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Running Hurricane Gustav thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by OnTheRiver, Aug 25, 2008.

  1. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

    On a lighter note (while we perhaps can still be light), last night I saw a news crawl during Demo convention coverage that said the hurricane would go through Haiti and hit the "Florida Straights."

    So gay people in Florida, you are safe.
     
  2. Italian_Stallion

    Italian_Stallion Active Member

    Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

    The photo is from Monday. Fay's rains pretty much ceased at noon on Friday. But the water is just sticking around. It's some smelly shit, too. I can't imagine what that shit smelled like in New Orleans.
     
  3. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

    As in... yesterday?
     
  4. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

    I always thought New Orleans was worse off with a storm that hit on the east side? Makes the wind push Lake Pontchartrain to the south, right toward the city.

    In any event, SportsJournalists.com folks in the Gulf South might want to get a couple extra cans of gas now. Remember Katrina? The gas lines? Hard to get gas for the generator when there's a) no power to run the pumps; and b) 500 people waiting in line at the one station that does have power -- behind some douchebag filling up his pickup truck, three 55-gallon drums, and the 50-gallon emergency tank lining the truck bed.
    If the storm goes somewhere else, you can dump the gas into your car next week.
     
  5. Italian_Stallion

    Italian_Stallion Active Member

    Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

    Yes. They've been pumping it out since Friday morning.
     
  6. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

    That can be bad, but because of a hurricane's counter-clockwise motion, stirring in the Gulf south-southwest of New Orleans and make landfall to the west would dump a lot more storm surge and rain on the city at the worst possible time.

    Frankly, because of the way New Orleans is trapped by water on all four sides, it's bad no matter what happens.
     
  7. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

    Even if you don't live in a hurricane-prone area ... it would be prudent to fill up today if possible, because gas went up a nickel today just on a threat.

    Why do oil companies hike gas prices at the drop of a hat and drop them so slowly? Because they can.
     
  8. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

    NO is surrounded by water ... and sitting in a bowl.

    You are exactly right. Don't want to get hit by the east side of the storm.

    Been hit direct from the east by Category 1 Katrina (decelerated to a TS by the time the east side of the storm hit) and from the south by a Cat 1 Irene. Nothing. I mean nothing, though Irene was wet

    Nothing like getting walloped by the east side of Wilma as a strong 1 as it moved east.
     
  9. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

    True dat, about the bowl. I should have said New Orleans is surrounded by water on all five sides.
     
  10. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

    Katrina was only a Category 1 when it hit New Orleans?
     
  11. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

    South Florida
     
  12. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Re: Hurricane wonks: Meet Gustav

    Just saw on TWC there's a depression developing in the NE Caribbean (that could be trouble for the eastern seaboard) and a Cape Verde getting organized. Looks like it's go time.
     
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