hurricane coming...

a 'weakened' a maelstrom with a 400 mile diameter is nothing to snark at.

remember bob? and gloria?

I call this a category Bitchgina!

Irene's Bitchgina and the flattening of Raleigh

going to stock up on beer and wine this weekend

― Peanut Butter... in my chocolate? (brownie), Friday, August 26, 2011 3:48 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

like i do every weekend

― Peanut Butter... in my chocolate? (brownie), Friday, August 26, 2011 3:48 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark

<3

remember the safest place to be in a hurricane is a whalegina

i do NOT have a battery-powered radio, which means I may go shopping on Canal St at lunch

apparently they don't softpedal stuff in Connecticut (NYT blog):

In #CT, @GovMalloyOffice says "large-scale" power losses possible – “not just for a few hours - days and weeks."

there may never be electricity again! who can say?!?

I'm glad my Dann Electro sounds pretty good un-amped.

idk obviously public officials are going to make a big deal about a hurricane, no one wants to be blamed for lack of preparation or for rescue & recovery resources being late or unavailable. in other words HURRICANE KATRINA: NEVER FORGET

"you could be on your roof at this time Sunday"

for their own safety, residents are encouraged to build arks no smaller than 300 cubits in length, breadth 50 cubits, and height 30 cubits and bring at least two of each animal

lolz

stay safe this weekend, east coasters; i'd buy you all emergency gin if i could

amazon has shifted its one-day shipping estimated date until Monday. So much for my last-minute camping-stove idea.

if you see any anacondas in new york - panic - the zoo may escape

something's gotta eat all those rats

but who's gonna eat the anacondas?

I feel bad for all the moose up near you, Latham. Their gigantic antlers are so aerodynamically disinclined –– what if they blow away? What if they get, like shrubbery entangled? Think of all that surface area. Seriously, though, I feel bad for the animals. Chipmunks are basically reduced to shrieking, furry, projectiles of cute death.

other boroughs

the mongeese xps

And rabbits must get earaches from all that whistling wind.

Now it's "late Sunday" for NYC... great, let's shut the city down right now, why take chances?

at least we can all go to church first and pray to Cheezits for safe passage on the booze-dark murk. New thread idea: Good hurricane movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VCZS__-NTI

"to bring these moose back to life to educate the public" sounds like an amazing idea, but the execution is ... disappointing.

Key Largo surely the first choice xp

Whaddya have, a hot date or somethin', Dr. Morbius?

i have a weird blind spot about never wanting to check the weather forecast so i never have any concept of what's going to happen until it's something big like this. can someone just give me a heads up itt about whenever this is supposed to hit maryland?

Top Hat (1935)

http://www.weather.com/weather/alerts/localalerts/USMD0018:1?phenomena=TR&significance=W&areaid=MDZ011&office=KLWX&etn=1009

THE ONSET OF TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS COULD START AS EARLY AS SATURDAY MORNING.

... WINDS... AS HURRICANE IRENE APPROACHES... SUSTAINED TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN LATE SATURDAY EVENING. MAXIMUM WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE IN THE 35 TO 45 MPH RANGE WITH GUSTS TO 65 MPH.

cool. i think i'm gonna take my son to the park, sounds like that won't be an option this weekend.

James Barron, NYT:

With Hurricane Irene pushing relentlessly toward the East Coast, officials made plans to shut down New York City’s sprawling subway and bus system beginning at noon on Saturday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said.

The commuter rail lines that serve Long Island, Westchester County and Connecticut will also be shut down.

Officials decided to go ahead with the transit shutdown, which they had first mentioned on Thursday as a possibility at a City Hall briefing on Thursday, as the city was evacuating hospitals and nursing homes in low-lying areas. Sstate officials continued arrangements for coordinating emergency services and restoring electricity if the storm does the kind of damage many fear.

Some Atlantic City casinos made plans to stop rolling the dice and turn off the slot machines by 8 p.m. Friday. The naval submarine base in Groton, Conn., sent four submarines out to ride out the storm deep in the Atlantic Ocean. And Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said that all lanes of 28-mile stretch of a major highway in Ocean County would go in only one direction — westward — beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday to help speed the trip away from Long Beach Island.Those preparations came as states of emergency remained in effect in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Homeowners scrambled to cover windows with plywood and boaters struggled to get their vessels away from docks. In New York, apartment dwellers with balconies and terraces hauled in patio furniture and potted plants, and stores ran short on staples like batteries, flashlights and bottled water. In shore towns on Long Island and in New Jersey, vacationers waited in lines at gasoline stations and watched as emergency crews piled sandbags on low-lying beach roads.

"Those preparations came as states of emergency remained in effect in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Homeowners scrambled to cover windows with plywood and boaters struggled to get their vessels away from docks. In New York, apartment dwellers with balconies and terraces hauled in patio furniture and potted plants, and stores ran short on staples like batteries, flashlights and bottled water. In shore towns on Long Island and in New Jersey, vacationers shat on passers by below and waited in lines at gasoline stations and watched as emergency crews piled sandbags on low-lying beach roads."

Should we create an Irene thread?

Sully's blog posted this letter from a Floridian:

If you actually get hit by a hurricane you are somewhat screwed. Construction of everything in Florida takes into account hurricanes. We have shutters or shatterproof windows. We don't have water towers on top of buildings or any type of siding in our houses, even street signs and lamps are designed for storms. Our drainage systems are designed to reasonably handle several inches of rain per hour. For geographic reasons, we have one tunnel in the entire state and nothing subterranean like a subway or basement. Heck, people in the Florida Keys aren't allowed to have a first floor at ground level. A selling point for a house or condo in Florida is that it is on the same power grid as a hospital or jail. There are a lot of generators, and if you don't have one, a person with a generator quickly gets reminded of all the nice things you did for them.

The Northeast has little or none of this.

Having been through more than half a dozen hurricanes, there are a couple necessities that don't make the list too often. A pack of cards, a lot of wine and a bunch of books are as much necessities as batteries and flashlights.

so malloy is shutting down CT for the weekend it appears - hopefully this means no class monday

Good luck NYC. I'm just hoping this is another case of the more prepared, the less intense the storm actually is.

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

New thread Hurricane Irene

eesh at ominous mention of precarious water towers

this is a long thread but has anybody explained how quickly hurricanes lose strength when they make landfall? if you're in NYC, you have absolutely nothing to worry about except maybe some bands of heavy rain. anybody north of Virginia can relax. i've been through several hurricanes. this one is relatively weak and landfall predicted so far away from NYC that all the fuss NYC folks are making really is some 'sky is falling' bullshit. chill out. you're going to be pissed when nothing happens but you can't go anywhere because your mayor is a dipshit.

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, August 26, 2011 12:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

shhhh TEN BILLION DOLLARS

The Floridian who wrote that letter is aware that the northeastern US gets storms severe enough to be named after the region, right?

Yeah, no. A bunch of those points abt how Florida is different are not applicable to up here, plus some are just wrong: LOTS of people have generators in the NE, dude. Because of this little thing, called winter.

crazy little thing called winter

Yeah, I'm not sure what part of the NE s/he thinks is so magically storm free. Nor'easters are even shaped like hurricanes.

fatt bottomed storms make the rockin worl dgo round

overrated hurricane preparations i have taken

my prep includes going to the clam shack tonight, because if the storm takes me out, i want to go happy and with heaps of fried seafood inside me

"My Big Day with INtestine full of Crustaceans "

If the power goes out, it's imperative to eat the seafood first!