Single hurricane thread

[Vrede too]

Ingle's has Bounty 60% off today for their Friday "high noon" special.
Coincidence?

They're 10x the normal price east of I-95.

[k9nanny]

Ingle's has Bounty 60% off today for their Friday "high noon" special.
Coincidence?

They're 10x the normal price east of I-95.

I hope not!
Why paper towels for storm clean up? The best use would be mopping the sweat off one's face. I don't get it.

Ingle's has been entertaining this week. I'm not in there for storm supplies, I'm there for odds and ends. I haven't seen that much beer carried out since 4th of July. The cheap bread is gone, the healthy bread is abundant. And who would have thought there'd be no regular gas?

So what are we getting? The forecasts are all over the place, but this I know- when moisture slams up against the Blue Ridge escarpment, we can get torrential downpours. We are preparing for a deluge here, and hoping we are wrong.

[GoCubsGo]

Stolen from CPF but nonetheless funny.....watch the weather dude and the guys behind him.

[Vrede too]

... Why paper towels for storm clean up? ...

Maybe not for the storm clean up, but they can be useful on people, utensils, etc. when clean, running water is limited.

... The cheap bread is gone, the healthy bread is abundant....

Healthy bread gets moldy faster unless frozen, but that won't be the reason for people that never eat it, anyhow.

So what are we getting? The forecasts are all over the place, but this I know- when moisture slams up against the Blue Ridge escarpment, we can get torrential downpours. We are preparing for a deluge here, and hoping we are wrong.

Idk, 3-6" over mostly Sat. & Sun. is what I'm seeing. Look at that Tropical Depression symbol smack on top of us.
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/ ... p=forecast

[Vrede too]

Stolen from CPF but nonetheless funny.....watch the weather dude and the guys behind him.

He's also leaning the wrong way for what wind there is.

[GoCubsGo]

Stolen from CPF but nonetheless funny.....watch the weather dude and the guys behind him.

He's also leaning the wrong way for what wind there is.

Hey, I've been court martialed back to mid-shipman....I didn't do it!! I'm innocent!!

[O Really]

Good site here - get flood probability down to the address level. Cool.

https://fris.nc.gov/fris/Home.aspx?ST=NC

[Vrede too]

Hey, I've been court martialed back to mid-shipman....I didn't do it!! I'm innocent!!

Have you been tithing to banni?

[Vrede too]

Good site here - get flood probability down to the address level. Cool.

https://fris.nc.gov/fris/Home.aspx?ST=NC

"Minimal Flood Risk"

[GoCubsGo]

Hey, I've been court martialed back to mid-shipman....I didn't do it!! I'm innocent!!

Have you been tithing to banni?

Damn, gonna have to scale up from the bud lite.

[Leo Lyons]

You may watch him more than me, but that's not what happened here. POSPOTUS is the liar, Brock Long cowered from addressing it, and George Stephanopoulos wasn't visibly pissed.

I wasn't thinking of that particular instance; I didn't see it. I had other instances of Trump-Stephanopoulos encounters in mind.

[Leo Lyons]

Stolen from CPF but nonetheless funny.....watch the weather dude and the guys behind him.

I saw this earlier on Facebook! I was going to post it, but you beat me to it. "boy, lookit the wind whipping those palm trees!", not to mention the wind ripping that shingle out of his hand!

[billy.pilgrim]

I guess that I don't understand

Why is everyone on CNN freaking out about a catastrophic storm surge at 3 a.m. high tide in Myrtle Beach?

I thought that TS Florence would be hitting MB with winds from the NE. Oh no, trump is right, CNN is fake news.

[Vrede too]

Stolen from CPF but nonetheless funny.....watch the weather dude and the guys behind him.

Here's an article about the vid you found:

Weatherman Braces For Hurricane Florence While 2 Guys Walk By As If Nothing’s Wrong
Reporting on Florence in North Carolina, he girds himself in the storm, but two passers-by appear less distressed.

It recalls a couple of vids from different storms:



Michelle, row your boat ashore . . . Oh wait, it already is, Hallelujah!



Lucy is Yang-king our chains.

[billy.pilgrim]

Stolen from CPF but nonetheless funny.....watch the weather dude and the guys behind him.

Here's an article about the vid you found:

Weatherman Braces For Hurricane Florence While 2 Guys Walk By As If Nothing’s Wrong
Reporting on Florence in North Carolina, he girds himself in the storm, but two passers-by appear less distressed.

It recalls a couple of vids from different storms:



Michelle, row your boat ashore . . . Oh wait, it already is, Hallelujah!



Lucy is Yang-king our chains.

"HuffPost reached out to the Weather Channel, which supplied this statement:"

(In the age of trump) “It’s important to note" (through the use of a double down lie) "that the two individuals in the background are walking on concrete, and Mike Seidel is trying to maintain his footing on wet grass,"



He faked it
He got caught faking it
But instead of admitting it and moving on
He and his network of weather news people lied again with an even bigger less believable lie.

[Vrede too]

"HuffPost reached out to the Weather Channel, which supplied this statement:"

(In the age of trump) “It’s important to note" (through the use of a double down lie) "that the two individuals in the background are walking on concrete, and Mike Seidel is trying to maintain his footing on wet grass,"

He faked it
He got caught faking it
But instead of admitting it and moving on
He and his network of weather news people lied again with an even bigger less believable lie.

Incredible. Even if that made any sense at all we would have to ask why he didn't step onto the pavement 2 feet away.

I would have gone with: "Isn't that eye wall amazing?"

Florence’s 1-in-100-Year Storm Surge Breaks All-Time Records

... The largest storm surges reported on Friday from Florence were in New Bern and Emerald Isle, North Carolina, where water levels reached 10.1 feet and 7.0 feet above ground, respectively, according to the National Hurricane Center....

This @weatherchannel visualization of storm surge is an amazing and sobering use of technology to show what hurricanes like Florence can do

https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/10403 ... me-Records

...

Notice that she doesn't make swimming motions.

[k9nanny]

Good site here - get flood probability down to the address level. Cool.

https://fris.nc.gov/fris/Home.aspx?ST=NC

"Minimal Flood Risk"

My address is minimal, but just a few yards away, not so minimal. The outer band is already nudging Spartanburg, and it's sprinkling here. I'm anticipating becoming waterfront property before it's all over.

<sigh> Piles of towels ready for wet dogs.

[billy.pilgrim]

Good site here - get flood probability down to the address level. Cool.

https://fris.nc.gov/fris/Home.aspx?ST=NC

"Minimal Flood Risk"

My address is minimal, but just a few yards away, not so minimal. The outer band is already nudging Spartanburg, and it's sprinkling here. I'm anticipating becoming waterfront property before it's all over.

<sigh> Piles of towels ready for wet dogs.

Puppies and children love a downpour and making a mess.

I sure hope y'all don't wash away. We're flat and can mostly handle a 20+ inch rain. This slow motion thing is going to be dumping a huge amount of water to feed into your rivers for days.

[billy.pilgrim]

"HuffPost reached out to the Weather Channel, which supplied this statement:"

(In the age of trump) “It’s important to note" (through the use of a double down lie) "that the two individuals in the background are walking on concrete, and Mike Seidel is trying to maintain his footing on wet grass,"

He faked it
He got caught faking it
But instead of admitting it and moving on
He and his network of weather news people lied again with an even bigger less believable lie.

Incredible. Even if that made any sense at all we would have to ask why he didn't step onto the pavement 2 feet away.

I would have gone with: "Isn't that eye wall amazing?"

Florence’s 1-in-100-Year Storm Surge Breaks All-Time Records

... The largest storm surges reported on Friday from Florence were in New Bern and Emerald Isle, North Carolina, where water levels reached 10.1 feet and 7.0 feet above ground, respectively, according to the National Hurricane Center....

This @weatherchannel visualization of storm surge is an amazing and sobering use of technology to show what hurricanes like Florence can do

https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/10403 ... me-Records

...

Notice that she doesn't make swimming motions.

That was total bullshit.

They should understand a storm surge better than I do. Their job is to inform, not to scare people into running unnecessarily.

[Vrede too]

That was total bullshit.

They should understand a storm surge better than I do. Their job is to inform, not to scare people into running unnecessarily.

How so?