2024 Hurricane Season thread of DOOM

[SimonBolivar 11026]

18 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

from Ruskin through Gibsonton

Those sound made up

[hookemATL 12228]

Just now, tx 3 putt said:

i guess they’ll be retiring ‘milton’ 

When you burst on the storm scene and blow up the way he has, you gotta give him his propers. One of the fastest to reach cat 5 of all time!  First ballot, Barry sanders type career. 
 

send it to the rafters now, no need to wait for the aftermath. 

[Parliament 14556]

When you get an old white man almost crying…

 

Edited October 8 by Parliament

[Gatorubet 30627]

I’m getting a new roof put on tomorrow from the Ida damage. 

It looks like I just ducked the next round of price increases

[Sgt Hulk 14330]

10 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

really? Admittedly Ive only been to Southern florida a handful of times-Fort Meyers once, Miami/Keys just like 2-3. We've done family vacations to Melbourne Beach for probably the last 25 years now and Ive never gotten the sense of elitist in that area. we like MB because it isn't exactly swanky/full of tourists and our hotel has a balcony on the beach so we know the area(roads, restaurants) pretty well. Maybe its a central Florida thing vs southern.

 

Although this year our family vacation may happen over Christmas time vs normally easter and we may go further south since its a little warmer than central florida for that time of year

Same. I was stationed almost 9 years in Florida. Built a house near cocoa beach. Lived in Tampa for the last 4 coaching pop warner. Have 3 kids in D1 today from that team.   I’ve never ran into a single issue that dude whining about Naples said.   But it’s his own fault. Naples is basically New Jersey and New Jersey is the dig shit of the country.  

[SimonBolivar 11026]

Wonder what happens to this place

 

 

 

I would not want to be in charge of cleanup, "Has anyone seen the alligators?"

[Rip76 5009]

6 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Those sound made up

Haha, Gibsonton.

[heso 2848]

6 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Those sound made up

They’re on the map with Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook. 

[locodos 5582]

Looks to me like it keeps shifting south...  that is not great.

Can someone have a chat with the guy controlling this thing?  Thanxs bye!

[locodos 5582]

3 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Wonder what happens to this place

 

 they're gonna get a new moat.. what did I win?

[SimonBolivar 11026]

2 minutes ago, Rip76 said:

Haha, Gibsonton.

Apparently that place is awesome.

 

Quote

Gibsonton was famous as a sideshow wintering town,[5] where various people in the carnival and circus businesses would spend the off season, placing it near the winter home for the Ringling Brothers Circus at Tampa, Sarasota and Venice in various times.[6] It was home to Percilla the Monkey Girl, the Anatomical Wonder, and the Lobster Boy. Siamese twin sisters ran a fruit stand here. At one time, it was the only post office with a counter for dwarfs. Aside from the agreeable winter climate, Gibsonton offered unique circus zoning laws that allowed residents to keep elephants and circus trailers on their front lawns.

 

[Bill Brasky 1617]

I think that was an episode on the X Files 

[pantone159 727]

9 minutes ago, locodos said:

Looks to me like it keeps shifting south...  that is not great.

Isn't that good news? I thought we want the center to be south of Tampa Bay, that way the bay won't get the full brunt of the storm surge.

[orange dream 1288]

My cousin lives in Sarasota. He said he and his neighbor put up their hurricane shutters and are planning to stay. They are about 7 miles inland as the crow flies so they are going to ride it out. 

I'd be leaving if I was him.

 

3 hours ago, troph said:

I wasn't talking about doom scrolling, my experience on the ledge was a severe case of covid that fucked me up big time.

Well maybe some doom scrolling is what you need. 🤣 Hope you are turning the corner

[Sgt Hulk 14330]

7 miles inland and he’s staying?  Fuck all that 

[Hagbard Celine 11157]

1 hour ago, texasdago said:

Exactly it... the analysis of what would have happened to Houston had Rita hit, specifically in the ship channel, is exceedingly frightening.  

https://archive.ph/bRZ6R#selection-2413.0-2429.83

Local hurricane experts agree that a violent storm surge in the channel of at least 26 feet—a reasonable estimate for a category 4 storm that hits Galveston directly—would initially inundate densely populated, low-lying communities on the western half of Galveston Bay. Debris from those communities would then combine with thousands of shipping containers in the area, forming a destructive wall of steel and wood that would slam into thousands of chemical and crude oil storage tanks. Many tanks would be broken open by the battering ram of debris, while others would be ripped from their foundations by the water, releasing their deadly contents. A detailed inventory of hazardous chemicals around the Ship Channel remains difficult to come by, thanks to a Texas law that restricts public disclosure of information that could be utilized by terrorists. However, a 2016 Houston Chronicle investigation of the area’s dangerous chemicals revealed that communities near the Ship Channel live in close proximity to toxic substances, such as silane gas, methyl mercaptan, hydrofluoric acid, sodium sulfide, and ammonia. On at least three occasions, the investigation found, those substances have been released, killing workers and endangering nearby residents. The paper has also catalogued more than one hundred toxic releases during Hurricane Harvey alone, most of them from Houston’s petrochemical corridor.

 

 

[ConferenceRoom 6210]

26 minutes ago, heso said:

They’re on the map with Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook. 

Fuck the Brocks. 

[Gatorubet 30627]

Quote

Gibsonton was famous as a sideshow wintering town,[5] where various people in the carnival and circus businesses would spend the off season, placing it near the winter home for the Ringling Brothers Circus at Tampa, Sarasota and Venice in various times.[6] It was home to Percilla the Monkey Girl, the Anatomical Wonder, and the Lobster Boy. Siamese twin sisters ran a fruit stand here. At one time, it was the only post office with a counter for dwarfs. Aside from the agreeable winter climate, Gibsonton offered unique circus zoning laws that allowed residents to keep elephants and circus trailers on their front lawns.

My parents met at a bar where the Ringling sideshow people used to drink in Sarasota.  She was a graphic artist for the Sarasota tribute and he was a civil engineer building a fossil fuel power plant nearby.. 

They always said that that was their favorite bar of all time - and the people were really nice….. and interesting as fuck

Picture of said parents in later years. As a couple they gave very little fucks about what other people thought.

 

 

[TonyTexas 10682]

I want to eat some shrooms and go to Gibsonton 

[Hagbard Celine 11157]

unlike new orleans or florida, houston can be saved with a bajillion dollar plan

a cunning plan

i've posted this before but the summary of the plan is to build coffer dams in san luis pass, cold pass, and across the 45 causeway, then build permanent 300-year structures like the delta works, and empty galveston bay

you then build giant 48" culverts to drain all of the western suburbs in to the galveston bay hole during a direct hit

the dutch would say "this is possible"

and would be a lot cheaper than what would happen in the scenario posted above

[WBT 20879]

23 minutes ago, Bill Brasky said:

I think that was an episode on the X Files 

One of the best

[Pato del Muerto 53329]

52 minutes ago, Mittens said:

 

This is so fake. There’s a curvature to the earth. 

[HenryJames 67115]

31 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Apparently that place is awesome.

 

 

[Herbie Hancock 7452]

At least a dozen P-8 and VP-30’s on the tarmac at JRB FW. Wish I didn’t have shit to do and I’d stay and watch what else comes in.

[TeeDubya 3362]

49 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

i guess they’ll be retiring ‘milton’ 

Absolutely. 
Milton was only in rotation for one cycle.  It replaced Michael, which was a US landfalling Cat 5 hurricane in 2018.

Edited October 8 by TeeDubya

[Paper_jam 846]

46 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Wonder what happens to this place

 

 

 

It will still be an aquarium, just with a completely different population of fish.

[Brew 3049]

43 minutes ago, pantone159 said:

Isn't that good news? I thought we want the center to be south of Tampa Bay, that way the bay won't get the full brunt of the storm surge.

Depends on what you want to save I suppose. South puts the dirty side on a collision course with a number of islands and low lying areas that are flooded from Helene and still recovering from Ian.

[BamaATL 16593]

Just now, Brew said:

Depends on what you want to save I suppose. South puts the dirty side on a collision course with a number of islands and low lying areas that are flooded from Helene and still recovering from Ian.

Which is best for the Mons Venus?  

[MissingInAction 25478]

1 hour ago, locodos said:

Looks to me like it keeps shifting south...  that is not great.

Can someone have a chat with the guy controlling this thing?  Thanxs bye!

Should have been on the zoom call.

It's too late 

[MissingInAction 25478]

Disclaimer: Humor is how I deal with stress.

This fucking thing....

Thoughts and prayers are bullshit but it's all I have right now.

[Willfully Horn 8204]

1 hour ago, Parliament said:

When you get an old white man almost crying…

 

This guy was interviewed today. The pressure drop that was recorded, in that short time frame, used to be unheard of. Dude was thinking of what this portends for the future.

Deniers. That’s what the wife thought about after hearing said interview. The COA basically bought out an entire neighborhood on Onion Creek, and there was one holdout. No reasoning with this person. It wasn’t until the inevitable came about, and the hold out had to be airlifted from the street sign they were clinging to, in the floodwaters, that their denial was breached by reality. 

[Zepol87 9308]

This is where my office is, talks today was focused on how soon can we bring everything back online for people to get back in office business continuity is our structure. Eat my dick, god I despise these mfers 

 

Edited October 8 by Zepol87

[Updawg 2378]

unlike new orleans or florida, houston can be saved with a bajillion dollar plan
a cunning plan
i've posted this before but the summary of the plan is to build coffer dams in san luis pass, cold pass, and across the 45 causeway, then build permanent 300-year structures like the delta works, and empty galveston bay
you then build giant 48" culverts to drain all of the western suburbs in to the galveston bay hole during a direct hit
the dutch would say "this is possible"
and would be a lot cheaper than what would happen in the scenario posted above

Empty Galveston bay permanently?

[Updawg 2378]

This is where my office is, talks today was focused on how soon can we bring everything back online for people to get back in office business continuity is our structure. Eat my dick, god I despise these mfers 
 

Didn’t you say your boss is aggy?

[Post Oak 20550]

1 hour ago, orange dream said:

My cousin lives in Sarasota. He said he and his neighbor put up their hurricane shutters and are planning to stay. They are about 7 miles inland as the crow flies so they are going to ride it out. 

I'd be leaving if I was him.

 

Well maybe some doom scrolling is what you need. 🤣 Hope you are turning the corner

If you have anything you want to say to him or something you want to get off your chest, you should do it today.  

Hopefully he's ok.

[tx 3 putt 78465]

 

[chainsaw 10243]

Meanwhile Kirk will be hitting France tomorrow

[Pato del Muerto 53329]

9 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

What is the purple line that is also along the shore of Lake Okeechobee?

[TeeDubya 3362]

3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

What is the purple line that is also along the shore of Lake Okeechobee?

Hurricane Watch I think...

[Deej 77665]

That's a big storm. Must have named it after Milton Berle.

[TeeDubya 3362]

2 minutes ago, Deej said:

That's a big storm. Must have named it after Milton Berle.

[cactusflinthead 27626]

 

[Gatorubet 30627]

52 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

This is where my office is, talks today was focused on how soon can we bring everything back online for people to get back in office business continuity is our structure. Eat my dick, god I despise these mfers 

“.. i’m really gonna need everyone to be back online by Friday afternoon”

[pantone159 727]

Just now, Gatorubet said:

“.. i’m really gonna need everyone to be back online by Friday afternoon”

It doesn't even make any sense to plan for getting back to the office until you know what actually happens with Milton. Plan what? Sounds Aggy indeed.

[Ted Lange 16351]

Car thieves

Edited October 8 by Ted Lange

[Zepol87 9308]

15 minutes ago, pantone159 said:

It doesn't even make any sense to plan for getting back to the office until you know what actually happens with Milton. Plan what? Sounds Aggy indeed.

Yep it’s a waste of time and energy. Get back in office asap but power might be out or the carriers are out in the area. These fucking morons and also you know people have other shit to deal with besides coming into the office and worrying about this bulkshit 

[BamaATL 16593]

22 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

Car thieves

Jokes on them, after Ivan I had to do damage assessment for a c-store company in Pensacola, the water pressure from the surge blew 1-10's bridges completely off the pilings.  From what I recall that surge was well lower than the projected 15 feet.  

What I remember most about that job was we found the canopy for the station 4 miles away in some guys yard, pretty well in tact.  Absolute miracle it didn't kill anyone.  

Edited October 9 by BamaATL

[BamaATL 16593]

3 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

Yep it’s a waste of time and energy. Get back in office asap but power might be out or the carriers are out in the area. These fucking morons and also you know people have other shit to deal with besides coming into the office and worrying about this bulkshit 

Unless you are a rescue swimmer, you need not be in that area.  You also need to seriously look for other employment.  

[orange dream 1288]

1 hour ago, Updawg said:

Empty Galveston bay permanently?

Not permanently, it will only be empty between hurricanes. 

[Deej 77665]

8 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

Jokes on them, after Ivan I had to do damage assessment for a c-store company in Pensacola, the water pressure from the surge blew 1-10's bridges completely off the pilings.  From what I recall that surge was well lower than the projected 15 feet.  

Think of all the soon to be fishing structure