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Originally posted by jimmy123x:


You're going to want a whole lot more gasoline than that. That's 8-14 run hours of fuel for the generator. It might be a week to 2 weeks to find a place to buy gasoline again.

I agree more fuel is never a bad thing, even if you use to help neighbors. He doesn't have to run the generator 24/7. 20-30 minutes every few hours will keep everything cold enough if he can keep people from opening the doors every 5 minutes.

Saw 20 power trucks heading north from southwest Florida today.

The weather folks finally decided to be honest...

We have teams staging in Knoxville, Asheville, and Atlanta right now.

Citizens assisting Citizens

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As time passes we'll eventually see a real "Storm of the Century".

This might be one.

Well, we do still have 82 years left in this century.

All day yesterday I keep seeing this renewed push by leftists about how this storm "is a direct result of global warming!" So now we are back to warming now I suppose?

Made the mistake of questioning the dogma of these idiots on a reply to an article on FB posted by our local Philly paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer.

I tried to point out that the past several years have actually seen a decrease in hurricane and tornado activity and was almost immediately, viciously jumped on. Called a "retard", "slow" "idiot Trump voter", you name it.

Do NOT question these people or they will try to destroy you.

All I know about these types of storms is: if the folks from The Weather Channel are quickly throwing their gear in the van while screaming "RUN AWAY, FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES!!!"......it is time to leave.

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All day yesterday I keep seeing this renewed push by leftists about how this storm "is a direct result of global warming!" So now we are back to warming now I suppose?

Yup, here's a related article from FOX referencing a WAPO article. It's all these mind-numbed robots know.

Great quote from the article:

“This column is so absurd it should be coming from The Onion not the Washington Post. To the extent that climate change is happening, it is a global phenomenon that has been occurring for decades and decades,” Barron said. “The media won’t give Trump credit for the economy but they will blame him for a hurricane. You can’t make this stuff up.”


http://www.foxnews.com/politic...dangerous-storm.html

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Originally posted by HRK:
...During and after Charlie in 05 hit ...

Everything else you said is true, but I rode out Hurricane Charley in house in Harbor Heights right on the Peace River on Friday, August 13, 2004. Then Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne in the same year. Charley was a small fast moving storm at the upper end of a Cat. 4 when ran into Charlotte Harbor and up the Peace River. The eye was only 2 miles wide.

Not a chance I would stay for one of these slow moving large storms.

I get the frustration at the predictions, however over the years we've learned that not putting out warnings for potential landing of the storm is now unacceptable, it's hard to determine whats going to happen with 100% accuracy, other weather systems form, move in and out that affect the path.

Right now theres a model having it turn south and back in over Savannah...




Linky thing

Cool image from the Space Station of the eye

^^^ Sorry, but that makes me chuckle!

^^^ Me too!

NOAA 2pm forecast on 12 sep 2018

Times added from other NOAA data

The storm movement slows down 8 am Fri to 8 am Sat (average only 2.5 mph)

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Originally posted by HRK:
I get the frustration at the predictions, however over the years we've learned that not putting out warnings for potential landing of the storm is now unacceptable, it's hard to determine whats going to happen with 100% accuracy, other weather systems form, move in and out that affect the path.

Right now theres a model having it turn south and back in over Savannah...




Linky thing

Cool image from the Space Station of the eye

I don’t think anybody has a problems with warnings being issued, it’s just the over-sensational way they are issued is de-sensitizing.

Some of the Loon talking heads at CNN are blaming Trump for this because he removed the US from the Paris accord on Climate Change. Nut cases abound at that Network.

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Originally posted by TMats:

Hear in Ohio we had a Blizzard in 78 that lasted 4 days and many stores ran out of milk and put out powdered milk but people wouldn't buy it. Maybe they were to dumb to know how to mix water with the powdered milk.

I am SO damn happy that I will never again have to go work Hurricanes , ice storms , floods ,etc. 40 years of the power company business and they can have it now. I made a shit ton of money and have some cool stories but I'm too old for that stuff anymore . I talked to one of my old coworkers and he said they sent a convoy of trucks to the East coast this morning .

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Originally posted by thumperfbc:

I don’t think anybody has a problems with warnings being issued, it’s just the over-sensational way they are issued is de-sensitizing.

you mean the four horsemen of the apocalypse are not going to come in via surfboard and catch gnarly waves all the way to the Blue Ridge?

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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Originally posted by redstone:
It is aggravating. They have declared a state of emergency here and all of Virginia. The university will close tomorrow and football Saturday was canceled.

Weather.com is calling for light showers...

Pretty dramatic changes in path this morning that I don't think any of the models had estimated that direction. I'm not sure, two days out, what other options you would have suggested for the state of VA yesterday given the seemingly pretty solid forecast?

Yesterday at 10AM, Charlotte was in line to get 2-3 inches of rain and 40 mph wind gusts. Today it it 10-15 inches on the easy side and 6-10 on the west side. Sustained winds of 60-80 mph.