hurricane coming...

have fun in florida!

why does weather.com still only have an 80$ chance of rain on sunday if apparently I'm gonna die in a hurricane

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still undecided if i'm going to camp out this weekend with my parents inland in central NJ ... or stick it out in Hoboken so close to the Hudson River (and hoping that there's enough space left in one of the municipal garages so that my car doesn't get fucked up by water or flying debris).

are your folks that bad?

god just doesn't want you to have a car

haha ... no. it's more that they're not really safe from flooding either (they're about a mile from the Raritan River and their part of the state gets hit hard by flooding on a regular basis).

more accurately, they live on a hill so their house doesn't get flooded out (and they have a good sump-pump system in the basement). but when the river floods they are essentially living on an island surrounded by a moat ... which could make getting home a problem.

this shit just keeps moving farther westard, looks like my hometown of binghamton might get as much of an impact as i will at school now!

we're gonna get fucking SLAMMED.

hurricane party

Gonna eat everything in the freezer just in case the power goes out.

Popsicles first, then the corn-dogs I'd never admit to owning, followed by 16 cups of chicken consommé, two Tupperwares of char siu pork, some haricot vert, maybe an intermission of jambalaya, a jugo with peaches and fifty-three flavors of half-eaten ice cream pints, some sancocho from god-knows-when, and a freezer-burned bag of blueberries for finale.

rip outer banks/tangier island etc

heh. is it wrong i'm a little excited?

fuck man i just bought a buncha groceries last weekend! alla those gonna go bad now! $_$

you're in CT amirite k3vin?!?

man I was planning on going to ct if shit got bad in ny

you're in CT amirite k3vin?!?

― Murdered plants communicate with a bowl of shrimps in another room! (Eisbaer), Friday, August 26, 2011 12:06 AM (2 minutes ago)

correct, basically uconn campus

heh. is it wrong i'm a little excited?

I feel like these kinda disasters are weirdly exciting to people in the modern sorta boring world cause they're so unpredictable and out of the blue and you actually see them w/ your own eyes

whereras like 100 years ago, nobody would be like "woo hurricane!!"

I don't even think the concept 'woo' existed 100 years ago really

hey did you guys see that nate silver predicts that this hurricane is going to cause TEN BILLION DOLLARS worth of damage in nyc, lol

my mom called me earlier to remind me to "FILL UP YOUR BATHTUB IN CASE YOU NEED TO FLUSH YOUR TOILET"

i can't tell if this is hurricane preparedness or what

Have ppl started raiding suprtmarkets and stripping 'em bare of cat food and plenty ripe pineapples?

jesus trayce it's not like it's nuclear war

we're stealing oranges

http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af231/ExquisitExamplE/Simpsons08x08-HurricaneNeddyrl14-24.jpg

think ill watch that episode in honor of our impending doom

we've tried nothin' and we're all out of ideas gets in my head like once a month at least

"Look, I'm a surfer!"

> Ooh maybe that means the waves will be good at the beach on Sat afternoon.

Exactly what I'm thinking ENBB. Best time based on predictions here is Saturday early morning daybreak before winds get too heavy, mostly overhead 7 to 8 footers with occasional even larger sets. Sunday will be too windy and choppy to surf, but wow, triple-overheaders (15 ft.) on the mid-atlantic east coast, likely to be too choppy to surf. Even if it wasn't - I'm fearless, but I'm not insane; and this is way beyond my capabilities.

They're shutting down highways and evacuating beachfronts everywhere though - may not be possible to even get there.

damn idk if it was b/c of the hurricane or w/e but i was standing in front of the open slider door earlier and the rain was coming in through the screen. i don't know what it's like out there now though

I bought a shit-ton of bottled water, but I'm going to go out and buy more. I'm having trouble thinking of good, shelf-stable vegetarian food that won't require cooking. So far all I've got are "fruit" and "nuts". I don't know - maybe fucking Clif Bars or something? Fuck.

buy a fuckton of beer and red wine too.

so they're shutting down the subways late tomorrow, presumably back Monday morning?

I'm going to the supermarket before work cuz tonight will be hell.

You guys might get Monday off.

They sent an email around at my work yesterday with the weather emergency line as a reminder. I'm really hoping for at least Monday off out of this.

hurricane coming

Stupid name for a hurricane.

If they shut down NYC transpo, my Saturday gig will be cancelled regardless of actual weather on Saturday, because none of us will be able to get home from wherever we're dropped off.

Might get a free Saturday out of this as well!

my mom called me earlier to remind me to "FILL UP YOUR BATHTUB IN CASE YOU NEED TO FLUSH YOUR TOILET"

my mom has fill her tub before hurricanes and blizzards and the like. I only think this is necessary if your water is drawn from a well by electric pump, tho.

I suggest you all fill your bathtubs with gin.

Yeah the gravity flush is a thing that you need when you have a well. I'm not sure about city water pressure, if it maintains when the power is out. But I think it does.

I think that if there is flooding, finding some water with which to flush the shitter with is not going to be one of the greatest challenges.

with

No, "with" is OK, unless you "with which"

There's not going to be flooding within easy reach of my bathroom, tho, is the problem with that.

You wait until the toilet starts backing up.

hurricane douche

why start flushing now?

get a bucket with a rope laurel

I don't live in a flood zone -- there's a reason they call this area "the heights".

get a longer rope silly