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Hurricane Ian Re-Energizes Over Ocean and Slams Into South Carolina Coast

It just made landfall again in South Carolina, now as a category 1 hurricane.

AccuWeather meteorologists warned that despite being rated lower on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale than when it slammed into Florida with deadly consequence, Ian will still pack a punch and unleash life-threatening impacts as it pushes inland into Friday night.

"Ian's structure is similar to that of a powerful nor'easter, with most of the storm's rain and wind focused to the north and west of the center," AccuWeather Hurricane Expert Dan Kottlowski said. "But, make no mistake, Ian will hit with the force of a hurricane in the Carolinas, especially along the upper half of the South Carolina coast."

It might not be as disastrous but it won't be any kind of fun for South Carolinians. Note they're predicting "extreme" storm damage between Charleston and Myrtle Beach, with 10-15 foot storm surges:

stormovercarolina.jpg

Keep yourselves dry and safe!

The storm's track will take it onto land, into West Virginia, which, at least, should finally kill it, because, well, the only thing I know about hurricanes is that they strengthen over water and weaken over land.

Not as much media coverage of this, partly because the storm isn't as powerful, but mostly because there's no future presidential candidate the traitorous propaganda Marxist Media is looking to destroy based in South Carolina.

The rescue efforts continue in battered Florida:

Prayers for Florida.

Posted by: Ace at 04:23 PM




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1 Frist.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 30, 2022 04:24 PM (yHsuS)

2 yes

Posted by: micky at September 30, 2022 04:24 PM (3byMq)

3 First.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 30, 2022 04:25 PM (5pTK/)

4 Woot, I got first even though I was 3rd!

Thanks, Flounder!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 30, 2022 04:25 PM (5pTK/)

5 The people I cannot work out are the ones who build homes on those sand bars off the coast, in the direct path of Hurricane after Hurricane. What kind of mindset do you have to have to do that?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:25 PM (Ivdso)

6 Enough already!

Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2022 04:25 PM (4h9M3)

7 Ace broke the blog.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 30, 2022 04:25 PM (bVYXr)

8
Is This Something...for next Mother's Day?

Forgotten 80's Mystery Crap:

https://youtu.be/RO6JiFztJdg?t=34

Posted by: Soothsayer'lc at September 30, 2022 04:26 PM (63j5j)

9 That storm surge footage is spooky.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 30, 2022 04:26 PM (yHsuS)

10 It passed over us. Well, the eye ended up going a couple dozen miles up coast, though they were predicting it to hit pretty much at my front door.

We're fine. We lost power briefly a couple of times. That's it.

All of Dolley's preparation for the end of the world up to an including filling the bathtub with water have been for naught.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

11 Xurricaine. It's, Xurricaine. Be Better.

Posted by: davidt at September 30, 2022 04:26 PM (oTZbj)

12 Now we can safely navigate on down to King Harv's and STOP. Damn, that picture is something to avoid casting one's eyes onto.

Posted by: micky at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (3byMq)

13 Forgotten 80's Mystery Crap

Middle backup singer is a cutie

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (Ivdso)

14 Wow.... tough days for the East Coast US Navy. Just about every major base got hit by this storm.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (oHd/0)

15 The people I cannot work out are the ones who build homes on those sand bars off the coast, in the direct path of Hurricane after Hurricane. What kind of mindset do you have to have to do that?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:25 PM (Ivdso)
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Honestly, that doesn't bother me. What bothers me is the refusal to evacuate when warned of an approaching storm. Well, that and the feds insuring homeowners who won't be able to find their house again without a surveyor.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (5pTK/)

16 All of Dolley's preparation for the end of the world up to an including filling the bathtub with water have been for naught.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

That's b/c she did them. If she hadn't, you'd probably have gotten screwed.

Murphy's Law - never doubt it!

Posted by: Nova local at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (exHjb)

17 I have a date tonight with a beautiful Asian gal named Fang Fang. Soooo Happy and excited.

Posted by: ADMIRAL LEVINE at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (z9V4B)

18 Who in their right mind would have stayed on Sanibel Island which is now completely cut off from the mainland? I feel bad for those people, but what the hell were they thinking?

Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (4h9M3)

19 All of Dolley's preparation for the end of the world up to an including filling the bathtub with water have been for naught.

Well better to have done it and not needed it than the opposite. She sounds like a keeper.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:28 PM (Ivdso)

20 This job sucks.

Posted by: FANG FANG THE CHINESE SPY at September 30, 2022 04:28 PM (z9V4B)

21 Just think of all that sweet, sweet wind power that Ian brought!

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2022 04:28 PM (VJsqe)

22 All of Dolley's preparation for the end of the world up to an including filling the bathtub with water have been for naught.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

Better to be a "boy scout" than not...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at September 30, 2022 04:29 PM (BgMrQ)

23 I hope it wipes those rebel MAGA coolers right off the face of the Earth.

Posted by: The Rick Wilson at September 30, 2022 04:29 PM (ZCool)

24 All of Dolley's preparation for the end of the world up to an including filling the bathtub with water have been for naught.

Well better to have done it and not needed it than the opposite. She sounds like a keeper.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:28 PM (Ivdso)
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My thoughts too.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 30, 2022 04:29 PM (5pTK/)

25 Prayers for all impacted by this Hurricane and please stop spouting the climate change crap... Obviously I'm not talking about anyone here.

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2022 04:29 PM (bs+z0)

26 17 I have a date tonight with a beautiful Asian gal named Fang Fang. Soooo Happy and excited.
Posted by: ADMIRAL LEVINE at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (z9V4B)

Eric Fartwell: "That lying yellow bitch! She said only my farts were for her nostrils."

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2022 04:29 PM (Rl7KJ)

27 That's b/c she did them. If she hadn't, you'd probably have gotten screwed.

Murphy's Law - never doubt it!
Posted by: Nova local at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (exHjb)

=========

Anything that can happen, will happen. Now, it's time to fly to another galaxy and find a new Earth orbiting a black hole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:29 PM (LvTSG)

28 If you look really closely at that satellite image, you can see a MA National Guardsman following right behind the hurricane and making sure Ron DeSantis isn't sending it to Boston.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 30, 2022 04:30 PM (wUHYj)

29 20 This job sucks.
Posted by: FANG FANG THE CHINESE SPY at September 30, 2022 04:28 PM (z9V4B)

What's the Chinese equivalent of "lie back and think of England"?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2022 04:30 PM (Rl7KJ)

30 Wow.... tough days for the East Coast US Navy. Just about every major base got hit by this storm.
Posted by: Romeo13

Now if only we could re-energize Ian and have it swing over DC...

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2022 04:30 PM (ftFVW)

31 Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Posted by: davidt at September 30, 2022 04:30 PM (oTZbj)

32 16 All of Dolley's preparation for the end of the world up to an including filling the bathtub with water have been for naught.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

That's b/c she did them. If she hadn't, you'd probably have gotten screwed.

Murphy's Law - never doubt it!
Posted by: Nova local at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (exHjb)

**Gazes at his expensive Generac generator that he hasn't really needed at all since putting it in five years ago**

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 30, 2022 04:30 PM (906pl)

33 man was buried under #HurricaneIan rubble at Fort Myers Beach. People pulled him out of the debris near The Whale restaurant on FMB.

He's alive.
I'm amazed
++++
As much of this as possible. Godspeed to those doing search and rescue right now!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2022 04:30 PM (t0OGg)

34 Whoa! That storm surge looked horrible. And bless that man's heart, being buried under the rubble like that.

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 30, 2022 04:30 PM (tQL7r)

35 That's b/c she did them. If she hadn't, you'd probably have gotten screwed.

Murphy's Law - never doubt it!
Posted by: Nova local at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (exHjb)
==

Or Alexander's Corollary; Murphy was an optimist.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 30, 2022 04:31 PM (u4CEu)

36 The storm's track will take it onto land, into West Virginia, which, at least, should finally kill it...
+++++
Dayum. That is pretty far west. The entire mid south is going to get a *lot* of rain this weekend. This has been one helluva system. Oy vey.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2022 04:31 PM (t0OGg)

37 18 Who in their right mind would have stayed on Sanibel Island which is now completely cut off from the mainland? I feel bad for those people, but what the hell were they thinking?

Posted by: Ziba
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People wanting to preserve their property is my guess. Plus, media hype that is unfounded breeds complacency.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2022 04:32 PM (CXr4y)

38 Hubby bought a mobile generator the other week
Here's hoping we never need it.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 30, 2022 04:32 PM (p/nbH)

39 Am I bad for wanting it to go out to sea, gain strength then have a run up the east coast?
Missing all the east coast morons of course.

Posted by: Bosk at September 30, 2022 04:32 PM (v4L7Y)

40
When will Hurricane Ian (he/him?) transition into a tropical storm?

Posted by: YIKES! at September 30, 2022 04:32 PM (t6XCL)

41 36 Dayum. That is pretty far west. The entire mid south is going to get a *lot* of rain this weekend. This has been one helluva system. Oy vey.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2022 04:31 PM (t0OGg)

=========

I had been praying for rain for my poor, dry lawn, but this was kind of overkill.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:33 PM (LvTSG)

42 All of Dolley's preparation for the end of the world up to an including filling the bathtub with water have been for naught.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

Better to be prepared and not need it. Still, I'm sure she's saddened by the loss of opportunity to "lose" that movie which shall remain unmentioned.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 04:33 PM (zhLdt)

43 Quick, someone tell Hillary Ian has dirt on her.

Posted by: Dr Spank at September 30, 2022 04:33 PM (TkdUX)

44 Hurricane footage just reinforces my natural inclination to prefer living high and dry. I hope the WEF cabal don't succeed in destroying modern infrastructure to the point where I am forced to live next to water because I have to haul it by hand. Of course that would assume I didn't die in one of the population purges for them to get there.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at September 30, 2022 04:33 PM (3cGpq)

45 Back in the day, the fleet would sortie out of Norfolk when a hurricane approached. Those were the days. riding out heavy seas on a DD.

Posted by: Archer at September 30, 2022 04:33 PM (gmo/4)

46 We're supposed to get clobbered by heavy rains tonight.

Posted by: JT at September 30, 2022 04:33 PM (T4tVD)

47 37 People wanting to preserve their property is my guess. Plus, media hype that is unfounded breeds complacency.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2022 04:32 PM (CXr4y)

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I was talking to a friend in the area earlier, and I told him that my complacency around hurricanes is going to get me killed one day.

Not today, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:33 PM (LvTSG)

48 People wanting to preserve their property is my guess. Plus, media hype that is unfounded breeds complacency.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2022 04:32 PM (CXr4y)

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Years ago I saw a black comedian saying nobody fears Hurricane Andrew or Hurricane Katrina. They're wimpy names. If you name the next one Hurricane Tyrone, you'll see people evacuate in a heartbeat.

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2022 04:34 PM (VJsqe)

49 42 Better to be prepared and not need it. Still, I'm sure she's saddened by the loss of opportunity to "lose" that movie which shall remain unmentioned.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 04:33 PM (zhLdt)

==========

She has told me that if we ever get divorced she's claiming half of my collection just to burn it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

50 Hubby bought a mobile generator the other week
Here's hoping we never need it.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 30, 2022 04:32 PM (p/nbH)

I bought one about 14 years ago. I've used it once, and I prepared to use it after a power outage once, but did not need it as the power came back on.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 30, 2022 04:34 PM (yHsuS)

51 That storm surge footage is amazing. Scary man.

Posted by: Minnfidel Where's Jackie? at September 30, 2022 04:35 PM (wZdQy)

52 We're supposed to get clobbered by heavy rains tonight.

In ETX we are going to be absolutely hammered with Chamber Of Commerce weather.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 30, 2022 04:35 PM (ceWUn)

53 Not good, hope it gets out of any area fast.
Miklos is in that area

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2022 04:35 PM (xhxe8)

54 The storm's track will take it onto land, into West Virginia, which, at least, should finally kill it, because


hurricane Ian is actually Hurricane Ian Hatfield.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at September 30, 2022 04:35 PM (UEL2X)

55 We had a blizzard here back around 2013 (?) where the winds gusted 75 to 80 mph. Killed thousands of cattle.


Posted by: Archer at September 30, 2022 04:36 PM (gmo/4)

56 Still, I'm sure she's saddened by the loss of opportunity to "lose" that movie which shall remain unmentioned.

"Honey, where's my Prometheus???"
"I dunno, I haven't seen it since the storm!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:37 PM (Ivdso)

57 Two times?

I wish I had Ian's stamina.

Posted by: Scoundrel what found the last refuge. at September 30, 2022 04:37 PM (tF/Gf)

58 What's the Chinese equivalent of "lie back and think of England"?
Posted by: Thrawn at September 30, 2022 04:30 PM

This really is a question for Sarah.

Posted by: Minnfidel Where's Jackie? at September 30, 2022 04:37 PM (wZdQy)

59 In ETX we are going to be absolutely hammered with Chamber Of Commerce weather.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 30, 2022 04:35 PM (ceWUn)
++++
What, pray tell, is "Chamber of Commerce weather?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2022 04:38 PM (t0OGg)

60 Dow and S&P back to October 2020. Let's go Brandon 💩

Posted by: Marcus T at September 30, 2022 04:38 PM (mSy8I)

61 Charleston weather is rapidly clearing.

Some folks have no power, and of course the historic city has flooded.

Friends in Myrtle Beach are without power, but even there the rain has stopped, and wind is decreasing quickly.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Challenger Survivor at September 30, 2022 04:38 PM (uLr+K)

62 what the hell were they thinking?
Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (4h9M3)

It's really really hard to just walk away from everything you own and leave it to the storm.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 30, 2022 04:38 PM (MkuC5)

63 Been raining since 1am here in Johnston Co. NC. Have a tornado watch until 10pm. We expecting up to 6 inches of rain.

Posted by: Quilters Irish Death at September 30, 2022 04:38 PM (OgrpQ)

64 >>People wanting to preserve their property is my guess. Plus, media hype that is unfounded breeds complacency.


Happens every single storm, you even hear people saying it here. Yes, the media definitely overhypes storms but meteorologists have gotten pretty good at predicting hurricanes over the last couple decades and if they say a Cat 3+ is possible and you are in a low lying area then leave.

You aren't protecting squat from a 4+ foot storm surge.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2022 04:38 PM (ZLI7S)

65 >>> Two times?
I wish I had Ian's stamina.

Wow. Two times. I haven't had the stuff to jerk off twice in one night since sophomore year.

Posted by: Guy Who's Pretty Much Reduced His Expectations to Zero at September 30, 2022 04:38 PM (B3oWe)

66 >>>That storm surge footage is spooky.

>You can pay more tax dollars to the Democrat party and they will end this climate change nonsense by spending more money, and legislating more laws to save the earth.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 30, 2022 04:38 PM (z+OQR)

67 Those rescuers did a nice job of transporting the victim to a safer location and covering him to reduce shock was another excellent thing to do.

I have search and rescue and emergency medical training and someone in that group must have too.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 30, 2022 04:38 PM (3p4cr)

68 We had a blizzard here back around 2013 (?) where the winds gusted 75 to 80 mph. Killed thousands of cattle.


Posted by: Archer at September 30, 2022 04:36 PM

It happens frequently here. Their noses plug up with snow and or ice combo and they suffocate.

Posted by: Minnfidel Where's Jackie? at September 30, 2022 04:39 PM (wZdQy)

69 Years ago I saw a black comedian saying nobody fears Hurricane Andrew or Hurricane Katrina. They're wimpy names.

Hurricane Ian? Ian? The nice British guy who drives a Mini Cooper? That can't be dangerous.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:39 PM (Ivdso)

70 61 Charleston weather is rapidly clearing.

Some folks have no power, and of course the historic city has flooded.

Friends in Myrtle Beach are without power, but even there the rain has stopped, and wind is decreasing quickly.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Challenger Survivor at September 30, 2022 04:38 PM (uLr+K)

=========

Junior's karate class tonight is still canceled, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

71 When you build by the ocean it is a matter of when the ocean will take your building, not if the ocean will take your building.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 30, 2022 04:39 PM (eJn7u)

72 Probably should at least go up on roof and blow gutters out with leaf blower

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2022 04:40 PM (xhxe8)

73 What's the Chinese equivalent of "lie back and think of England"?
Posted by: Thrawn

"Me torelate you rong time?"

Posted by: mikeski denounces himself at September 30, 2022 04:40 PM (P1f+c)

74 Junior's karate class tonight is still canceled, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

Good time for some father/son sparring

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 30, 2022 04:41 PM (XvPQV)

75 74 Junior's karate class tonight is still canceled, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

Good time for some father/son sparring
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 30, 2022 04:41 PM (XvPQV)

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I've always wanted to recreate that Seinfeld episode where Kramer learned karate...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:42 PM (LvTSG)

76 https://tinyurl.com/53jkk28m

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:42 PM (LvTSG)

77 When you build by the ocean it is a matter of when the ocean will take your building, not if the ocean will take your building.

It's like building in a forest.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2022 04:42 PM (I2/tG)

78 Looks like there are going to be a lot of Tetanus shots needed.

Posted by: pawn at September 30, 2022 04:43 PM (kYVzH)

79 "Junior's karate class tonight is still canceled, though."

You guys make out ok on the other side of the bridge?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Challenger Survivor at September 30, 2022 04:43 PM (uLr+K)

80 Double shot of Ian's love.

Posted by: The Swinging Medallions at September 30, 2022 04:43 PM (4I/2K)

81 It happens frequently here. Their noses plug up with snow and or ice combo and they suffocate.
Posted by: Minnfidel Where's Jackie? at September 30, 2022 04:39 PM (wZdQy)

8n the inter mountain west, during bad winter snow storms deer and antelope take refuge in gullies and draws. It is not uncommon for them to be buried alive.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 30, 2022 04:43 PM (3p4cr)

82 Charleston always floods. Any rainstorm and it floods downtown. But that is worse than normal.

West of the Ashley River almost nothing bad except some tree limbs down. Minor flooding. Nothing like what happened in Florida.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at September 30, 2022 04:44 PM (dXuZm)

83 79 "Junior's karate class tonight is still canceled, though."

You guys make out ok on the other side of the bridge?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Challenger Survivor at September 30, 2022 04:43 PM (uLr+K)

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Leaves everywhere!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

84 Hurricane Ian? Ian? The nice British guy who drives a Mini Cooper? That can't be dangerous.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:39 PM

I am dangerous. I bring chaos. And not just a theory.

Posted by: Hurricane Ian Malcolm at September 30, 2022 04:44 PM (Do5/p)

85 Plus, media hype that is unfounded breeds complacency.
Posted by: whig

////

This ^^^^

Before Hurricane Matthew hit Florida, and when my #1 son and family lived in Melbourne....every 15 mins the Weather Channel was saying that Melbourne would be uninhabitable for weeks, if not months. Plus all their other usual gloom and doom.

Turns out Melbourne only had high winds, rain, and most folks didn't even lose power. 🙄

Posted by: Prime Sister at September 30, 2022 04:45 PM (tQL7r)

86 Dow will close within 200 basis points of the 16 Trump inauguration. Biden has squandered a remarkable piece of business.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindacatorem at September 30, 2022 04:45 PM (Ng9El)

87
Treat your mother right!

Especially during a hurricane!

FOOL!

Posted by: MR T at September 30, 2022 04:45 PM (63j5j)

88 Would one of you kid young people help refresh my AoS posting fu and link to the markup page if it still exists (if it ever did is my problem).

Ty

Posted by: Scoundrel what found the last refuge at September 30, 2022 04:45 PM (tF/Gf)

89

Enough jibber-jabber, fools!

Posted by: MR T at September 30, 2022 04:45 PM (63j5j)

90 Wow.... tough days for the East Coast US Navy. Just about every major base got hit by this storm.

...

I was still working on stuff from Irma at the key west bases early last year.

Posted by: TexasDan at September 30, 2022 04:46 PM (JMPQm)

91 "Leaves everywhere!"

The horror!

Friends of ours up toward Monks Corner said the same thing.
Leaves all over the place.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Challenger Survivor at September 30, 2022 04:46 PM (uLr+K)

92 Hurricane name,
Fuck You Joe.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at September 30, 2022 04:47 PM (ehJ5Z)

93 I was talking to a friend in the area earlier, and I told him that my complacency around hurricanes is going to get me killed one day.

Not today, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Thats me and tornados. I stand in the yard and watch em. Have since I was a kid. Have never felt the need to use my storm shelters.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 30, 2022 04:47 PM (MGB5H)

94 Dear Lord, those videos are terrifying. Prayers for those hit by this hurricane.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at September 30, 2022 04:47 PM (xPJvm)

95 91 "Leaves everywhere!"

The horror!

Friends of ours up toward Monks Corner said the same thing.
Leaves all over the place.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Challenger Survivor at September 30, 2022 04:46 PM (uLr+K)

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I'm reminded of some hurricane that came through about six years ago. One friend posted on a work chat a picture of a child's plastic chair on its side with the text, "We will rebuild."

That's how I've felt about every hurricane that's come through Charleston since I've moved here. Not to diminish the actual damage that happened in Florida, but SC seems lucky when it comes to hurricanes since Hugo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:48 PM (LvTSG)

96
When do you reckon will be a "buying" opportunity for wall street stocks?

Now, or wait until it goes lower?

28K? 29K?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at September 30, 2022 04:48 PM (63j5j)

97 From the last thread. Why were the damm fbi doing an undercover op on that pair of freaks? Anyone have a clue?

Posted by: NZ Frank with an M2 at September 30, 2022 04:48 PM (xodHL)

98 Your feeble preps are no match for the power of the Iancane!

Posted by: Ian McDiarmid at September 30, 2022 04:48 PM (4I/2K)

99 Melbourne is pretty high up plus they have a substantial barrier island. Storm surge is not a big issue there although there could easily be some flooding.

Posted by: pawn at September 30, 2022 04:48 PM (kYVzH)

100 Sept 2022: TJM decides to recreate Seinfeld Kramer karate with sons.

Sept 2032: Kids decide TJM needs to be reminded of karate episode.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 30, 2022 04:49 PM (5pTK/)

101 Huh. It looks like there's a possibility that Saturday Night Love might be shutting down. A bunch of cast members bailed right before the premier. A cast member claimed that the show is probably going to die. I mean its cheap to produce and there's not much else to put in that time slot but...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:49 PM (Ivdso)

102 That's how I've felt about every hurricane that's come through Charleston since I've moved here. Not to diminish the actual damage that happened in Florida, but SC seems lucky when it comes to hurricanes since Hugo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:48 PM (LvTSG)

Mrs. CZ was there during Hugo. Right. There.

It left an impression.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 30, 2022 04:49 PM (MkuC5)

103 Construction workers are going to be really busy for a long time.
Supplies are going to be backlogged.
A couple of friends put in pools this year and it took 5-6 months. It normally takes 1 mo.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2022 04:50 PM (NpAcC)

104 "West of the Ashley River almost nothing bad except some tree limbs down. Minor flooding. "

I lived off of Orange Grove Rd right on the marsh when Hugo hit.

Bad stuff.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Challenger Survivor at September 30, 2022 04:50 PM (uLr+K)

105 there's not much else to put in that time slot but...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:49 PM (Ivdso)

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RIP Billy Mays

Posted by: 496 at September 30, 2022 04:50 PM (VJsqe)

106 Sister928 has texted that she has no flooding or damage at her house on Fripp Island SC which is between Savannah and Charleston. The worst of the storm must have passed north of there.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 30, 2022 04:51 PM (C35Jn)

107 From the last thread. Why were the damm fbi doing an undercover op on that pair of freaks? Anyone have a clue?
Posted by: NZ Frank with an M2 at September 30, 2022 04:48 PM (xodHL)
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The FBI busted the couple because, while the couple is a pair freaks, swinging was a bridge too far?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 30, 2022 04:51 PM (5pTK/)

108 What, pray tell, is "Chamber of Commerce weather?"

When the weather is so absolutely perfect the Chamber of Commerce takes photos of the blue skies and invites outsiders to see how wonderful relocating to the area would be.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 30, 2022 04:51 PM (ceWUn)

109 Hurricane Mathew beat the shit out of inland North Carolina. I believe the storm stalled and kept dumping water. I showed up 3 weeks later during a Red Cross deployment and the destruction was unbelievable but also only in pockets. One subdivision would be destroyed and the ones on either side just had lost roof shingles.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 30, 2022 04:51 PM (3p4cr)

110 TJM just thank your wife for drawing your bath.

Maybe ask for a sammich

Posted by: TexasDan at September 30, 2022 04:51 PM (JMPQm)

111 From the last thread. Why were the damm fbi doing an undercover op on that pair of freaks? Anyone have a clue?
Posted by: NZ Frank with an M2 at September 30, 2022 04:48 PM (xodHL)

From what I gather the Anesthesiologist is touched in the head and contacted the Russian Embassy directly and maybe in person. It would be surprising if they didn't pop up immediately at the NSA.

Posted by: Scoundrel what found the last refuge at September 30, 2022 04:52 PM (tF/Gf)

112 Huh. It looks like there's a possibility that Saturday Night Love might be shutting down. A bunch of cast members bailed right before the premier. A cast member claimed that the show is probably going to die. I mean its cheap to produce and there's not much else to put in that time slot but...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:49 PM (Ivdso)
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That shows just how unfunny Leftism really is. When your entire schtick is about how awesome Leftism is and how awful conservatives are, it gets old very quickly. Surprised it's lasted this long...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2022 04:52 PM (YIVH2)

113 Apparently Putin Speech earlier today:
- 4 Eastern Ukraine/Donbass oblasts formally into Russian Federation.
- Trashes Globo/Homo
- Russians want 1 mother/1father, not parent 1/parent2
- Rails against sexual deviancy brainwashing of children
- "The suppression of moral values acquires the features of Satanism."

https://youtu.be/yIuN6v_cmNM

Trying to find a transcript/translation.

I wonder if he has a newsletter.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 30, 2022 04:52 PM (yHsuS)

114 Saturday Night Dead?

Posted by: Tomorrow's headlines at September 30, 2022 04:52 PM (sn5EN)

115 Sister928 has texted that she has no flooding or damage at her house on Fripp Island SC which is between Savannah and Charleston. The worst of the storm must have passed north of there.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 30, 2022 04:51 PM

Looks like Pawley's Island and Georgetown got the brunt of it. Also, Fripp is swanky, lol. Briefly dated a girl whose family had a house there.

Posted by: Bert G at September 30, 2022 04:53 PM (aCgRi)

116 Huh. It looks like there's a possibility that Saturday Night Love might be shutting down. A bunch of cast members bailed right before the premier. A cast member claimed that the show is probably going to die. I mean its cheap to produce and there's not much else to put in that time slot but...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:49 PM (Ivdso)

Why did they all bail right before premier?

Posted by: JoeF. at September 30, 2022 04:53 PM (mR6Gs)

117 From the last thread. Why were the damm fbi doing an undercover op on that pair of freaks? Anyone have a clue?

I'm thinking a lovers quarrel between that pervert and one of the FBI agents. This is simple retaliation.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 30, 2022 04:53 PM (ceWUn)

118 Wet leaves.

I drove a car after a hurricane in Brevard and my car actually slid down a small hill like it was covered in ice.

Posted by: pawn at September 30, 2022 04:53 PM (kYVzH)

119 I supposed to get land in Ohio for next gig with grey haired man in dress....but bad smell make me think it not worth it.

Posted by: FANG FANG THE CHINESE SPY at September 30, 2022 04:53 PM (z9V4B)

120 Back in the day, the fleet would sortie out of Norfolk when a hurricane approached. Those were the days. riding out heavy seas on a DD.

Posted by: Archer at September 30, 2022 04:33 PM (gmo/4)

I remember riding out Typhoons (west coast sailor) on the submarine. The gentle, almost imperceptible rocking replaced every 6 hours by violent thrashing as we had to come to periscope depth to receive traffic.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 04:53 PM (zhLdt)

121 Huh. It looks like there's a possibility that Saturday Night Love might be shutting down. A bunch of cast members bailed right before the premier. A cast member claimed that the show is probably going to die. I mean its cheap to produce and there's not much else to put in that time slot but...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:49 PM (Ivdso)

That's a shame.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2022 04:53 PM (4I/2K)

122 114 Saturday Night Dead?
Posted by: Tomorrow's headlines at September 30, 2022 04:52 PM (sn5EN)

Good.. and take the hags from the View with it

Posted by: It's me donna at September 30, 2022 04:54 PM (bs+z0)

123 Trying to find a transcript/translation.

I wonder if he has a newsletter.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 30, 2022 04:52 PM (yHsuS)
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Hmm, historically, Russian Czars saw themselves as defenders of Christianity. Interesting.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 30, 2022 04:54 PM (5pTK/)

124 I remember riding out Typhoons (west coast sailor) on the submarine. The gentle, almost imperceptible rocking replaced every 6 hours by violent thrashing as we had to come to periscope depth to receive traffic.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 04:53 PM (zhLdt)

We got sucked up to the surface in estimated 100 foot swells one time and bobbed around a bit. That'll make you pucker.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 30, 2022 04:54 PM (yHsuS)

125 >>> 10 It passed over us. Well, the eye ended up going a couple dozen miles up coast, though they were predicting it to hit pretty much at my front door.

We're fine. We lost power briefly a couple of times. That's it.

All of Dolley's preparation for the end of the world up to an including filling the bathtub with water have been for naught.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

Eh, better to do things before you need them even if you end up not needing them, than having to do them when you *really* need to and it's dark and rainy and such.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2022 04:55 PM (llON8)

126 I am inland. It has been pretty windy the last couple of hours. The last 30 minutes the worst. Hopefully almost done.

Posted by: Quirky bookworm at September 30, 2022 04:55 PM (gBvlU)

127 Apparently Putin Speech earlier today:
- 4 Eastern Ukraine/Donbass oblasts formally into Russian Federation.
- Trashes Globo/Homo
- Russians want 1 mother/1father, not parent 1/parent2
- Rails against sexual deviancy brainwashing of children
- "The suppression of moral values acquires the features of Satanism."


Problem with this is that this makes the Left DOUBLE down on their madness and accuse those of us who don't agree to be Putin's stooges.....just like Trump.

Posted by: JoeF. at September 30, 2022 04:55 PM (mR6Gs)

128 When your entire schtick is about how awesome Leftism is and how awful conservatives are, it gets old very quickly.

I mean, its almost all about Trump and who even cares at this point?

I forgot the link

https://tinyurl.com/47nf6mnu

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:55 PM (Ivdso)

129
There are a series of oceanside web cams available for viewing on the surfchex.com link.

This is Cape Hatteras -- https://www.surfchex.com/cams/hatteras-web-cam/

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2022 04:55 PM (pNxlR)

130 "I'm thinking a lovers quarrel between that pervert and one of the FBI agents"

So a spat between a prevert and a prevert?

Posted by: Bosk at September 30, 2022 04:56 PM (v4L7Y)

131 Ah. Thanks very much.

Posted by: NZ Frank with an M2 at September 30, 2022 04:56 PM (xodHL)

132 Looks like my aunt and uncle in NC are going to get hit (again). Hopefully my mom can get ahold of them in the next few days to make sure they're okay.

Posted by: pookysgirl, now praying for Caorilnas Morons too at September 30, 2022 04:56 PM (XKZwp)

133 Kinda disappointed the hurricane went back onto land in SC, rather than the delmarva peninsula.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2022 04:56 PM (llON8)

134 101 Huh. It looks like there's a possibility that Saturday Night Love might be shutting down. A bunch of cast members bailed right before the premier. A cast member claimed that the show is probably going to die. I mean its cheap to produce and there's not much else to put in that time slot but...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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That show has been dead creatively for a very long time even before wokeism drove a stake through its heart.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2022 04:56 PM (CXr4y)

135 I mentioned often during 2017-2020 that it was sad that the leftards had no sense of humor. Trump was such a rich source of skit material if they would have simply parodied his talking hands and bigly, big league, way of speaking and so on. But they couldn't just do parody of his over the top style because they hated him so much. Or more accurately hated me and other deplorables for having the insolence to elect him.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at September 30, 2022 04:56 PM (3cGpq)

136 "Honey, where's my Prometheus???"
"I dunno, I haven't seen it since the storm!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:37 PM (Ivdso)

We work real hard 'round these parts to keep threads Prometheus-free and then you go and say something like that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 04:56 PM (zhLdt)

137 Problem with this is that this makes the Left DOUBLE down on their madness and accuse those of us who don't agree to be Putin's stooges.....just like Trump.

Posted by: JoeF. at September 30, 2022 04:55 PM (mR6Gs)

They do that regardless.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 30, 2022 04:56 PM (yHsuS)

138 It's pretty cool that there are so many bubbleheads in the Horde.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at September 30, 2022 04:57 PM (xPJvm)

139 Why did they all bail right before premier?

The article doesn't say, they had an unusually gigantic cast the last couple years (they claim it had to do with Wuhan Flu, somehow) so maybe just cutting back but...

I do not recognize a single name in the cast. None of them. I don't know their faces or who they are. I haven't seen a funny skit clip from them since the one they did where a scientist made a dog able to talk and it was a huge Trump supporter. In like, 2017.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 04:58 PM (Ivdso)

140 Noah Rothman in Commentary, denouncing Darth Putin:

Even if everyone’s unconventional ordnance remains blessedly inert, however, Putin’s annexation play has already crossed a historic red line. Yoking a neighboring population and subsuming its territory into your own by force reestablishes the legitimacy of conduct that was properly anathematized by the wars of the 20th century.

Now do East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, Noah.

I supported Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, so I'm not going to pretend that annexation is some unspeakable war crime.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2022 04:58 PM (I2/tG)

141 122 114 Saturday Night Dead?
Posted by: Tomorrow's headlines at September 30, 2022 04:52 PM (sn5EN)

Good.. and take the hags from the View with it
Posted by: It's me donna

With Alec Baldwin guest appearing to apply the coup de grace.

Posted by: Rex B at September 30, 2022 04:58 PM (WtkHN)

142 >>> 111 From the last thread. Why were the damm fbi doing an undercover op on that pair of freaks? Anyone have a clue?
Posted by: NZ Frank with an M2 at September 30, 2022 04:48 PM (xodHL)

From what I gather the Anesthesiologist is touched in the head and contacted the Russian Embassy directly and maybe in person. It would be surprising if they didn't pop up immediately at the NSA.
Posted by: Scoundrel what found the last refuge at September 30, 2022 04:52 PM (tF/Gf)

So KEEEV outranks gays / trannies on the hierarchy currently?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2022 04:58 PM (llON8)

143 The Rob Schneider curse is real, isn't it?

Posted by: micky at September 30, 2022 04:59 PM (3byMq)

144 It's like building in a forest.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2022 04:42 PM (I2/tG)

Eventually some Ent will get drunk and knock it down?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 04:59 PM (zhLdt)

145 as bad as that.."This what 15ft of storm surge looks like" video is...in fact it looks more like 8-10ft.(nearby water gauge sez 6.8ft)
Max GUSTS ended up at 124mph at only a single location, max GUSTS were around 110 at all of the others. sooo...actual cat 2-cat 3 on saffir scale.(which measure max sustained...not gusts) Friend of my dads was over last night, he's now searching for a replacement car, his '03 lexus got wet on Saninbal, no hurry because until they replace the causeway...no way in or out..

Posted by: birddog at September 30, 2022 05:00 PM (uAI4S)

146 She has told me that if we ever get divorced she's claiming half of my collection just to burn it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

^^Now that's funny!

Posted by: Iris at September 30, 2022 05:00 PM (foa6+)

147 Trump was such a rich source of skit material if they would have simply parodied his talking hands and bigly, big league, way of speaking and so on. But they couldn't just do parody of his over the top style because they hated him so much.

I agree completely. He was a huge target for mockery and satire, but here's the thing. If you want to do good satire and poke fun at something, then you have to like it at least a little. If all you have is hate for the target, then that's all you'll put out there.

Dana Carvey's George Bush was partly so funny and effective because he liked George Bush. Blazing Saddles is so effective because Mel Brooks liked westerns. These guys have nothing but hate for their targets so it ends up bitter, nasty, and not funny.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 05:00 PM (Ivdso)

148 Problem with this is that this makes the Left DOUBLE down on their madness and accuse those of us who don't agree to be Putin's stooges.....just like Trump.

They probably imagine that the Evangelicals will adopt Alexander Alexandrov's score to Gosudarstvenny gimn SSSR and sing that to some contemporized Psalm.

(though that would be cool to see how the modern Praise Team would jam to that during the so-called worship service)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 30, 2022 05:01 PM (ceWUn)

149 140 Now do East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, Noah.

I supported Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, so I'm not going to pretend that annexation is some unspeakable war crime.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2022 04:58 PM (I2/tG)

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It feels like the historic norm. Right of conquest was kind of how things worked for a long time. Then WWII came along and everyone decided afterwards that it was bad and that borders on maps should never change again.

I've got it! It's Big Atlas behind everything!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 05:01 PM (LvTSG)

150 Looks like Pawley's Island and Georgetown got the brunt of it.


I predict a run on hammocks.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 30, 2022 05:01 PM (C35Jn)

151 >>>That storm surge footage is spooky.

>You can pay more tax dollars to the Democrat party and they will end this climate change nonsense by spending more money, and legislating more laws to save the earth.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 30, 2022 04:38 PM (z+OQR)

And as a bonus, you will no longer have the tech to escape the storm inland in your eco car that can't go more that 100 miles unloaded.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2022 05:01 PM (eoQWY)

152 "I remember riding out Typhoons (west coast sailor) on the submarine."

I remember Hugo, when one of our Fast Attacks couldn't sortee out of Charleston.

They pretty much just sat on the bottom of the Cooper river pier side.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Challenger Survivor at September 30, 2022 05:01 PM (uLr+K)

153 My sister in S.C. sent me a picture of the Pawleys Island pier, said there goes the pier out to sea. Again. I fished off that pier and snorkeled under it as a little kid every summer.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2022 05:01 PM (/RDPd)

154 Eventually some Ent will get drunk and knock it down?

Trees eventually do one of two things: fall down or catch fire.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2022 05:02 PM (I2/tG)

155 Prayers for Florida.

Put some ice on that, South Carolina.

Posted by: media at September 30, 2022 05:02 PM (+R5dc)

156 I supported Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, so I'm not going to pretend that annexation is some unspeakable war crime.

Well I mean... its their land, and was for like 1100 years, its difficult to argue that's a hideous crime against humanity then claim Indians should be able to take back land from the white settlers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 05:02 PM (Ivdso)

157 Satellite imagery of Ian is impressive. Cloud cover from the Hurricane/Tropical Storm covers all of SC, VA, WV, MD, NJ, DE and most of NC, PA and NY.

The rain bands are mostly in NC and SC right now.

We're trying to find out if my wife's sister's family who live somewhere around Charleston, SC are safe. They're not too bright when it comes to preparedness.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2022 05:02 PM (BFigT)

158 From the last thread. Why were the damm fbi doing an undercover op on that pair of freaks? Anyone have a clue?
Posted by: NZ Frank with an M2 at September 30, 2022 04:48 PM (xodHL)

When they come out and say that Trump told them to do it you'll have your answer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 05:02 PM (zhLdt)

159 I've got it! It's Big Atlas behind everything!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Wouldn't Big Atlas push for constantly changing orders and renaming of countries/regions?

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 30, 2022 05:02 PM (MGB5H)

160
"Honey, where's my ________???"
"I dunno, I haven't seen it since the basement flooded!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

... a common conversation around this household about twenty years ago.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2022 05:03 PM (pNxlR)

161 With Alec Baldwin guest appearing to apply the coup de grace.

Someone would actually trust him with a loaded firearm?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 30, 2022 05:03 PM (ceWUn)

162 it ends up bitter, nasty, and not funny.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 05:00 PM (Ivdso)

It got bitter, nasty and not funny 30 years ago.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (MkuC5)

163 That shows just how unfunny Leftism really is. When your entire schtick is about how awesome Leftism is and how awful conservatives are, it gets old very quickly. Surprised it's lasted this long...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2022 04:52 PM (YIVH2)

Inertia. Plus there were a couple dozen bot accounts on Twitter that said it was great.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (zhLdt)

164 Trees eventually do one of two things: fall down or catch fire.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2022 05:02 PM (I2/tG)
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We try our best to make them do both at once!

Posted by: Orcs of Isengard at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (YIVH2)

165 All of Dolley's preparation for the end of the world up to an including filling the bathtub with water have been for naught.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

Eh, better to do things before you need them even if you end up not needing them, than having to do them when you *really* need to and it's dark and rainy and such.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2022 04:55 PM (llON

You can always drink from the bathtub for the next few days so you don't feel cheated.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (eoQWY)

166 159 I've got it! It's Big Atlas behind everything!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Wouldn't Big Atlas push for constantly changing orders and renaming of countries/regions?
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 30, 2022 05:02 PM (MGB5H)

==========

Big Atlas has become lazy like all bureaucracies regarding their core mission. Maps shouldn't change so they can dedicate all of their resources to DEI.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (LvTSG)

167
Not good, hope it gets out of any area fast.
Miklos is in that area
Posted by: Skip

vic, too, up near Sumner

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (pNxlR)

168 I heard something to the effect that more I-names have been retired for these things than any other letter of the alphabet. Funny how that works.

Posted by: Chevalier d'Eon at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (OUMaO)

169 It feels like the historic norm. Right of conquest was kind of how things worked for a long time.

After hundreds of years of religious wars and brutality, everyone in Europe got together and said "look this sucks and is not helping anyone, let's just agree that its wrong to invade other countries just because you don't like how they do things". Almost all of our ideas of just war, international law, and the existence of national boundaries came from this time period and it was much much better after that for a while.

Now everyone wants to ball that up and throw it away, going back to the VERY bad old days. And yes, I blame the War on Terror for being part of that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (Ivdso)

170
Sumter

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (pNxlR)

171 I've got it! It's Big Atlas behind everything!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Wouldn't Big Atlas push for constantly changing orders and renaming of countries/regions?

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 30, 2022 05:02 PM (MGB5H)

That's what Big Atlas would want you to think.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 30, 2022 05:05 PM (yHsuS)

172 Sigh. I miss the days when you could talk about the weather without it becoming political.

A couple of summer ago, I greeted someone on the bike trail. We both agreed it was hot (mid-day, July, cloudless). Then he starts in on global warming. Ugh.

Posted by: Emmie at September 30, 2022 05:05 PM (6RgRK)

173 Kinda disappointed the hurricane went back onto land in SC, rather than the delmarva peninsula.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2022 04:56 PM (llON

--------

When I told the wifey yesterday that Ian have you merged back over the Atlantic and now was heading northwest, she looked at me hopefully and half-jokingly asked "Toward Martha's Vineyard?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at September 30, 2022 05:06 PM (4MPwq)

174 Big Atlas has become lazy like all bureaucracies regarding their core mission. Maps shouldn't change so they can dedicate all of their resources to DEI.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Alas, it comes for us all eventually...

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 30, 2022 05:06 PM (MGB5H)

175 A couple of summer ago, I greeted someone on the bike trail. We both agreed it was hot (mid-day, July, cloudless). Then he starts in on global warming. Ugh.
Posted by: Emmie at September 30, 2022 05:05 PM

I love running into those types when it's 30 below.

Posted by: Minnfidel Where's Jackie? at September 30, 2022 05:06 PM (wZdQy)

176 Now do East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, Noah.

I supported Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, so I'm not going to pretend that annexation is some unspeakable war crime.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 30, 2022 04:58 PM (I2/tG)

Tibet has entered the chat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 05:07 PM (zhLdt)

177
That shows just how unfunny Leftism really is. When your entire schtick is about how awesome Leftism is and how awful conservatives are, it gets old very quickly. Surprised it's lasted this long...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2022 04:52 PM (YIVH2)

Inertia. Plus there were a couple dozen bot accounts on Twitter that said it was great.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland

I have live and brain dead in-laws who did their part in that respect

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2022 05:07 PM (pNxlR)

178 Hmm, historically, Russian Czars saw themselves as defenders of Christianity. Interesting.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 30, 2022 04:54 PM (5pTK/)

Same thing with every country's royalty. The Czars may have had a better case by bordering Muslims to the South and non-Christians to the east.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2022 05:07 PM (eoQWY)

179 When I told the wifey yesterday that Ian have you merged back over the Atlantic and now was heading northwest, she looked at me hopefully and half-jokingly asked "Toward Martha's Vineyard?"
Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at September 30, 2022 05:06 PM

Good thing the all are welcome here crowd got all those icky brown people to safety! See, they do care!

Posted by: Minnfidel Where's Jackie? at September 30, 2022 05:08 PM (wZdQy)

180 After hundreds of years of religious wars and brutality, everyone in Europe got together and said "look this sucks and is not helping anyone, let's just agree that its wrong to invade other countries just because you don't like how they do things". Almost all of our ideas of just war, international law, and the existence of national boundaries came from this time period and it was much much better after that for a while.

I very strongly recommend reading "Victory of Reason".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 30, 2022 05:08 PM (ceWUn)

181 Sumter
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (pNxlR)

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Sumter? I hardly even know her!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 30, 2022 05:09 PM (u73oe)

182 That shows just how unfunny Leftism really is. When your entire schtick is about how awesome Leftism is and how awful conservatives are, it gets old very quickly. Surprised it's lasted this long...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2022 04:52 PM (YIVH2)
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Maybe the cast was trying to make the ever so slightest fun of the Left and Micheals said "F*ck off you MAGA Russian spys. You're fired."

Posted by: WisRich at September 30, 2022 05:09 PM (G0vdT)

183 Same thing with every country's royalty. The Czars may have had a better case by bordering Muslims to the South and non-Christians to the east.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2022 05:07 PM (eoQWY)
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Well, I just saw it as another data point indicating Putin sees himself as a Czar.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 30, 2022 05:09 PM (5pTK/)

184 Sustained 20+ mph and rain here in piedmont NC. Around 35 mph tonight. 3 - 4 inches of rain.

Posted by: mrp at September 30, 2022 05:09 PM (6eRlp)

185 The west coast would love to have a rain drenching storm . Story of Mother Nature. You always get too much of what you don't need and never enough of what you really need.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2022 05:10 PM (lKM6R)

186 I remember Hugo, when one of our Fast Attacks couldn't sortee out of Charleston.

They pretty much just sat on the bottom of the Cooper river pier side.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Challenger Survivor at September 30, 2022 05:01 PM (uLr+K)

We were stuck pier-side for one in Guam because we were doing some work on the engineering plant and couldn't start the reactor. We fired up the diesel, removed shore power, tied up with steel cables rather than rope, submerged as much as we could to reduce sail area and rode it out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 05:10 PM (zhLdt)

187 A couple of summer ago, I greeted someone on the bike trail. We both agreed it was hot (mid-day, July, cloudless). Then he starts in on global warming. Ugh.

That 0.2 degrees of warming in the past thirty years sure make a huge difference from downright pleasant to Hell On Earth.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 30, 2022 05:11 PM (ceWUn)

188 The west coast would love to have a rain drenching storm . Story of Mother Nature. You always get too much of what you don't need and never enough of what you really need.
Posted by: polynikes at

There's got to be a fartwell/fang fang/pegging joke in there somewhere. I just dont want to look for it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 30, 2022 05:11 PM (MGB5H)

189 Here in upstate SC (eastern Greenville county) this is probably the worst we'll see. Gusts to 15 mph, less than 2" of rain, in my estimate. I've spent the entire day on the back porch.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 30, 2022 05:11 PM (Mzdiz)

190 I'm guessing someone at SNL did not want to ridicule Biden.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2022 05:11 PM (sn5EN)

191 169 It feels like the historic norm. Right of conquest was kind of how things worked for a long time.
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The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 instituted the era of the nation state. Arguably, it ended petty wars in favor of very large ones but also instituted the idea that wars must be waged to minimize effects on the citizenry rather than accentuating them. It is a peculiarly Western notion from a particular time and place (Age of Reason).

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2022 05:13 PM (CXr4y)

192 I'm guessing someone at SNL did not want to ridicule Biden.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2022 05:11 PM

That would require SNL to actually be, you know, funny.

Posted by: Minnfidel Where's Jackie? at September 30, 2022 05:13 PM (wZdQy)

193 Now everyone wants to ball that up and throw it away, going back to the VERY bad old days. And yes, I blame the War on Terror for being part of that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (Ivdso)

I can see that. If we'd attacked a country in retaliation and then left it would have been one thing but, no, we had to "fix" them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 05:13 PM (zhLdt)

194 Here in upstate SC (eastern Greenville county) this is probably the worst we'll see. Gusts to 15 mph, less than 2" of rain, in my estimate. I've spent the entire day on the back porch.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Weren't you two settled in Ohio some months ago?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2022 05:13 PM (pNxlR)

195 You can always drink from the bathtub for the next few days so you don't feel cheated.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (eoQWY)

Might I suggest the Powder Room Toilet...quite the delicate aroma, light aftertaste.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at September 30, 2022 05:13 PM (BgMrQ)

196 "It is better to signal virtue than receive" -- Martha's Vineyard.

Posted by: Axeman at September 30, 2022 05:13 PM (krQz2)

197 I am guessing nobody at SNL wanted to mock Biden, even if its ridiculously accessible low-hanging fruit. There is so much to make fun of these days, its like the world is throwing ideas at a satirist or a joke writer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 05:14 PM (Ivdso)

198 I had a friend that did show me a funny SNL skit about "Alexa silver" in 2020 So they did a few funny non political skits up to a few years ago.

Letting politics creep in probably killed the comedy and late night talk shows. First they let the actors jaw about politics instead of just selling their new movies and talking about their pets or family; then they started inviting them to spew politics, then the hosts and their writers abandoned comedy to push their ideals. I don't understand how it can appeal much even to their fellow commie travelers.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at September 30, 2022 05:14 PM (3cGpq)

199 Here in upstate SC (eastern Greenville county)

God's Country ... and Greer.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 30, 2022 05:14 PM (+R5dc)

200 " I'm guessing someone at SNL did not want to ridicule Biden.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2022 05:11 PM

That would require SNL to actually be, you know, funny.
Posted by: Minnfidel Where's Jackie?'


That's great if they'd rather shut down the show. Leftists are self-destructive that way.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2022 05:15 PM (sn5EN)

201 After hundreds of years of religious wars and brutality, everyone in Europe got together and said "look this sucks and is not helping anyone, let's just agree that its wrong to invade other countries just because you don't like how they do things". Almost all of our ideas of just war, international law, and the existence of national boundaries came from this time period and it was much much better after that for a while.

Now everyone wants to ball that up and throw it away, going back to the VERY bad old days. And yes, I blame the War on Terror for being part of that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 30, 2022 05:04 PM (Ivdso)

I don't see the latest years as morally transformative - Europe and the Med in the time when Rome was all powerful was peaceful enough and once that power waned it was time to rebuild the walls around every town. The only thing keeping Europe from warring with each other now were the big boys keeping everyone in line with bribes or threats or police actions and pretending otherwise has led to the West forgetting the realities of politics and diplomacy.

So now we have nations with great power acting like 13 year olds instead of adults.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2022 05:15 PM (eoQWY)

202 Well, I just saw it as another data point indicating Putin sees himself as a Czar.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 30, 2022 05:09 PM (5pTK/)

How long has he been in charge over there? He may have a point.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 05:15 PM (zhLdt)

203 178 Hmm, historically, Russian Czars saw themselves as defenders of Christianity. Interesting.
Posted by: blake
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Czars also thought of themselves as the heirs to Rome and its empire. Given a lot of the czars personal behaviors over the years, I would not read too much into that.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2022 05:15 PM (CXr4y)

204 It's bad form to make fun of someone with dementia unless it was Ronald Reagan.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2022 05:15 PM (lKM6R)

205 Not good, hope it gets out of any area fast.
Miklos is in that area
Posted by: Skip

He's probably getting it worse than us, but not too serious overall. Of course, freak things can happen whenever there are high winds and ground saturation.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 30, 2022 05:16 PM (Mzdiz)

206 The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 instituted the era of the nation state. Arguably, it ended petty wars in favor of very large ones but also instituted the idea that wars must be waged to minimize effects on the citizenry rather than accentuating them. It is a peculiarly Western notion from a particular time and place (Age of Reason).

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2022 05:13 PM (CXr4y)

Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-WO73Dh7rY

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at September 30, 2022 05:16 PM (BgMrQ)

207 Nood. Bond, Woke Bond.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 30, 2022 05:16 PM (zhLdt)

208 Given a lot of the czars personal behaviors over the years, I would not read too much into that.
Posted by: whig

Whelp, time to get back under the horse.
-Catherine The Great

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 30, 2022 05:17 PM (MGB5H)

209 Roof cleaned off, best prevention

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2022 05:17 PM (xhxe8)

210
Hurricanes come to die in Pennsylvania. Dumping trillions of gallons of water in our rivers. We're #2 in historic flood damage. There are already traffic stopping saw horses at the end of my street because cars will go way underwater if they're not stopped beforehand. Temporary stop signs in position at intersections where lights are bound to fail when the electricity inevitably goes out.

Prediction is for four days of rain to come. No prayers for me, but perhaps for the people in the flood zones that took a hit last year and still haven't recovered. Imagine rivers flowing 30 feet or more above usual and living 15 feet above them. Decades of zoning regulations to try to contain stormwater all doing little except keeping lawyers busy fighting them. Because preventing poor people from purchasing land in flood zones is racist.

/ kicks soapbox away in disgust

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 30, 2022 05:17 PM (y3pKJ)

211 Poor folks in Florida are just getting started on the damage assessment, clean up and living with no electricity for the short term.

Just when you get ahead and things start looking better, the insurance goons show up right behind the FEMA gangsters.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 30, 2022 05:17 PM (R/m4+)

212 Well, I just saw it as another data point indicating Putin sees himself as a Czar.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 30, 2022 05:09 PM (5pTK/)
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Been there, done that.

Posted by: Cass Sunstein at September 30, 2022 05:17 PM (krQz2)

213 After hundreds of years of religious wars and brutality, everyone in Europe got together and said "look this sucks and is not helping anyone, let's just agree that its wrong to invade other countries just because you don't like how they do things". Almost all of our ideas of just war, international law, and the existence of national boundaries came from this time period and it was much much better after that for a while.

I think this is why so many Europeans--not the leaders who just want control, but the people----fetishize the EU and don't want to see it broken up. They believe doing so will lead to wars like in the past.

Posted by: JoeF. at September 30, 2022 05:17 PM (mR6Gs)

214 Weren't you two settled in Ohio some months ago?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2022 05:13 PM (pNxlR)

Nope, publius has lived here all his life. You might be thinking of Bozo Conservative and Shibumi.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 30, 2022 05:17 PM (Mzdiz)

215 Hurricanes bring storm surge, high winds and tornadoes. Property is destroyed and people die. I guess a lot of people think the stories about the storms are tall tales, until they see it for themselves.

We've gone through many and have friends and family members who have lost everything, so I'm not unsympathetic to those suffering. Just amazed at some folks reactions, especially the press.

Posted by: Javems at September 30, 2022 05:18 PM (AmoqO)

216 All of Dolley's preparation for the end of the world up to an including filling the bathtub with water have been for naught.
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At least your glass flute got a work out yesterday, James.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 30, 2022 05:19 PM (yikp0)

217 A couple of summer ago, I greeted someone on the bike trail. We both agreed it was hot (mid-day, July, cloudless). Then he starts in on global warming. Ugh.
Posted by: Emmie at September 30, 2022 05:05 PM (6RgRK)

^^At work we were talking about the hurricane before the meeting and a woman just repeated that it's just getting worse because of Global Warming! (**face palm***) Otherwise intelligent woman.

Posted by: Iris at September 30, 2022 05:19 PM (foa6+)

218 SC seems lucky when it comes to hurricanes since Hugo.

I lived in Rock Hill back then. Hugo was still a Cat 2 when it hit us. Actually got to experience what it felt like to be in the eye, 160 miles inland.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 30, 2022 05:20 PM (+R5dc)

219 Sustained 20+ mph and rain here in piedmont NC. Around 35 mph tonight. 3 - 4 inches of rain.
Posted by: mrp at September 30, 2022 05:09 PM (6eRlp)

About the same here in Goldsboro, NC. Tornado watch and we are expecting up to 6 inches of rain. Fayetteville looks like they got hit pretty good.

Posted by: Quilters Irish Death at September 30, 2022 05:20 PM (OgrpQ)

220 After hundreds of years of religious wars and brutality, everyone in Europe got together and said "look this sucks and is not helping anyone, let's just agree that its wrong to invade other countries just because you don't like how they do things". Almost all of our ideas of just war, international law, and the existence of national boundaries came from this time period and it was much much better after that for a while.

I think this is why so many Europeans--not the leaders who just want control, but the people----fetishize the EU and don't want to see it broken up. They believe doing so will lead to wars like in the past.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 30, 2022 05:17 PM (mR6Gs)

Just war is actually a concept from Republican Rome and likely copied from there. They always liked to have a good reason to fight in their own defense, and since they were continually at war they got very good at bending the situation to justify what they kinda wanted to do.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2022 05:20 PM (eoQWY)

221 Have the left found a way to blame DeSantis' warlock energy powers for the resurgence of the hurricane in SC?

That or Trump's weather machine went awry.

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2022 05:21 PM (+mkOR)

222 I don't see the latest years as morally transformative - Europe and the Med in the time when Rome was all powerful was peaceful enough and once that power waned it was time to rebuild the walls around every town. The only thing keeping Europe from warring with each other now were the big boys keeping everyone in line with bribes or threats or police actions and pretending otherwise has led to the West forgetting the realities of politics and diplomacy.

So now we have nations with great power acting like 13 year olds instead of adults. Posted by: Oldcat
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Once a nation starts basing its actions on making others do their bidding, conflict is baked into the cake. Often, the nation initiating any such conflict based on wooly headed notions of 'collective rights' of this or that group eventually comes to rue the day as the losers survive to fight again--with the added incentive of grudge match politics. That is why the era of grabbing other people's land via force pretty much is not compatible with the idea of nation-states. Worked all right when the peasants did not really care who ruled them.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2022 05:22 PM (CXr4y)

223 >>> 16 All of Dolley's preparation for the end of the world up to an including filling the bathtub with water have been for naught. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 30, 2022 04:26 PM (LvTSG)
That's b/c she did them. If she hadn't, you'd probably have gotten screwed.
Murphy's Law - never doubt it!
Posted by: Nova local at September 30, 2022 04:27 PM (exHjb)


I have friends who will NOT give away their baby stuff for just this reason... and their kids are almost ready to graduate high school! XD

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2022 05:22 PM (+mkOR)

224 Sock-b-gone.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at September 30, 2022 05:23 PM (OUMaO)

225 God's Country ... and Greer Grrrrrr.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Challenger Survivor at September 30, 2022 05:24 PM (uLr+K)

226 I may be in the minority but should someone start with global warming/climate crisis bullshit my first instinct is to beat them senseless.

Then piss on 'em and tell them it's rain.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2022 05:24 PM (BFigT)

227 Just war is actually a concept from Republican Rome and likely copied from there. They always liked to have a good reason to fight in their own defense, and since they were continually at war they got very good at bending the situation to justify what they kinda wanted to do.

Posted by: Oldcat
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St Augustine, not Rome as an explanation of how Christianity and the wars could be justified under the faith. Rome itself was actually quite into increasing its land area via wars.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2022 05:25 PM (CXr4y)

228 >>> At least your glass flute got a work out yesterday, James. Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 30, 2022 05:19 PM (yikp0)

At least they didn't recreate a scene from American Pie with it... though twerking with his flute is still pretty cringe.

Posted by: LizLem at September 30, 2022 05:25 PM (+mkOR)

229 I lived in Rock Hill back then. Hugo was still a Cat 2 when it hit us. Actually got to experience what it felt like to be in the eye, 160 miles inland.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

You will experience few things more surreal than looking up at night as the eye of a hurricane passes over you. I hope to God never to see such a thing again.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at September 30, 2022 05:25 PM (OUMaO)

230 215 Hurricanes bring storm surge, high winds and tornadoes. Property is destroyed and people die. I guess a lot of people think the stories about the storms are tall tales, until they see it for themselves.

We've gone through many and have friends and family members who have lost everything, so I'm not unsympathetic to those suffering. Just amazed at some folks reactions, especially the press.

Posted by: Javems
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Realists tend to be pessimists in believing there is nothing new under the sun but most people want to avoid thinking unpleasant thoughts as though Big Govt or 'good intentions' will shield them from suffering.

Posted by: whig at September 30, 2022 05:27 PM (CXr4y)

231 I think this is why so many Europeans--not the leaders who just want control, but the people----fetishize the EU and don't want to see it broken up. They believe doing so will lead to wars like in the past.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 30, 2022 05:17 PM (mR6Gs)

If it doesn't break up, it will lead to the other kind of war, where the government sends in troops to repress unruly subjects. Look at the way the EU treats Poland/Hungary for not playing ball, and to a lesser extent how they drove England to Brexit.

Peace/Order/Tolerance/Negotiation comes from a mindset, not the size of the country. Our nation had only one civil war because we had a lot of common heritage and ideas and ways to agreeably come to a common solution most can accept, and the elites had a practical sense of what bad stuff can happen if you don't act civilized.

The EU has none of those advantages and like us, has an elite that is increasingly fixated on their impractical ideas and has no sense of responsibility to the citizens or fear of the consequences of uncivilized actions on their part.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2022 05:27 PM (eoQWY)

232 Maybe they should do a Saturday Night Trans?
I hear that might be popular with the folks.

Posted by: Bosk at September 30, 2022 05:29 PM (v4L7Y)

233 nood -- james bond takes a wiz

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 30, 2022 05:30 PM (yikp0)

234 St Augustine, not Rome as an explanation of how Christianity and the wars could be justified under the faith. Rome itself was actually quite into increasing its land area via wars.
Posted by: whig at September 30, 2022 05:25 PM (CXr4y)

Sure, but they were all *justified*! Says so right on the forms they filled out.

But ironically, post Punic Wars a lot of kinglet states gave their countries to Rome to avoid local civil wars as inheritances. The Roman tax farmers where bad, but they saw civil wars as worse.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2022 05:31 PM (eoQWY)

235 Glad to James Madison and Dolley and the boys are o.k. I was also wondering about Jane D'oh. She lives on an island of the coast of SC, doesn't she?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2022 05:32 PM (vJUMU)

236 Hurricane Alisha in texas '83, at that time one of the worst to hit mainland, name retired....taped all of the windows, got a couple of kegs, everybody brought a bottle, cooked a brisket...filled all three bathtubs, even the 6ft round one...only water damage was from over filling it, soaking the carpet. some trees down, short term flooding of low lying areas...BIG issue was Houston had boomed and many many new tall "glass" buildings had gone up...most had tar/gravel roofs...the wind blew the gravel into the surrounding glass and the downtown streets were three feet deep in it....papers from the blown out window offices was found up to 50 miles away. Most hurricanes we headed to the coast and surfed until we just couldn't anymore...waves too blown out, or we were too worn out. The beach house we hung out at on Surfside finally went bye bye during Harvey

Posted by: birddog at September 30, 2022 05:35 PM (uAI4S)

237 Saw some headline "Putin stages largest Land Grab since WW2!!!"
Uhmm...did ya miss the whole ISIS thang somehow???
Closer to home, Obama Biden gobbled more sq miles of US territory into Federal Lands than Putin seized..
"Stroke of the Pen...Law of the Land, pretty cool"

Posted by: birddog at September 30, 2022 05:42 PM (uAI4S)

238 The storm surge hit Pawley's Island at high tide, dammit. Georgetown was also badly flooded. Huge mess, even with a Cat. 1 hurricane.

My cousins are planning to stay on the island in October; they're waiting to hear if that will be possible.

Posted by: Beverly at September 30, 2022 06:22 PM (2Lh5h)

239 Online there is a dramatic photo of the Pawleys pier completely under the waves -- it was washed south along the beach, completely destroyed.

Posted by: Beverly at September 30, 2022 06:23 PM (2Lh5h)

240 They,ll call it Proof of Climate Change like they did with Katrina, Sandy, Harvey and Irma

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at September 30, 2022 06:54 PM (wGqjj)

241 Trees down all around, but the old brickhouse is weathertight. Storm passed and now is north of Georgetown/MB. Now its a matter of saturated soil and other water issues. Storm sent the bikers packing so it should be a quite weekend.

Posted by: LockeCommon at September 30, 2022 07:42 PM (5tWDT)

242 to any idiots u encounter that say "unprecedented" "global warming"

On the bldgs in downtown Charleston, there are markers ~12 ft-16 ft high where a previous hurricane's waters went.

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Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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