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Within the next few days, it's forecast that we'll be seeing:

- A category 5 typhoon clip the northern end of the Phillipines, causing flooding and devastation, before moving on in the general direction of Hong Kong

- A category 4 hurricane hit the East Coast of the USA somewhere around the Carolinas, causing further flooding and devastation that may well extend to Washington DC

- A tropical storm hit the Leeward Isles in the Caribbean

- A tropical storm hit Hawaii.

http://untamedskies.com/tropical-cyclones/

 

Lots of people are set to lose their homes this week, in short.  Some will lose their lives. It's going to be a rough one. 

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8 minutes ago, paddyfool said:

Within the next few days, it's forecast that we'll be seeing:

- A category 5 typhoon clip the northern end of the Phillipines, causing flooding and devastation, before moving on in the general direction of Hong Kong

- A category 4 hurricane hit the East Coast of the USA somewhere around the Carolinas, causing further flooding and devastation that may well extend to Washington DC

- A tropical storm hit the Leeward Isles in the Caribbean

- A tropical storm hit Hawaii.

http://untamedskies.com/tropical-cyclones/

 

Lots of people are set to lose their homes this week, in short.  Some will lose their lives. It's going to be a rough one. 

 

These people shouldn't be living in hurricane alley. It's the same as people who live in flood plains moaning about there houses getting flooded over here. 

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To be fair, the East Coast of the USA has historically very seldom been hit further North than Florida; Hawaii is likewise seldom hit; and the Caribbean is, I'm told, a very pleasant place to live the vast majority of the time. I don't know so much about the Phillipines.

 

Plus, in this crowded world, if people were to move out of all the areas threatened with the occasional natural disaster, where exactly would they all go?

 

Nevermind that the country with the highest life expectancy on Earth (Japan) is very frequently hit by earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis etc; it's just that they generally build and prepare well to withstand and respond to such events.

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The equinox is almost here, its the Time for that shit.

 

And in this overcrowded World, we could use a few more of them.

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The principal damage from hurricanes is economic, these days. More a case of destroyed/damaged homes, destroyed/damaged property, destroyed/damaged places of employment (be they factories, offices, harbours, hotels, hospitals, farms, warehouses, or whatever), and a generally traumatised population than actual deaths. And impoverished people in unstable circumstances tend to have more children earlier in life, because they lose the luxury of being able to put having kids off and plan for the future; instead, of necessity, having to live more for today.

 

So in addition to all the suffering they cause, hurricanes are going to do diddly squat to address overpopulation.

 

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Equally if you look at the track of Florence, no Hurricane which formed where she did has ever hit the US- they’ve all curved and going into the North Atlantic. So in a sense it’s very unlucky to be heading towards the Carolinas.

 

Isaac looks to be going towards the Leeward Islands as a Cat 1/2 with some models dissipate Isaac by Jamaica (but could go into GOM) as a reformed storm.

 

Helene is ironically heading towards the UK and could be our first storm of the Autumn next Tuesday. Again however she could head towards Portugal.

 

The thing to bear in mind is that this is peak Hurricane time in the Atlantic so 3 storms isn’t that unusual. Sadly personally I think the City of Wilmington will catch Florence but the mandatory evacuations are firmly in place so it’ll be only a few who’ll stay hopefully 

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Its a criminal record if they stay in the Carolinas.

 

The water is still cuntish warm 'here', 12.5/13°C.

 

Warmer the water, the bigger the Storms in autumn.

 

We will catch the tail end of Florence in 7/10 days from now, I expect to be 'wet'.

 

 

Heard some weather cunto saying they might make a Cat 6:as 5 isn't enough :lol: , bring it on.

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Timeline of these hurricane / near hurricane events:

- Barijat is hitting China now

- Olivia is just about reaching Hawaii now.

- Isaac is due to reach the Leeward Isles in about 36 hours.

-  Mangkhat (a Cat 5) is due to reach the Phillipines in about 48 hours.

- Florence (a Cat 4) is due to reach the US coastline in a little over 48 hours.

 

It'll take a while after the storms hit before we know the full extent of damage done. I expect there will be lots of disaster porn on the news channels this weekend in any event. 

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Excellent.

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The big question for many on this forum, meanwhile: will these events affect the life expectancy of any celebrities? ;-)

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So Florence has weakened to Cat2 with the storm surge now the worry. 

 

Gather Peter Faulk is there on holiday ;)

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5th day in a row of rain in eastern Texas.  Arc construction has begun.

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1 hour ago, Sir Creep said:

5th day in a row of rain in eastern Texas.  Arc construction has begun.

 

 

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Gonna sit on top of it?

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I would love it if some biblical literalist farmer actually tried to recreate the idea of putting all his livestock on an arc. Bit cruel to the animals, though...

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Plenty of that sort in Texas....

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15 minutes ago, paddyfool said:

I would love it if some biblical literalist farmer actually tried to recreate the idea of putting all his livestock on an arc. Bit cruel to the animals, though...

there better of by building a boom shelter as the next catastrophe by the bible is meant to be by fire after all there is the rainbow to prove its not by water

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5 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

5th day in a row of rain in eastern Texas.  Arc construction has begun.

 

Is it being built in Arcansas?  :D

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3 hours ago, charon said:

 

 

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Gonna sit on top of it?


We have one in Lafayette, LA.

 

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If the waters start to rise SC, and you're are struggling to find it, would that make you a Raider of the Lost Arc?

 

 

Speaking of which, this looks like The Arc of the Covenant.

 

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* disclaimer/

 

Sitiing on this could give you 2/3rds of a back, sack and crack without asking....

 

 

 

 

 

 

**#2

 

It terms of sword monuments, the Norwegies do it well..

 

"Arc, I hear the Vikings are coming" maybe.

 

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Here come the Dothr-arc-i.

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Not much chance of flooding there tho...

 

* Arc of the screenwriter ?

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Enough with the snarc....

 

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So the word is that someone has found an Ark in an old archive which should sort out this hurricane.  Made of gold, not seen since ww2, Trump to officially unveil it at the white house. Word is it'll knock your face off!

 

https://goo.gl/images/Tk2z4q

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