I don't live in a flood zone -- there's a reason they call this area "the heights".
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Friday, 26 August 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
get a longer rope silly
― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Friday, 26 August 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
just shit out the window into the rising sewage below
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Friday, 26 August 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
Too busy fighting off the fleeing hordes to worry about poopsies.
― NickB, Friday, 26 August 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
via the JoeMyGod blog:
An MTA official speculated that heavy flooding "might drive millions of subway rats to seek higher ground." Oh, fantastic.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
Reminds me of what Paul Lynde said when asked "How goes the rat race?"
― Zingling Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 August 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
can Mayor Bloomberg contact Mayor McCheese for counsel? he must have allot of experience with rats
― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Friday, 26 August 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
cant believe im missing this amazing hurricane
― ice cr?m, Friday, 26 August 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
just participate vicariously by staying in for three days & drinking gin in/from the bath
― (Chris Isaak Cover) (schlump), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
and shitting on people passing by on the streets below
― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
bringing out everyone's inner GG Allin
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
Have ppl started raiding suprtmarkets and stripping 'em bare of cat food and plenty ripe pineapples?
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Friday, August 26, 2011 12:44 AM (10 hours ago)
last night i went to the store & the water shelf was completely bare, was pretty funny
― frogsb (k3vin k.), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
yeah isnt water dangerous?
― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
I went shopping this morning, woman leaving right in front of me had a cart with 3 mega-jugs of water.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
how can water be dangerous if you need it to live?! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!
― IT IS EXECUTION (Z S), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Two things I didn't think about that I will actually do! to prepare.
1. Get a lot of cash from the bank before I go home today. (Well, "a lot" like, relative to what I usually carry, which is less than twenty bucks.
2. Freeze giant blocks of tap water in my freezer in my biggest tupperware/mixing bowls, to be put in the fridge to keep temp down if power goes out.
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Guys, it's perfectly safe to drink urine.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Just as long as it someone else's else you get some horrible urinary feedback problem.
― NickB, Friday, 26 August 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
The city’s official Web site, www.nyc.gov, appears to be overwhelmed by those seeking information about Hurricane Irene, rendering it inaccessible as of Friday morning.
Efforts to log onto the site have been unsuccessful since about 9 a.m.
The city may be a victim of its own aggressive campaign to publicize warnings about the storm: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has repeatedly directed New Yorkers to the Web site, which contains maps of evacuation zones and tips on how to remain safe.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
going to stock up on beer and wine this weekend
― Peanut Butter... in my chocolate? (brownie), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
like i do every weekend
to outlast irene get lost of cheese and chocolate and wine and iron
― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/psurgegraphics_at4.shtml?gm
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
I bitched about this in the Chicago thread, but my parents live at the beach in DE and are under an evacuation order but won't leave because they are those people.
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
those ppl
― johnny crunch, Friday, 26 August 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
Are they gonna sit on their front porch with shotguns on their laps?
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
don't be namin' my harbor as a storm surge harbor!
― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
Likely.
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
JFR that storm surge graphic is completely awesome and useful, thanking u
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
this is a long thread but has anybody explained how quickly hurricanes lose strength when they make landfall? if you're in NYC, you have absolutely nothing to worry about except maybe some bands of heavy rain. anybody north of Virginia can relax. i've been through several hurricanes. this one is relatively weak and landfall predicted so far away from NYC that all the fuss NYC folks are making really is some 'sky is falling' bullshit. chill out. you're going to be pissed when nothing happens but you can't go anywhere because your mayor is a dipshit.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 26 August 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
I'm already kind of pissed about that, it may lead to the Saturday night fight being canceled, and I was looking forward to it.
― arch midwestern housewife named (Laurel), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
'heavy rainfall' is enough to disable a subway system built 100 years ago, also bloomberg doesn't run it
― iatee, Friday, 26 August 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
this is a long thread but has anybody explained how quickly hurricanes lose strength when they make landfall? if you're in NYC, you have absolutely nothing to worry about except maybe some bands of heavy rain. anybody north of Virginia can relax. i'
so many factors: strength upon landfall, how far inland it goes, whether it can still draw energy from open water. Living in Florida, I've gotten to the point where I take hurricanes case by case. They can be weaker than expected, in which case you lose a couple days of work but not your electricity, and you just drink for two days; or they can be far worse like Wilma in 2005. But for god's sake should you all survive this one and get nothing but a bad summer afternoon squall don't assume all hurricanes are like this.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
12 inches of rainfall sounds like a legit obtacle underground... but then we had 8 in one day about 2 weeks ago!
xp
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, August 26, 2011 12:15 PM (2 minutes ago)
didn't know ilx had a meteorologist!
but no this is a large hurricane which means it'll weaken slower - all forecasts still have it at category 1 strength when it hits NYC
― frogsb (k3vin k.), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
this one is relatively weak and landfall predicted so far away from NYC that all the fuss NYC folks are making really is some 'sky is falling' bullshit. chill out.
Intensity forecasting hasn't been nailed yet! It MAY deteriorate to a Cat One by the time it hits the Northeast. Let's assume it does: we've endured some horrible Cat Ones, some of which didn't begin with as much energy as Irene has.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't its slow movement a factor, too?
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
a 'weakened' a maelstrom with a 400 mile diameter is nothing to snark at.
remember bob? and gloria?
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
I call this a category Bitchgina!
― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
Irene's Bitchgina and the flattening of Raleigh
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
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― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
remember the safest place to be in a hurricane is a whalegina
― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
i do NOT have a battery-powered radio, which means I may go shopping on Canal St at lunch
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
apparently they don't softpedal stuff in Connecticut (NYT blog):
In #CT, @GovMalloyOffice says "large-scale" power losses possible – “not just for a few hours - days and weeks."
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
there may never be electricity again! who can say?!?
― johnny crunch, Friday, 26 August 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad my Dann Electro sounds pretty good un-amped.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
idk obviously public officials are going to make a big deal about a hurricane, no one wants to be blamed for lack of preparation or for rescue & recovery resources being late or unavailable. in other words HURRICANE KATRINA: NEVER FORGET
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 August 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
"you could be on your roof at this time Sunday"
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
for their own safety, residents are encouraged to build arks no smaller than 300 cubits in length, breadth 50 cubits, and height 30 cubits and bring at least two of each animal
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
lolz
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 26 August 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link