Hurricane Dean
 

AHH SHIT WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE. Just got upgraded to a Category 2. I really do hope our power gets knocked out for a month at work so I can get some "me" time :killgrin:

No but really, Last year was 'supposed' to be the worst year in recorded history, and we got what.. Hit by TWO Tropical Storms or something? Maybe this year we'll get fucked up again like we have been the past few years, or maybe the Earth is just going through a natural process in which every so often we get abnormal occurences of hurricanes that we haven't had in recent history.. Maybe?

We're all going to die!!

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Hmm..

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Good luck, my son.

They're saying that within the next 2 days it can very highly become a Category 4... Which isn't the best news to hear when you live in damn Florida right up next to the coast, though, they say it's going to hop into the Gulf and probably fuck up Texas again/N.O.

Texas has been flooded so badly ALL Summer while the Southeast has gotten little to no rain. Not a good trend. We need that hurricane to go into the southeast and give some life giving rain =x.

die die die

You should wear some protective clothing, walk outside and strap yourself to something that won't get blown to fuck, and then endure in enjoyment the storm while it lasts.

w0rd.

You most likely won't even get rain from it, D3v. You might, but I highly doubt you'll get anything bad.

Texas/Louisiana, however, are probably going to get fucked in the ass by Dean.

Uh oh, it's Katrina's Husband

Yeah I know, but it's fun to speculate.

Here are the updates as of 8:00AM ast

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Uh oh, Hurricane Dean has one fatality now and is a Category 3. Here's an updated forcast.

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Want to send some rain over to SoCal? I think we've been without rain for like 6+ months again.

It's now projected to be a CATEGORY 5 storm. Crazy shit. Most projections show it plowing into Mexico like 100+ miles south of Texas, but at least one of the possible tracts leads it into Louisiana and another to Texas. Either way drenched Texas is probably gonna get quite a bit damper.

Yeah, it's a category 4 right now and I don't think it's even hit the gulf yet. Once it hits the gulf, it's gonna be like it injected steroids into its balls.

Yea, a hurricane needs 80 degree weather to be healthy ...the gulf is currently like 87 degrees fahrenheit. If it hits Texas it could very well have Katrina/Andrew like consequences. All I can say is if it takes the least likely route of heading towards louisiana I would probably just kiss New Orleans goodbye.

Ouch, that isn't going to be pretty either way...

To make you guys down there feel better, southern Minnesota got 2 inches of rain today...

This hurricane is going to fuck some people up.

If it starts shifting north even a little bit...man that's gonna suck.

We've gotten ~8cm of rain this year. :(

You just got 64% of our annual rain so far in one day.

Almost every Saturday for the past month it has rained buckets for hours. I'm surprised that San Diego hasn't gotten much rain, being a coast city.

It's not just San Diego, it's Southern California as a whole. I know last year we had like a 7 month or so period of no rain, this year's looking even worse.

I still don't understand why anyone would fucking live in Florida near the coast. Or any of the southeastern seaboard for that matter.

Taiwan just had a typhoon.

It's a very nice place to live the other 9 months of the year, but the 3 filled with Hurricanes are pretty shitty.

You can say that about anyone that lives in an area prone to Earthquakes, or anyone that lives in Tornado Alley,... It may not make sense to you, but the locals have probably gotten used to it, I know I have. Shit I wouldn't mind evacuating, I'm sure my car would get damaged along the way somehow and I'd claim it as totaled and have them write me a check for a new one :)

Live in Colorado on or East of Interstate 25. Guarantee those mountains will protect you, and it will be prettier than Florida.

So did your car get squished yet? Hope it doesn't washaway my poopjob!

So this hurricane is gonna cause some major damage huh?

Most definately, at this point it's really just a matter of where it will cause the damage. Any shift in either direction could make a lot of difference.

From the looks of it, Mexico seems to be the only one to get fucked. If it shifts northwest then most of Texas is in for a shitty week/weekend.

One thing I learned from living in hurricane alley for most of my life is that they can rarely make a correct prediction about where a hurricane is going to go. It can change so easily and so quickly, so you really can't trust what they say.

If it DOES continue on it's projected path, though, the bulk of the hurricane will hit the Yucutan peninsula (I think that's what it's called, doubt it's how it's spelled,) which will severely weaken it, so the rest of mexico will probably just get the remnants.

However, if it shifts to the north even a little bit, it could hit the gulf, turn into a cat 5, and own texas/louisiana/whatever. Hell, it could even curve back around and hit florida after that. I've seen hurricanes do loops, stop on top of places (I remember one that sat on top of North Carolina for like 2 days, didn't move at all,) all kinds of shit.

Once thing I can say for sure, though, is it's going to do some pretty serious damage SOMEWHERE, because it's already a cat 4.

Good thing about Minnesota is nothing water-based can really reach us. Only bad thing about the southern part is the large hail and tornadoes. I think during some of the large hurricanes in the gulf we got some of the winds and rain, but it was a waning storm.

Hurricanes can't get very far inland at all, land really fucks them up.

Though, I really doubt there's anywhere that you're COMPLETELY safe from natural disasters. I really like hurricanes, myself. I was in some pretty rough ones, but never had any property damaged too bad. It's a pretty crazy thing to go through, tons of rain and crazy winds. There are winds that you literally can't walk in because they're blowing so damn hard. It's pretty nuts.

I was in North Carolina for Hurricane Hugo way back in like '90. That was interesting.

Yep, what K_A said. Even with that projection, a Storm of that size can turn out to be a fucking El Nino and spin around the opposite way and hit anything in the Gulf at this point, Shit I remember Ivan I believe it was and pretty much stopped and went back up the atlantic, they can change at any time when they want...

Hurricanes can't be the el ninos if you mean like the warming effect of the oceans x_x.

Haha, D3V is funny! It could possibly turn into Katrina!

Here ya go d3v, if you ever get hit:

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.d...WS01/308200024

Look it up, this year is basically the same conditions as when El Nino the backwards spinning hurricane came through the gulf.

The storm itself can't be an el nino. Look it up.

I know it can't.......? Wtf, ..


Edit: Oh gd just seen my earlier post, Lmao you guys are ridiculous.

I'm just giving you shit =P.

Yah I know bastard, but you do get what i'm saying.


Look like the hurricane is going to slam into mexico anyways, oh well.