#2 2017-09-05 10:52:37
"The director of the Puerto Rico's power company predicted that storm damage could leave some areas without electricity for four to six months."
For some in PR, 6 months to finally get their power on would be an improvement.
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#3 2017-09-05 12:35:57
Destruction begins in the northern Caribbean in less than 24 hours.
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#4 2017-09-05 21:22:01
The time has come to empty the cistern and put a couch in there. You could easily be swept away.
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#5 2017-09-05 21:28:14
The folks that I am working with are buying new trucks and trailers tomorrow to move the animals away. I need two large boat trailers and will not be able to obtain them. It may already be too late to move them here from Maine in time for a slot with the marine crane. And we are only in Georgia. I need a large Cat and permission to dig a hole.
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#6 2017-09-06 12:52:36
Live footage as Hurricane Irma destroys Maho Beach Cam in St Maarten 9/6/2017
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#7 2017-09-06 13:07:50
Smudge wrote:
Live footage as Hurricane Irma destroys Maho Beach Cam in St Maarten 9/6/2017
Somebody needs to close the back hatch on that little car. There will be certain mildew damage.
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#8 2017-09-06 21:53:44
Don't worry, St Martin has more cars than people on that island. And more car accidents resulting in loss of limbs. They take any condition car and keep it running long past expiration date.
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#9 2017-09-07 01:08:49
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#11 2017-09-07 14:00:06
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#12 2017-09-08 09:46:50
Oh, come on now. This is no way to run a Hurricane party. The absurdist part is this river rat bar and restaurant's entire business model is based on tolerating these rummies every other day of the year. With no alcohol, they don't even bother to fire up the grill and crab pot. Folks will be eating armadillo and gator soon enough, let's not rush it.
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#13 2017-09-08 13:51:11
So much for the used car glut.
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#15 2017-09-08 16:15:45
Smudge wrote:
Updates in real time:
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=25.8;-80.2;5&l=windv
Well that does explain a lot regarding our New England weather right now.
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#17 2017-09-09 14:41:36
You can watch Irma roll in on these live cams (until the internet or power get knocked out):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwIkt56IIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaErEed7UPI
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#19 2017-09-12 16:52:45
Million-dollar wine collections are being moved to safety as the Category 5 hurricane heads for the U.S., with some bottles dating back more than 100 years being moved to bunkers and temperature-controlled warehouses out of the affected states...
Meh. Here outside of Mouseville we had high winds and some localized flooding and my chainsaw is getting a workout cleaning up around the neighbors houses (I trim my trees more than once per decade, so I didn't lose anything large).
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#20 2017-09-15 18:33:40
Jose moving west-northwest on Friday. Jose had been a dangerous Category 4 tropical storm, with 150-mph winds, and now it has been declared a hurricane once more.
CIRA/CSU and NOAA/NESDIS/RAMMB
Updated at 5:30 p.m. ET
People who live along the U.S. East Coast from North Carolina up to New England should monitor Hurricane Jose, forecasters say. The storm's winds won't get close to land until Sunday or Monday — but it was formally declared a hurricane again on Friday afternoon.
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#21 2017-09-18 03:39:03
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#22 2017-09-18 17:08:23
Emmeran wrote:
Pot meet kettle...
Fault lines, fire dangers, on a sand dune, next to a small lake, floodland. All places you shouldn't build, but people do anywhere. Because as smart as any person is, *people* are dumb.
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#23 2017-09-18 17:42:32
Why not next to a small lake?
(Just a bit concerned here that I'm self identifying...)
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#24 2017-09-18 21:35:41
Smudge wrote:
(Just a bit concerned here that I'm self identifying...)
High tide is 100 feet from this keyboard. I'm shopping for offsite storage.
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#25 2017-09-18 22:21:55
choad wrote:
Smudge wrote:
(Just a bit concerned here that I'm self identifying...)
https://cruelery.com/sidepic/gifted.watterson.png
High tide is 100 feet from this keyboard. I'm shopping for offsite storage.
You don't have the system server there with you, do you? I'm guessing you rent server space at an off site facility? I base this assumption on the fact that the system seems to keep running more or less without interruption.
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#26 2017-09-18 23:52:45
Smudge wrote:
You don't have the system server there with you, do you? I'm guessing you rent server space at an off site facility?
Yeah, but my bugout fu is weak. We had a picture postcard summer, I thank the cosmos for that.
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#27 2017-09-19 07:09:10
Actually it's hosted in the vicinity of Newark. While the area experiences hurricanes from time to time, the data center is protected from flooding and has backup power. Staying online is likely not a good indicator that all is OK in the area.
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#28 2017-09-19 09:30:35
Smudge wrote:
Why not next to a small lake?
Depends on where you are. Here in Floridistan most large lakes (100+ acres) are managed well with canals and drainage gates that can be opened in advance of storms. The St. Johns Water Management Authority is in charge and does a reasonably good job. Small lakes are usually not well managed and their spillways are usually choked with weeds and scrub and when full (like this summer) they drain in unpredictable manners.
Now if you are next door to a mountain lake with a clean spillway, no problem. But if you live on a weed infested pothole and tend to get 20+ inches of rain from time to time you may want to reconsider. I went for a ride all around after the hurricane and most of the flooding I saw was around small ponds and among farm sites that were built in the swampland.
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#29 2017-09-19 09:40:28
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Smudge wrote:
Why not next to a small lake?
Depends on where you are. Here in Floridistan most large lakes (100+ acres) are managed well with canals and drainage gates that can be opened in advance of storms. The St. Johns Water Management Authority is in charge and does a reasonably good job. Small lakes are usually not well managed and their spillways are usually choked with weeds and scrub and when full (like this summer) they drain in unpredictable manners.
Now if you are next door to a mountain lake with a clean spillway, no problem. But if you live on a weed infested pothole and tend to get 20+ inches of rain from time to time you may want to reconsider. I went for a ride all around after the hurricane and most of the flooding I saw was around small ponds and among farm sites that were built in the swampland.
I credit Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road" for my even knowing (or caring) that Jersey had swampland.
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#30 2017-09-19 10:24:19
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Smudge wrote:
Why not next to a small lake?
Depends on where you are. Here in Floridistan most large lakes (100+ acres) are managed well with canals and drainage gates that can be opened in advance of storms. The St. Johns Water Management Authority is in charge and does a reasonably good job. Small lakes are usually not well managed and their spillways are usually choked with weeds and scrub and when full (like this summer) they drain in unpredictable manners.
Now if you are next door to a mountain lake with a clean spillway, no problem. But if you live on a weed infested pothole and tend to get 20+ inches of rain from time to time you may want to reconsider. I went for a ride all around after the hurricane and most of the flooding I saw was around small ponds and among farm sites that were built in the swampland.
Ah. It's really a regional thing, then. The lakes I grew up around (and right next to one) in the upper Mid-West were originally the remnants of melting glaciers, later fed and maintained by springs. When the water level got too high from rain or snow melt, the spillover simply drained into one of the river systems which eventually fed into the Mississippi.
There probably used to be a lot of swamps in the area, but the farm land was so valuable that those were drained and the water channeled safely away generations before I was born. Chicago sits on a former enormous swamp, for example.
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#31 2017-09-19 13:01:36
Smudge wrote:
Chicago sits on a former enormous swamp, for example.
Houston sits on a current one.
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#32 2017-09-19 14:15:00
Baywolfe wrote:
Smudge wrote:
Chicago sits on a former enormous swamp, for example.
Houston sits on a current one.
You guys (Texans) need to have a chat with the Dutch. With enough effort It's a solvable problem. But if everyone is going to sit back and wait for the
'free market' to take care of it, I'm guessing it's going to take a long time.
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#33 2017-09-19 14:24:09
Smudge wrote:
Baywolfe wrote:
Smudge wrote:
Chicago sits on a former enormous swamp, for example.
Houston sits on a current one.
You guys (Texans) need to have a chat with the Dutch. With enough effort It's a solvable problem. But if everyone is going to sit back and wait for the
'free market' to take care of it, I'm guessing it's going to take a long time.
You forgot option #3, nobody seems to give a shit. Oh sure, a few people drown in a downtown parking garage every time there is major storm, but the really crazy thing is that Houston is actually sinking into its base of sand and clay, due to the great demand for water. It's like the entire Houston area needs foundation repair.
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#34 2017-09-19 14:46:20
No, I think we're agreeing actually. When you base a society on individual greed as the highest principal it becomes an evolutionary dead end.
As the world continues to shift away from oil (albeit a gradual and long term shift) I don't think Houston will fare well.
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#35 2017-09-19 15:53:49
Smudge wrote:
...I don't think Houston will fare well.
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#36 2017-09-19 16:41:54
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Smudge wrote:
...I don't think Houston will fare well.
It was awesome living there in the in the 1980's if you didn't have an oilfield related job. All the crappy restaurants that opened during the boom went out of business, prices dropped across the board but mainly food and gas, traffic was reduced, rents even rolled back as the snowbirds went back to Detroit, etc.
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#37 2017-09-19 23:35:36
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#38 2017-10-02 11:46:42
Meet the new reality, same as the old reality.
Still, it took 6 days before we were able to hear back from my step-Abuelita and aunts, and they all live within 20 miles of San Juan. But don't expect the contractors or government officials to be efficient or any less corrupt during the cleanup. Expect it to take twice as long to fix, last half as long and cost twice as much as anywhere else. Is it too late to give it back to the Spanish?
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