Atlantic Hurricanes

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Paraquita Bay, BVIs
"Before and After"

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[LanguageOfLove]

May all those who stay in the atlantic coast be safe!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Now, in the official meteorological circles, you have an abundance of people who believe that man-made climate change is real. And they believe that Algore is correct when he has written — and he couldn’t be more wrong — that climate change is creating more hurricanes and stronger hurricanes. And, of course, when Harvey hit, it was the first hurricane that had hit in 12 years. There haven’t been more hurricanes and no more dangerous than any others in previous years.

But it doesn’t matter because the bias is built in. So there is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it. You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don’t need a hurricane to hit anywhere. All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and more dangerous, and you create the panic, and it’s mission accomplished, agenda advanced.

Now, how do you do this? Well, any number of ways. Let’s take south Florida television, for example. There is symbiotic relationship between retailers and local media, and it’s related to money. It revolves around money. You have major, major industries and businesses which prosper during times of crisis and panic, such as a hurricane, which could destroy or greatly damage people’s homes, and it could interrupt the flow of water and electricity. So what happens?

Well, the TV stations begin reporting this and the panic begins to increase. And then people end up going to various stores to stock up on water and whatever they might need for home repairs and batteries and all this that they’re advised to get, and a vicious circle is created. You have these various retail outlets who spend a lot of advertising dollars with the local media.

The local media, in turn, reports in such a way as to create the panic way far out, which sends people into these stores to fill up with water and to fill up with batteries, and it becomes a never-ending repeated cycle. And the two coexist. So the media benefits with the panic with increased eyeballs, and the retailers benefit from the panic with increased sales, and the TV companies benefit because they’re getting advertising dollars from the businesses that are seeing all this attention from customers.

Rush Limbaugh

 

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Well-defined eye, north of the coast of Hispaniola. Poor, benighted Haiti may have dodged a bullet (for once).

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[ryan8558]

Rush Limbaugh

is an asshole

also

Al Gore is two words.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Algore was one of my performance alts...


Byron killed him when he died.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He does have a point.

Why do they freak people into buying bottled water when it could be directing them to fill up bottles and old jugs, etc.?

 

[Ishmael]

He does have a point.

Why do they freak people into buying bottled water when it could be directing them to fill up bottles and old jugs, etc.?

I spent years in Miami and the Keys. Hurricanes were what you lived with and planned for. Irma is a bitch of a storm but none the less, you just do some basic things.

1. Everyone had jugs and filled them up with tap water. You did that before the storm, days before, because the water authority started pumping copious quantities of chlorine into the system a day or so before the storm was supposed to hit. You filled your bathtub and any other open cistern with water as well to use to flush the toilet. And when the storm hit the rule was, "If it's brown, flush it down. If it's yellow, let it mellow."

2. You knew you were going to lose power for an indeterminate time. So you turned down the temp on the fridge and kept the door closed unless absolutely necessary to open it.

3. You made sure you had fuel for cooking and lighting. Oh, and the stove and hurricane lamps to provide both.

4. Everyone that had a house had hurricane shutters or 3/4 ply for the windows. We knew that once the wind got in the roof and/or walls were gone.

It was a way of life. This nonsense over runs on bottled water baffles me. You would think that none of those morons have access to a tap.

Ishmael

 

[doowdniw]

is an asshole

I was going to say a drug addled halfwit, but asshole works, too.

 

[jaF0]

I don't get the bottled water runs either. I keep jugs to fill when needed. Those Arizona (and similar) Iced Tea ones work well. Milk jugs too.

Oh, and fat ass Lush Wimpaugh is a fat assed buffoon and doctor shopper pill popper. People who read him, well ........ I guess they just don't know any better.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Not only do we have jugs, but we have water purification, ponds, a swim pool...


Then again, we're preppers. I take care of guns and ammo.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

People who think you read the radio crack me up.

 

[Saint Peter]

God hates trailers.


Say your prayers.

 

[trysail]

Lest ye forget—

Jose
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is out there.




A double whammy?

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for...
* Antigua, Barbuda, and Anguilla
* St Maarten
* St. Martin
* St. Barthelemy​

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[Rightguide]

I spent years in Miami and the Keys. Hurricanes were what you lived with and planned for. Irma is a bitch of a storm but none the less, you just do some basic things.

1. Everyone had jugs and filled them up with tap water. You did that before the storm, days before, because the water authority started pumping copious quantities of chlorine into the system a day or so before the storm was supposed to hit. You filled your bathtub and any other open cistern with water as well to use to flush the toilet. And when the storm hit the rule was, "If it's brown, flush it down. If it's yellow, let it mellow."

2. You knew you were going to lose power for an indeterminate time. So you turned down the temp on the fridge and kept the door closed unless absolutely necessary to open it.

3. You made sure you had fuel for cooking and lighting. Oh, and the stove and hurricane lamps to provide both.

4. Everyone that had a house had hurricane shutters or 3/4 ply for the windows. We knew that once the wind got in the roof and/or walls were gone.

It was a way of life. This nonsense over runs on bottled water baffles me. You would think that none of those morons have access to a tap.

Ishmael

Lots of stupid people would rather pay more for water than they do gasoline.

 

[Rightguide]

is an asshole

also

Al Gore is two words.

The intellectuals of the left have had their best ideas demolished on every level by a mere "asshole" for over thirty years now.

 

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...EYE OF IRMA CONTINUES MOVING OVER THE CAMAGUEY ARCHIPELAGO OF CUBA AS A CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE...


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Barbuda, Anguilla, Anegada and the BVIs get nailed again ?

INIT 09/0900Z 17.5N 60.3W 130 KT 150 MPH
12H 09/1800Z 18.4N 61.8W 125 KT 145 MPH
24H 10/0600Z 19.9N 63.9W 115 KT 130 MPH
36H 10/1800Z 21.5N 65.9W 110 KT 125 MPH
48H 11/0600Z 23.1N 67.6W 100 KT 115 MPH​

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[oggbashan]

Unfortunate timing...

In today's The Times magazine there is a two page advert:

Why not follow a visit to Disney Florida with a cruise around the Bahamas...?

Why not?

 

[Beco]

I think, if Trump was not our President, NONE of this would be happening....

 

[Beco]

Now, Irma is pointed toward the West Coast of FLA

 

[sigh]

He does have a point.

Why do they freak people into buying bottled water when it could be directing them to fill up bottles and old jugs, etc.?

Where do you get your news about what the news is saying? Rush? Good source there.

I've been laid up for a few weeks and watching coverage of first Harvey and now Irma for nearly all of that. And though I've obviously not seen every outlet's report, I've not yet heard a single journalist or meteorologist urging anybody to buy bottled water. All I've heard (repeatedly) is that you need a gallon of water per day per person. If people choose to buy bottles as their source, then they're being kinda dumb, but then dumbness is hardly rare these days and not the fault of the news media. And yes, CNN DID run a repeating report for awhile (following reports of shortages and high prices of bottled water) where the journalist suggested doing pretty much what Ish said. While the taps are running. Fill up everything you can.

So Rush (as usual) distorts facts (i.e., lies) to fit his rant-of-the-day and now we have "Fake Hurricane" believers out there. Idiots abound.

 

[sigh]

The intellectuals of the left have had their best ideas demolished on every level by a mere "asshole" for over thirty years now.

No, actually not, but stay happy in your dream world. I'm sure it's comforting to you.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Where do you get your news about what the news is saying? Rush? Good source there.

I've been laid up for a few weeks and watching coverage of first Harvey and now Irma for nearly all of that. And though I've obviously not seen every outlet's report, I've not yet heard a single journalist or meteorologist urging anybody to buy bottled water. All I've heard (repeatedly) is that you need a gallon of water per day per person. If people choose to buy bottles as their source, then they're being kinda dumb, but then dumbness is hardly rare these days and not the fault of the news media. And yes, CNN DID run a repeating report for awhile (following reports of shortages and high prices of bottled water) where the journalist suggested doing pretty much what Ish said. While the taps are running. Fill up everything you can.

So Rush (as usual) distorts facts (i.e., lies) to fit his rant-of-the-day and now we have "Fake Hurricane" believers out there. Idiots abound.

stfu


I don't "get" news from Rush. I was out running around that morning and did hear him during that segment, but once again, you have to make it fucking personal so you can turn about and then play the victim.

What fucking news are you watching?

Do you not understand that all of journalism hypes shit in order to increase ratings and sell commercials???

If it bleeds it leads and a disaster is the best way to get information out. The thing about the water was a minor point, an example.

Your hate makes you fucking stupid.

 

[Beco]

Where do you get your news about what the news is saying? Rush? Good source there.

I've been laid up for a few weeks and watching coverage of first Harvey and now Irma for nearly all of that. And though I've obviously not seen every outlet's report, I've not yet heard a single journalist or meteorologist urging anybody to buy bottled water. All I've heard (repeatedly) is that you need a gallon of water per day per person. If people choose to buy bottles as their source, then they're being kinda dumb, but then dumbness is hardly rare these days and not the fault of the news media. And yes, CNN DID run a repeating report for awhile (following reports of shortages and high prices of bottled water) where the journalist suggested doing pretty much what Ish said. While the taps are running. Fill up everything you can.

So Rush (as usual) distorts facts (i.e., lies) to fit his rant-of-the-day and now we have "Fake Hurricane" believers out there. Idiots abound.

You have to admit, the news outlets get a bit crazy with the coverage of the storms.. Wolf Blitzer said " Millions and Millions WILL die" its over-done. Maybe thats the media, but it does send people into a massive panic.