I wrote my SSN on my body the day we got married. I'm surprised you never noticed that.i figured. I was just kinda apologizing for the all caps.
"write your ss# on your body so we can identify you" is pretty frickin urgent. and horrid.
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I wrote my SSN on my body the day we got married. I'm surprised you never noticed that.i figured. I was just kinda apologizing for the all caps.
"write your ss# on your body so we can identify you" is pretty frickin urgent. and horrid.
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the storm hits NJ hard before kickoff....... tons of standing water on the field that
causes the play to be slippery and sloppy
RU leads by 10 at the half
at halftime, the RU field crew works feverishly to clear the field of the water, making it surprisingly playable.
RU loses by 28...
This storm is more likely to smack the islands that Irma "missed".....St. Croix instead of the other VIs and PR. That's rough.Interesting graphic on the paths of Irma and Maria. God help those islands still recovering from Irma that are gonna get by Maria.
There are so many computer models in use, I'm sure one has that covered. Just a matter of how much.But will it bring snow to Metuchen?
I would be shocked - shocked, I say - if this storm were to get to Florida. The way the models and the NHC forecast track are lining up any putative U.S. landfall would be OBX, north.
Did you post "poopie" or "doody"?It's gotta get its poopie together. Maria's endured some pretty strong shear through her initial formation and is within a day and a half of interacting with the middle Antilles, most of which have some pretty mountainous terrain. The storm's presentation, right now, is pretty poor and its current projected path provides a number of opportunities for disruption.
OMG, dude, that's from the Sound of Music.What is that from. I recall seeing that as a small boy
Why are we seeing such strong hurricanes this year compared to previous?
Throw in the earthquakes and it seems the planet is stepping up organic population control.
Another $100 billion clean up bill coming our way. At some point an intelligent people would decide that it's much more cost-effective to prepare for hurricanes than to keep cleaning up mountains of debris afterwards.
I read we spent $500 billion in disaster clean up since 2000 and now it seem like maybe $400 billion just for this year. The US can not pay this type of Bill. When it happens in Asia, it just happens without the expectation of the government bailout.Another $100 billion clean up bill coming our way. At some point an intelligent people would decide that it's much more cost-effective to prepare for hurricanes than to keep cleaning up mountains of debris afterwards.
Define "prepare", as it fits into your scenario of not having to clean anything up.
Just like the football and basketball programs.The water in that region is really, really warm. Approaching 90 degrees in many places. Rising water temperatures have a non-linear impact on storm intensification.
Earthquakes just happen. They happen all the time. The area around Puebla, MX is seismically very active. Mexico sits on both the North American tectonic plate, in the north, and the Cocos tectonic plate in the south. They're moving in opposite directions.
Another $100 billion clean up bill coming our way. At some point an intelligent people would decide that it's much more cost-effective to prepare for hurricanes than to keep cleaning up mountains of debris afterwards.
I read we spent $500 billion in disaster clean up since 2000 and now it seem like maybe $400 billion just for this year. The US can not pay this type of Bill. When it happens in Asia, it just happens without the expectation of the government bailout.
There are no short term "preparations" one can make for a major hurricane, per se, that will significantly reduce damage from winds/surge/flooding rains. Sure, people can evacuate to save their lives, but that's about it. The only things that reduce the damage are long term investments in building stronger structures to withstand Cat 5 winds and not building any structures in vulnerable storm surge or floodplain areas - or at least building them at a height above the worst case storm flood level.
These are expensive things to do right and usually only apply to new construction - and certainly aren't going to happen in poor or even middle class areas. And that's just the housing/structure angle, not the angle on key vulnerable infrastructure, like power grids/utilities, cell towers, manufacturing sites, etc.
Also, while global warming likely has a small role in slightly stronger storms, due to slightly warmer sea surface temps, it has no proven role in the number and general severity of storms per year (or decade), which are much more a function of ENSO state (El Nino/Southern Oscillation), the Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation (which is related to sea surface temps), regional shear and mid-level humidity environments in favored tropical storm genesis and evolution locations. That may all change with continued global warming in coming decades, but for now it doesn't appear to be a factor (or at least it hasn't been demonstrated yet).
The Netherlands is a country with a long history of flooding--and a complex series of levees and seawalls designed to protect the country. They have designated areas to flood in case their defenses are overwhelmed by water and these areas have houses that float and infrastructure designed to handle heavy flooding. That is preparation. What we do is live from one disaster to the next, with the attention span of 7 year olds.
I see the current thread title contrasts Puerto Rico with the "U.S." Reminds me of the lines from West Side Story:
Nobody knows in America
Puerto Rico's in America!