GasBandit
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...OH MY GOD IS THAT THE LYRIC?
All these years I thought it was "sound of flies." I know it didn't make sense but... you know, old songs were silly. Goo goo ga choo and all that.
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All these years I thought it was "sound of flies." I know it didn't make sense but... you know, old songs were silly. Goo goo ga choo and all that.
I'm sure you can google quickly for "20 songs who have lyrics you have been getting wrong for years!" (replace 20 with whatever number) They are LEGION.
GasBandit
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"Goo goo ga joob", by the way.
GasBandit
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That one I'm not worried about. The exact spelling of jibberish is a little too trivial even for me.
But not for me. Normil wurds do'nt bohter mee butt gibberish shood b spellet rite.
I'm actually considering getting out of Dodge here. Forecasts show it'll be a CAT 3 by the time it gets here, which is still major. I just don't know where the eye is going. It LOOKS like it'll be east of here, on the other coast, which would make my area safer (if true---still no idea where its actually going), but the storm is so big, I'm not sure what the impact will be. Top it off with the fact I-75 N out of Florida is a parking lot and I'm kinda stuck deciding what should be done.
Well, we are seeing an epidemic of anti vaxxers, so plagues probably aren't far off.
FWIW, Weather Underground is showing storm force winds in your area whereas Orlando is getting hurricane force winds.
$99 to take JetBlue out of Florida.
GasBandit
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They might not take dogs... or they might let dogs freeze in the hold.
Stay safe southeast coast people!
My family will be evacing on Saturday morning, most likely. Maybe sooner, we'll see.
Just like last time, I will be here, swimming and dodging flying trees.
EDIT: Jim Cantore has landed. Shit. Got. Real.
EDITREDUX: Apparently, this is bullshit. That'll teach me to take friends' Facebook posts at face value.
Just like last time, I will be here, swimming and dodging flying trees.
EDIT: Jim Cantore has landed. Shit. Got. Real.
EDITREDUX: Apparently, this is bullshit. That'll teach me to take friends' Facebook posts at face value.
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Yanno, when I was a kid, I always thought that "The Big One" would hit the LA area about this year...
Really hope my sister pulled her family out of there.
I dunno man, the most recent
Edit: Sorry, wrong model.
The WU Computer models have it tracking up the east coast of FL, but the Ensemble models are all over the state. Sigh.
Looking at the tropical wind probability for their location, there's a 60-80 percent chance they're going to be hit with 39mph winds or greater.
Better than even odds, but the reality is that they are relatively far inland, and fairly well protected by all the land mass around them (unless they are closer to the coast than to orlando).
If they don't have anything critically irreplaceable, if their home is already secured for tropical force winds, and if they can extend their stay until late next week, then it's worth considering staying longer. Otherwise there's little danger in traveling down before the storm and weathering it out in place. Even if it hits them head on, it'll have already travelled half of Florida's length and thus weakened considerably. It would only be very bad if it stayed in the atlantic off the coast, strengthening, then took a sharp turn west right at Orlando.
Worst case, they'll have a day or two notice that it's still a major hurricane as it approaches them, hasn't weakened, and they'll have some time to evacuate.[DOUBLEPOST=1504795557,1504795406][/DOUBLEPOST]http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/114654.shtml?tswind120#wcontents
GasBandit
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Imagine setting up Bill Gates' anti-mosquito laser turret there. It'd go Molten Core.
Dave
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So instead of the locusts we were talking about....
The part about that graph that stands out for me is how the temperature graph is very "day-night" distinct post-hurricane (clear skies-ish presumably) but the approaching cloud "muddles" the whole thing into an outright flatline (both ways, doesn't go down at night) as it approaches.
GasBandit
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For now, malaria isn't a (big) issue over ther eyet, but we're already seeing malaria mosquitoes survive up to Northern Italy. The changing weather patterns - and let's all agree to leave the politics out of this thread and just assume it's changing, never mind the cause - will push malaria further north soon enough, and it will come there too. Instant double the fun!
GasBandit
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The Texas Department of Health and Human Services actually rescheduled a lot of their Zika virus awareness commercials off the week after the hurricane on my stations because they thought reminders to "drain standing water" might be a little insensitive during the flood. But now they sure as hell are doubling up on them.