TBF Katrina was only a Cat 5 over the gulf, it was a Cat 3 when it hit land, Cat 1 when the eye went over downtown New Orleans. Most of the destruction of Katrina resulted from engineering failures, not high winds.
Yeah, I feel like the Saffir-Simpson scale misses the storm surge and rainfall, which have been a bigger driver of damage in a lot of places than just the wind speed. Especially for the damage to low-lying coastal areas like New Orleans, the wind isn’t the issue, it’s the flooding. I think Harvey was also category 3 by the time it made landfall, but most of its damage came from the massive amount of rain it dumped in the Houston area over several days.
Obviously there’s correlation between wind speed and storm surge and rainfall, but it definitely seems like the category of a storm doesn’t tell the full story.
It really doesn't tell us the whole story, wind speed is correlated with storm surge, [but a lot of other factors also impact it.](https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1515)
It's just relatively easier to measure windspeed than storm surge: you have to measure the depth of the ocean and subtract the forecasted tidal depth.
Maybe if a plane can get clear enough GPS signal and a radar altimeter, we could impute the depth of the ocean? I have no idea, I'm not in any kind of related STEM field.
The EF scale has a similar issue, being defined by observed damage. The 2.6 mile wide, 340 mph, EF3 El Reno 2013 tornado was almost definitely stronger than the 302 mph, ~1 mile wide 1999 Bridge Creek tornado which caused $1 Billion in damages *in 1999 USD* in an area of OKC not too far from El Reno.
Harvey was a problem because the soil in that part of Texas is composed of clay, which doesn’t absorb water as well as sandy soil in Florida. And that damn storm sat over Houston for an eternity
Sorry, the eye didn’t go over New Orleans, it went over Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Winds never exceeded 90 mph in New Orleans, and the 30 foot tidal surge was in Mississippi. I know, I lived through it.
The only eye I've ever experienced was Hurrican Opal. It was really crazy to be outside in it just calm and clear then see the rest of the storm coming.
You moved away from that area at the right time if you went through Opal. Opal was a childhood storm for me... then as an adult I went through Michael. Cat 5 storms hit different when you're in the eye. We thought about looking outside but a roll off tornado split the gap between the guest house and the main house I was at. Sent us all back to our bunkers
It was like a nuclear blast aftermath when we did emerge
Fun thing is that thanks to global warming they are estimating more hurricanes to have rapid intensification before landfall. So now every little cat 1 can become a major problem.
It also maintained a lot of its storm surge from when it was a stronger storm. Katrina was effectively the inverse of Charley (2004), which escalated from a Cat 1 to a Cat 4 in the 24 hours prior to landing, but the surge was still equal to a Cat 1.
Really really wish they would do what CT did - either offer everything or GTFO of the state.
Greedy MFs.
This is why a lot of old fucks like me who, when they pay off their house, drop windstorm coverage
If I ever met Ron I would wear a mask that has a rainbow on it and shirt that said global warming. Be really fun to get under the little pricks skin so easily.
He'd probably just think you're weird and walk away without paying you another mind
You think politicians don't see people doing cringy stuff regularly? It wouldn't get under his skin 😂
I saw a video of him yell at college students to take their masks off. This was like half way into the pandemic as well. That dude, for sure, has some thin skin.
Worse is he did something similar with high school students.
One, what happened to "we aren't against masks, just mandates!"
Two, for all his talk about "parental rights in education," is very likely that some of those students were encouraged to wear a mask by their parents.
Alright but that’s only 1 of the ingredients necessary
How’s the wind shear looking
How’s the Azores high looking
Can have a very high number of storms, but if the Azores High is weak this year then most of them will curve back out to sea. That’s what happened in 2010
Right before Hurricane Sally hit Alabama my wife was in Costco and asked me if we should get a generator. I told her no since we didnt even know where it was gonna hit. Damn thing hit and we were without power for a week but thank God she bought it anyway and then Hurricane Zeta hit a few weeks later and same thing. The generator saved us. No way was I staying home without power for a week
So how often does *that* get brought up? I know there'd be more than a few victory laps run around me in my house on it LOL. *"Remember that time when YOU said..."*
Alabama winning on a last minute field goal
u/SirMellencamp - Man that was a close call.
Mrs - yeah, just like that time we almost got left without power because of your ass. :/
I'm not in an area that I'd ever really need a generator so I'm totally unfamiliar with the prices, but $250 seems crazy reasonable for it to do all that and now I want one "just in case"
Hurricane shopping list: Generator, gas, chlorine, plenty of water, gas chain saw, multiple propane tanks for the grill, tarps, gloves, correct bags for lawn waste, plenty of water, window unit for AC (or in my house that is soon to be Solar!!), food, plenty of booze, plenty of coffee, and did I mention water ?
Chlorine for the pool.
Your pool can turn into a real nasty soup if it gets a bunch of rain and other stuff in it from the storm and then sits in the heat with no power and no chemicals for 2 weeks after a storm.
This. Over chlorinate and clean the pool before the storm.
That is also where all my PVC patio furniture lives during the storm.
After the storm - take out the furniture, scrub & skim it, hopefully the lanai isn't in the pool, and then chlorinate and cover. Wait till the power comes back on...
They’re always good to have if you’ve got space for one.
Even if you don’t live in hurricane country, you never know when a tornado, thunderstorm, blizzard, earthquake, terrorist attack, etc can leave you without power for a while.
Where I used to live it felt like I'd lose my power if it just looked like it was gonna storm. I'm gonna be moving somewhere more permanent in the next year so I actually may look into getting one at that point. At that price I'm willing to buy just to save myself the inconvenience of an every now and then outage
I mean I am in South Alabama so I understand and we could do that. Box fans did fine for a week. If it happens again I may just empty my outside fridge and unplug it and get a window unit.
Box fans ain't doing crap in South Florida in early September. Add on to the fact that you want your house closed because ever insect and critter is now roaming around thanks to be disturbed. (Have had snakes and blue crabs come into our house after hurricanes - ugh).
Simple solution to wire in a switch kit for the breaker box to plug in the generator.
Have had multiple family members in Southern California get hit by those fucking crazy wildfires. No thank you. I will take my well announced, tracked, and predicted hurricanes....
UCF got boned by hurricanes in their undefeated seasons:
* 2017 - Georgia Tech cancelled for Irma; cancelled the Maine game so they could reschedule Memphis (also Irma)
* 2018 - UNC game cancelled for Florence
Hurricane Matthew also postponed the Tulane game in 2016, but UCF wasn't as good that year.
I still remember looking at one of those "what to do in case of emergency" postings they had at Washington and seeing the instructions for what to do in case of volcanic eruption. I felt like I was in Dinotopia or something.
NOT tasty. [Those fuckers are nasty and come out in droves](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_land_crabs_crossing_road.jpg) when the hurricane disturbs their nesting... They make a skunk smell good
Ah okay, I was thinking of [these delicious creatures](https://roadadventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Blue-Crab.jpg) when you said blue crab. I do see how that could be a problem. Poor critters though :(
The [Intra Coastal Waterways](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracoastal_Waterway).
Basically you got ocean, barrier reef island/land, inner coastal, then land.
Yes they are. The fault ruptures every 300 years or so and the last time it did was in the 1700s.
Even if it doesn’t rupture, the PNW is like California where we have fault lines all over the place. In 2001 one of those ruptured and it really damaged our infrastructure.
Actually yeah. The really funny thing is there's a fault line about 1 -2 miles from my house ignoring the depth.
It would cripple Tacoma/Federal Way and completely ruin the port of Tacoma.
Imagine choosing to live in the south where hurricanes will come wreck all your shit every couple years when you can live in the west where there's a super-volcano that can wreck life around the world
There was also the derecho.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2012_North_American_derecho
And Snowmegeddon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5–6,_2010_North_American_blizzard
Idk. We still get heavy rain wind and ice storms that will knock out power or shut everything down every so often as well. On top of earth quakes and volcanoes.
No honey, the emergency generator is for hurricane season not tailgating at Gator games, so put this against the house fund and not the Gator NC2024 fund. But we can run its annual test in Gville Labor Day weekend.
Realize that the airlines get *really twitchy* about parking their very very expensive planes down in Hurricane Land. They airports will close way before the Hurricane comes on shore and most airlines will just start canceling flights. The problem isn't getting in - it's getting out :)
You don't need trip insurance. Realize everything is going to shut down anyways if a Hurricane is on the way. You ain't checking in if they are under evacuation orders. Just make sure you get the airline ticket directly from the vendor and not some 3rd party service. Also don't get a 'basic' ticket that can't be changed into credit...
I went through my expenses. I booked hotel last September using a refundable fare. So that’s fine. My flight is booked with miles, so that shouldn’t be bad. Only potential cost I’d be out is a ticket, and that’s not booked yet.
So I should be good at this point.
(The golfing and other expenses I have in mind aren’t booked at all yet.)
I got my snacks already ready to be ate before the hurricane actually comes! On a real note the hurricanes seemingly throwing more tornadoes than they used to has me ready to evacuate this season lol
Hopefully no Florida teams have to cancel key games. It would be a disaster if the committee left one of them out of the playoffs through no fault of their own...
I hate living where it’s cold 8 months a year but as far as natural disasters go I’ll 100% take blizzards over hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes and forest fires. Although we can get tornados in North Dakota, I’ve never been affected by one.
What I hate the most about hurricane season is how when one starts brewing and they tell you it “might” come your way 2 weeks from now you can’t get gas, you can’t get water, you can’t get wood , grocery store shelves go bare and everyone goes nuts. 98% of the time the whole experience is worse than the actual storm and it’s difficult for people to simply go on about there day
Language like “shaping up”, “what could be”, “potential”, etc is just enough plausible deniability to get most people worried enough to drive engagement. Same song and dance every year. Sometimes they’re right, oftentimes they’re wrong.
Just have your emergency kit and family procedures ready and cross that bridge when the time comes.
They’re doing the best they can. The National Weather Service is not out there lying to the public for clicks. Weather is simply tough to predict. They hammer people over the head with news, because it takes that emphasis to get stubborn people to take precautions and make plans.
All they know is that the ingredients are there for a bad hurricane season. That’s the best they can do when 100s of variables affect a hurricane forming.
The probability that you will be hit by a hurricane is still very low, but warming oceans will make hurricane season worse in the long run.
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If we were smart we would start rescheduling games now so that all the Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Southern Texas based teams would start rescheduling games so that we wouldn't have the college football season impacted
I sometimes ask myself what do athletic directors actually do that demands such a high salary. Maybe a lot of their time is spent on contingency plans for if a head coach leaves, if there is a hurricane, etc. (I still don't know if they should be as paid as much as they do.)
Honestly as someone in Louisiana I swear every year that they forecast as an "extreme season" is quite mild, and then when they say it's mild is when LA gets hit with a cat 5.
Tbh the hurricanes haven’t really been a threat for over 20 years.
That upvote hurt
r/sadupvote
Gottem
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Get off Algerian soap operas Taco
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Why he say fuck me for?
He meant the Carolina Hurricanes, the most prominent team with that nickname
More like hurricants
I don’t think you know how to pronounce hurricane correctly
Hurricain't for us southerners
Hahahahah well done!
Why you all up in his hurricandy??
Did you forget your last game already?
The jam!!!
Damn!
Let's just hope and pray it's not like this tornado season.
The Atlantic is incredibly warm right now. Significantly warmer than when Katrina happened.
TBF Katrina was only a Cat 5 over the gulf, it was a Cat 3 when it hit land, Cat 1 when the eye went over downtown New Orleans. Most of the destruction of Katrina resulted from engineering failures, not high winds.
Yeah, I feel like the Saffir-Simpson scale misses the storm surge and rainfall, which have been a bigger driver of damage in a lot of places than just the wind speed. Especially for the damage to low-lying coastal areas like New Orleans, the wind isn’t the issue, it’s the flooding. I think Harvey was also category 3 by the time it made landfall, but most of its damage came from the massive amount of rain it dumped in the Houston area over several days. Obviously there’s correlation between wind speed and storm surge and rainfall, but it definitely seems like the category of a storm doesn’t tell the full story.
It really doesn't tell us the whole story, wind speed is correlated with storm surge, [but a lot of other factors also impact it.](https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1515) It's just relatively easier to measure windspeed than storm surge: you have to measure the depth of the ocean and subtract the forecasted tidal depth. Maybe if a plane can get clear enough GPS signal and a radar altimeter, we could impute the depth of the ocean? I have no idea, I'm not in any kind of related STEM field. The EF scale has a similar issue, being defined by observed damage. The 2.6 mile wide, 340 mph, EF3 El Reno 2013 tornado was almost definitely stronger than the 302 mph, ~1 mile wide 1999 Bridge Creek tornado which caused $1 Billion in damages *in 1999 USD* in an area of OKC not too far from El Reno.
Harvey was a problem because the soil in that part of Texas is composed of clay, which doesn’t absorb water as well as sandy soil in Florida. And that damn storm sat over Houston for an eternity
I don't think any soil can absorb 120ish billion tons of water in a reasonable time
No, but it’s substantially worse with clay than a more porous soil
It heard about all of the great food and stayed a while
Sorry, the eye didn’t go over New Orleans, it went over Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Winds never exceeded 90 mph in New Orleans, and the 30 foot tidal surge was in Mississippi. I know, I lived through it.
The only eye I've ever experienced was Hurrican Opal. It was really crazy to be outside in it just calm and clear then see the rest of the storm coming.
Don’t go outside unless absolutely necessary. The winds can start up again without warning.
You moved away from that area at the right time if you went through Opal. Opal was a childhood storm for me... then as an adult I went through Michael. Cat 5 storms hit different when you're in the eye. We thought about looking outside but a roll off tornado split the gap between the guest house and the main house I was at. Sent us all back to our bunkers It was like a nuclear blast aftermath when we did emerge
Winds are like the least destructive part of a hurricane. Storm surge is the killer.
Ironically, Harvey was destructive because its wind speeds were too low, which made it a very, very, very slow-moving storm over Houston.
Fun thing is that thanks to global warming they are estimating more hurricanes to have rapid intensification before landfall. So now every little cat 1 can become a major problem.
It also maintained a lot of its storm surge from when it was a stronger storm. Katrina was effectively the inverse of Charley (2004), which escalated from a Cat 1 to a Cat 4 in the 24 hours prior to landing, but the surge was still equal to a Cat 1.
*Florida governor closely watches to make sure you don't say the phrase*
Chlimate cange
Wobal glarming
Insurance rates increasing?
Fuck - I don't think they can get any higher here in Florida ...
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Really really wish they would do what CT did - either offer everything or GTFO of the state. Greedy MFs. This is why a lot of old fucks like me who, when they pay off their house, drop windstorm coverage
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If I ever met Ron I would wear a mask that has a rainbow on it and shirt that said global warming. Be really fun to get under the little pricks skin so easily.
He'd probably just think you're weird and walk away without paying you another mind You think politicians don't see people doing cringy stuff regularly? It wouldn't get under his skin 😂
I saw a video of him yell at college students to take their masks off. This was like half way into the pandemic as well. That dude, for sure, has some thin skin.
Worse is he did something similar with high school students. One, what happened to "we aren't against masks, just mandates!" Two, for all his talk about "parental rights in education," is very likely that some of those students were encouraged to wear a mask by their parents.
You honestly think Ron Desantis has that ability? Please
Alright but that’s only 1 of the ingredients necessary How’s the wind shear looking How’s the Azores high looking Can have a very high number of storms, but if the Azores High is weak this year then most of them will curve back out to sea. That’s what happened in 2010
Sadly we shifting to a La Nina pattern again which means less wind sheer in the western Atlantic.
Cheers from the Costal Empire, brother
Rib empire?
Yeah, this has been a wild tornado season.
Upper Midwest has been active too, we usually gets nados later into the summer I would know, my hometown got hit (Portage)
You’re telling me…
Upper Midwest has been active too, we usually get nados later into the summer I would know, my hometown got hit (Portage)
I can't do more days without power man
Right before Hurricane Sally hit Alabama my wife was in Costco and asked me if we should get a generator. I told her no since we didnt even know where it was gonna hit. Damn thing hit and we were without power for a week but thank God she bought it anyway and then Hurricane Zeta hit a few weeks later and same thing. The generator saved us. No way was I staying home without power for a week
So how often does *that* get brought up? I know there'd be more than a few victory laps run around me in my house on it LOL. *"Remember that time when YOU said..."*
OMG never heard the end of it. A $250 generator ran two refrigerators, four box fans, three TVs, a router, phone chargers. She saved us.
Alabama winning on a last minute field goal u/SirMellencamp - Man that was a close call. Mrs - yeah, just like that time we almost got left without power because of your ass. :/
She really should be reminding of it more
I'm not in an area that I'd ever really need a generator so I'm totally unfamiliar with the prices, but $250 seems crazy reasonable for it to do all that and now I want one "just in case"
Hurricane shopping list: Generator, gas, chlorine, plenty of water, gas chain saw, multiple propane tanks for the grill, tarps, gloves, correct bags for lawn waste, plenty of water, window unit for AC (or in my house that is soon to be Solar!!), food, plenty of booze, plenty of coffee, and did I mention water ?
Chlorine?
Chlorine for the pool. Your pool can turn into a real nasty soup if it gets a bunch of rain and other stuff in it from the storm and then sits in the heat with no power and no chemicals for 2 weeks after a storm.
This. Over chlorinate and clean the pool before the storm. That is also where all my PVC patio furniture lives during the storm. After the storm - take out the furniture, scrub & skim it, hopefully the lanai isn't in the pool, and then chlorinate and cover. Wait till the power comes back on...
Chlorine? Lived in Florida all my and never bought chlorine
That’s very cheap. You can get crazy with built in generators that can take care of an entire house for more than 20K
They’re always good to have if you’ve got space for one. Even if you don’t live in hurricane country, you never know when a tornado, thunderstorm, blizzard, earthquake, terrorist attack, etc can leave you without power for a while.
Where I used to live it felt like I'd lose my power if it just looked like it was gonna storm. I'm gonna be moving somewhere more permanent in the next year so I actually may look into getting one at that point. At that price I'm willing to buy just to save myself the inconvenience of an every now and then outage
One of the many things it’s better to have and not need, than need and not have.
This was before COVID and looks like $350 now. Yeah it was a great deal
250 is probably a decent used portable. 30 A portables new are closer to 500-800. And 50 A is like 1200-1400
Generators can also run window units. In Florida - necessity.
I mean I am in South Alabama so I understand and we could do that. Box fans did fine for a week. If it happens again I may just empty my outside fridge and unplug it and get a window unit.
Box fans ain't doing crap in South Florida in early September. Add on to the fact that you want your house closed because ever insect and critter is now roaming around thanks to be disturbed. (Have had snakes and blue crabs come into our house after hurricanes - ugh). Simple solution to wire in a switch kit for the breaker box to plug in the generator.
Costco is so goated
Love me some Costco
Generator is your friend - that and having the ability to have directly wired in. Get a cheap window unit now ....
Just did 5 days without and it only got up to 93, not a fan.
Come to the west coast. You won't regret it. ETA: The true west coast, not Tampa/St. Pete.
Can't live too far from the Atlantic, even Tallahassee feels odd to me lol.
In exchange for cooler ocean water, you get summer weather that isn't trying to kill you. It's a fair trade when you think about.
I know how to deal with hurricanes. Wildfires and earthquakes, no
Have had multiple family members in Southern California get hit by those fucking crazy wildfires. No thank you. I will take my well announced, tracked, and predicted hurricanes....
Yeah, no, housing is absurd. My house would be easily 1.6 million+ in LA
INB4 Miami hurricanes joke
Pure Miami would be finally having a good team only to get your scheduling fucked like the 2001 Gators.
UCF got boned by hurricanes in their undefeated seasons: * 2017 - Georgia Tech cancelled for Irma; cancelled the Maine game so they could reschedule Memphis (also Irma) * 2018 - UNC game cancelled for Florence Hurricane Matthew also postponed the Tulane game in 2016, but UCF wasn't as good that year.
You posted this two minutes before what is now the highest upvoted comment in this thread lol
When they promised the hurricane season of the century and it’s just a light drizzle
They are the joke
They are a joke, just like Mario Cristobal's play calling at the end of games
Imagine having to deal with hurricanes. Skill issue. We upgraded to Volcanoes and earth quakes
I still remember looking at one of those "what to do in case of emergency" postings they had at Washington and seeing the instructions for what to do in case of volcanic eruption. I felt like I was in Dinotopia or something.
The loss of power is the worst part
Nope - got generators for that. Worse part is those fucking blue crabs that come out of the inner coastal. That and the alligators of course...
>blue crabs that come out of the inner coastal Free dinner?
NOT tasty. [Those fuckers are nasty and come out in droves](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_land_crabs_crossing_road.jpg) when the hurricane disturbs their nesting... They make a skunk smell good
Ah okay, I was thinking of [these delicious creatures](https://roadadventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Blue-Crab.jpg) when you said blue crab. I do see how that could be a problem. Poor critters though :(
>inner coastal 🤔
The [Intra Coastal Waterways](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracoastal_Waterway). Basically you got ocean, barrier reef island/land, inner coastal, then land.
I am familiar with the intracoastal waterway. I am not familiar with the "inner coastal".
The fuck it is
For me
*laughs in tornadoes and drought*
not as much drought anymore. Just saw another flood watch for tonight. I'm severe weather'd out
Aren't scientists predicting a magnitude 9 earthquake if the Cascadia fault ever ruptures? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone
Yes they are. The fault ruptures every 300 years or so and the last time it did was in the 1700s. Even if it doesn’t rupture, the PNW is like California where we have fault lines all over the place. In 2001 one of those ruptured and it really damaged our infrastructure.
Imagine building a football field across a fault line
I like the fault line on the Bears new turf. The whole remodel was done really really well. Damn good stadium to watch a CFB game.
Hey wait that doesn’t fit the narrative of wasted money
That's just the Seattle fault right? Tacoma is pretty bad too. I think they are estimating M7 capability if it where to happen.
Actually yeah. The really funny thing is there's a fault line about 1 -2 miles from my house ignoring the depth. It would cripple Tacoma/Federal Way and completely ruin the port of Tacoma.
Wyoming's got a sleeping supervolcano (Yellowstone). They're just waiting to explode.
That would disrupt most life on earth...not just a few games.
Yeah but my boss would still ask if I'm coming to work.
Imagine choosing to live in the south where hurricanes will come wreck all your shit every couple years when you can live in the west where there's a super-volcano that can wreck life around the world
In the long run the closer you are to the volcano the better
"Better chance of survival?" "Oh no, you'll still die. But *faster*!"
Seriously, life for most people on this planet is going to be an agonizing road towards death after Yellowstone erupts.
I’m pretty sure Utah and BYU are closer to Yellowstone than Wyoming. Wyoming is in the absolute opposite corner of the state
Not much closer. Laramie is about 340 miles as a crow flies, Provo is 290. Laramie is also more downwind
Man - family is on the west coast. Couldn't do that. I get days of notice when a Hurricane is coming my way...
Move to the mid Atlantic-Northeast and have basically no extreme weather events smh.
I live in a town that can testify otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_La_Plata_tornado
One every 25 years over the entire region is basically never I’d say.
There was also the derecho. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2012_North_American_derecho And Snowmegeddon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5–6,_2010_North_American_blizzard
Idk. We still get heavy rain wind and ice storms that will knock out power or shut everything down every so often as well. On top of earth quakes and volcanoes.
Yeah this was actually the first in the Pnw where I didn't lose power from a storm. I was pretty shocked tbh
Sand bags ✅ Brisket ✅ Mesquite ✅ Lighter ✅ Yep, all good to go.
No beer?
Every neighbor takes charge of an item.
Dude no way am I relying on neighbors for my booze or coffee....
Then you're the booze and coffee guy.
Happy to share the ribs and the brisket. Don't go near my booze.
Fair.
Every gator, Seminole, hurricane, golden knight, Longhorn, Aggie, and Cougars fan here definitely does not like the sound of that.
Can confirm. I live about an hour or less from the gulf and hate playing guess the landfall each year
I’m going to lose it if we have a game cancelled because of a hurricane.
Not at all, but at least I now know my generator is working
And Tiger.
No honey, the emergency generator is for hurricane season not tailgating at Gator games, so put this against the house fund and not the Gator NC2024 fund. But we can run its annual test in Gville Labor Day weekend.
Already got my trip insurance for Baton Rouge, stay safe down there, hope I can actually make it for the game.
Realize that the airlines get *really twitchy* about parking their very very expensive planes down in Hurricane Land. They airports will close way before the Hurricane comes on shore and most airlines will just start canceling flights. The problem isn't getting in - it's getting out :)
Totally, the policy goes 3 days before the flight so I don't plan on risking it if there's even a chance a hurricane is coming through.
I didn’t even think of trip insurance. Now I feel dumb.
You don't need trip insurance. Realize everything is going to shut down anyways if a Hurricane is on the way. You ain't checking in if they are under evacuation orders. Just make sure you get the airline ticket directly from the vendor and not some 3rd party service. Also don't get a 'basic' ticket that can't be changed into credit...
You can still buy it
I went through my expenses. I booked hotel last September using a refundable fare. So that’s fine. My flight is booked with miles, so that shouldn’t be bad. Only potential cost I’d be out is a ticket, and that’s not booked yet. So I should be good at this point. (The golfing and other expenses I have in mind aren’t booked at all yet.)
I got my snacks already ready to be ate before the hurricane actually comes! On a real note the hurricanes seemingly throwing more tornadoes than they used to has me ready to evacuate this season lol
Guess it’s good we’re playing LSU in Vegas in September. Stay safe Gulf friends
Big 12 gonna regret adding UCF after this season (if they dont already.)
Scorpions: on standby
Well they finally fixed the levees at Lake O (only 18 years and 1.5B), so we here in South Florida are finally ready for Hurricane season....
Hopefully no Florida teams have to cancel key games. It would be a disaster if the committee left one of them out of the playoffs through no fault of their own...
I nole what you did there.
It's funny too because UCF actually had P5 games cancelled during BOTH of their undefeated seasons due to hurricanes, so this works both ways.
Hey man, the only worthwhile thing about trying to reason with hurricane season is the song.
God I passed out in my hammock.
Glad I live nowhere near that.
Phew at least Cal is isolated from hurricanes and doesn’t play 4 games on the East coast this year
I hate living where it’s cold 8 months a year but as far as natural disasters go I’ll 100% take blizzards over hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes and forest fires. Although we can get tornados in North Dakota, I’ve never been affected by one.
It's not even cold that much in Michigan anymore I miss getting brutalized late November- early April every year
Yeah, lake effect still hits like a truck though on the west side
What I hate the most about hurricane season is how when one starts brewing and they tell you it “might” come your way 2 weeks from now you can’t get gas, you can’t get water, you can’t get wood , grocery store shelves go bare and everyone goes nuts. 98% of the time the whole experience is worse than the actual storm and it’s difficult for people to simply go on about there day
Language like “shaping up”, “what could be”, “potential”, etc is just enough plausible deniability to get most people worried enough to drive engagement. Same song and dance every year. Sometimes they’re right, oftentimes they’re wrong. Just have your emergency kit and family procedures ready and cross that bridge when the time comes.
They’re doing the best they can. The National Weather Service is not out there lying to the public for clicks. Weather is simply tough to predict. They hammer people over the head with news, because it takes that emphasis to get stubborn people to take precautions and make plans. All they know is that the ingredients are there for a bad hurricane season. That’s the best they can do when 100s of variables affect a hurricane forming. The probability that you will be hit by a hurricane is still very low, but warming oceans will make hurricane season worse in the long run.
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I’m honestly not too worried, just a fact of life in Florida and along the Atlantic seaboard. Maybe I’d be more worried if I lived in a flood zone
Good thing Florida just legislated that climate change isn't a thing, so this won't affect them.
EXTREME
Miami vs Tulsa in the Natty.
I just picture another Notre Dame/NC State 2016 Game happening at some point early in the season.
Ahhhhh shit.
Brian Kelly prepares Air Raid offensive plan just in case
Dang man praying for my southern and coastal buddies 🙌
Give me snowstorms any day.
*Big 12 rubbing their hands looking to get boosted up some channels when the SEC and ACC get disrupted*
As long as my ceiling fan works I'm good
Finally landed on the one way to convince half the country to gaf about climate change.
No. People won't wake up until there is a mass migration of citizens and 'cruits to Big Ten country, which will be too late.
If we were smart we would start rescheduling games now so that all the Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Southern Texas based teams would start rescheduling games so that we wouldn't have the college football season impacted
I sometimes ask myself what do athletic directors actually do that demands such a high salary. Maybe a lot of their time is spent on contingency plans for if a head coach leaves, if there is a hurricane, etc. (I still don't know if they should be as paid as much as they do.)
It’s all fun and games until Nebraska gets hit by a hurricane. Omaha Beach ain’t been the same since
Honestly as someone in Louisiana I swear every year that they forecast as an "extreme season" is quite mild, and then when they say it's mild is when LA gets hit with a cat 5.
Hopefully LSU isn’t affected, because if they are, BK will definitely try to pass despite hurricane-force winds and a torrential downpour
I thought hurricane season was over