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Hurricane Melissa Slams Into Jamaica and Cuba With 185 MPH Winds, Now Moves To the Bahamas

Yes, it's a powerful hurricane. Which proves global warming.

But we've had a relatively peaceful hurricane season before this one. Which also proves global warming, because global warming is proven both by more severe weather and less severe weather. Any deviation from the norm, even towards milder weather, proves global warming.

Do you racists understand The Science (TM) I'm spitting at ya?

The storm ravaged the island nation.

Hurricane Melissa will leave Cuba and sweep through the Bahamas today, then Bermuda late tomorrow with strong winds, heavy rain and coastal flooding following its historic Category 5 landfall in Jamaica and southeast Cuba lashing.

The devastating hurricane made landfall early Tuesday afternoon near New Hope, Jamaica, as a Category 5 with winds of 185 mph and a pressure of 892 millibars, a historic strike that will lead to months and years of recovery. This landfall will go down in the record books as one of the strongest anywhere in the Atlantic Basin.

The video that hurricane-chaser planes are getting of the storm-form itself are incredible.


Posted by: Ace at 04:30 PM




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Posted by: That Guy at October 29, 2025 04:30 PM (bYeFf)

2
Women and communists hardest hit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2025 04:31 PM (5e+/e)

3 I dunno. Most of Jamaica is stoned on weed. Would they really notice?

Posted by: That Guy at October 29, 2025 04:31 PM (bYeFf)

4 I thought I saw that the winds were 245mph on a news thing this morning.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2025 04:31 PM (0N4FZ)

5 Yes, it's a powerful hurricane. Which proves global warming.

But we've had a relatively peaceful hurricane season before this one. Which also proves global warming, because global warming is proven both by more severe weather and less severe weather. Any deviation from the norm, even towards milder weather, proves global warming.
++++
Putting it mildly. This year's hurricane season has barely existed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025 04:32 PM (CgKt6)

6 MelissaMcCarty rates WC-130s?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 04:32 PM (xjCM4)

7
The reason it became so powerful is that it stopped dead for several days. Not Globular Warming.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2025 04:33 PM (tgvbd)

8 Was it 185mph on the ground, or just at 10,000 ft?

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 29, 2025 04:33 PM (1Nv0l)

9 Weather's bad? Climate change. Weather's good? Climate change. Weather is unpredictable? Climate change. Solution: give me more of your money and freedom.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 29, 2025 04:33 PM (hlNLQ)

10 The US Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters flew straight through Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, capturing an incredible view from inside the storm's eye.
— Nature is Amazing
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That sounds a bit more like "man and his capacity to invent, and then use those inventions in the pursuit of pure, giant-balls daredevil achievement is amazing"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025 04:33 PM (CgKt6)

11 Two days ago, an Air Force Reserve WC-130 reported gusts in excess of 200 mph in the southwest section of the eyewall.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 04:33 PM (xjCM4)

12 And the Grifters are sprinting out of the starting gate

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 29, 2025 04:34 PM (pIfcn)

13
Alternate post subtitle:

This Means It's Time For All the Fake Goblin "Experts" on Twitter & Tik Tok to Become Fake "Experts" on Hurricanes and How It's The Republicans' Fault

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 04:34 PM (97D/f)

14 9- Also known as Henry Hill's mantra: Fuck you, pay me!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 29, 2025 04:34 PM (hlNLQ)

15
Number of hurricane hunter planes lost since 1946: 1.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2025 04:34 PM (tgvbd)

16 Hope the aircraft capturing the footage are drones.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 04:35 PM (77rzZ)

17 I flew SAR missions as a rescue swimmer in Katrina.

There is simply no comparing what man can do when we're pissed to what Mother Nature can do.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, a black, LGBT, child of immigrants at October 29, 2025 04:35 PM (oSeBJ)

18 Putting it mildly. This year's hurricane season has barely existed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025 04:32 PM (CgKt6)

Mom nature was busy taking a really deep breath.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2025 04:35 PM (mP0Kj)

19 Where are the leftists blaming the Jamaicans for voting to ... not fund a National Hurricane Center?

I mean, if it was the fault of North Carolinians, who deserved the hurricane for voting for Trump ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2025 04:36 PM (g1vDs)

20 Number of hurricane hunter planes lost since 1946: 1.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2025 04:34 PM (tgvbd)


That's nice, but I don't think I'll be getting on one anytime soon.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 29, 2025 04:36 PM (EynyL)

21
Tell the Others there's a nood, and they can bring their cat conversation here.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 04:36 PM (97D/f)

22 Man, the eye on that storm just before it made landfall was TIGHT!!!! I can't remember seeing anything that tiny on other storms.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 29, 2025 04:36 PM (SRRAx)

23 Number of hurricane hunter planes lost since 1946: 1.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

And it was the one Beau Biden died in.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 04:36 PM (77rzZ)

24 Yes, it's a powerful hurricane. Which proves global warming.

But we've had a relatively peaceful hurricane season before this one. Which also proves global warming, because global warming is proven both by more severe weather and less severe weather. Any deviation from the norm, even towards milder weather, proves global warming.

Posted by: Ace at 04:30 PM

Also, we need to adjust the norm so that everything is outside of the norm.

Posted by: NOAA "Scientists" at October 29, 2025 04:36 PM (aPBRN)

25 Any screaming Global Warming is Real yet?

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2025 04:36 PM (+qU29)

26
What's with all the cat talk here, lately?

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 04:37 PM (97D/f)

27 I admitted I am a bit disappointed with that video footage; I expected to see some Jamaicans up there in the clouds, sitting on easy chairs and smoking ganja as they went round and round.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2025 04:37 PM (uWKK8)

28 I think we better blot out the sun.

Posted by: wth at October 29, 2025 04:37 PM (UjdFS)

29 892 millibars???

OOOHHHH!!!
I thought it was 892 minibars.
My bad.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2025 04:37 PM (2WIwB)

30 Hadrian

Not counting all the PB4Y-2 Privateers badly damaged on the ground at NAS Miami when a hurricane scored a bullseye.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 04:37 PM (xjCM4)

31 Storms like this are a little reminder that humans aren't actually in charge on this plant.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 29, 2025 04:37 PM (aPBRN)

32 How about Happy Gilmore covering Neil Young?

https://youtu.be/HT2ENDHIZ3c

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2025 04:37 PM (PiwSw)

33 Its a tax!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 29, 2025 04:37 PM (YlWIZ)

34 Is be moor peeple use our FART Tubes to capture Human Greenhouse gas then we be has less herricanes.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at October 29, 2025 04:38 PM (QNNvM)

35
I hope if any refugees are brought here they aren't the leeches.

We have enough of them here.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 29, 2025 04:38 PM (3ek7K)

36 This is why I tend to stay in my own basin.

Posted by: Pamlico River Basin at October 29, 2025 04:38 PM (oftw2)

37 Luckily, it hit at the butt-end of Jamaica, the area with the lowest population density. Most everyone there lives in shacks already anyway, so the "years of recovery" won't be as noticeable as people might think.

Posted by: zombie at October 29, 2025 04:38 PM (oraVG)

38 I admitted I am a bit disappointed with that video footage; I expected to see some Jamaicans up there in the clouds, sitting on easy chairs and smoking ganja as they went round and round.
---
Nice to see a fellow graduate of the Wizard of Oz School of The Science

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2025 04:38 PM (g1vDs)

39 My brother is at Guantanamo right now. I think it’s further west. I don’t know my Cuba geography very well.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 29, 2025 04:38 PM (dTXMX)

40 Any screaming Global Warming is Real yet?

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2025 04:36 PM (+qU29)

Heard "global warming" in a pre-taped segment about Melissa on the Weather Channel yesterday. May have been the segment about how the NHC works together with their Cuban counterparts during times like this.

Posted by: Vendette at October 29, 2025 04:39 PM (MR1yy)

41 I have no experience with Hurricanes, so I'll just read what you moobs post.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Kill your television at October 29, 2025 04:39 PM (AOsQT)

42 Glad not to be there -- on the ground or in the airplane.

A few years ago, when I mentioned at my writing critique group that I really wanted to relocate, somebody (who'd lived there) suggested North Carolina. My three-word answer: "Humidity and hurricanes."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 04:39 PM (omVj0)

43 I thought it was 892 minibars.
My bad.
Posted by: Diogenes

What hotel chain are we talking about? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

44
What's this millibars shit?

Are we canadians now?

We uses inches, inches of mercury.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 04:39 PM (97D/f)

45
I must say, those hurricanes look cottony and fun up in the clouds.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2025 04:39 PM (5e+/e)

46 I have no experience with Hurricanes, so I'll just read what you moobs post.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Kill your television at October 29, 2025

***
Thou'rt fortunate.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 04:39 PM (omVj0)

47
Just the wind energy in an average hurricane is about half that of the world's electricity generating capacity. But, yeah, it's all Republicans that are at fault.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2025 04:39 PM (tgvbd)

48

Great video flying through the eye.

Very cool.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 29, 2025 04:40 PM (NtVYv)

49 Mon, it will take me half the day to stand the corrugated tin and cardboard back to the way it was.

Posted by: Send Money! at October 29, 2025 04:40 PM (oftw2)

50
Which was the stupider movie?

Twister or Speed?

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 04:40 PM (97D/f)

51 "Hurricane Hunter" planes are *deeply* problematic. Although initially useful, the additional scientific value of their expeditions is now effectively zero. Rather than scientific contribution, these expeditions instead are for the purpose of masculine posturing and bragging rights for the military-industrial complex.

And this retrograde patriarchal pursuit of adrenaline for its own sake comes at a tremendous cost. The capital and operational costs of these aircraft and their missions represent pure waste and take resources away from social justice and equity. Not to mention the carbon footprint of these missions, which burn fuel like it's going out of style as they fight headwinds just to give erections to warmongers.

It's long since past time to stop this nonsense. Protect the climate, promote justice and end this egregiously wasteful and regressive activity.

Posted by: Your Kid's Environmental Science Professor at October 29, 2025 04:41 PM (CgKt6)

52 Haiti is right there. Are those Islands in Canadia safe?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 04:41 PM (3J7e7)

53 I have no experience with Hurricanes, so I'll just read what you moobs post.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Kill your television at October 29, 2025

***
When I hear "millibars" I think of candy bars like Three Musketeers.

Thousands of very, very, very tiny ones.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 04:41 PM (omVj0)

54 And none too soon! Can't wait to go in there and start to a exploitin'. USAID support was gettin' pretty lean.

Posted by: Clinton Global Initiative at October 29, 2025 04:41 PM (gLikB)

55 NOAA almost lost a WP-3C Orion flying through a hurricane. Lost an engine on the ingress, was trapped in the eye until a WC-130 found a 'safer' section of eyewall to fly out of.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 04:41 PM (xjCM4)

56 Apparently, somebody taunted Happy Fun Hurricane.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 29, 2025 04:41 PM (wtvvX)

57 Hurricanes been hittin' the Caribbean every year for the last, oh, about 250 million years at least, ever since the Mid-Atlantic Ridge split Africa from the Americas.

Global Warming? Yeah. Sounds legit.

Posted by: zombie at October 29, 2025 04:42 PM (oraVG)

58 Storms like this are a little reminder that humans aren't actually in charge on this plant.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

*shifty eyes*
-- Jewish Weather-Machine Operators Local 604

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

59 Millibars=Microbreweries?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 04:42 PM (3J7e7)

60 No worries about Jamaica:

The Kamala Harris Global Initiative--modeled on the success of the Clinton Global Initiative--is already staging tons of supplies and relief for her ancestral home.

LOL, you're on your own, Jamaica.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2025 04:42 PM (g1vDs)

61 Some of those comments on the storm pictures...

"Oh they can get pics of storm but they ain't got no money for my SNAP???"

Posted by: brak at October 29, 2025 04:42 PM (jGJov)

62 Sure Jamaica and Cuba have it rough , but we're supposed to get 1 1/2 inches of rain tomorrow

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2025 04:42 PM (Hn2S0)

63 Just once, we should send a hurricane over to Africa. Shake things up for a change.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 29, 2025 04:43 PM (dTXMX)

64
I have no experience with Hurricanes, so I'll just read what you moobs post.
Posted by: Don Black

==============

I've been in typhoons, and I kinda liked it. BUT--I was not in a flood zone.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2025 04:43 PM (5e+/e)

65 I don't want it in ,'minibars' I want it in feet and inches

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2025 04:43 PM (+qU29)

66 The Kamala Harris Global Initiative--modeled on the success of the Clinton Global Initiative--is already staging tons of supplies and relief for her ancestral home.

LOL, you're on your own, Jamaica.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2025 04:42 PM (g1vDs)
++++
The shipping containers arrive empty and leave full.

It's the NGO way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025 04:43 PM (CgKt6)

67 "Melissa"? Why a female name? It's Trump's doing.

I just want to point out black and brown people are being killed by Trump's hurricane, just as he planned.

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (EiGGt)

68 Those videos are all AI and cheapfakes. The earth is flat. Therefore weather is flat. Those videos? Not flat. QED.

Posted by: Dr. Wa G. Shambas at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (niBFJ)

69 Rain on a Wednesday afternoon.
--- Global warming !!

Rain on Saturday and Saturday.
--- Global warming!!

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (Oy/m2)

70 Sure Jamaica and Cuba have it rough , but we're supposed to get 1 1/2 inches of rain tomorrow
Posted by: Smell the Glove

And I've got my trusty grass seed at the ready.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (77rzZ)

71 What hotel chain are we talking about? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)


The Dens of Diogenes.
Rooms let by the hour.
Clean glasses.
Ice costs extra.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (2WIwB)

72 Which was the stupider movie?

Twister or Speed?
------

Twister was stupider. I'd watch Speed again. I live in Oklahoma and the *worship* of tornadoes here slays me. They'll interrupt a perfectly good ball game on an Oklahoma City broadcast to "warn" us that the winds are really, really, really strong in Gotebo, Oklahoma. I've lived here since the late 80's and I still don't really know where the hell Gotebo is.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (TN0g+)

73 Hurricanes used to always have lady names, didn't they? Until they started alternating them between male and female?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (CgKt6)

74 When I hear "millibars" I think of candy bars like Three Musketeers.

Thousands of very, very, very tiny ones.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Oh! Like the tiny Charleston Chews that come in boxes.

Posted by: FeaterBlade at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (a+4eV)

75 There was frost on my car this morning.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (kTd/k)

76 Two days ago, an Air Force Reserve WC-130 reported gusts in excess of 200 mph in the southwest section of the eyewall.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025

***
I think Hurricane Camille in '69 came very close to that mark while still in the Gulf. It was still awfully close to that figure when it wiped a lot of the MS coast away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (omVj0)

77
I have no experience with Hurricanes, so I'll just read what you moobs post.
Posted by: Don Black

__________

Having been through a few, it's not the kind if experience you want to acquire.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (tgvbd)

78 What hotel chain are we talking about? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)


The Dens of Diogenes.
Rooms let by the hour.
Clean glasses.
Ice costs extra.
-------

Free cable?

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (TN0g+)

79 Think of the children... *salivates*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 29, 2025 04:45 PM (IeX0j)

80 Minibars? Well, good!

Posted by: Kamala Harris at October 29, 2025 04:45 PM (EiGGt)

81 Which was the stupider movie?

Twister or Speed?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 04:40 PM (97D/f)
++++
Twister. No contest.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025 04:45 PM (CgKt6)

82
1 atm is about 1 bar, 1000 millibar. That unit has been deprecated and frowned upon by the SI for a while. It's use persists in meteorology. NWS uses it all the time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 04:45 PM (w6EFb)

83 >Which was the stupider movie?

Twister or Speed?

Posted by: Soothsayer
----

the two are equally ridiculous
Speed for the bus jump
Twister for how Aunty had all those steaks defrosted and ready to go

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Kill your television at October 29, 2025 04:45 PM (AOsQT)

84 Some of the anemometers were reporting 200+ at Camille's landfall until they were blown away.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 29, 2025 04:46 PM (xjCM4)

85 I just realized not too long ago that the actresses who played the older girls in Little House on the Prairie were both named "Meliissa" -- Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 04:46 PM (77rzZ)

86
Do you racists understand The Science (TM) I'm spitting at ya?
Posted by: Ace


"Speaking as a black LGBT woman..."

Nope, I'm too fuckin' stupid to grok anything that isn't an emotive feelz based set of racist bullshit that favors my nasty ass.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 29, 2025 04:46 PM (QVmho)

87 I went through class 4 and 5 rapids in an intertube.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 04:46 PM (3J7e7)

88 Well that blows.

Posted by: Big time at October 29, 2025 04:46 PM (XQo4F)

89 It's long since past time to stop this nonsense. Protect the climate, promote justice and end this egregiously wasteful and regressive activity.

Posted by: Your Kid's Environmental Science Professor

You are clearly unfamiliar with the other function of these hurricane planes; helicopters can't fly but that doesn't mean there has to be a halt to the Air Pinochet flights for Environmental Science Professors.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2025 04:46 PM (Riz8t)

90 Right now it's at maximum sustained winds of 100 mph, which is a slight improvement over 185 mph.

100 mph can still make life pretty crappy, though.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 29, 2025 04:46 PM (k9OZB)

91 I've seen tornadoes forming. I've experienced white out blizzards. I've known flooding but never a hurricane.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2025 04:46 PM (kTd/k)

92 >>I have no experience with Hurricanes, so I'll just read what you moobs post.

You the old saying "Amateurs talk about strategy. Professionals talk about logistics."?

When it comes to hurricanes, amateurs talk about wind, professionals talk about water.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (viF8m)

93 Twister was dumb because of the truck barely had a scratch on it.

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (Oy/m2)

94 Hurricane Melissa identifies as a black, queer, LBGTQ+ hurricane of color.

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (fveCG)

95 I do hope it misses the Bahamas, or at least weakens. It's only been a few years since Dorian smashed them up.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (wtvvX)

96 Free cable?
Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (TN0g+)


Yes!
(Bring your own tv)

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (2WIwB)

97 You are clearly unfamiliar with the other function of these hurricane planes; helicopters can't fly but that doesn't mean there has to be a halt to the Air Pinochet flights for Environmental Science Professors.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 29, 2025 04:46 PM (Riz8t)
++++
Be still my heart

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (CgKt6)

98 The earth is on fire! Arrrrrgh! Release my chakra!

Posted by: Al Gore, Dirty Boomer at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (ReS4d)

99 Trump is accepting gift crowns and putters in Asia while the people in Queens suffer. No excuse for that.

Posted by: #7 Train Relief Supplies On The Way! at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (oftw2)

100 My brother is at Guantanamo right now. I think it’s further west. I don’t know my Cuba geography very well.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 29, 2025 04:38 PM (dTXMX)

The eye made landfall to the west of Guantanamo (in Santiago de Cuba) as a Cat 3, but Cuba isn't that big so your brother had a lot of wind and rain to enjoy.

Posted by: Vendette at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (MR1yy)

101
Ironically, per SI conventions, the Canadian weather service doesn't use millibars any more at all, using hPa. One hPa, is of course 1 millibar. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (w6EFb)

102 Send FEMA and a pack of gum. Jamaica and Cuba could both use a good scrub down.

Posted by: White Man Indifferent at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (wBaIH)

103 Never done a hurricane.

Done tornadoes and earthquakes though.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (W2Pud)

104 But.... are Sharks getting sucked up into the Hurricane and getting blown onto Gitmo?

Would make a hell of a movie! Sharkacane: Gitmo Bugaloo!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (mP0Kj)

105 ----

the two are equally ridiculous
Speed for the bus jump
Twister for how Aunty had all those steaks defrosted and ready to go
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Kill your television at October 29, 2025 04:45 PM (AOsQT)

And all those noisy sculptures she has out in her yard!

Posted by: Aunty's Neighbors, sick of it. at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (LxER7)

106 I just realized not too long ago that the actresses who played the older girls in Little House on the Prairie were both named "Meliissa" -- Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson.
--------
Ace Frehley's birth name is Paul. Paul Stanley was already in KISS, and Ace was already going by his nickname so there was no problem.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (TN0g+)

107 Huh. All we get around around here are lousy tornados!

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2025 04:48 PM (PCK5/)

108 When it comes to hurricanes, amateurs talk about wind, professionals talk about water.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (viF8m)
--------------

And, will it be high tide when it makes landfall?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at October 29, 2025 04:48 PM (UJMvS)

109 Hurricanes used to always have lady names, didn't they? Until they started alternating them between male and female?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025

***
They did have only female names. I think the alternating M/F stuff started in the '70s? Not sure.

Like the naming of cats, the naming of storms isn't just one of your holiday games. They only started it in the early to mid-'50s. My mother and father were caught in a shelter in Florida during a storm in 1947; like others then, it had no name, just the [Month, Year] hurricane, or the Labor Day hurricane of [Year].

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 04:48 PM (omVj0)

110
Having been through a few, it's not the kind if experience you want to acquire.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (tgvbd)
==============
Once was enough for me. I hear "hurricane" now, I'm gone.

Posted by: Andrew flattened my neighborhood at October 29, 2025 04:48 PM (EiGGt)

111 17 I flew SAR missions as a rescue swimmer in Katrina.

There is simply no comparing what man can do when we're pissed to what Mother Nature can do.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, a black, LGBT, child of immigrants at October 29, 2025 04:35 PM (oSeBJ)

Nothing can be as violent, destructive, erratic and capricious as a mother.

Posted by: Destroying body and soul at October 29, 2025 04:49 PM (TbWk/)

112 >Twister was dumb because of the truck barely had a scratch on it.

Posted by: dantesed
---

it had the optional self-repairing windshield

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Kill your television at October 29, 2025 04:49 PM (AOsQT)

113 I still remember the grocery stores printing hurricane tracking charts on all of the paper sacks every year. We would cut them out and tape them on the refrigerator door, then when one came into the Gulf we would tune in every 6 hours to the weather report when the hurricane tracking airplanes would deliver an update.

It was always fun to track them - as long as they didn't get too close to our coordinates! (As a bonus, we learned how to plot things on a graph 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 29, 2025 04:49 PM (SRRAx)

114 Twister and Speed were both dopey action movies. Fun performances by Paxson , Hunt etc and Reeves, and especially Dennis Hopper. Turn your brain off and enjoy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2025 04:49 PM (Hn2S0)

115
Twister for how Aunty had all those steaks defrosted and ready to go
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Kill your television

_________

I commented to Her Majesty at that scene, "All grad students eat like that."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2025 04:49 PM (tgvbd)

116 Speaking as a black left-handed lesbian vegan crossfitter atheist of color, I'm offended.

Posted by: Who's gifted and talented at October 29, 2025 04:49 PM (XQo4F)

117
All we get around around here are lousy tornados!
Posted by: tubal

============

Every phone I ever get, I delete the pre-loaded weather app first thing. It makes absolutely no difference here on the California coast.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2025 04:50 PM (5e+/e)

118 114 Twister and Speed were both dopey action movies. Fun performances by Paxson , Hunt etc and Reeves, and especially Dennis Hopper. Turn your brain off and enjoy
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2025 04:49 PM (Hn2S0)

Agreed. I'd add Dante's Peak to that list, too.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 29, 2025 04:51 PM (LxER7)

119 I've seen tornadoes forming. I've experienced white out blizzards. I've known flooding but never a hurricane.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2025

***
Combine the flooding with the high winds of a tornado and add in the zero visibility of heavy rain, and you've got it!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 04:51 PM (omVj0)

120 >>And, will it be high tide when it makes landfall?

Storm surge can be devastating.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2025 04:51 PM (viF8m)

121 We were in the middle of a category 1 hurricane down at the Outer Banks in the mid eighties. It was nerve racking. I can't begin to imagine what a category 5 would be like.

Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2025 04:51 PM (lJ0H4)

122 91 I've seen tornadoes forming. I've experienced white out blizzards. I've known flooding but never a hurricane.
Posted by: Northernlurker

I've seen fire. I've seen rain. I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end....

Posted by: Sweet Bald, Baby James at October 29, 2025 04:51 PM (oftw2)

123 Every phone I ever get, I delete the pre-loaded weather app first thing. It makes absolutely no difference here on the California coast.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2025 04:50 PM (5e+/e)
++++
The weather man in San Diego has a surprisingly challenging job, though. He can't just go on TV and say, "It's going to be nice today." He has to find a way to fill a whole segment, every day. It's got to really challenge his creativity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025 04:51 PM (CgKt6)

124 Here comes the story of the Hurricane
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done

He dindu nuffin!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 29, 2025 04:52 PM (F7wxO)

125 Speaking as a black left-handed lesbian vegan crossfitter atheist of color, I'm offended.
Posted by: Who's gifted and talented at October 29, 2025

***
Vegan Crossfitters always make themselves known.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 04:52 PM (omVj0)

126 Hey - since hurricanes run on heat, does this large one so late in the season mean we are going to have a cold winter?

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 29, 2025 04:52 PM (v/YwY)

127 All I know is that if you see Jim Cantore in your AO, LEAVE IMMEDIATELY!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2025 04:52 PM (PiwSw)

128 Haiti is right there. Are those Islands in Canadia safe?
Posted by: Boss Moss


If Haiti were to be hit, how would anyone know?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 29, 2025 04:52 PM (EVFZ5)

129 If Trump didn't shut the Government down, people in Jamaica and Cuba would have been warned ahead of time, instead they didn't know and they all died. Trump literally just murdered millions of brown people.

Posted by: AOC, America's Orifice at October 29, 2025 04:52 PM (qUkBO)

130 I've seen tornadoes forming. I've experienced white out blizzards. I've known flooding but never a hurricane.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

You missed your window to get cheap flights and rooms in Jamaica.
Missed it by about a week.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (/lPRQ)

131 We had twisters at Ft Sill. Rolled between us and our launchers 3 Klicks away.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (3J7e7)

132 121 We were in the middle of a category 1 hurricane down at the Outer Banks in the mid eighties. It was nerve racking. I can't begin to imagine what a category 5 would be like.
Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2025 04:51 PM (lJ0H4)

My brother was in med school in Charleston when Hugo hit. They dragooned all the students to work in the hospital.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (LxER7)

133 Cont. from 121
But when the eye passes over everyone was down on the beach watching the sky. It was fascinating.

Posted by: Tuna at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (lJ0H4)

134 I lived through Hurricane Andrew when it blasted Homestead, FL. Okay, I was 40 miles up the coast but still hunkered down. Not a fun thing to ride out.

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (fveCG)

135 and especially Dennis Hopper. Turn your brain off and enjoy
Posted by: Smell the Glove

My favorite line, from Hopper, after Keanu calls him a psychopath:

"Psycopath?" (Holds up his wad of stolen cash) "No! Now I'm 'eccentric!'"

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

136 Ironically, per SI conventions, the Canadian weather service doesn't use millibars any more at all, using hPa. One hPa, is of course 1 millibar.

We should use Zanzibars, too. 1 Zanzibar equals 1 Category.

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (IeX0j)

137 But I always thought I'd see you again.

Posted by: The plans they made for you at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (XQo4F)

138 Hey - since hurricanes run on heat, does this large one so late in the season mean we are going to have a cold winter?
Posted by: CTHillary



That's what they've been claiming.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (EVFZ5)

139
I laugh at the weather announcements I get here in Wyoming.

It's raining now. No, the sun is out dumbshits.

It's never right.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (3ek7K)

140 We have very wet hurricanes here generally but, occasionally we get the dry hurricane where we are on the landside of the rotation. Those are kind of fun. Going out on the porch and watching the trees bend in the 100mph gusts. You can see the wind coming like the Langoliers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (jc0TO)

141 107 Huh. All we get around around here are lousy tornados!
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2025 04:48 PM (PCK5/)

My Dad had gone through a couple Big Pacific storms on a WW2 Era Fletcher class Destroyer... and had gone through a couple southern Calif Earthquakes.

So when he settled down to raise a family... No close Earthquake faults... no Hurricanes... no Tornadoes... hell, does not even snow here.

I live in the House he had built...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (mP0Kj)

142
The weather blonde on KTLA is like late October: still hawt.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (F7wxO)

143
I flew SAR missions as a rescue swimmer in Katrina.

There is simply no comparing what man can do when we're pissed to what Mother Nature can do.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

==============

I stand on the pier and watch the tide come in from time to time. Just a normal, easy tide pushing in. That's a mother I wouldn't cross.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2025 04:54 PM (5e+/e)

144 Agreed. I'd add Dante's Peak to that list, too.
-------

But Dante's Peak has the single lamest line in all of cinema! During one scene Linda Hamilton turns to Pierce Brosnan and says "It's awfully quiet out there." And Pierce replies....

"Yes................too quiet."

WHICH OF COURSE IMPLIES that not only might the volcano errupt BUT THAT ALSO the volcano might be STALKING THEM AND CREEPING UP ON THEM! I remember my girlfriend and I both laughing outloud in the theater when that exchange took place!

But we did enjoy the movie.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 04:54 PM (TN0g+)

145 Don’t forget to factor in that Cuba has diurnal tides and not the semidiurnal tides that you’re used to.

Also, urinal is where you pee.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 29, 2025 04:54 PM (dTXMX)

146 I've seen tornadoes forming. I've experienced white out blizzards. I've known flooding but never a hurricane.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2025

***
Combine the flooding with the high winds of a tornado and add in the zero visibility of heavy rain, and you've got it!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 04:51 PM (omVj0)

***

What?
No earthquakes or prairie fires?
Pikers.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2025 04:54 PM (2WIwB)

147 My brother is at Guantanamo right now. I think it’s further west. I don’t know my Cuba geography very well.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 29, 2025 04:38 PM (dTXMX)

The eye made landfall to the west of Guantanamo (in Santiago de Cuba) as a Cat 3, but Cuba isn't that big so your brother had a lot of wind and rain to enjoy.

Posted by: Vendette at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM


GITMO had mandatory evacuation of non essential personnel two days ago according to their facebook page. I have no idea where they went because we never evacuated for a hurricane when I was stationed there. We just had hurricane parties.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2025 04:54 PM (0N4FZ)

148 Tornados lack glamor, and can be fickle things. Do not get much press, the Nickelback of weather phenomena.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2025 04:54 PM (PCK5/)

149 Can't be global warming. Bill Gates just this week said, "Nah, just kiddin'".

Posted by: Paco at October 29, 2025 04:54 PM (mADJX)

150 A New Hope?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 04:54 PM (3J7e7)

151 Anything below 900 millibars is insane. I feel bad for those poor folks in Jamaica. Terrifying thing to go through.

Posted by: Beverly at October 29, 2025 04:55 PM (Epeb0)

152 I checked out a coupla cans of clam chowder at a Fresh Market today, the checkout thing a ridiculous tranny trying to make his voice sound girly. I said, "Thanks, ma'am," and gave him a big grin while he glared at me.

Posted by: M. Gaga at October 29, 2025 04:55 PM (zeLd4)

153 Eye of a hurricane is a spooky place. Most surreal weather experience I've had was...I think it was Opal? Eye passed overhead at night. Seeing the stars in the middle of all that...crazy.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 29, 2025 04:55 PM (OUMaO)

154 139
I laugh at the weather announcements I get here in Wyoming.
It's raining now. No, the sun is out dumbshits.
It's never right.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (3ek7K)

Central Calif... and the weather widget on my computer will say its raining... only right about 1/3 of the time.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2025 04:55 PM (mP0Kj)

155 If it hits Haiti they may end up eating each other.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 04:55 PM (3J7e7)

156 "If Trump didn't shut the Government down, people in Jamaica and Cuba would have been warned ahead of time, instead they didn't know and they all died. Trump literally just murdered millions of brown people."

If Trump hadn't deported so many brilliant undocumented scientists, one of them may have invented time travel and would have been able to go back in time to flip the switch off on the machine that Jews use to create hurricanes.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 29, 2025 04:55 PM (v/YwY)

157 185 mph holy crap that's a fierce storm. Aint nothing gonna survive that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2025 04:55 PM (dfIr7)

158 >Twister was dumb because of the truck barely had a scratch on it.

Posted by: dantesed
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it had the optional self-repairing windshield
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Kill your television at October 29, 2025 04:49 PM

Twister had so many continuity breaks that it became annoying.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 04:56 PM (jc0TO)

159 When it comes to hurricanes, amateurs talk about wind, professionals talk about water.
Posted by: JackStraw

No.
Idiots buy low land.
Professionals do not and can build to hurricane winds.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 29, 2025 04:56 PM (/lPRQ)

160 I've seen tornadoes forming. I've experienced white out blizzards. I've known flooding but never a hurricane.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2025

***
Combine the flooding with the high winds of a tornado and add in the zero visibility of heavy rain, and you've got it!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 04:51 PM (omVj0)

***

What?
No earthquakes or prairie fires?
Pikers.
Posted by: Diogenes

Face it. No matter where you live, Da Erf is trying to kill you.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 04:56 PM (77rzZ)

161 Tornados are mesmerizing and terrifying. They can scour the earth. So, pretty bad.

Now the hurricane. It spawns tornados while scraping then power-washing the earth. For hundreds of miles.

Tornados are the ticks on a honey badger's hiney.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at October 29, 2025 04:56 PM (gLikB)

162 91 I've seen tornadoes forming. I've experienced white out blizzards. I've known flooding but never a hurricane.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 29, 2025 04:46 PM (kTd/k)

Well, one can get the Hell outta Dodge when a hurricane is comin' - and most sane people do!

Kinda hard if you are on one of the Caribbean Islands, though.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 29, 2025 04:56 PM (SRRAx)

163 I live on the Currituck Sound, right across from Duck and Corolla, NC. Been through about 8 hurricanes since 1988. The first one when we had no generator stunk. Since buying a generator, it's more like glamping. Almost fun and DON'T evacuate!

Posted by: Currituck Chuck at October 29, 2025 04:56 PM (oftw2)

164 Local TV weather forecast-

It's will be clear and cloudy today.

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2025 04:56 PM (Oy/m2)

165 149 Can't be global warming. Bill Gates just this week said, "Nah, just kiddin'".
Posted by: Paco at October 29, 2025 04:54 PM (mADJX)

I think someone finally bothered to tell him the Climate is ALWAYS changing.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 29, 2025 04:56 PM (mP0Kj)

166 GITMO had mandatory evacuation of non essential personnel two days ago according to their facebook page. I have no idea where they went because we never evacuated for a hurricane when I was stationed there. We just had hurricane parties.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2025 04:54 PM (0N4FZ)

Pensacola

Posted by: Vendette at October 29, 2025 04:57 PM (MR1yy)

167 I lived through Hurricane Andrew when it blasted Homestead, FL. Okay, I was 40 miles up the coast but still hunkered down. Not a fun thing to ride out.
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be


I rode out Hurricane Alicia locked on Galveston Island by order of the Governor. We stayed in a bar until they lost power around 1:00 am. That day, Friday, we sat at a bar on the Seawall drinking beer and watching the hurricane come in.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 29, 2025 04:57 PM (EVFZ5)

168 >>That's what they've been claiming.

Snowy, too.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2025 04:57 PM (viF8m)

169
The weather man in San Diego has a surprisingly challenging job, though. He can't just go on TV and say, "It's going to be nice today." He has to find a way to fill a whole segment, every day. It's got to really challenge his creativity.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

==============

I think he goes in on Monday and films all his segments for the week.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2025 04:57 PM (5e+/e)

170 Too bad they don't have hurricanes in Kansas. All that water would've taken out Elmira Gulch immediately.

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

171 It's what the wind is blowing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQD7Fzid1xI

Posted by: DaveA at October 29, 2025 04:58 PM (FhXTo)

172 Lived in Orleans parrish as Katrina came to town. Didn't stay to ride it out, I knew better. Already evac't to Fort Worth day before my house and job site drowned. Had flood ins. and retired to cowtown.

Don't hold too tight to your stuff.

Posted by: Kingsman at October 29, 2025 04:58 PM (ehY6c)

173 Boss Moss: "If it hits Haiti they may end up eating each other."

That goes without saying. I've seen it, man!

Posted by: Geraldo! at October 29, 2025 04:58 PM (gLikB)

174
A mbar is about .03" Hg, 0.02953", BTW.

The name "bar" comes from the same Ancient Greek homo root "baros", meaning weight, as barometer and barometric.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 04:58 PM (w6EFb)

175 I lived in Florida for about 12 years, and missed all the hurricanes; then, when we moved to Richmond, Virginia, one blew through, knocked down trees and power lines and left us without electricity for a week. Since we've been in Brunswick County, NC, we've experience three over the last seven years, one of which resulted in evacuation. I think I might oughta move back to Arizona.

Posted by: Paco at October 29, 2025 04:58 PM (mADJX)

176 I think he goes in on Monday and films all his segments for the week.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2025 04:57 PM (5e+/e)
++++
That would be the smart play!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025 04:58 PM (CgKt6)

177 If it hits Haiti they may end up eating each other.

Day ending in 'y', then.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 29, 2025 04:59 PM (OUMaO)

178 Saw a number of videos of the flooding in Kerville Texas a while back. Pretty amazing.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2025 04:59 PM (PCK5/)

179 I rode out Hurricane Alicia

So, how was she?

Posted by: Bulg at October 29, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)

180 That day, Friday, we sat at a bar on the Seawall drinking beer and watching the hurricane come in.
Posted by: rickb223

That’s a good way to do it. My friends in Homestead lost everything.

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at October 29, 2025 04:59 PM (fveCG)

181
Until just now I thought I was the only one who hated Twister.

I couldn't believe how big that movie was at the time.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 04:59 PM (97D/f)

182
But seriously, so any of you morons watch the weather report? If so, 1) what for, and 2) is it reliable and helpful?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2025 04:59 PM (5e+/e)

183 I've seen tornadoes forming. I've experienced white out blizzards. I've known flooding but never a hurricane.
Posted by: Northernlurker


Hurricane is mild compared to a tornado. Especially at night.

Hurricane is a big wind coming from one direction. Then it gets calm. Then the wind comes out of the other direction.

Tornado comes down a street jumping back and forth across the street so you don't know where it's going to hit.

And hurricanes spawn multiple f'n tornadoes.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 29, 2025 05:00 PM (EVFZ5)

184 I only say don't evacuate because this property, despite being about 12 feet above sea level cannot flood. If you leave the neighborhood, you can drown your car, but staying here is safe and you just wait for the water to go down.

Posted by: Currituck Chuck. at October 29, 2025 05:00 PM (oftw2)

185 If I have to evacuate for a hurricane again, I’m going to be rolling with an arsenal. Not leaving them to get ruined again.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 29, 2025 05:00 PM (dTXMX)

186 175 I lived in Florida for about 12 years, and missed all the hurricanes; then, when we moved to Richmond, Virginia, one blew through, knocked down trees and power lines and left us without electricity for a week. Since we've been in Brunswick County, NC, we've experience three over the last seven years, one of which resulted in evacuation. I think I might oughta move back to Arizona.
Posted by: Paco at October 29, 2025 04:58 PM (mADJX)

That was Isobel in 2003 or so? Made a bad mess here in NoVA, too. We were also without power for a week and I didn't have a generator at the time. Not fun.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 29, 2025 05:00 PM (LxER7)

187
I've seen tornadoes forming. I've experienced white out blizzards. I've known flooding but never a hurricane.
Posted by: Northernlurker

You should write songs for James Taylor.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:00 PM (97D/f)

188 Twister was dumb because of the truck barely had a scratch on it.
Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2025 04:47 PM (Oy/m2)

It was also dumb because everywhere they went, they found a tornado. Or someone would report a tornado on the ground 30 miles away and they'd drive there just in time to see the tornado.

Ask a storm chaser how likely either of those scenarios are.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 29, 2025 05:01 PM (k9OZB)

189 145 Don’t forget to factor in that Cuba has diurnal tides and not the semidiurnal tides that you’re used to.
...
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 29, 2025 04:54 PM (dTXMX)

So people can use urinal cakes as floation devices!

Posted by: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at October 29, 2025 05:01 PM (PiwSw)

190 This blonde in a dress finds warm sunshine to be preferable to hurricanes:
http://tiny.cc/modu001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025 05:01 PM (CgKt6)

191 Late comment for last thread-


Looks like Ol' Jazzy's been hitting the Ozempic.

Getting the hollowed out cheeks.


Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2025 05:02 PM (iJfKG)

192 Even for this Carolinian, Hurricane Melissa is a big deal. Not like our frequent category 3 storms here.

Being steep, Jamaica will have serious flash flooding, and maybe mudslides and even landslides with the heavy rain.

It will be a lot like the western North Carolina mountain valleys after Hurricane Helene.

Posted by: CapeFear at October 29, 2025 05:02 PM (OlBYG)

193 I rode out Hurricane Alicia

So, how was she?
Posted by: Bulg



Meh.
Seriously, only a Cat 3.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 29, 2025 05:02 PM (EVFZ5)

194 But seriously, so any of you morons watch the weather report? If so, 1) what for, and 2) is it reliable and helpful?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2025 04:59 PM (5e+/e)

The one i go to, "accuweather" app, must have gotten someone new recently, because it's been pretty spot on.

That, or the person doing it for where i moved to is a lot better than the person doing it for my old place.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2025 05:02 PM (06Hmj)

195 I lived through Hurricane Andrew when it blasted Homestead, FL. Okay, I was 40 miles up the coast but still hunkered down. Not a fun thing to ride out.
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at October 29, 2025 04:53 PM (fveCG)
=====================
I was living in Coconut Grove at the time. Where were you?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2025 05:02 PM (UHTm2)

196
What's funny about Twister is it came out shortly before GoPros, right?

I mean, you can just stick Gopros everywhere or tie it to a balloon. "Storm chasing" is unnecessary, today, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:03 PM (97D/f)

197 But seriously, so any of you morons watch the weather report? If so, 1) what for, and 2) is it reliable and helpful?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 29, 2025 04:59 PM (5e+/e)
++++
Not so much anymore, but I watched the morning newscast around 3 times a week for about the first year after I moved.

I wanted to learn the local geography and how to pronounce place names, streets, etc. I can't help but sound like a filthy foreigner (different accent), but I wanted to make damn sure I knew the proper pronunciations.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025 05:04 PM (CgKt6)

198 It's not that the wind is blowing, it's what the wind is blowing.

Ron White

Posted by: Archer at October 29, 2025 05:04 PM (YGRGv)

199 If Trump didn't shut the Government down

Yeah its hilarious watching the left act like if Trump had not fired anyone then the weather would be milder LOL. "The flood in Alaska would never have happened if my buddy Troy had his job at the EPA!!!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2025 05:04 PM (dfIr7)

200 Putting it mildly. This year's hurricane season has barely existed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2025 04:32 PM (CgKt6)

It existed. We are up to "M' and the season doesn't end until November 30. It seems mild because the US has had a series of weather systems that have consistently pushed the storms into the mid-Atlantic before they can make landfall on the US coast. Thank goodness.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2025 05:04 PM (rj6Yv)

201 But we've had a relatively peaceful hurricane season before this one. Which also proves global warming, because global warming is proven both by more severe weather and less severe weather. Any deviation from the norm, even towards milder weather, proves global warming.

I'm pretty sure that after the spike in detected storms due to the leap in technology the line through the annual number of storms year over year is relatively flat. The lines tracking the number of storms for each year are pretty erratic with peaks and valleys over and over. But if you point that it's wildly unpredictable year to year but relatively stable over time, you're a REEEEE CLIMATE DENIER REEEEEE

Posted by: Innumerate, soy-fed and innumerate are no way to live at October 29, 2025 05:04 PM (TbWk/)

202 That’s a good way to do it. My friends in Homestead lost everything.
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be


Yeah. We had friends who lost their entire home because the hurricane scoured the vegetation line back behind their homes and their home was now "in the sand and on the beach" making it public property.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 29, 2025 05:04 PM (EVFZ5)

203 Maybe Southern California weather person should tell you how bad it is it other parts of the country so Californians would just stay there and stop infecting the rest of the country

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2025 05:04 PM (+qU29)

204 I remember playing in the street when a hurricane came in as a kid. Nobody was particularly worried about it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 05:05 PM (3J7e7)

205 Between Dante's Peak and Volcano, I'm going with Dante's Peak.
More fun, better scenery.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2025 05:05 PM (g1vDs)

206 A good sandstorm is weird. Sucks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2025 05:05 PM (zZu0s)

207
It was also dumb because everywhere they went, they found a tornado. Or someone would report a tornado on the ground 30 miles away and they'd drive there just in time to see the tornado.

Ask a storm chaser how likely either of those scenarios are.
Posted by: hobbitopoly

Right!

By definition, a Tornado is literally alloverthefuckingplace, with no rhyme nor reason for its path.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:05 PM (97D/f)

208 205 Between Dante's Peak and Volcano, I'm going with Dante's Peak.
More fun, better scenery.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2025 05:05 PM (g1vDs)

No contest. It's like the choice between Armageddon and Deep Impact.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 29, 2025 05:06 PM (LxER7)

209 I remember my grandparents talking about their friends who lived in Pass Christian when Cat. 5 Hurricane Camille came roaring through with a 30 ft storm surge. They were on the coast and they were in a huge old house so they rode out the storm but they had to get into the attic. Very terrifying experience and most of the houses were just wiped off of their foundations along the coastal road. There's some documentaries about Camille on YouTube.

Posted by: Beverly at October 29, 2025 05:06 PM (Epeb0)

210 Headline:

(from the Hill)

"Brooke Rollins invites Soros to fund SNAP during shutdown"

Brooke Rollins is the US Secretary of Agriculture.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2025 05:06 PM (rj6Yv)

211 193 I rode out Hurricane Alicia

So, how was she?
Posted by: Bulg



Meh.
Seriously, only a Cat 3.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 29, 2025 05:02 PM (EVFZ5)

If you're far enough inland and it makes landfall as a Cat 3 or below you'll probably be ok. Just be prepared for a few days without power. If you're near the landfall area GTFO. Anything that looks like it's going to be stronger than Cat 3 at landfall and is going to track your direction, GTFO.

Posted by: My overall rule of thumb at October 29, 2025 05:07 PM (TbWk/)

212
Can someone explain to me how the Democrats managed to make hurricanes Republican's Kryptonite?

How did they pull that off??

Were (are) Republicans (and Americans) really that cuckable?

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:07 PM (97D/f)

213 Camille made the Class 4 and 5 rapids in Richmond, Va.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 05:07 PM (3J7e7)

214 Well, I sure hope Cuba protects the world's best healthcare system from the storm. On a positive note, no one will notice a difference if the storm damages the Cuban electrical grid.

Posted by: Disgruntled Monkey on the Lamb (with the sniffles) at October 29, 2025 05:08 PM (dIske)

215 Brooke Rollins invites Soros to fund SNAP during shutdown"

Brooke Rollins is the US Secretary of Agriculture.
Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2025 05:06 PM (rj6Yv)

"you care so much, then why don't you pony up, asshole?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2025 05:08 PM (06Hmj)

216 Between Dante's Peak and Volcano, I'm going with Dante's Peak.
More fun, better scenery.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 29, 2025 05:05 PM (g1vDs)

Yeah, Volcano is weird. Especially the raw sexual tension between Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2025 05:08 PM (zZu0s)

217 Global Cooling Change Warming because "normal" is a thing. You see, "normal" is a fudged "average" of temps or storm records over a wildly brief period of time that we have determined to be the "right" levels of things. Why? Because.

Posted by: algore the idiot at October 29, 2025 05:08 PM (HfgjV)

218 ived in Orleans parrish as Katrina came to town. Didn't stay to ride it out, I knew better. Already evac't to Fort Worth day before my house and job site drowned. Had flood ins. and retired to cowtown.

Don't hold too tight to your stuff.
Posted by: Kingsman at October 29, 2025

***
Linda and I bugged out to College Station, TX. Teh side of the river where we lived never flooded, though it lost power. If I'd known that would happen, we could have ridden it out, then escaped the back way along Hwy. 90 two days later and avoided that horrible crawling twelve hours on the road.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:09 PM (omVj0)

219 No contest. It's like the choice between Armageddon and Deep Impact.

Leelee Sobieski > Liv Tyler

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 29, 2025 05:09 PM (dfIr7)

220 Deep Impact is just kind of depressing. Armageddon is a lot of fun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2025 05:10 PM (zZu0s)

221 Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 05:07 PM (3J7e7)
Camille devastated Nelson County, VA. I taught in neighboring Amherst County (1986-1995) and had students whose grandparents perished.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at October 29, 2025 05:10 PM (USyCi)

222 Yeah, Volcano is weird. Especially the raw sexual tension between Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2025 05:08 PM (zZu0s)

I'd rather canoodle with the lava.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2025 05:11 PM (06Hmj)

223 I was living in Coconut Grove at the time. Where were you?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Coral Springs.

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at October 29, 2025 05:11 PM (fveCG)

224 Hurricane Melissa - we wrote that one.

Posted by: The Allman Brothers at October 29, 2025 05:11 PM (HfgjV)

225
Anyone remember the dumb movie "Hard Rain?"

It was about rain.

Wettest movie ever.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:12 PM (97D/f)

226 If you're far enough inland and it makes landfall as a Cat 3 or below you'll probably be ok. Just be prepared for a few days without power. If you're near the landfall area GTFO. Anything that looks like it's going to be stronger than Cat 3 at landfall and is going to track your direction, GTFO.
Posted by: My overall rule of thumb


I was actually on Galveston Island and wasn't allowed to leave. All leaves and vacations were canceled by order of the governor. All prison guards were either working or on Stand By.

They didn't know what kind of damage the prison hospital was going to take, so they kept everybody on the island, just in case we had to evacuate inmates.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 29, 2025 05:12 PM (EVFZ5)

227 Hurricane Melissa - we wrote that one.
Posted by: The Allman Brothers at October 29, 2025 05:11 PM (HfgjV)

I thought Gregg Allman wrote that song.

Posted by: dantesed at October 29, 2025 05:13 PM (Oy/m2)

228
The actors in Hard Rain were soaking wet the entire movie, that's all I remember. I remember thinking they must've been like prunes making that movie.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:13 PM (97D/f)

229 Anyone remember the dumb movie "Hard Rain?"

It was about rain.

Wettest movie ever.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:12 PM (97D/f)


Moist?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2025 05:13 PM (2WIwB)

230 Has anyone ever skydived through the eye of a hurricane?

That would seem to be a natural daredevil kind of activity.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2025 05:14 PM (iJfKG)

231
Well, I'll be damned. Poor Buzz Aldrin lost his wife, Anca Aldrin, 66. He married her just two years ago, when he was 93. She was his fourth wife.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 29, 2025 05:15 PM (w6EFb)

232 After I climb on, cut the ropes.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at October 29, 2025 05:15 PM (jc0TO)

233 I remember playing in the street when a hurricane came in as a kid. Nobody was particularly worried about it.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025

***
Nobody here was particularly worried about Hurricane Betsy in '65 either. Not only did the city NOT close the schools (first day of the new school year), but also my jr. high kept us all the way to the usual time, 3:15. The rain had been coming down like the hammers of Hell since 2:00.

My mother met me at the bus stop with an umbrella. The power went out about 9 pm, but we were on high ground and had sturdy shutters over the windows. Kind of exciting when you're twelve.

The power was out for a while -- but we had it back within two weeks. In contrast, with Katrina, I understand there were plenty of areas that were still dark after a month.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:15 PM (omVj0)

234 ***a historic strike that will lead to months and years of recovery.
---------------

This is a job for the Clintons. Send them to Cuba.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2025 05:15 PM (yZqjq)

235 Has anyone ever skydived through the eye of a hurricane?

That would seem to be a natural daredevil kind of activity.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2025 05:14 PM (iJfKG)

All you need is some PJs, some nightstalkers, and a case of hooch. It'll happen spontaneously.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 29, 2025 05:15 PM (06Hmj)

236 What's Dumber?

Twister or Speed?

Sorry, it's neither.

The "Twister" sequel "Twisters" takes the god-level dumb prize.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2025 05:16 PM (iJfKG)

237 boy oh boy oh boy

>>@trump_repost
·
14m

>>Former FBI Agent Walter Giardina is a DIRTY COP! He should be, along with Deranged Jack Smith, the sinister team of Lisa Monaco and Andrew Weissmann, Liddle' Jay Bratt, Norm Eisen and his FAKE Charity, CREW, Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland, Thomas Windom, who dreamt up the corrupt J-6 Witch Hunt, should be investigated, immediately. They are a disgrace to our Nation. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2025 05:16 PM (viF8m)

238 Armageddon is a lot of fun.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2025 05:10 PM (zZu0s)
__________________________

Yeah, tying up a crazy Steve Buscemi so he couldn't do any damage on the asteroid was great. "Get off...the nuclear...warhead." "Oh, come on, I was doing the scene from that movie...Slim Pickens...where he rides.." "Now." "Oh, didn't see that one, huh."

Posted by: Disgruntled Monkey on the Lamb (with the sniffles) at October 29, 2025 05:16 PM (dIske)

239 The power was out for a while -- but we had it back within two weeks. In contrast, with Katrina, I understand there were plenty of areas that were still dark after a month.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:15 PM (omVj0)

And the cannibalism! THE CANNIBALISM!

Posted by: Shep Smith at October 29, 2025 05:16 PM (PiwSw)

240 Anyone remember the dumb movie "Hard Rain?"

It was about rain.

Wettest movie ever.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:12 PM

Was that a bank heist or an armored car robbery or something like that?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 05:16 PM (jc0TO)

241 Anyone remember the dumb movie "Hard Rain?"

It was about rain.

Wettest movie ever.
Posted by: Soothsayer


I would have bet Debbie Does Dallas. Glad I didn't bet.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 29, 2025 05:17 PM (EVFZ5)

242 More layoffs. Amazon, Skydance, and GM.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 29, 2025 05:17 PM (3J7e7)

243 I am sorry for those impacted by this hurricane, as we were in hurricane force winds in 1969 when Camille wiped out the MS Coast at 190mph. I was a young teen 120mi inland.

President Nixon was the first US president to touch MS soil since FDR. I don't know why I remember that, but it meant something to me. The Coast I knew as a child, & my parents and grandparents knew was gone. A few historic buildings left...later to be damaged by Katrina. Never damaged is the cast iron Biloxi lighthouse, built in 1848.

Many CAT 3 hurricanes hit our beach in FL when we lived on a barrier island. We do know how to evacuated and in 2005 we had to three times in a little over a month. Frances and Jeanne are the two that hit us, and minimal damage as our house was built like a bunker: concrete/steel rebar in cinderblock walls, re-inforced roof, metal hurricane shutters on each window and door. Very safe unless a hurricane would hit "just right" and water would join the Intercoastal Waterway. We took no chances 1/4mi away. Never lost more than a shingle, thanks be to God.

I do not miss it in the Intermountain West, altho it was a great place to raise kids and I got my fill of beach living.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2025 05:17 PM (j5WMt)

244 Yeah, Volcano is weird. Especially the raw sexual tension between Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 29, 2025 05:08 PM (zZu0s)


Ick.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.bit.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2025 05:19 PM (2WIwB)

245 We were vacationing in Pascagoula when Camille hit. We had to beat it out of there on the wings of the storm.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 05:19 PM (jc0TO)

246 I had forgotten that Camille hit the mid-Atlantic states so hard.

My best friend's mother rode out Camille with 6 kids under the age of 10 (one a newborn) by herself in a house on the Houston Ship Channel. Their house was on a hill on the water - the storm surge almost reached their house. Dad was on a business trip -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 29, 2025 05:19 PM (SRRAx)

247
The "Twister" sequel "Twisters" takes the god-level dumb prize.

Posted by: naturalfake

They weren't even clever enough to title it Twisted.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:20 PM (97D/f)

248 A hurricane was about to hit MCAS Cherry Point.My duty section drew hurricane watch, a bunch of guys sleeping on cots in a hangar trying to figure out what we were going to do when it was time to do something. Things got sporty, and then dead calm. Evidently the eye passing. A bunch of us piled into a couple jeeps and went to the tower snack bar. The old gals that ran it elected to stay open in case anybody was still out there and came in on emergency. Best hamburgers ever.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 29, 2025 05:20 PM (gm9Sb)

249
Was that a bank heist or an armored car robbery or something like that?
Posted by: toby928

Yep.
I forget who was in it. A white dood, and a black guy, I think.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:21 PM (97D/f)

250 Camille struck during my summer vacation between sophomore and junior years of HS. So, no time off from school. It missed New Orleans for the most part, dumping some rain but never taking out the power at our place. Snug and cool in the A/C, I listened to the reports on my AM radio.

There was a fishing boat, one which looked like the Skipper's SS Minnow, that got tossed inland past the beachfront highway, Hwy. 90. The town, Gulfport or Biloxi, made it a monument and memorial to those who died in the storm (including those in one apartment building that was completely leveled).

The day after Katrina, the boat was also completely gone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:22 PM (omVj0)

251 Any deviation from the norm, even towards milder weather, proves global warming.

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

"And any alignment with the norm is proof of racism, h8rs! So it's a lose/lose/lose proposition bet for you ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 29, 2025 05:22 PM (ls2v0)

252 4 I thought I saw that the winds were 245mph on a news thing this morning.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
-------------------

That was Whendy the whether woman speaking.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2025 05:22 PM (yZqjq)

253 I was living in Coconut Grove at the time. Where were you?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Coral Springs.
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at October 29, 2025 05:11 PM (fveCG)
==============
As you say, worse south of us; friends in Homestead lost their entire neighborhood. Pretty much the whole town.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 29, 2025 05:23 PM (y6l9B)

254 I forget who was in it. A white dood, and a black guy, I think.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:21 PM

I think one was that guy from Interview with the Vampire that wasn't Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 05:23 PM (jc0TO)

255 241 Anyone remember the dumb movie "Hard Rain?"

It was about rain.

Wettest movie ever.
Posted by: Soothsayer
_________________________

This is where someone more clever than I, and less concerned about their reputation would ask, "Hey, remember that movie, 'Black Rain'?"

Not a good film for Andy Garcia fans. I think he lasted about 5 minutes before his head was rolling across the parking garage.

Posted by: Disgruntled Monkey on the Lamb (with the sniffles) at October 29, 2025 05:23 PM (dIske)

256 as long as Jamaica is not as bad as the newsroom at CBS I am not worried for the fate of any storm victim

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2025 05:23 PM (rbvCR)

257 239 The power was out for a while -- but we had it back within two weeks. In contrast, with Katrina, I understand there were plenty of areas that were still dark after a month.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:15 PM (omVj0)

The entire MSM ignored state of MS after Katrina did not have power for weeks. My parent's farm did not for 2wks, 120mi inland. My brothers found a generator and window unit for my then invalid father's bedroom. Many elderly people like him died on gurneys in hospitals. With airports closed I could not get to him for weeks. He did fine as sitters would trade ice for gas with our family and none let him down. Neighbors helping neighbors is key. My mother and brother on the farms all have generators now for their homes.

Knowing that most homes/farms are armed, there was no looting. Some stealing of gas randomly from cars, but the noise of a shotgun works well, so a distant cousin of my mother's said. A former police chief. He was in a town and sitting on the front porch when a "youth" came to his door. The shotgun made that noise and the "youth" apologized and said he had the wrong house. Indeed.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2025 05:23 PM (j5WMt)

258 Christian Slater. That guy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 05:24 PM (jc0TO)

259
lol @ Anne Heche!

What a fuckedup death she pulled off. She should've got an Oscar for her performance. Wacky bitch.

Incidentally, there are people who firmly believe in the Conspiracy Theory that THEY replaced Ann Heche with a Body Double at the scene of the crash/fire.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:24 PM (97D/f)

260 Huh, Morgan Freeman was in it. Of course.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 05:25 PM (jc0TO)

261
Speaking of Andy Garcia...

you know what movie I just downloaded yesterday?

"Desperado" with Antonio Banderas.

Never watched it. Any good?

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:26 PM (97D/f)

262 RIP Pierre Robert, Philly DJ and Icon.

Posted by: Mick at October 29, 2025 05:27 PM (HFx9z)

263 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 29, 2025 05:27 PM (PiwSw)

264 262 RIP Pierre Robert, Philly DJ and Icon.

I'm in total shock

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 29, 2025 05:27 PM (emBoF)

265 "Desperado" with Antonio Banderas.

Never watched it. Any good?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:26 PM

Not really. None of the El Mariachi movies are any good after the low budget first one.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 05:27 PM (jc0TO)

266 245 We were vacationing in Pascagoula when Camille hit. We had to beat it out of there on the wings of the storm.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 29, 2025 05:19 PM (jc0TO)

My crazy and fun father was in his Criss Craft boat in the Gulf fishing. Came into the marina and saw the black flags and guys telling him Camille was coming. He was oblivious.

One of my brother's and a friend and cousin were with him. He casually got the boat hitched to his car and came back to the city first to give his mother fish to clean and freeze. My own mother was insane with worry when he rolled in to the farm. If there were "words" they were in their bedroom.

He lived on a wing and a prayer, my late Marine father.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2025 05:29 PM (j5WMt)

267 Speaking of Andy Garcia...

you know what movie I just downloaded yesterday?
------

"Internal Affairs" had Andy Garcia and Richard Gere. It was solid, I've watched it more than once over the years.

Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 05:29 PM (TN0g+)

268 Used to date her.

Posted by: Just the punchline at October 29, 2025 05:29 PM (XQo4F)

269 The entire MSM ignored state of MS after Katrina did not have power for weeks. My parent's farm did not for 2wks, 120mi inland. My brothers found a generator and window unit for my then invalid father's bedroom. Many elderly people like him died on gurneys in hospitals. With airports closed I could not get to him for weeks. . . .
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2025

***
Oh, yeah, all the focus was on the poor black people in the city waiting for help from Big Daddy Gubmint, because Bush didn't care about them.

As we crawled out of town, a local long-time broadcaster was on the air, describing what he could see from his studio across from the Superdome. He said he saw more than a few people with working cars park, then stroll across to take "shelter" in the Dome. In other words, they had cars and could have fled -- but didn't.

The stories, too, about local gangs shooting at rescue helicopters? I spoke to several cops in the year after Katrina. They said it was true, they saw it happen.

That weekend changed me into a conservative right then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:31 PM (omVj0)

270 264 262 RIP Pierre Robert, Philly DJ and Icon.

I'm in total shock

Same. I just saw him at the Keswick on Saturday.....

Posted by: Mick at October 29, 2025 05:31 PM (HFx9z)

271 Working late on the wrong side of town there was a Chicken Shack I would stop at for take home. On the back corner wall was an older black man, propped back in his chair with a shotgun across his lap. Only danger was to and from one's vehicle.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 29, 2025 05:31 PM (yZqjq)

272 Was it 185mph on the ground, or just at 10,000 ft?
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 29, 2025 04:33 PM (1Nv0l)

A former engineering colleague of mine who still has relatives in Jamaica sent me some pictures this morning of re-bar reinforced concrete houses blown apart. Roofs of others found two blocks away. This hurricane was wrapped extremely tight with most high winds within 20 to 25 miles of the center. Pretty intense.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 29, 2025 05:35 PM (5xuJ/)

273 The stories, too, about local gangs shooting at rescue helicopters? I spoke to several cops in the year after Katrina. They said it was true, they saw it happen.

That weekend changed me into a conservative right then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2025 05:31 PM (omVj0)

I was already a conservative and nearly bat sheet insane until Geraldo had me laughing out loud in front of the NOLA Civic's Center. One body in the fridge and youths milling around. Geraldo was nearly in tears shouting about rapes and a guy walked behind him and I fell out laughing. HE was afraid of being raped! A grandmother simply wanted her missing grandchild's photo on air. Stupid Geraldo yanked a toddler from her, squeezed the baby's cheeks, and yelped, "This is the face of Katrina!!!" Grandmother looked at him and thought bubble,"This guy is crazy!" At that point I recovered my grief, that was massive.

The cannibals in the Super Dome were horrific, Shep said! He liked some of them! Golly.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2025 05:38 PM (j5WMt)

274 259
lol @ Anne Heche!

What a fuckedup death she pulled off. She should've got an Oscar for her performance. Wacky bitch.

Incidentally, there are people who firmly believe in the Conspiracy Theory that THEY replaced Ann Heche with a Body Double at the scene of the crash/fire.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:24 PM (97D/f)

Her death was a wild scene.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2025 05:40 PM (j5WMt)

275 Incidentally, there are people who firmly believe in the Conspiracy Theory that THEY replaced Ann Heche with a Body Double at the scene of the crash/fire.

Posted by: Soothsayer

I am one of those people. I'm also a Helen Keller Skeptic. And Thelma Todd.

Posted by: Not Swallowing Any of It at October 29, 2025 05:42 PM (oftw2)

276 One thing I did not realize from MS in 1969 was that Camille caused similar damage to Virginia mountains as did Helene last year.

I was wth? when my son told me this had happened before to states far inland from where the hurricane hit. Horrific photos that are very similar to the NC mountains.

So put that in your climate change pipe and smoke it, liberals!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 29, 2025 05:42 PM (j5WMt)

277 274 259
lol @ Anne Heche!

What a fuckedup death she pulled off. She should've got an Oscar for her performance. Wacky bitch.

Incidentally, there are people who firmly believe in the Conspiracy Theory that THEY replaced Ann Heche with a Body Double at the scene of the crash/fire.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2025 05:24 PM (97D/f)

these theories always run into the buzzsaw question, Why Bother?

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2025 06:11 PM (uWKK8)

278 They'll interrupt a perfectly good ball game on an Oklahoma City broadcast to "warn" us that the winds are really, really, really strong in Gotebo, Oklahoma. I've lived here since the late 80's and I still don't really know where the hell Gotebo is.
Posted by: Crusader at October 29, 2025 04:44 PM (TN0g+)

Gotebo is north of Slapout.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 29, 2025 06:11 PM (g8Ew8)

279 255 241 Anyone remember the dumb movie "Hard Rain?"

It was about rain.

Wettest movie ever.
Posted by: Soothsayer
_________________________

This is where someone more clever than I, and less concerned about their reputation would ask, "Hey, remember that movie, 'Black Rain'?"

Not a good film for Andy Garcia fans. I think he lasted about 5 minutes before his head was rolling across the parking garage.
Posted by: Disgruntled Monkey on the Lamb (with the sniffles) at October 29, 2025 05:23 PM (dIske)

How about "The Devil's Rain" ???
A high point of William Shatner's career.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2025 06:12 PM (uWKK8)

280 THIS HURRICANE WAS NEVER A CAT 5.

At sea level the sustained windspeeds were barely Cat 1 (74mph).

They hype hurricanes for fear porn.

The 2 that hit FL last late summer/early fall were barely Cat 1 at landfall. I know. I was there.

Posted by: Volchek at October 29, 2025 06:13 PM (Pdhey)

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The hurricane vids are cool as hell - especially that second one.

In a weird way it reminded me of the Hayman fire. My buddy's girlfriend lived in the "eye" of that thing. All her neighbors were burned out, but her house was more or less OK. Once the fire swept through, she called my buddy for help getting out. I was there, so I went with him.

We packed up the car with her stuff, and while she was getting the last of her crap together, we stood on the cantilevered deck, just smoking cigarettes and watching the giant bowl of flames consume the other side of the valley.

It looked kinda like that hurricane-eye. But fiery.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 29, 2025 06:45 PM (BI5O2)

282 So how many Jamaicans do you think Midwestern Republican governors are going to import for "humanitarian reasons" guessing 20 million.

Posted by: Rbastid at October 30, 2025 07:51 AM (g6+4l)

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