Hurricane Dean

[Onkel Neal]

Hurricane Dean, Category 4
http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atlstorm4/atl4projectedpath_large.html

Headed my way, send cans of chili, fritos, sardines, Dr Pepper (no bottled water, please, I'm trying to save the Earth even though she is attacking me), motorcycle pontoons, and a GPS tracker. John Channing is flying down from Canada to stand guard over the Deep Domain servers in Houston. I want to thank his brave dedication in advance, for laying down his life to keep hordes of maruading hurricance survivors out of the Deep Domain DataCenter.

Bill, send that chopper Tuesday, k?

Neal

[fatty]

Batton down the hatches Onkel!! :arrgh!: Hope you and yours stay safe through it all.

[swifty]

Don't forget the beer and rum for the hurricane party. Also make sure you have enough to lasts the week. Those long days without AC are brutal. Especially for August in East TX. I'm hopeing we get a few this year I need more vacation.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

I need more vacation.

who dosnt :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Skybird]

Just saw a 10 min-weather special on it on TV, and how it develeoped over the past days, and it does not look nice. They said there is a risk that this turns into a real mean beast.

Good luck over there! As captain of the board, of course it is your gallant duty to keep this site running until the very end. Our well-being, our fates, who knows - even our lives may depend on subsim.com running on.

But don't feel being put under pressure. :smug:

[geetrue]

The Lord said this storm would come to pass through me on July 17th ...
here's the posting: I am geetrue over there too.

http://foru.ms/t5717686-prophetic-a-storm-is-on-the-way.html


His exact words were, "A hurricane will broach Texas"

I didn't understand the word broach at first:

Broach (sailing) is a sudden change in heading angle of a sailboat, towards the wind caused by wind/sail interactions, that hull hydrodynamic reactions can't compensate for. This is principally due to the aerodynamic force on the rig greatly exceeding the hydrodynamic force on the hull, usually due to a sudden increase in wind strength.
[Such as a tropical storm that was about to drift out, but generated hurricane strength in a couple hours' time.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broach_%28sailing%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broach_%28sailing%29)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Broaching.jpg/200px-Broaching.jpg


Broach (submarine) Submarines operating submerged are said to have broached the surface when a portion of the ship (such as the sail, bow, or screw) other than a mast or antenna comes out of the water. This is similar in intent, if not in 3-D direction, to the use of broach to describe instability in heading of a sailing ship.

[Jimbuna]

I hope she behaves herself....my son is sailing from Savannah to The Panama Canal, then up to L.A. :hmm:

[STEED]

Any excuse not to go to work, sorry boss a Hurricane is on my door step. :roll:

[Jimbuna]

My lad don't have the choice he's on a ship......containers ahoy....hope those washed ashore are full of goodies :p

[tycho102]

Bill, send that chopper Tuesday, k?
It might wash Brownsville a little bit, but looks like Houston will get a pass.

I like NPR this afternoon. "No sense of urgency" in Jamaica. Wait until you're bobbing in with the swells, and then you'll get a "sense of urgency". It might be the "sense of urgency" to climb the nearest tree, but by God, you'll get some kind of sense. Sense of depth, sense of mud, sense of houses floating by you with some green chick on a broom talking about "I'll get you AND your little dog". I mean, when your whole island is literally engulfed by the eye of the storm, you're going to find that sense of urgency that seems to be eluding you.

And you know, places like Haiti and Dominican Republic have so much deforestation, that the floods really are terrible. There is *nothing* to hold back floods. The mangroves are all washed out from all the flash floods.


It's just crazy.

[Tchocky]

time for hatch-battening-down-behaviour :)

Good luck Neal, hope it's only an impressive rainstorm

[Onkel Neal]

Bill, send that chopper Tuesday, k?
It might wash Brownsville a little bit, but looks like Houston will get a pass.



Way too soon to tell. Check the model Tuesday am.

[P_Funk]

Why do they always give them such wussy names? Katrina... sounds like a temper tantrum. Dean... very dry and uptight.

What about Hurricane Hitler. Tropical Storm Nero.

Give them some balls! Its just embarassing to think that the American government got undressed in N'Orleans by something named after a girl I knew in high school.

[AVGWarhawk]

Projected path looks favorable for not hitting TX. Unless Dean decides to take a right turn on Tuesday. This storm is every bit as nasty as Katrina. Jamaica is going to be a mess for sure.

[Takeda Shingen]

I'm trying to save the Earth even though she is attacking me

That's got to be in the running for quote of the year. :lol:

[The Avon Lady]

I'm trying to save the Earth even though she is attacking me
Analogy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S_1VMOl5y0)?

:D

[Onkel Neal]

Projected path looks favorable for not hitting TX. Unless Dean decides to take a right turn on Tuesday. This storm is every bit as nasty as Katrina. Jamaica is going to be a mess for sure.

Heh, let's hope it goes along the currently projected path, which has it a little more south than yesterday.

This is a pretty cool hurricane tracking tool (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7845030), you can see where previous canes went, how fast the winds were, etc. Some of them took some pretty fancy turns, what I wish they included on a tool like this, I wish they also had the projected path highlighted at each stage, so you can tell where the model was predicting the cane to go. I mean, look at the '04 cane Jeanne... did anyone have a clue where that thing was going? Can you imagine the big sigh of relief from Florida on 9/21 when it turned due east... and then the big "oh crap!" on 9/25 when it circled around west again? :lol:

Good news, the sandbags John requested have arrived at the datacenter.

[Onkel Neal]

Why do they always give them such wussy names? Katrina... sounds like a temper tantrum. Dean... very dry and uptight.

What about Hurricane Hitler. Tropical Storm Nero.

Give them some balls! Its just embarassing to think that the American government got undressed in N'Orleans by something named after a girl I knew in high school.

Yeah, we need a hurricane Thor and a hurricane Conan!

[AVGWarhawk]

Projected path looks favorable for not hitting TX. Unless Dean decides to take a right turn on Tuesday. This storm is every bit as nasty as Katrina. Jamaica is going to be a mess for sure.

Heh, let's hope it goes along the currently projected path, which has it a little more south than yesterday.

This is a pretty cool hurricane tracking tool (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7845030), you can see where previous canes went, how fast the winds were, etc. Some of them took some pretty fancy turns, what I wish they included on a tool like this, I wish they also had the projected path highlighted at each stage, so you can tell where the model was predicting the cane to go. I mean, look at the '04 cane Jeanne... did anyone have a clue where that thing was going? Can you imagine the big sigh of relief from Florida on 9/21 when it turned due east... and then the big "oh crap!" on 9/25 when it circled around west again? :lol:

Good news, the sandbags John requested have arrived at the datacenter.


Very true on tracking. Like everything else and weather, just a predicted track. Dean could make a right turn and go just about anywhere. I believe the last that went over the Yucatan Peninsula lost a lot of punch. Lets hope that happens here. It all depends on how hot the waters are in the Gulf. As for Jamaica, not a happy outlook. As for TX, FEMA's major distribution center is in Fort Worth so once they have their day long meetings on what to do :roll: getting supplies to the affected areas is easy.

[waste gate]

The models are looking like Mexico will take the brunt of the storm...........as of now.

http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/omd/ops/weather/plots/storm_04.gif

[Heibges]

I thought it was a thread about Howard Dean, and I was going to reiterate that he is from Machusettes, not Vermont.

[Iceman]

I find it humorous people trying to predict the paths of such storms...as the link Neal provided the one thing absolutly certain is people don't have a clue as to where a storm will actually go...:lost:

[waste gate]

I find it humorous people trying to predict the paths of such storms...as the link Neal provided the one thing absolutly certain is people don't have a clue as to where a storm will actually go...:lost:

I agree whole heartily. Its much like climate! The difference is climate must be measured over more than a few days, more like milenina.

[geetrue]

Very true on tracking. Like everything else and weather, just a predicted track. Dean could make a right turn and go just about anywhere. I believe the last that went over the Yucatan Peninsula lost a lot of punch. Lets hope that happens here. It all depends on how hot the waters are in the Gulf. As for Jamaica, not a happy outlook. As for TX, FEMA's major distribution center is in Fort Worth so once they have their day long meetings on what to do :roll: getting supplies to the affected areas is easy.


I was just a little boy in 1955, when I lived in Waco, Texas ... but we got hit by a hurricane all the way up in Waco ... which is I don't know some 220 miles I think from Houston, Texas.

Moved to Houston in 1959 and got hit by Hurricane Carla in 1961. That was the hurricane that made Dan Rather famous.

He was just a local news man out of Houston when CBS spotted him on the air and hired him.

Hurricane Carla was so bad it left rattle snakes hanging on the barb wire fences when the water receeded.

This is a very bad hurricane ... God bless whoever it hits and where ever it strikes.

[Iceman]

This is a very bad hurricane ... God bless whoever it hits and where ever it strikes.

Amen

[Bort]

Yikes:o That looks like one nasty storm! It's at times like this I'm glad the only large body of water near me is a lake.

[Jimbuna]

This is a very bad hurricane ... God bless whoever it hits and where ever it strikes.

Fingers crossed for everyone unfortunate enough to find themselves in it's path. :yep:

[Onkel Neal]

It's looking more south, hasta la vista, baby. I think the US global warming is too much for it.

[Dowly]

It's looking more south, hasta la vista, baby. I think the US global warming is too much for it.

I think someone gave Dean a hint that there's two mean m***er*******ers living in Texas and decided to turn around ASAP. Neal and Mr. D.Lemon. :p

[Heibges]

Much like Dick Blain telling Major Strasser of the Third Reich, "There are some parts of New York I would advise you against trying to invade."