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  1. 4 minutes ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

    ^^^ average depth?

     

    2 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

    Average listed was 12 feet, which is sort of deceptive in just looking at the dam.  Of course that is average, and that's a shit load of water if it has indeed suffered catastrophic failure.  

    Yeah, but to fail "catastrophically" it would be holding a lot more water over a larger area, with more to follow

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  2. Mother nature is a force to be reckoned with, but I do wonder about the upkeep of our civilian infrastructure.  

    I know that dams are built with safety margins in mind (designed for 1,000 year storm events etc)  However it's become clear that those risk factors were calculated without climate change impacts in mind.  Lake Lure was built in the 1920's.  I sure hope since then the maintenance budgets haven't been cut or stretched like they have here in Ft Lauderdale.  Our water infrastructure explodes if too many people have taco bell.

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  3. 14 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    Bruh... how many MAGA in FL, GA, NC, SC, TN are going to be begging for the Federal government to act all socialist and come help them out?  And rightly they should as our Federal government has a duty to its citizens but they better shut their pie holes the next time there is a fire in California.

    r/PoliticalHumor - 'It's raining really hard and everything is so wet!'

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  4. 1 minute ago, wood said:

    When they ended that clip, Trump seemed to be saying "It takes two to tango".

    Let that sink in for a second. 

     

    Intruders come into your home in the middle of the night. All hell breaks loose as you try to defend your family and home. 

    Trump: "Well, ya know, it takes two to tango". 

     

    Or how about this one: Jan. 6. Capitol Police defend the building from invading, violent mob. Trump: "Well, ya know, it takes two to tango".

    I just assumed he was talking about the bribe he was trying to solicit from Zelenyski

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  5. 1 minute ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

    Agreed - "turbo weather" may be mostly in my head, but I also often feel like I can notice a difference in my turbocharged vehicles when it's chilly out. 

    It's not in your head.  Dyno results include ambient temp for a reason.  It's been a minute since I played around with fuel and timing maps, but intake temp plays a large roll.  Cooler dense air to start, heat it up in the turbo, easier to cool it off in the intercooler (air/air), you can add timing (or reduce retard) and still be safe.   You can feel it in the butt dyno, but the objective increase is maybe 1%.

    csb:  I almost went to jail on a cool "winter" evening  because I was fuckin' around on the same deserted stretch of road as a motor cycle cop.   As I rolled up to the smirking cop (he was setup under a large oak tree on the side of the road ahead) I called my wife and told her I was going to jail and she needed to bail me out.   The cop was way cool and wrote me up for 14 over (was doing more like 60 over) with a smile on his face he told me if he ever saw me on that road again, I would be  going to jail.  Sold the car that weekend.  FIN

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  6. 18 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    I too really enjoy driving the 911 with the top down on days when the temperature falls well below 60F. As long as it is not raining, or there is too much salt and cinders on the road, I will drive it. I have plenty of sweatshirts and hats. The coldest it has been for me with the top down is 26F.

    If these folks could drive in the cold, so can I.

     

     

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    Heat on top down...Hell yeah.  Plus in the cold the EM won't pull timing and cold dense air has more O2 to burn.  It's probably only a few BHP but it feels good.

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  7. 1 hour ago, tx ind said:

    Not to be morbid, but is the Florida panhandle pretty red?  If they get fucked by this storm there will definitely still be an impact on turnout a month from now. 

    Well don't worry fellow patriot!  Gov DeSantis has on his shiny boots and will make absolutely certain that:

    1. No Federal Aid reaches the panhandle efficiently or effectively.  Harris only cares about big city elites and illegals!
    2. Polling locations and voting will have extended hours and locations for effected residents.  Maybe take some supplies/funds/resources from S Florida to "help out"
  8. 4 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

    It's right at 20 years, but Katrina fucked a few things up in Miami/Broward, and we were without power in Kendall for almost three weeks after Wilma rolled through.

    Both Katrina and Wilma were 2005, August and October respectively (had to look it up).    Katrina did very little damage in my neighborhood, but I was in Grenada when it rolled through.  I flew back early and got to the house and was basically like "I flew back early for this?!"   A few months later Wilma (which I swore at the time was a Cat1) made landfall on the west coast but did take down a bunch of old trees and power poles in SE Florida.   I didn't even pull the accordion shutters closed for that one.  Like you, I was without power for a LONG time, mostly because FPL sucks eggs and I live on the end of a long power run through an old neighborhood chocked full of big old trees.   Thank god it was cool after Wilma.

    Dorean could have been a HUGE problem.  I really feel like we ducked that one.

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  9. On the subject of Tallacrappy...   Whistling past the graveyard here...  but I'm fucking sick and tired of hearing from my insurance company how Miami/Broward/Palmbeach is a really high risk place and insurance premiums have to be extra high compared to central and N Florida.  I think we've had 1 cat 1 here and a few grazing shots in 20 years.  Meanwhile North and Central Florida have been catching strays every year.  I'm subsidizing their lower insurance costs and *if* we do catch an Andrew to the face, the insurance companies are gonna fold like the Gata D on 3rd and long.

    Sorry, If it's gotta hit Florida it's best for all involved if it hits the Nature Coast.

  10. 1 hour ago, dcbc said:

    I've got a close friend whose in-laws just got back to Ft. Meyers.  The difficulty is that his MIL has what Royal Tenenbaum would call "a bad case of cancer," and they just made an incredibly difficult move back to Florida from Illinois to get her there for home-nursing care (they've lived in FL for the past decade or so).  It looks like the eye wall will pass northwest of them, but given Ft. Meyers location on the Caloosahatchee River, I surmise that it's absolutely not a good place to be right now.  Suffice it to say, they cannot (or have made the calculated decision not to) leave given her condition.  It looks like winds won't bee too bad at 35 mph.  Storm surge of 3--5 feet is more worrisome, but my guess is that they live in a house that was designed to survive that.  Still, not a good situation.

    Ft Myers is going to be fine. 

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  11. 7 hours ago, bolverk said:

    I'm guessing y'all don't have any HEB trucks waiting to stand by where you're at. How do Publix or whatever other grocery store chains that operate in your neck of the woods respond to natural disasters

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    As for the ride it out folks...  I used to think under Cat3 is no reason to get excited.  However, as of about 10yrs ago, I subscribe to the theory that you can just go on vacation somewhere and have a nice time whilst your shit is getting fucked up at home.  Why stress about trees down in the road and possibly getting electrocuted whilst cleaning up the yard, then taking a shower with the hose, sitting in a hot wet house, and eating shitty hurricane supplies?  It's madness and I'll never do it again.

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  12. 22 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    Yes, but to be fair I’m pretty sure that Great Britain doesn’t have any current plans to invade India, Hong Kong, or the U.S.

    That you know of!

    I think they learned their lessons.  They put the world to the sword for spices they could never figure out how to use.

    Fire toad in the hole!

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