorologists recognize at last that some hurricanes are trans and institute proper naming rules for them, including calling them by their preferred pronouns?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 08, 2024 04:40 PM (xG4kz)

77 Tampa is or was when I was working there the adult entertainment capital of the country.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (iLPNt)
-----------

Mmmhmmm. And you know this how?

Posted by: bluebell at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (bS+DD)

78 55 How unusual is it for hurricanes to form in the Gulf, rather than the Atlantic? Particularly with this strength?
----------------
The Gulf of Mexico is like a frying pan due to its shallowness and lack of major currents. Thus it heats up a shit ton of sea water. Maybe we should get Gaia to drop ice cubes into the Gulf to prevent this?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (c711F)

79 Instead of "higher ground," they should something like "Here's the storm's predicted track. Move as perpendicular to that as you can, as fast as you can."

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (wzAuc)

80 How unusual is it for hurricanes to form in the Gulf, rather than the Atlantic? Particularly with this strength?
Posted by: Moki at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (wLjpr)

I've been told there's a meme floating around that it NEVER EVER HAPPENS and this is a dead giveaway for Glowbull Enwarmening. However, in my 29 years of observation, it does happen now and again, albeit not nearly as often as the ones forming in the Caribbean or Atlantic.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo


HAARP. ENERGY DIRECTED WEATHER WEAPON.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (aKxz7)

81 >>> 44 Why is this Jennings dude on Chicken Noodle News?

Don't know but I love it.

I'm debating what sites or channels I try to watch on election night. (Crowder for sure--I want to encourage his calling the election on the ground effort, which he's paying for out of pocket, with eyeballs and clicks.) If they have Jennings on CNN, I might actually bother watching!

Posted by: LizLem at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (QAK8m)

82 The eye of Milton is tiny right now as well, only about 12 miles wide.

But they are expecting it to expand outward as it approaches land due to upper level wind shear which will also, hopefully, weaken the storm to Cat 3 or so.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (6ydKt)

83 Message to Floridians on the coast: seek higher ground!

———

The “peak” in Florida is at 173 feet in the Panhandle. Good luck!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (gYHPZ)

84 >>>Western North Carolina has high ground -- mountains, in fact. It didn't seem to do much good.

oof, yeah
Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 04:33 PM (KRtlO)


Back when I lived in suburban Chicago in the 90s there was a fairly typical thunderstorm front that was blocked by another front over the lake and stalled in place. Most thunderstorms go by at 20, 30 mph and pass over in an hour or two. This one just went on.

Overnight it dumped 17 inches of rain. Everyplace a road dipped down it was a new pond. I made it to the office but only 2 other people did.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (n7h9X)

85 When we were stationed at GITMO we had hurricanes nearly every week during the season. If a hurricane formed in the Atlantic it always seemed steered right for us. Most of our buildings and infrastructure were built and designed to be proof against hurricanes. We would go to one persons house and have a party when they locked down the island for an impending hurricane.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 08, 2024 04:42 PM (QNSds)

86 The Gulf of Mexico is like a frying pan due to its shallowness and lack of major currents. Thus it heats up a shit ton of sea water. Maybe we should get Gaia to drop ice cubes into the Gulf to prevent this?
Posted by: Pudinhead


Transport icebergs

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 04:42 PM (aKxz7)

87 The Gulf of Mexico has been hotter in October than I can remember. There is a cold front expected to hit the Gulf next week which is at least a week too late.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 08, 2024 04:42 PM (zn6Ro)

88 The looks on their faces...their souls are gutted, you can see it. I felt a little sad for them, but also a little schadenfreude. So sorry that history is inconvenient to your narratives sometimes! But truth just is.
Posted by: LizLem at October 08, 2024 04:37 PM (QAK8m)

Y'know, maybe people are just people, and maybe just get upset about things you can control rather than rant about things that haven't affected you or yours.

Just a thought for these race hustlers.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at October 08, 2024 04:42 PM (+J/Au)

89 74 Bill Nye is a Church of Global Warming Bishop

Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2024 04:40 PM (fwDg9)

Bill Nye has more than likely polished a few underage knobs.

Bill Nye worships what they tell him to worship.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 08, 2024 04:43 PM (KbCG3)

90 Instead of "higher ground," they should something like "Here's the storm's predicted track. Move as perpendicular to that as you can, as fast as you can."
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (wzAuc)

Move perpendicular to the threat's path?? Why didn't somebody tell me this before?

Posted by: Prometheus Chick at October 08, 2024 04:43 PM (Aqu9a)

91 Let's drop a tactical nuke in the eye and see what happens.

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 08, 2024 04:43 PM (qeYBT)

92 Unbelievably, MSNBC brought on non-scientist TV Clown Bill Nye on to explain how to stop hurricanes: he literally said "Vote" (for Kamala).


Who should I vote for if I just want a little less humidity in the summer?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2024 04:43 PM (+myjY)

93 How unusual is it for hurricanes to form in the Gulf, rather than the Atlantic? Particularly with this strength?
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The Gulf of Mexico is like a frying pan due to its shallowness and lack of major currents. Thus it heats up a shit ton of sea water. Maybe we should get Gaia to drop ice cubes into the Gulf to prevent this?
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (c711F)

Last time someone dropped stuff into the Gulf the dinosaurs all died.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:44 PM (n7h9X)

94 blaster, you and mrs. blaster are in our prayers, as well as the rest of the Florida, East Coast and Appalachian hordians. God bless and stay safe.

Keeping supplies of water, canned goods, sterno, OTC meds, baby wipes (to wash your parts!) batteries and lanterns is never a bad idea.

Posted by: Moki at October 08, 2024 04:44 PM (wLjpr)

95 80 How unusual is it for hurricanes to form in the Gulf, rather than the Atlantic? Particularly with this strength?
Posted by: Moki at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (wLjpr)

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Happens all the time, just about every year.
They also form quite often in the Caribbean.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2024 04:44 PM (6ydKt)

96 I'ma ride this one out. Won't drown. Will be wearing my floatie.

Posted by: Young At Heart at October 08, 2024 04:44 PM (CV8a5)

97 The Brattleboro City Governant is putting twogethwer a fund to helps all Gays and Tranginder People afflected by the Global warming Created herricane. Whats has you city done to helps peeple suffering from these Trump created Herricames ?

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at October 08, 2024 04:44 PM (VYql4)

98 kind of amazing how fucktards who suck at the microdick of climate change seem to be fine with the 1% using dictatorial tyranny to force us into pods, living in 10 minute cities, riding electric scooters, and never flying or using air conditioners again

but the 1% will of course exempt themselves from all of this

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Yearner for Zooey Deschanel's Bosom and Searcher of Wagshambas at October 08, 2024 04:44 PM (M7vhK)

99
Milton should run into some wind shear and something about drier air, which should cool its jets before landfall. That still looks to be the case.

This eastern track is sort of an oddball for a Gulf hurricane, but not unheard of. It has to do with the steering winds and the various large scale weather systems. Cousin was 'splaining some of that to me last night.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 08, 2024 04:45 PM (w6EFb)

100 Move perpendicular to the threat's path?? Why didn't somebody tell me this before?
Posted by: Prometheus Chick at October 08, 2024 04:43 PM (Aqu9a)

Usually that either puts you in the ocean or heading to high ground.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:45 PM (n7h9X)

101 HAARP. ENERGY DIRECTED WEATHER WEAPON.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (aKxz7)

Here's a thought about that. If this is out of UAF, and it is, why in hell haven't they fixed the weather in Fairbanks? So, no, it isn't that.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at October 08, 2024 04:45 PM (+J/Au)

102 NC had a shit ton of rain prior to Helene hitting it. A literal perfect storm.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 08, 2024 04:45 PM (zn6Ro)

103 seek higher ground!

Ok! I drove inland from Sarasota and am now 20 ft above sea level. Need oxygen!

Posted by: t-bird at October 08, 2024 04:45 PM (OqC0L)

104 HAARP. ENERGY DIRECTED WEATHER WEAPON.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (aKxz7)

Yaas, one of my kids told me about that one, too. And those dirty Joooos.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 08, 2024 04:45 PM (LxER7)

105 >>> 86 The Gulf of Mexico is like a frying pan due to its shallowness and lack of major currents. Thus it heats up a shit ton of sea water. Maybe we should get Gaia to drop ice cubes into the Gulf to prevent this? Posted by: Pudinhead
Transport icebergs Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 04:42 PM (aKxz7)

Underwater nuking of the gulf to create deeper water craters so less hurricanes form? Don't tell Bill Gates, I could 100% see him funding it. He'll come at climate change from three fronts: the clouds, the sea, and our food.

Posted by: LizLem at October 08, 2024 04:45 PM (QAK8m)

106 Why can't these storms ever take out a Hamas demonstration?
Posted by: Northernlurker ,

I was hoping for a direct hit on DC. An 'ette can dream.

Posted by: Cheri at October 08, 2024 04:46 PM (oiNtH)

107 In 2014 I rode out Typhoon Neoguri but that was a piker compared to Milton ("only" 115 mph winds).

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 08, 2024 04:46 PM (RMjVS)

108 Western North Carolina has high ground -- mountains, in fact. It didn't seem to do much good.

They also let people build in areas they shouldn’t. People knew where the streams, flood zone, hooked coming off the mountains and potential mudslide zones were.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 08, 2024

***
They've been letting people build where they shouldn't in FL and all along the Gulf Coast for decades. In his novels between the 1950s and the 1980s, John D. MacDonald returned to that theme several times. Condominium showed that folly in practice. And he lived in FL himself, and saw it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 04:46 PM (J2vNu)

109 Overnight it dumped 17 inches of rain. Everyplace a road dipped down it was a new pond. I made it to the office but only 2 other people did.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (n7h9X)

Was that the one that flooded Aurora?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 08, 2024 04:46 PM (/HDaX)

110 Wait is back up to Cat 5?
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Cat 4, cat 5, whatever it takes.

Posted by: Milton at October 08, 2024 04:46 PM (krQz2)

111 Last time someone dropped stuff into the Gulf the dinosaurs all died.
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You think it would work on Manhattan?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 08, 2024 04:46 PM (c711F)

112 Thanks for the Gulf-hurricane info. I have learned some things!!

Posted by: Moki at October 08, 2024 04:47 PM (wLjpr)

113 >>Mmmhmmm. And you know this how?

Because every native of the area made sure to tell me. Repeatedly.

"Welcome to Tampa. Did you know Tampa is the adult entertainment capital of the US?".

Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2024 04:47 PM (iLPNt)

114 Tampa is or was when I was working there the adult entertainment capital of the country.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (iLPNt)

So, did a hottie ever ask you to go to Tampa with her?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 08, 2024 04:47 PM (qV16T)

115 Last time someone dropped stuff into the Gulf the dinosaurs all died.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:44 PM (n7h9X)

AIR, that harshed a few mellows.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at October 08, 2024 04:48 PM (+J/Au)

116 112 Thanks for the Gulf-hurricane info. I have learned some things!!
Posted by: Moki at October 08, 2024 04:47 PM (wLjpr)


Yeah, that I never want to be in one

Posted by: It's me donna at October 08, 2024 04:48 PM (IyPmt)

117
Here's the NWS NHC page on Milton. They update every three hours with tracker plane data:

https://tinyurl.com/yeuglsun

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 08, 2024 04:48 PM (w6EFb)

118 Milton should run into some wind shear and something about drier air, which should cool its jets before landfall. That still looks to be the case.

This eastern track is sort of an oddball for a Gulf hurricane, but not unheard of. It has to do with the steering winds and the various large scale weather systems. Cousin was 'splaining some of that to me last night.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 08, 2024 04:45 PM (w6EFb)

This sounds a lot like the crap stockbrokers say about why the market did X or Y. Look, we don't know where it is going and just track it and do some loose projections. But no we have 5 hours of crap to do and to send our cameras down to the beach to drown the weathermen.

At least tossing virgins into volcanos for the weather gods MIGHT have worked.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:48 PM (n7h9X)

119 I'm just super disappointed that they went straight from Helene to Milton (srsly, what a stupid name for an epic hurricane), when the obvious choice would have been Kamala.

Posted by: Peaches at October 08, 2024 04:48 PM (14URa)

120 Tampa is or was when I was working there the adult entertainment capital of the country.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (iLPNt)


The San Fernando Valley will fight it for the official title.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2024 04:48 PM (+myjY)

121 113 >>Mmmhmmm. And you know this how?

Because every native of the area made sure to tell me. Repeatedly.

"Welcome to Tampa. Did you know Tampa is the adult entertainment capital of the US?".
Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2024 04:47 PM (iLPNt)

I was reminded of its strip club prowess. In 3.5 years of living there, I only made it to the same one.

It was okay.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 08, 2024 04:48 PM (KbCG3)

122 I was hoping for a direct hit on DC. An 'ette can dream.
Posted by: Cheri at October 08, 2024 04:46 PM (oiNtH)

Haven't had a serious storm here since TS Isobel came through twenty years ago.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 08, 2024 04:48 PM (LxER7)

123 Western North Carolina has high ground -- mountains, in fact. It didn't seem to do much good.

oof, yeah
Posted by: ace


Western NC got soaked for two days prior to the 24" rain from the hurricane. It wasn't just water. Entire sections of the mountains were scoured down to bedrock. It was landslides. Not just water runoff.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 04:49 PM (aKxz7)

124 Jack, the puck has dropped! Let's go Rangers!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 08, 2024 04:49 PM (KbCG3)

125 They've been letting people build where they shouldn't in FL and all along the Gulf Coast for decades. In his novels between the 1950s and the 1980s, John D. MacDonald returned to that theme several times. Condominium showed that folly in practice. And he lived in FL himself, and saw it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 04:46 PM (J2vNu)

Google map FL Coast and you see all the homes on the endless canals

Posted by: A dude in MI at October 08, 2024 04:49 PM (/6GbT)

126 The San Fernando Valley will fight it for the official title.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2024 04:48 PM (+myjY)

Even I know that.

Posted by: Peaches at October 08, 2024 04:49 PM (14URa)

127 "Did you know Tampa is the adult entertainment capital of the US?".
Posted by: JackStraw "

That sounds fun. Like go karts and miniature golf?

Posted by: fd at October 08, 2024 04:49 PM (vFG9F)

128 Why can't we have Hurricane Doug?

The media assures me Doug never hits anything.

Posted by: bensdad00 at October 08, 2024 04:49 PM (F/35S)

129 As a youth I lived through Andrew when it hit Louisiana. Knocked a few branches off of trees and was awesome to look at through the windows, but not as apocalyptic as they had said... people were just reacting to what it did to Florida before it hit Louisiana. It was a much calmer storm by the time it got to me.

I hope everyone stays safe. And I hope someone talks Kamala into going there first hand to "show bravery and ride out the storm!" on the beach where the eye hits. She's dumb enough to do that....

Posted by: SimoHayha at October 08, 2024 04:50 PM (KfVMM)

130 I was hoping for a direct hit on DC. An 'ette can dream.
Posted by: Cheri at October 08, 2024 04:46 PM (oiNtH)

Hurricane or bottled sunshine?

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 08, 2024 04:50 PM (RMjVS)

131 105 >>> 86

Underwater nuking of the gulf to create deeper water craters so less hurricanes form? Don't tell Bill Gates, I could 100% see him funding it. He'll come at climate change from three fronts: the clouds, the sea, and our food.

How about we just Level Brattleboro instead... It appears the City creates Mega Hot Air which causes the Gulf to Warm to the temperatures needed to form these storms ???

Posted by: Franklin Stein at October 08, 2024 04:50 PM (Mig/N)

132 Hey maybe we could throw some shit up in the air to stop this?!

Posted by: Bill Throwing-Shit-Up-In-The-Air Gates at October 08, 2024 04:50 PM (krQz2)

133 They've been letting people build where they shouldn't in FL and all along the Gulf Coast for decades. In his novels between the 1950s and the 1980s, John D. MacDonald returned to that theme several times. Condominium showed that folly in practice. And he lived in FL himself, and saw it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

When I was in FL we tried to head down to the Keyes.
I remember all the houses I saw that been destroyed by prior hurricanes and never rebuilt.
Figured they got the message and moved somewhere else.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at October 08, 2024 04:50 PM (elaR+)

134 >>The San Fernando Valley will fight it for the official title.

Maybe. Not really my thing. But I'm pretty sure the nations strategic silicone reserve is located in the area.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2024 04:51 PM (iLPNt)

135 Can you rent a golf cart and drive around?

Posted by: fd at October 08, 2024 04:51 PM (vFG9F)

136 At least tossing virgins into volcanos for the weather gods MIGHT have worked.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:48 PM (n7h9X)

Why do you suppose hurricanes only go to the southeast? No volcanoes, so no stopping them. See how that works?

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at October 08, 2024 04:51 PM (+J/Au)

137 Well, this Milton asshole DID burn down Initech.
Now he is going to fuck with Florida.

All over a frickin red stapler.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 08, 2024 04:51 PM (ufFY8)

138 The small eye on this storm is the tell. It's going to be a bad one, but I'm praying for everyone there that it diminishes before it hits land.


The thing about Milton, it's got a lifeless eye, a black eye, like a doll's eye.

Posted by: Quint at October 08, 2024 04:51 PM (+myjY)

139 Probably this storm: (from weather.gov)
A swath of heavy rainfall occurred across portions of south central Wisconsin, northeast Illinois, and northwest Indiana on July 17-18, 1996. The heaviest rainfall was observed near Aurora, Illinois, with a maximum point rainfall of 16.94 inches in a 24-hour period. The 24-hour rainfall measured near Aurora remains the statewide record (as of 2022).

This was also the same day as TWA 800.

Posted by: Chuck C at October 08, 2024 04:51 PM (yOPBE)

140 >Bill Nye is not a scientist.

He's a engineer.
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he's a huckster

Posted by: Don Black at October 08, 2024 04:51 PM (/7KEl)

141 I have a Drag Queen Story Hour scheduled for Friday at the Tampa Public Library. Hope it's still on.

Posted by: Queen La Beefa at October 08, 2024 04:51 PM (CV8a5)

142 Just had a young subordinate come in with quite the issue. Elderly father is in a Tampa hospital, has been on the decline for a while, contracted pneumonia, and his mother just called saying the medical team thinks he has less than 48 hours left.

He's trying to figure out if he can take leave, fly to Atlanta maybe, and get a rental car to drive to Tampa. No good answers on this one.

Posted by: Military Moron at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (H8xIt)

143

"This eastern track is sort of an oddball for a Gulf hurricane, but not unheard of. It has to do with the steering winds and the various large scale weather systems. Cousin was 'splaining some of that to me last night."

Milton kind of sneaked in the back door similar to Helene.

If you want to lose your faith in humanity, just go to X and read the posts on this storm. I hope the people posting aren't making important decisions.

Posted by: pawn at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (QB+5g)

144 >>> Y'know, maybe people are just people, and maybe just get upset about things you can control rather than rant about things that haven't affected you or yours.
Just a thought for these race hustlers.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at October 08, 2024 04:42 PM (+J/Au)

Completely agree. You can't look at a person and see their familial connection to slavery, especially if a person is descended from white immigrants who never owned slaves. There is no "generational trauma" there to unpack. And let's talk to the asian immigrants who dealt with killing fields or cultural revolutions or slavery or female subjugation in their native countries, and their posterity seem to be thriving just fine.

But it seems the only time the left doesn't want to see "what can be, unburdened by what has been" is with racial grievances. Those will last till the stars turn cold and the mountains tumble down.

Posted by: LizLem at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (QAK8m)

145 Hurricane Katrina must have been such a huge moneymaker for the news networks that every single weather event is accompanied by clanging alarm bells. It's hot outside? Catastrophic global warming. It's cold outside? Man-made apocalyptic climate change. It's windy outside? Murder typhoons and those Southerners deserve it. On and on. A cynical audience has become numb to the hype - often at their own peril. Yet another disservice we can chalk up to the Pravda media firmly ensconced in our lives.

Posted by: kathysaysso at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (Wdt/E)

146 Overnight it dumped 17 inches of rain. Everyplace a road dipped down it was a new pond. I made it to the office but only 2 other people did.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:41 PM (n7h9X)

Was that the one that flooded Aurora?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 08, 2024 04:46 PM (/HDaX)

probably Aurora is about 10-20 miles from where I used to live and just imagine a thunderstorm that keeps raining hard with lighting for a full day or most of one. Never seen that before living there, So. Ohio and St Louis.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (n7h9X)

147 Why can't we have Hurricane Doug?


Heaven forbid Hurricane Todd.

Fucking Todd.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (ufFY8)

148 He's trying to figure out if he can take leave, fly to Atlanta maybe, and get a rental car to drive to Tampa. No good answers on this one.
Posted by: Military Moron at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (H8xIt)

Do it. He'll always regret it if he doesn't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 08, 2024 04:53 PM (y31cs)

149 Repost of the nighttime NOAA satellite photo of the path Helene took.

https://tinyurl.com/4d75j6ap

You can see the swath of darkness.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 08, 2024 04:53 PM (Q4IgG)

150 And I hope someone talks Kamala into going there first hand to "show bravery and ride out the storm!" on the beach where the eye hits. She's dumb enough to do that....
Posted by: SimoHayha at October 08, 2024 04:50 PM (KfVMM)

As Ron White says, it's not THAT the wind is blowin', it's WHAT the wind is blowin'. Because if you get hit by a Volvo...

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at October 08, 2024 04:53 PM (+J/Au)

151 Hurricanes like to form in the Golf of Mexico ???

I love Golfing in Mexico.... Great place to go to relax and enjoy sunny weather.

Posted by: Kamal Harris at October 08, 2024 04:53 PM (1t11C)

152 The hurricane that hit the new railway through the Keys was the first warning about building in dangerous weather locations. I'm glad people still wanted to take the risks.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 08, 2024 04:53 PM (zn6Ro)

153 Heaven forbid Hurricane Todd.

Fucking Todd.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (ufFY

Hurricane Karen. It is not THAT bad but it sticks around forever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 08, 2024 04:53 PM (y31cs)

154 Didn't Bill Nye do a bang-up job running a souvenir shop in somebody's planetarium somewhere?

Good merchandising takes intelligence too, you know.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2024 04:53 PM (+myjY)

155 He's trying to figure out if he can take leave, fly to Atlanta maybe, and get a rental car to drive to Tampa. No good answers on this one.
Posted by: Military Moron at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (H8xIt)

That's a horrible situation. Best of luck to him.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 08, 2024 04:54 PM (RMjVS)

156 407 Posted by: Akua Makana at October 08, 2024 01:59 AM (eZ3tp

People were wondering about Akua last night on the ONT.

Akua gave an update at the end of the ONT.
Ughhhhh

Posted by: Stateless at October 08, 2024 04:54 PM (jvJvP)

157 Stay safe, FL morons.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 08, 2024 04:54 PM (i24o9)

158 My Dad is in Brooksville (his house is 151' MSL), and has decided to ride it out. We were hoping he learned his lesson from Maria, which he also rode out while living in Mayagüez, but....

We asked him to at least go to our youngest brother's house in Longwood (outside of Orlando), but he said they're going to get the hurricane there, too, so he might as well stay put.

Prayers for everyone in the path of this storm. Even stubborn old men....

Posted by: goozer at October 08, 2024 04:54 PM (aWAkn)

159 A cynical audience has become numb to the hype - often at their own peril. Yet another disservice we can chalk up to the Pravda media firmly ensconced in our lives.
Posted by: kathysaysso at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (Wdt/E)

Well it has been that way for longer than that. In the 1800s tornados flattened Louisville so they renamed the baseball team the Cyclones for a while.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:54 PM (n7h9X)

160
Why can't we have Hurricane Doug?

The media assures me Doug never hits anything.
Posted by: bensdad00

By his own omission, Hurricane Tim would be a knucklehead.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 08, 2024 04:54 PM (xG4kz)

161 "The small eye on this storm is the tell. It's going to be a bad one, but I'm praying for everyone there that it diminishes before it hits land."

I don't think I've heard the comparison yet but it's a bit like Andrew. Also late season.

Posted by: pawn at October 08, 2024 04:54 PM (QB+5g)

162 probably Aurora is about 10-20 miles from where I used to live and just imagine a thunderstorm that keeps raining hard with lighting for a full day or most of one. Never seen that before living there, So. Ohio and St Louis.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (n7h9X)

Yep, and Chuck concurs.

I remember that one, being in Woodridge at the time. We got about 12" there, but we were actually sort of on a ridge and just got pretty soggy. I recall Lemont Ave being a raging river. No going to work that day.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 08, 2024 04:55 PM (/HDaX)

163 Hurricane Karen. It is not THAT bad but it sticks around forever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 08, 2024 04:53 PM (y31cs)
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And wants to speak to your manager.

Posted by: Axeman at October 08, 2024 04:55 PM (krQz2)

164 Why do we call these storms "Hericanes"????

What if they are Transgender, then what do we call them???

Posted by: Kamal Harris at October 08, 2024 04:55 PM (1t11C)

165 >> Milton kind of sneaked in the back door similar to Helene.

Helene tracked more to the east, and got closer to me in upstate SC. That became apparent early D-day morning of the 27th, just when the power went off.

It went about 30 miles east of the NHC forecast cone. Interestingly, some other models, which one of the local stations was using, did predict that eastern track.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 08, 2024 04:55 PM (w6EFb)

166 Oh wait. That was Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

Correction noted.

Carry on.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2024 04:55 PM (+myjY)

167 And somewhere in my disorganized archives, I have the Accuweather doppler total precip image for that storm.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 08, 2024 04:55 PM (/HDaX)

168 1. Praying for the storm to lessen.
2. Biden's legacy is decades of disgusting and evil failures, but his throwing Harris under the bus takes him from "F double-minus" to just "F minus."

Posted by: Eternity Matters at October 08, 2024 04:56 PM (YfbhZ)

169 Tampa is or was when I was working there the adult entertainment capital of the country.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (iLPNt)

Tampa is also considered to be the world capital of death metal.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 08, 2024 04:56 PM (NZnln)

170 >>> Here's the NWS NHC page on Milton. They update every three hours with tracker plane data:
https://tinyurl.com/yeuglsun

Thanks for the link Publius! Prayers up for the FLA horde, and those struggling with hurricanes this season.

Posted by: LizLem at October 08, 2024 04:56 PM (QAK8m)

171 By his own omission, Hurricane Tim would be a knucklehead.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 08, 2024 04:54 PM (xG4kz)
---
With a hint of unresolved child molester.

Posted by: Axeman at October 08, 2024 04:56 PM (krQz2)

172 Now winds 165 sustained, cat 5. 918 pressure

according to some guy on Ryan Hall's coverage.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 08, 2024 04:56 PM (Cus5s)

173 Living in southern California dreading being hit as hard thru earthquakes.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 08, 2024 04:56 PM (RqKFg)

174 Why do we call these storms "Hericanes"????

What if they are Transgender, then what do we call them???
Posted by: Kamal Harris

We could call them kamalas, for all the wind and destruction they bring.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (VNX3d)

175 Unbelievably, MSNBC brought on non-scientist TV Clown Bill Nye on to explain how to stop hurricanes: he literally said "Vote" (for Kamala).


When every single matter of human existence is filtered through the prism of politics, you get 'derp thots' like this one.

Nye is an engineer (I think). Not sure what kind but I would check any project he was on, for safety.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (sAmhv)

176
"admission", not "omission"

What a knucklehead!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (xG4kz)

177 Powerline has the 60 Minutes interview with Kamaunist
She is a idiot, but I knew that

Posted by: Skip at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (fwDg9)

178 Looks like the sheriff who asked residents of that one Florida town to make sure their bodies could be identified after Helene wasn't just being a jerk. Hope this one turns out to be less than expected.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (s9EYN)

179 166 Oh wait. That was Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

Correction noted.

Carry on.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2024 04:55 PM (+myjY)

That is a pair of equal opportunity assholes.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (+J/Au)

180 Is GOD saying ...

"Look Dip Shits, vote for Trump because I just proved to you Biden/Harris/Walz are F**king Idiots" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: buster Hymandd at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (/1UO6)

181 He's trying to figure out if he can take leave, fly to Atlanta maybe, and get a rental car to drive to Tampa. No good answers on this one.
Posted by: Military Moron at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (H8xIt)

I would bet if he could his father would order him not to risk it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (zn6Ro)

182 Mmmmm. Pork tenderloin. Lettuce. Onion. Mayo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 08, 2024 04:58 PM (y31cs)

183 Yeah, Milton is officially back up to Cat 5. Ugh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 08, 2024 04:58 PM (mH6SG)

184 Unbelievably, MSNBC brought on non-scientist TV Clown Bill Nye on to explain how to stop hurricanes: he literally said "Vote" (for Kamala).
_________________

Mechanical engineers know things! Everything, in fact!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 08, 2024 04:58 PM (YqDXo)

185 I would bet if he could his father would order him not to risk it.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (zn6Ro)

Do it. He will regret it forever if he doesn't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 08, 2024 04:58 PM (y31cs)

186 181 He's trying to figure out if he can take leave, fly to Atlanta maybe, and get a rental car to drive to Tampa. No good answers on this one.
Posted by: Military Moron at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (H8xIt)

I would bet if he could his father would order him not to risk it.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (zn6Ro)

I'd risk it all to be with my father in his last days. Especially if my mother was there, too.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 08, 2024 04:59 PM (KbCG3)

187 Hurricane Karen. It is not THAT bad but it sticks around forever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 08, 2024 04:53 PM (y31cs)

---------------

Sometimes know as Cat-9 Karens.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 08, 2024 04:59 PM (57CQi)

188 Milton kind of sneaked in the back door similar to Helene.

Milton and Helene sound like my kinda people!

Posted by: Sam Brinton at October 08, 2024 04:59 PM (JCZqz)

189
Per the latest 4PM (CDT) update, winds are back up to 165 mph, and pressure has dropped to 918 mbar.

Pray that wind shear holds to weaken it tomorrow. If not, this is gonna be the Big One.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 08, 2024 04:59 PM (w6EFb)

190 Nye is an engineer (I think). Not sure what kind but I would check any project he was on, for safety.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (sAmhv)
_______________

Mechanical engineer. Apparently quite a good one, in fairness.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 08, 2024 05:00 PM (YqDXo)

191 181 He's trying to figure out if he can take leave, fly to Atlanta maybe, and get a rental car to drive to Tampa. No good answers on this one.
Posted by: Military Moron at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (H8xIt)

I would bet if he could his father would order him not to risk it.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (zn6Ro)

Does your subordinate have a wife and kids? Then he probably shouldn't risk it. If not, then he may need to be there to help his mother both with his dad and for her during the storm. It's not an easy decision; God bless and help him make the right one.

Posted by: Moki at October 08, 2024 05:00 PM (wLjpr)

192 >>Nye is an engineer (I think). Not sure what kind but I would check any project he was on, for safety.

I would ask, how long did he actually work as an engineer, and how long ago?

Dude has been a TV Clown since forever.

also engineering isn't science. it's a related field, yes, but this is the same game these faggots are always running on us. They say "Trust the experts" and tell you what to think and then you ask if they're a credentialed expert themselves, and they're like, "I have a degree, that makes me a General Expert in All Things."

Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 05:00 PM (KRtlO)

193 Mechanical engineers know things! Everything, in fact!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 08, 2024 04:58 PM (YqDXo)

Just ask 'em and they'll tell you.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 08, 2024 05:00 PM (RMjVS)

194
Nye is a mechanical engineer (bachelor degree)

He is as much a climate scientist as James Taylor is a peacemaking diplomat.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 08, 2024 05:00 PM (xG4kz)

195 While Harris is complaining about DeSantis not talking to her, Biden has apparently been complimenting how the Governor has been having productive phone calls with the President (who is not named Harris).


Posted by: junior at October 08, 2024 05:00 PM (g5Xey)

196 Bill Nye is not a scientist.
He's a(an) engineer.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Calling Nye an "engineer" is INCREDIBLY gracious.
He F*^king worked in MEP! He put together ductwork, routed piping and took his $10.00 stamp and approved his friend's kitchens.
He's a farce, of a farce.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 08, 2024 05:00 PM (lPeS+)

197 Just had a young subordinate come in with quite the issue. Elderly father is in a Tampa hospital, has been on the decline for a while, contracted pneumonia, and his mother just called saying the medical team thinks he has less than 48 hours left.

He's trying to figure out if he can take leave, fly to Atlanta maybe, and get a rental car to drive to Tampa. No good answers on this one.
Posted by: Military Moron at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (H8xIt)

Can you get a tablet and do a facetime chat? I'd have to think that the police are going to be blocking inward traffic pretty soon. When I was a kid and Xenia OH got plastered we had a field trip to a nearby Ft Ancient and the bus driver, who lived there took us through parts of it. The State National Guard only let us in because the driver was a local.

It was quite the scene. I'd seen tornado damage before but this was many of them at once and most everything was splinters.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 05:01 PM (n7h9X)

198 Cat-5 is a cat lady starter kit.

Posted by: Axeman at October 08, 2024 05:01 PM (krQz2)

199 188 Milton kind of sneaked in the back door similar to Helene.

Milton and Helene sound like my kinda people!
Posted by: Sam Brinton at October 08, 2024 04:59 PM (JCZqz)

Helene, you better take care,
If I find you been creepin'
round my back step.

Posted by: Gordon Lightfoot at October 08, 2024 05:01 PM (y31cs)

200 108 They've been letting people build where they shouldn't in FL and all along the Gulf Coast for decades. In his novels between the 1950s and the 1980s, John D. MacDonald returned to that theme several times. Condominium showed that folly in practice. And he lived in FL himself, and saw it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 04:46 PM (J2vNu)

-- -- --

I think that's why people think disasters are increasing so much. In reality it's the same amount of natural disasters as it's always been. But there was nobody around to be bothered by it, much less see or hear about it, a century or more ago.

Now we have populated so much Southeastern & Gulf coastlines with millions of people that it appears like hurricanes are getting worse and worse because there are more urban areas being hit.

Nobody is talking about the Helene impacts on the Big Bend in Florida right now because very few people live there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2024 05:01 PM (6ydKt)

201 They say "Trust the experts" and tell you what to think and then you ask if they're a credentialed expert themselves, and they're like, "I have a degree, that makes me a General Expert in All Things."

Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 05:00 PM (KRtlO)

Pfft. Only a law degree works that way.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2024 05:01 PM (+myjY)

202 And somewhere in my disorganized archives, I have the Accuweather doppler total precip image for that storm.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

remove the space before 'lot'

https://www.weather.gov/ lot/1996_07_18_Flood

Posted by: Chuck C at October 08, 2024 05:01 PM (yOPBE)

203
BTW, if you're looking at the NHC pages and graphics, it takes a bit after an update for the new data to propagate through to the wind field probabilities and all that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 08, 2024 05:02 PM (w6EFb)

204 >>"The small eye on this storm is the tell. It's going to be a bad one, but I'm praying for everyone there that it diminishes before it hits land."

They've been predicting pretty consistently that the wind would drop before coming ashore. But they have also been pretty consistent that the storm surge is not going to diminish. I hope they are wrong about that cause a 10+ foot storm surge is going to do a lot of damage.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2024 05:02 PM (iLPNt)

205 No one who wears a bow tie can be evil.

Posted by: George Will at October 08, 2024 05:02 PM (PiwSw)

206 Never forget; the ocean wants to kill you.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 08, 2024 05:02 PM (pohLc)

207 160
Why can't we have Hurricane Doug?

The media assures me Doug never hits anything.
Posted by: bensdad00

By his own omission, Hurricane Tim would be a knucklehead.

I FEAR Hurricane Tim.

Tim would track like a Family Circus cartoon, completely unpredictable and EXTREMELY stupid.

Posted by: bensdad00 at October 08, 2024 05:03 PM (F/35S)

208 When I was in FL we tried to head down to the Keyes.
I remember all the houses I saw that been destroyed by prior hurricanes and never rebuilt.
Figured they got the message and moved somewhere else.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale


Public beaches start at the sand/vegetation line.
Every time a hurricane comes in, it scours the line back. There were homes in Galveston that were 300 yards from the sand line pre-Alicia and 50 onto the new beach post-Alicia. And the homeowners lost their homes. Because they were now on the public beach.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 05:03 PM (aKxz7)

209 190 Nye is an engineer (I think). Not sure what kind but I would check any project he was on, for safety.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (sAmhv)
_______________

Mechanical engineer. Apparently quite a good one, in fairness.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 08, 2024 05:00 PM (YqDXo)

No, Nye is an actor... he is not a WORKING Engineer...

Actor, someone who is paid to mouth some writers words on stage or camera.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2024 05:03 PM (QAkQ3)

210 206 Never forget; the ocean wants to kill you.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 08, 2024 05:02 PM (pohLc)

Planet earth in general does not care whether you live or die.

Posted by: Gordon Lightfoot at October 08, 2024 05:03 PM (y31cs)

211 Unbelievably, MSNBC brought on non-scientist TV Clown Bill Nye on to explain how to stop hurricanes: he literally said "Vote" (for Kamala).
_________________

Mechanical engineers know things! Everything, in fact!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 08, 2024 04:58 PM (YqDXo)

---------------

It's almost as if he and his ilk are shameless ClownWorld jesters, frauds, and whores ... but mostly whores. Almost.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 08, 2024 05:04 PM (57CQi)

212 Here is a good site for the current status.

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/#14L

Posted by: pawn at October 08, 2024 05:04 PM (QB+5g)

213 206 Never forget; the ocean wants to kill you.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 08, 2024 05:02 PM (pohLc)

/Nods

Posted by: Romeo13, USN Ret at October 08, 2024 05:04 PM (QAkQ3)

214 1. Praying for the storm to lessen.
2. Biden's legacy is decades of disgusting and evil failures, but his throwing Harris under the bus takes him from "F double-minus" to just "F minus."
Posted by: Eternity Matters at October 08, 2024 04:56 PM (YfbhZ)

The second reminds me of the Wesley Crusher on Star Trek causing a crisis that will destroy the ship then finding a solution for it. NO, that does NOT make you a hero.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 05:04 PM (n7h9X)

215 Never forget; the ocean wants to kill you.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 08, 2024 05:02 PM (pohLc)

You're telling me!

Posted by: HMS Titanic at October 08, 2024 05:04 PM (RMjVS)

216 remove the space before 'lot'

https://www.weather.gov/ lot/1996_07_18_Flood
Posted by: Chuck C at October 08, 2024 05:01 PM (yOPBE)

Much appreciated, that's the one.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 08, 2024 05:05 PM (/HDaX)

217 I'm looking at a handful of live traffic cameras on FL DOT website including the 275 bridge (?causeway) down toward St. Pete, downtown Tampa and portions of I75 north of Tampa and have yet to see heavy or slow moving traffic. There are hundreds of cameras in and around Tampa/St.Pete. Maybe there are isolated chokepoints.

https://fl511.com/map#:Alerts

You can zoom in/out, pan around, select cameras and the still photos have a link to show video.





Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 05:05 PM (uCfKO)

218
Nye - "vote for Red Kammie" to stop hurricanes.

Honestly, the constant nose burying in one another's asses by our betters is flat out revolting.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 08, 2024 05:05 PM (xG4kz)

219 Looks like the Sarasota area is now in the center of the projected path.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 08, 2024 05:05 PM (mH6SG)

220 Stop hurricanes by voting Kamala? Voting for Joe didn't get it done, Nye?

Calling you pretentious midwit is an insult to pretentious midwits everywhere, Bill.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 08, 2024 05:06 PM (tT6L1)

221 Nye is a mechanical engineer (bachelor degree)

So he's qualified to build any piece of Ikea furniture using only an Allen wrench?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2024 05:06 PM (+myjY)

222 also engineering isn't science. it's a related field, yes, but this is the same game these faggots are always running on us. They say "Trust the experts" and tell you what to think and then you ask if they're a credentialed expert themselves, and they're like, "I have a degree, that makes me a General Expert in All Things."

Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 05:00 PM (KRtlO)
__________________

It's basically applied physics, just as medicine is basically applied biology.

Whenever I read that someone "has a degree" I immediately assume it's in some bullshit subject, such as sociology.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 08, 2024 05:06 PM (YqDXo)

223 He's trying to figure out if he can take leave, fly to Atlanta maybe, and get a rental car to drive to Tampa. No good answers on this one.
Posted by: Military Moron at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (H8xIt)

Do it. He'll always regret it if he doesn't.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Agreed. It's one thing to try and be able to or not be able to vs not even trying.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 05:06 PM (aKxz7)

224 213 206 Never forget; the ocean wants to kill you.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 08, 2024 05:02 PM (pohLc)

/Nods
Posted by: Romeo13, USN Ret at October 08, 2024 05:04 PM (QAkQ3)

Just like every woman I've ever known.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 08, 2024 05:06 PM (y31cs)

225 Storm Chasers: Nuts or titanium nuts?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 08, 2024 05:06 PM (tT6L1)

226 I just had a random thought.
If Demoncrats believe Americans no longer deserve or can handle historic rights and freedoms are they saying they believe Americans have gotten stupider and weaker over time
What caused this decline?
Question from a random dude.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 08, 2024 05:06 PM (52RXy)

227 As a Floridian 'ette (Jacksonville), I appreciate the prayers.

My house was built in 1928 and not in a flood zone, so I'm not too frightened.

Losing power is the big worry.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at October 08, 2024 05:07 PM (DBrq6)

228
Akua gave an update at the end of the ONT.
Ughhhhh

Posted by: Stateless at October 08, 2024

***
I think they loaded him (her?) on a plane and evacuated him . . . to Florida.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 08, 2024 05:07 PM (J2vNu)

229 I just can't understand why insurance is so expensive in Florida.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at October 08, 2024 05:07 PM (Z8Yh2)

230 Cat-5 is a cat lady starter kit.
Posted by: Axeman at October 08, 2024 05:01 PM (krQz2)

Or what happens if your lady Cat-1 gets out when in heat.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 05:07 PM (n7h9X)

231 Bill Nighy >>> Bill Nye

Posted by: Axeman at October 08, 2024 05:07 PM (krQz2)

232 No, Nye is an actor... he is not a WORKING Engineer...

Actor, someone who is paid to mouth some writers words on stage or camera.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 08, 2024 05:03 PM (QAkQ3)
______________

That's true now, but IIRC he was quite an accomplished mechanical engineer when he was practicing.

That doesn't get him off the hook for being an a-hole now, however.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 08, 2024 05:07 PM (YqDXo)

233 Does your subordinate have a wife and kids? Then he probably shouldn't risk it. If not, then he may need to be there to help his mother both with his dad and for her during the storm. It's not an easy decision; God bless and help him make the right one.
Posted by: Moki

He does, but we're in the Midwest, so we're safe. His parents live in Tampa, hence the issue. I mentioned a call or FaceTime, but the father can only whisper so quietly he can't really be heard. Still, may just call/video, say what he can, and have the mom rely back. Just awful.

And yes, we're National Guard, and often get called to assist flood/hurricane issues, so we're aware roads and bridges may be blocked, preventing him from driving down.

Posted by: Sam Brinton at October 08, 2024 05:07 PM (JCZqz)

234 Storm Chasers: Nuts or titanium nuts?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 08, 2024 05:06 PM (tT6L1)

Just plain nuts.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 08, 2024 05:08 PM (RMjVS)

235 As a Floridian 'ette (Jacksonville), I appreciate the prayers.

My house was built in 1928 and not in a flood zone, so I'm not too frightened.

Losing power is the big worry.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at October 08, 2024 05:07 PM (DBrq6)

have a generator?

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 05:08 PM (n7h9X)

236 My daughter just finished gutting her house due to Helene, now the house will be destroyed from all the debris thrown around by Milton. She's just south of Tampa in Apollo Beach. Fortunately, she bought a camper to live in while repairing Helene damage. They went to a campsite just north of Jacksonville to ride this one out.

Posted by: TC at October 08, 2024 05:08 PM (OgfrC)

237 He's trying to figure out if he can take leave, fly to Atlanta maybe, and get a rental car to drive to Tampa. No good answers on this one.
Posted by: Military Moron at October 08, 2024 04:52 PM (H8xIt)

--- ---

He could fly in to Jacksonville or Miami.
Depends on how fast he could catch a flight.

Might be easier to come up from the south as I imagine most people are heading north evacuating and the gas stations near the interstates will be hit or miss on having anything.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2024 05:08 PM (6ydKt)

238 I'm naming my next two cats Helene and Milton! They'll go perfect with my current two cats, Covid and Katrina!

Posted by: Jane D'Ope, PhD, Hingham, MA at October 08, 2024 05:09 PM (qUkBO)

239 He's trying to figure out if he can take leave, fly to Atlanta maybe, and get a rental car to drive to Tampa.

They might not rent him a car in this situation.

IDK.

Posted by: Adriane the Brevity Challenged Critic . . . at October 08, 2024 05:09 PM (TX4bP)

240 Anyone note Jeb Bush complimented DeSantis on his leadership? I clutched my pearls.

Posted by: Piper at October 08, 2024 05:10 PM (PRqXW)

241 Sid is proof people are getting stupider.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 08, 2024 05:11 PM (52RXy)

242 Is insomniac anywhere near where Milton might make landfall?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 08, 2024 05:12 PM (tT6L1)

243 Jen Bush did handle hurricanes well as FL gov.

Posted by: Adriane the Brevity Challenged Critic . . . at October 08, 2024 05:12 PM (TX4bP)

244 These hurricanes wouldn't be happening if we had had Democrat presidents for the last 16 years and not just 12 out of the last 16 years! #Science!

Posted by: Jane D'Ope, PhD, Hingham, MA at October 08, 2024 05:12 PM (qUkBO)

245 >>49 Repost of the nighttime NOAA satellite photo of the path Helene took.

https://tinyurl.com/4d75j6ap

You can see the swath of darkness.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 08, 2024 04:53

--
Here's a before-and-after comparison.

https://tinyurl.com/3jf2j4xw

Note that the "after" is from the night of 9/28, nearly 40 hours after the storm hit, so that band of lights along I-85 in S.C. was probably just back online. That's probably dark, too, if the photo were taken the night before.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 08, 2024 05:12 PM (wzAuc)

246 Nye is an engineer (I think). Not sure what kind but I would check any project he was on, for safety.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 08, 2024 04:57 PM (sAmhv)
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Nye was at the Cornell Engineering School the same time I was, but a couple of years ahead of me, so he wasn't anyone I would have run across.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 08, 2024 05:12 PM (VdhcA)

247 Does the smell of ozone increase the chances of hurricanes?

Thanks for nuking the resident troll. What vile nasty douchebag.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 08, 2024 05:12 PM (sAmhv)

248 Sid is proof people are getting stupider.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 08, 2024 05:11 PM (52RXy)

At least he's paid for saying dumb stuff rather than have it as a hobby.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

249 I lived in the Clearwater area for four years.
Our house was near the highest point in Pinellas Co at 75' above sea level. We had rain and wind but were out of the surge area. Incredibly, at least to me, were the residents of the high rise condos on the barrier islands. Many refused to leave and then complained when the causeways were closed and they couldn't.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at October 08, 2024 05:13 PM (wMDIO)

250 That CGI was cool to show the height of a storm surge, but they should then show its force by having houses ripped off their foundations and floating like puny corks, until they smash into other things and so on. That looked too tame.

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 08, 2024 05:13 PM (J1d8J)

251 He's trying to figure out if he can take leave, fly to Atlanta maybe, and get a rental car to drive to Tampa.

They might not rent him a car in this situation.

IDK.
Posted by: Adriane


BUY THE INSURANCE!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 05:13 PM (aKxz7)

252 I thought Bill Nye was a comedian.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 08, 2024 05:13 PM (52RXy)

253 Oldcat at October 08, 2024 05:08 PM (n7h9X)

No, I don't have a generator. I need to do some research.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at October 08, 2024 05:13 PM (DBrq6)

254 Every f*cking article from the MSM about Milton states (without evidence) that its power is due to global warming. Their proof is that the sea surface temperatures have warmed.

1.) That is not science. It is not possible to create a falsifiable hypothesis to demonstrate that the strength of Milton is due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere.

2.) They have the sign wrong on any heat flow changes brought on by increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. Hurricanes are the result of an ocean-ATMOSPHERE coupled system. The power of a hurricane is derived from the heat flowing from the warm ocean surface to the cold middle of the troposphere. To the extant that increased CO2 may have warmed the atmosphere, the effect is to REDUCE the heat flow differential between the ocean and atmosphere.

Not one "expert" such as Bill Nye mentions that fact. "The ocean is warmer, duh, I am too stupid to solve the rest of the equation!"

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 08, 2024 05:14 PM (HlyYF)

255 Evacuation advice from personal experience:

Fill up you vehicles and any gas storage cans you have as soon as an evac-potential storm is predicted to make landfall near you. I mean 4 to 5 days out, to beat the probable gas lines and gas stations running out. This will set you up for -

WAIT TO EVACUATE BY ROAD until 12-18 hours before tropical storm force winds are predicted in your immediate area. You will miss the huge traffic jams and long-duration stop-and-go travel. You have a full tank of gas and should be able to at least 300 miles before needing gas. Every minute you idle on highways costs you distance from the danger zone.

This is not a risk-free approach. Your mileage (no pun intended) may vary.

I learned these lessons when evacuating from Houston for Rita (2005) and Ike (200.

My Rita evac took 25 hours from far SE Houston to 30 miles NW of Austin. Did not run the a/c even though I had a bad cold and high-temp was mid-90s. I was nearly out of gas 90 miles from Austin but got lucky and was able to fill-up.

My Ike evac from far SE to a far NW Houston suburb took a bit over an hour. Very little traffic on the freeways and the outer loop.

Posted by: Gref at October 08, 2024 05:14 PM (aBgBM)

256 "also engineering isn't science. it's a related field, yes, but this is the same game these faggots are always running on us. They say "Trust the experts" and tell you what to think and then you ask if they're a credentialed expert themselves, and they're like, "I have a degree, that makes me a General Expert in All Things."

imo, an engineering bachelor degree still SHOULD indicate a much greater degree of competence than Bill Nye exhibits constantly.

I was a chem major for 2 years, but oddly it was a BA, which seems odd. But I had the more advanced curriculum of calculus, physics, chemistry. I always assumed engineering had the same science curriculum, but maybe not, idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 08, 2024 05:14 PM (Cus5s)

257 That CGI was cool to show the height of a storm surge, but they should then show its force by having houses ripped off their foundations and floating like puny corks, until they smash into other things and so on. That looked too tame.
Posted by: haffhowershower


Go to Facebook or Tik Tok and watch hundreds of reels where they are doing just that.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 05:14 PM (aKxz7)

258 252 I thought Bill Nye was a comedian.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone


He is a joke.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 08, 2024 05:14 PM (sAmhv)

259 His best bet is to book a flight into Orlando and the head south and cross over to the coast on secondary roads. Any Interstate or primary road is going to be blocked.

BUT his biggest problem is the last mile and whether they will let him get to the hospital. He probably should get a letter from some medical people for a hall pass.

He's got less than 24 hours to pull it off.

Posted by: pawn at October 08, 2024 05:15 PM (QB+5g)

260 > I thought Bill Nye was a comedian.
-----

Louis Nye


and it's been a while

Posted by: Don Black at October 08, 2024 05:16 PM (/7KEl)

261 Know anyone with chickens who needs to evacuate?

Advice is to wrap them in newspaper or something similar, like a burrito, (head unwrapped), secure with packing tape.

OR let them loose.

Or tie them in pillowcases.

I report, you decide.

Posted by: KT at October 08, 2024 05:16 PM (xekrU)

262 Oldcat at October 08, 2024 05:08 PM (n7h9X)

No, I don't have a generator. I need to do some research.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at October 08, 2024 05:13 PM (DBrq6)

I keep thinking of getting one for earthquakes/fires here in CA but have never lost power in one.

The legislature was talking once about making them illegal because Leftists.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 05:16 PM (n7h9X)

263 My current county of residence is well on its way to matching the all time record high number of hurricanes again this year. Zero.

Posted by: muldoon at October 08, 2024 05:17 PM (uCfKO)

264
The couple of nights after Helene ripped through and the power was still off everywhere, I saw some of the darkest skies here I've seen in memory.

I could make fainter stuff out with detail. Of course, I'll take light pollution over that any day!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 08, 2024 05:17 PM (w6EFb)

265 Scott Jennings is different than Harold Ford of the Five...
Both look like hostages but for different reasons.

Ford doesn't believe the shit he's forced to say, but like Vietnam POWs, he blinks SOS on the Dem talking points he's given. He wants to tell the truth, but he knows that the agonizer is only going to be engaged if he does.

Jennings says what he wants clear eyed and, while being tormented by his captures, still he resists.

Posted by: Boswell at October 08, 2024 05:17 PM (K+UlC)

266 For anyone that thinks Bill Nye is any kind of scientist, watch this youtube "Sex Junk" video. (SFW)

It is so cringe that I think Morons would enjoy it with a morbid fascination.

https://tinyurl.com/bdh7cafa

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 08, 2024 05:17 PM (HlyYF)

267 Had to take a somewhat last minute trip this week. The only return flight I could find on Thursday has a connection, in Ft. Lauderdale.

I got a bad feeling my trip is going to be a bit delayed.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2024 05:18 PM (iLPNt)

268 Don McMillan is an engineer/comedian. As an engineer, I find it funny. His Venn diagram for career selection is hilarious.

https://youtu.be/-ofFHBNrW8c

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 08, 2024 05:18 PM (VNX3d)

269 The couple of nights after Helene ripped through and the power was still off everywhere, I saw some of the darkest skies here I've seen in memory.
------------
Same after the Northridge Hills quake.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 08, 2024 05:18 PM (VdhcA)

270 258 252 I thought Bill Nye was a comedian.

He not Funny, Just Funny Lookin'

Posted by: bensdad00 at October 08, 2024 05:18 PM (F/35S)

271 People better get to the polls and vote. This race is close and it shouldn’t be. A lot of people are fooled. A lot of people are stupid and a lot of people are card carrying leftists.

There is no excuse not to vote. Zero. Our future depends on Trump winning.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 08, 2024 05:18 PM (AlNHY)

272 Know anyone with chickens who needs to evacuate?

Advice is to wrap them in newspaper or something similar, like a burrito, (head unwrapped), secure with packing tape.

OR let them loose.

Or tie them in pillowcases.

I report, you decide.
Posted by: KT at October 08, 2024 05:16 PM (xekrU)

I'd probably bring them inside into a bathroom and pour out feed and water. Unless the house goes they will be all right for a while.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 05:18 PM (n7h9X)

273 I was a chem major for 2 years, but oddly it was a BA, which seems odd. But I had the more advanced curriculum of calculus, physics, chemistry. I always assumed engineering had the same science curriculum, but maybe not, idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 08, 2024 05:14 PM (Cus5s)
________________

I have a BA as well, because of a lot of humanities courses, and minored in a humanities subject.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 08, 2024 05:18 PM (YqDXo)

274 How unusual is it for hurricanes to form in the Gulf, rather than the Atlantic? Particularly with this strength?
Posted by: Moki at October 08, 2024 04:36 PM (wLjpr)

Hurricanes are born where there is a lot of warm water, and the gulf does warm up. I suppose if there was a way to pump sufficient cooler water into the gulf it would reduce the temperature, but I don't know if that would work.
One sci-fi book I read talked about cooling the water to calm hurricanes and that is the extent of my knowledge.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2024 05:18 PM (D7oie)

275 The Financealot video with the CGI storm surge effect should be mandatory in every high school curriculum. Excellent use of video imagery to convey life-or-death facts.

In my lifetime, Camille was my weather wake up call.

Posted by: mrp at October 08, 2024 05:19 PM (rj6Yv)

276 Ryan Hall found a use for AI.
He has a "Yallbot" that pronounces all of the town and city names he hasn't got a clue how to pronounce.

And they programmed her to be a little salty when he gets a name wrong.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 08, 2024 05:20 PM (6ydKt)

277 >>His best bet is to book a flight into Orlando and the head south and cross over to the coast on secondary roads. Any Interstate or primary road is going to be blocked.

Better hurry because Orlando Airport is closing tomorrow morning.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 08, 2024 05:20 PM (iLPNt)

278 I keep thinking of getting one for earthquakes/fires here in CA but have never lost power in one.

The legislature was talking once about making them illegal because Leftists.
Posted by: Oldcat


If they make generators illegal because of leftist, then they can jump on a bike like Lance Armstrong and pedal power my house.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 05:20 PM (aKxz7)

279 So, yeah, I'm directly in Milton's path (albeit inland, thankfully). As in I'll probably get to go through the eye. So hearing it's back to Cat 5 - ugh. I mean, it was expected, and I still think it's expected to drop to Cat 3 before it makes landfall, but still - ugh.

At least I have a generator and about 350 gallons of propane to feed to it to see me through this one. Didn't have that for Ian, which also hit me pretty much directly.

Posted by: Qwinn at October 08, 2024 05:20 PM (VmtEf)

280 Praying for anyone in this SOB's path. Extra prayers for my friends who live down there and my fellow hordelings. God Bless.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 08, 2024 05:21 PM (ewjUl)

281 Nood joos.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 05:23 PM (aKxz7)

282 Looking at a view of I-75N. The traffic is moving but at a crawl.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 08, 2024 05:23 PM (mH6SG)

283 I was a chem major for 2 years, but oddly it was a BA, which seems odd. But I had the more advanced curriculum of calculus, physics, chemistry. I always assumed engineering had the same science curriculum, but maybe not, idk.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 08, 2024 05:14 PM (Cus5s)

A standard college gives out BA degrees even for sciences, an engineering school gives out BS degrees. I majored in physics / CS from the engineering school so I have a BS in physics instead of a BA that I would have gotten for the same class through the liberal arts college.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 05:23 PM (n7h9X)

284 Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 08, 2024 05:14 PM (HlyYF)

I’ve read that our CO 2 levels are dangerously close in regard to the baseline level necessary to grow vegetation (food) .

Posted by: Sebation Melmoth at October 08, 2024 05:23 PM (D6PGr)

285 NOOD.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 08, 2024 05:24 PM (HlyYF)

286
I have a buddy in Sanford Florida north of Orlando. Hope you got out of there old friend.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 08, 2024 05:24 PM (+oR7L)

287
No, I don't have a generator. I need to do some research.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at October 08, 2024 05:13 PM (DBrq6)

I keep thinking of getting one for earthquakes/fires here in CA but have never lost power in one.

The legislature was talking once about making them illegal because Leftists.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 05:16 PM (n7h9X)


I think they outlawed certain types of commercial generators (diesel). When I was laid off in 2020, we were working on large-scale replacement of diesel gensets in telecom with fuel cell generators. I'm not sure how that ended up shaking out though.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 08, 2024 05:24 PM (y9nCu)

288 If they make generators illegal because of leftist, then they can jump on a bike like Lance Armstrong and pedal power my house.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 08, 2024 05:20 PM (aKxz7)

They have a program now to cut power in areas that might catch on fire during times when fires are probable. The only reasonable reason could be to keep you from getting away.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 08, 2024 05:25 PM (n7h9X)

289 Info I left out on my 2008 Ike evac: I waited until 18 hours before landfall before leaving home in far SE Houston to go to far NW Houston. Journey took a little over an hour. The sameor better than during a typical weekday morning or afternoon. Very little traffic. Freeway entrances had not been blocked yet.

Posted by: Gref at October 08, 2024 05:26 PM (aBgBM)

290 "And they programmed her to be a little salty when he gets a name wrong." Posted by: SpeakingOf

I wonder if that is not really a human using a computer voice. I don't think AI does that decent a job on humor.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 08, 2024 05:26 PM (Cus5s)

291 Hoping the storm degrades significantly is a sucky way of existing when you are stuck in it's path. The difference between being on the north side or south side of the eye path is the kind of thing you contemplate.

I really hope this storm slows down and drifts to the right. It would do a lot of people a big favor if it crossed between Orlando and Okeechobee (Florida's Outback).

Posted by: pawn at October 08, 2024 05:27 PM (QB+5g)

292 Didn't Bill Nye do a bang-up job running a souvenir shop in somebody's planetarium somewhere?

Good merchandising takes intelligence too, you know.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 08, 2024 04:53 PM (+myjY)

He did a children's science program in Seattle in the 80's where he explained important subjects like centripetal force for 12 year olds. This is what his science background rests upon.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2024 05:27 PM (D7oie)

293 OMG!!!

The apartment management just closed the pool.

This is getting serious!

Posted by: pawn at October 08, 2024 05:29 PM (QB+5g)

294 I was a chem major for 2 years, but oddly it was a BA, which seems odd. But I had the more advanced curriculum of calculus, physics, chemistry. I always assumed engineering had the same science curriculum, but maybe not, idk.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 08, 2024 05:14 PM (Cus5s)

I always thought the difference between BA and BS degrees were the language credits.

No foreign language credits = BS (that's what I have)

2 semesters of language = BA

Posted by: The Walking Dude at October 08, 2024 05:31 PM (cCxiu)

295
From the movie Key Largo:

A relief train was dispatched from Miami. The barometer was down to about 26 inches when that train pulled into Homestead. Engineer backed his string of empty coaches into the danger zone... and the hurricane hit. Knocked those coaches right off the track. Two hundred miles an hour, that wind blew. A tidal wave twelve feet high went right across the Key. Whole towns were wiped out. Miles and miles of track were ripped up... and washed away. Nothing was left. More than five hundred bodies were recovered after the storm. And for months afterwards... corpses were found in the mangrove swamps.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 08, 2024 05:33 PM (63Dwl)

296 also engineering isn't science. it's a related field, yes, but this is the same game these faggots are always running on us. They say "Trust the experts" and tell you what to think and then you ask if they're a credentialed expert themselves, and they're like, "I have a degree, that makes me a General Expert in All Things."

Posted by: ace at October 08, 2024 05:00 PM (KRtlO)

Hey!! At lease I went into space!!

Posted by: Howard Wolowitz Astronaut and engineer at October 08, 2024 05:40 PM (iODuv)

297 My Rita evac took 25 hours from far SE Houston to 30 miles NW of Austin. Did not run the a/c even though I had a bad cold and high-temp was mid-90s. I was nearly out of gas 90 miles from Austin but got lucky and was able to fill-up.

My Ike evac from far SE to a far NW Houston suburb took a bit over an hour. Very little traffic on the freeways and the outer loop.

Posted by: Gref


I still get bothered by the Rita evacuation. A bunch of nitwits from Katy, far to the northwest, blocked the roads so everyone from the southeast, who had legitimate reasons to evacuate, were stuck. I rode out Rita and Ike.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 08, 2024 05:40 PM (lTGtQ)

298 Bill Nye! He's not even a scientist. My kids watched his show and for weeks they called each other Naked Mole Rats! because they saw it on BillNye the Science Guy.

Posted by: Megthered at October 08, 2024 05:44 PM (Mgb19)

299 On X I saw tweets about Tesla cars evacuating. No problem. The Supercharger stations are keeping up with the demand. Probably most of the cars just charged at home before evacuating.

Gas stations have terrible lines and are running out of gas.

With an EV you can't carry fuel in a jerry can so it's worse if you run out. I saw one tweet saying that Tesla has put some Megapacks on some trucks to drive to help in the disaster if power is lost, but I haven't seen a link or photo so I don't know if that's real.

Posted by: mr_jack at October 08, 2024 06:16 PM (5He9w)

300 They are already beginning test recipes of dogs and cats in the path of Milton

Posted by: Paul at October 08, 2024 06:18 PM (5Td0z)

301 We. Are. Watching. WEATHER MANIPULATION AT WORK. This is nothing less than the elimination of potential adversarial voters using weather manipulation technology. The USAF's own magazine ran an article titled 'Weather Manipulation: A Force Multiplier' (We Own The Weather By 2025).

NOTHING ABOUT THE RECENT STORMS IS ACCIDENTAL.

WHO were voters in the affected areas most likely to vote for? Sure as shit wasn't 'Deep Throat' ...

Posted by: Dr_No at October 08, 2024 06:29 PM (ayRl+)

302 292 He did a children's science program in Seattle in the 80's where he explained important subjects like centripetal force for 12 year olds. This is what his science background rests upon.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2024 05:27 PM (D7oie)

Bill Nye the Science Guy. It originated in Seattle but was on PBS all over the country. My generation practically worships him because of that show. They hang on his every word because they regard him as the secular high priest of science. It was a fun show, but good grief, fellow Millennials, he’s even less of a science guru than Fauci.

Posted by: Sorry Folks, My Last Nic Upset Everyone, the Moose Out Front Should've Told You at October 08, 2024 06:45 PM (7kSOl)

303 "Lay off the coke or you'll wind up an addict."
Posted by: ace at October

....

I feel like this would have been important information to share BEFORE the yacht rock revival.

Posted by: TexasDan at October 08, 2024 08:35 PM (ZeglN)

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