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We're gonna need a bigger state

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    HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    What's that weird building?

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    Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    crwth wrote: »
    In 2001, SuperChannel set out to complete the project using donations only,
    designed to serve the business and ministry needs

    i think i see the problem

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    rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    edited September 2017
    crwth wrote: »
    “It has a lot to do with Christianity and I think people accept the fact that whether it’s done or not, it represents something,” said resident Ronal Baird.

    rhylith on
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    crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    thanks to this storm i've discovered a new internet user base and that's weather nerd reddit

    through which i found this track which, if it happens will be very scary for ol crwth

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    crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    oh damn just noticed my battery percentage

    nice

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    bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Nice.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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    Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    noice

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    XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
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    DedwrekkaDedwrekka Metal Hell adjacentRegistered User regular
    crwth wrote: »
    thanks to this storm i've discovered a new internet user base and that's weather nerd reddit

    through which i found this track which, if it happens will be very scary for ol crwth

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    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

    Oh, Noice
    *breath in*
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

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    WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    also, they're tiny islands. any hurricane that comes along will do massive damage because there's very little to buffer buildings from the wind.

    So I did hurricane recovery work with habitat for a year in 2008 down in the gulf, with large swaths of Mississippi still rippeddown by wind damage and much of southern Louisiana still waterlogged

    You can actually bring a building up to Florida's best in the country wind damage code easily enough by strapping the framing to itself in a way that makes the building bend as a whole unit
    There's less you can do about water damage, even before a cat 5 storm

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    WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Other related tidbits:
    Almost all the effective rebuilding work that I saw came from small faith based volunteer orgs, churches that would send people down to work with habitat
    In one case government contractors completely ruined a neighbourhood 3 years after the storm cause they never replaced the drywall when they did the original repairs, rendering about 90 homes unliveable due to mold

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    SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    I feel bad about Florida, but holy shit this is probably going to flatten the Turks and Caicos Islands. 30,000 people, highest point 163 feet above sea level, directly in the patch of the hurricane, predicted storm surge of 15-20 feet.

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
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    korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    I live in South Carolina. I am well over a hundred miles inland. That projection has the center of the storm passing quite literally over where I live.

    Ha..haha... Oh boy.

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    - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
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    JavenJaven Registered User regular
    korodullin wrote: »
    I live in South Carolina. I am well over a hundred miles inland. That projection has the center of the storm passing quite literally over where I live.

    Ha..haha... Oh boy.

    If it scrapes up the coast like it's supposed to, it should lose a lot of its strength by then

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    XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    also, they're tiny islands. any hurricane that comes along will do massive damage because there's very little to buffer buildings from the wind.

    So I did hurricane recovery work with habitat for a year in 2008 down in the gulf, with large swaths of Mississippi still rippeddown by wind damage and much of southern Louisiana still waterlogged

    You can actually bring a building up to Florida's best in the country wind damage code easily enough by strapping the framing to itself in a way that makes the building bend as a whole unit
    There's less you can do about water damage, even before a cat 5 storm

    oh I know about hurricane ties/straps and etc., but it'll only help so much with a ton of stuff flying around at 185 mph

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    bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    All projections seem like it'll probably still be cat3 by the time it hits the carolinas though, these things contain massive amounts of energy.

    It might even still be a Cat1 by the time it hits the NE seaboard with NY/Mass.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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    JavenJaven Registered User regular
    Sand we've reached the point where projections are going to change

    5 o clock update from local stations have it moving west, and crawling up pretty much the middle of the state

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    Kane Red RobeKane Red Robe Master of Magic ArcanusRegistered User regular
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    Hey cool, I can see my house in that track! Wait, no, not cool!

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    TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Not to take away from their seriousness

    But being born and raised in Florida and seeing all the radar displays and video every year...I find hurricanes just super fascinating

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    crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    they are, i've been fascinated by hurricanes since i was a kid

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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Not to take away from their seriousness

    But being born and raised in Florida and seeing all the radar displays and video every year...I find hurricanes just super fascinating

    I feel the same way about twisters. They've fucking leveled towns near where I grew up but I'm still kind of in awe of them.

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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Same with quakes here in California. Here's the ground. It stays still. Everything is on the ground.

    Then suddenly the ground stops remaining still and now it's rolling like water, literally waves in your hardwood flooring, and everything is shaking, falling, and roaring from a force you can't even try to escape when there was no warning.

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    When I was a kid we had a picture book about a platypus who got caught up in Cyclone Tracy. It left me with a profound awe of cyclones/hurricanes ever afterward.

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    crwth wrote: »
    they are, i've been fascinated by hurricanes since i was a kid

    tito wanted to be a hurricane when he grew up

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    crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    crwth wrote: »
    they are, i've been fascinated by hurricanes since i was a kid

    tito wanted to be a hurricane when he grew up

    i'm a natural disaster in my own way

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    TubeTube Registered User admin
    When I was little I wanted to be a pac-man arcade machine.

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Well, at least there is a brightside

    Mar a Lago is projected to be entirely underwater

    people that live there fucking hate trump

    I bet Trump doesn't tip

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    When I was little I wanted to be a pac-man arcade machine.

    There's a 'joystick' joke here, but it's too damned early for me right now.

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    EncEnc A Fool with Compassion Pronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    bottled water and gasoline no longer exist in western florida

    y'all stop drinking that gas

    don't tell polk county what they can and cannot drink

    Yes. YES.

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    so, it looks like the irma will be much weaker than previously projected

    still gonna be real bad, just not apocalypse bad

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    JavenJaven Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    so, it looks like the irma will be much weaker than previously projected

    still gonna be real bad, just not apocalypse bad

    Not much, but yeah.

    That coincides with it hitting landfall more directly: in earlier projections had the eye wall staying out to sea, so it didn't lose strength, but the sheer size of the storm meant it'd still heavily impact the state. Now, it's going to absolutely cream Miami as a cat-4, but lose strength at a faster rate, since the eye is inland the whole time. By the time it hits Georgia it might not even be a hurricane anymore.

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    NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    stay safe regardless floridians

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    tzeentchlingtzeentchling Doctor of Rocks OaklandRegistered User regular
    Radius wrote: »
    Hurricane is still air lord.

    Cue an earthquake in California and a freak Blizzard in the northeast and we'll be set to fight Deathwing afterwards.

    There was an 8.1 earthquake late last night off the Pacific coast of Mexico. They felt it all the way in Mexico City.

    Just need the blizzard now!

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    CelloCello Registered User regular
    Radius wrote: »
    Hurricane is still air lord.

    Cue an earthquake in California and a freak Blizzard in the northeast and we'll be set to fight Deathwing afterwards.

    There was an 8.1 earthquake late last night off the Pacific coast of Mexico. They felt it all the way in Mexico City.

    Just need the blizzard now!

    You gotta give the North at least a month on that one.

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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Captain Planet's ready to be summoned and this time Heart won't be used.

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    DedwrekkaDedwrekka Metal Hell adjacentRegistered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    Captain Planet's ready to be summoned and this time Heart won't be used.

    Of course not, have you seen the rate of heart attacks lately?

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    DedwrekkaDedwrekka Metal Hell adjacentRegistered User regular
    Well, at least there is a brightside

    Mar a Lago is projected to be entirely underwater

    There's no way that Cheeto doesn't profit off this in a big way.

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Well, at least there is a brightside

    Mar a Lago is projected to be entirely underwater

    people that live there fucking hate trump

    I bet Trump doesn't tip

    trump doesn't even pay his bill

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