As a Texan...
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Topic: As a Texan...
Posted By: DeTrevni
Subject: As a Texan...
Date Posted: 11 September 2008 at 12:49pm
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Posted By: Ford
Date Posted: 11 September 2008 at 4:24pm
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What do you think about that line from Full Metal Jacket about what comes from Texas?
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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 11 September 2008 at 4:55pm
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Only half of that movie has any truth to it... ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Ford wrote:Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 11 September 2008 at 5:04pm
The cattle industry failed huh?  ------------- 
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Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 11 September 2008 at 6:18pm
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If I don't report back in a week I am to be presumed dead or in jail, caught looting.
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Posted By: lilsully4
Date Posted: 11 September 2008 at 6:38pm
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Find something good ------------- 
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 11 September 2008 at 7:30pm
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I want to come loot texarkana. GATYR DON'T DIE! ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 10:21am
just a pet peeve about that movie ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 2:17pm
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Well, we're pretty much certain where the 'cane is going from here.
I'll get good pics if I can, but we're hunkering down. We're already getting some cloud bands, but it's not projected to hit until late tonight/early tomorrow. We should be safe from the surge, but I'm concerned for the Houston Ship Channel. Also, we've got some tall trees close to our house that draws concern. We're almost gauranteed black out, but I'm not sure how long. Will report back when I figure out I'm not dead. My first hurricane experience, and it appears we're finally getting "the big one" that my German teacher has been predicting for a while. Should be fun! ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 2:37pm
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Won't make it to a Cat 3 for landfall, mark my words!!!!! ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 2:41pm
OH NO, A CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE, RUN FOR THE HILLS.
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Posted By: Ford
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 2:43pm
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You need to build a tree fort and live in that while the storm passes.
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Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 2:52pm
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Haha, my house is 10-15 miles away from the predicted route of the eye at one point. Add the fact that the trees right by my house are gigantic and dying, my house might come down. WOO. -------------
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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 4:01pm
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Has anyone else viewed the pictures of the total jack asses who are at the beaches watching the hurricane? 12 foot waves crashing and these clowns are standing in the damn ocean! Darwin awards in the making. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 4:16pm
| Dallas representing right here. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 4:32pm
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$10 on a low looting rate. ------------- 
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Posted By: XtremeBordom
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 5:23pm
They are expecting OVER 20 ft surges on 18ft seawalls. Btw the cane isn't even there yet and waves are already going over the walls flooding the streets with 2 ft of water. I'd run for the hills. ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 5:45pm
Wuss. I went through a upper end Cat1 low Cat2 in Key West back in '99 and we just sat up in our apt and had a party. Ever since Katrina, everyone's been all, "Ohh noez!!11! A hurricanez!@2!@12121!!! Runz fo' da hillz!!!11!1" I've come to believe that the National Weather Services Hurrican Center are all a bunch of idiots. They never get Category strength for landfall right anymore. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: XtremeBordom
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 5:56pm
I went through category 3 Wilma in Hollywood FL, so don't call me a wuss. The difference was there are hardly any storm surges in Florida because we're 6ft above sea level. In the gulf coast they are below sea level in some places. -------------
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Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 7:49pm
| Tallen, it's that mentality that has people trying to ride the storm out and is what will make this a total mess if they get 20ft storm surges. With the shape of that bay, the fact that there's a full moon and high tide, the storm surge is going to cause massive flooding. Hanna wasn't as bad as they thought it would be so everyone is thinking that all of the storms are going to be over-hyped by the news and government and will try to id it out, I think a lot of those people are going to be crab-food. |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 7:54pm
Hurricanes ALWAYS have big storm surges. That's just a big sensationalized buzzword for the media now after the katrina disaster. The big difference? Kat was a Category 5 when it landed, that's a huge difference. The NC Outerbanks would like to have a talk with mainland areas taht get so up in an uproar over hurricanes. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 12 September 2008 at 8:30pm
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Oh NOES! Storm sergez is goings to floods my house!
yes, the shape of the bay means that there will be flooding, but it's flooding, the winds aren't that bad and, on top of everything, unlike N.O., Houston and Galveston are above sea level meaning that the water will drain. Are people in that area who aren't used to riding out storms of that magnitude stupid for staying? Of course they are! But still, everyone's making it out to be the end of the world. And no, it's not just Hanna that has everyone doubting the NWS's estimates, it's been every single storm since Katrina that they've effed up the forecast on. They got Katrina right, the only "right" storm they've had since Andrew, and suddenly all the news media seem to think that they've got some magical formula over there at NOAA that lets them predict that every storm will be of massive magnitude and not be wrong. Don't get me wrong here, the NWS does a good thing by preparing people for the worst, but still, the inexact science of hurricane prediction that the media seems to think is the gospel truth just makes them look like fools. The BIG problem with their current models is that they are counting on warmer seas and global warming to boost the strength of storms. But the fact of the matter is that this years La Nina effect has shifted the gulf-stream and the Gulf isn't as warm this year as it was 4 years ago. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |