Hurricane Dean

[Onkel Neal]

Hurricane Dean, Category 4
http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atl...ath_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!! 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]

Originally Posted by swifty

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.

[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-...n-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

• 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.

[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]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

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]

Originally Posted by tycho102

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]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

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.