Cristóbal?

Really?

Gratuitous plug for my hurricane website:

vicejay's hurricane page (new window)

Maybe it'll turn a little west... haven't had a hurricane/tropical storm in CT in a long time.

benlonghair: Maybe it'll turn a little west... haven't had a hurricane/tropical storm in CT in a long time.

Not likely. NHC predicts the storm only has a 3 day life span before the approaching front absorbs it.

HAHAHA looks like fun!

Nice. Just close enough to really drive up the humidity where I am to make it feel like a swamp, but not close enough to bring some rain for the vegetable garden. Well buggery.

/hotlinked

Hurricanes during hurricane season? Next they'll reporting about heavy snow in the Midwest next winter.

Let's air-drop a few tons of Prozac on it, see if it feels better.

Hurrah! We need rain.

vicejay: Gratuitous plug for my hurricane website:

vicejay's hurricane page (new window)

Ooooooh! Bookmarked. Thanks.

Oh great. Severe weather near the US. I wonder if gasoline will go up 50 cents because of it?

A choke of grief heart hardened I
Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry

Surf's Up

I am so glad my trip to Charleston isn't until another week. Either way, it's just a two hour drive from where I'm at now. I'd stay for the free car wash. I need one bad.

jthan9: Oh great. Severe weather near the US. I wonder if gasoline will go up 50 cents because of it?

Of course gas prices will go up - it might rain in the same time zone as an oil refinery.

*facepalm* for the bullshiat that oil companies shovel in our direction.

vicejay: Gratuitous plug for my hurricane website:

That's yours?

Just a quick thx for keeping up these past few years. I even passed it along to the safety committee for several of our Gulf Coast offices. One stop shopping is sweet.

used to love going down there for hurricane parties.

Good times, but the sand stings like hell in high winds

Not afraid to surf that beach.

I was a PL at a customer site on the NC coast when we got a call that our bags were packed by the hotel we were in and that there was a manditory evacuation. We joked about it and called back to the office for instructions. The boss was a real scum sucking low life ex-CIA person who survived by never making a decision. So on the speakerphone in front of the customer, I asked Bill what our instructions were. He replied that he would bring it up at the 2:PM staff meeting. I repeated my message - the hurricane was hitting at 10:AM. He replied that it was a staff meeting question and the staff meeting was at 2:PM. Customer, my team, all were screaming laughing in the background. So we called the contract administrator (ex-AF) and went "Caroline - hutticane is coming in - what are our options?". The reply was "Get the H*LL OUT OF THERE". Followed up by - gimmee 2 minutes. In 90 seconds the call came back which said that the consortium boss said "GET THE H*LL OUT and all costs were covered except for one of my guys who was NOT allowed to get PPV p*rn in whatever hotel we ended up in". I made sure that my (major defense contractor) company had a broadcast email over the fact that the boss could not make a decision.

I used to live near Myrtle Beach, an no don't panic for hurricanes. We have hurricane parties, and yes some people do surf in them. Only way to get a decent wave over there I'd assume.

Worst I've done is play basketball outside during one. Fun to judge for the wind.

I'm down in OBX right now and it should pretty much be right on top of us right around this time tomorrow. Not enough for an evac, but should be interesting nonetheless.

/yeah, I'll probably be out on the beach checking out the surf
//not stupid enough to try to actually *surf* whatever comes in, but I'm sure there will be folks out there trying

GoGoGo 2008-07-19 02:58:31 PM Cristóbal? Really?
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Damn you. What I was gonna say!

/P.S., they don't have Q and Z names for hurricanes because they don't have names popular enough to qualify. Cristobal is?! :)

Damn... just left SC

I do miss living in the South. I was in SC for Hurricane Hugo in '88 and had moved to NC in time for Hurricane Fran in '96. In fact, I dressed as Fran for Halloween that year.

I'm sure hurricanes suck for those who get hurt or sustain property damage. But if neither one of those things happen, hurricanes are just plain fun. The weather itself is exciting, and the next day is always gorgeous, sunny, and cloud-free. Plus you get to meet all your neighbors because no one has electricity so everyone gets all their beef/chicken/seafood out of the freezer and starts grilling it out in their driveways, and all are welcome to partake. Post-hurricane parties are always about grilled food and warm beer, and I'm OK with that.

YouWokeTheBaby: tropical storm surf is usually sloppy and not worth the effort, IMHO

Where the storm is yeah, but go a few hundred miles up the coast, say Maryland, Delaware, NJ or even Long Island and I bet it will be pretty good for the surfers. Other than that, I was at the shore the other day (Pt. Pleasant, NJ) and I saw a sign that said the ocean temp was still in the upper 60s.

/not a surfer

The residual rain coming out this way (Raleigh) is going to make tonight's Brad Paisley concert much more entertaining during set changes.

/Have covered seats
//Will be giggling at those who don't.

Go Fast Turn Left: The residual rain coming out this way (Raleigh) is going to make tonight's Brad Paisley concert much more entertaining during set changes.

/Have covered seats
//Will be giggling at those who don't.

My band is playing a bar downtown Raleigh tonight. The crowd will either be KILLER 'cause everyone will come in from the rain or it'll be empty as nobody will want to be out partying.

/Yes, I said, "either it will be good or it will be bad."
//Gives self "duh" facepalm.

JMan_NC: Go Fast Turn Left: The residual rain coming out this way (Raleigh) is going to make tonight's Brad Paisley concert much more entertaining during set changes.

/Have covered seats
//Will be giggling at those who don't.

My band is playing a bar downtown Raleigh tonight. The crowd will either be KILLER 'cause everyone will come in from the rain or it'll be empty as nobody will want to be out partying.

/Yes, I said, "either it will be good or it will be bad."
//Gives self "duh" facepalm.

Where in Raleigh are y'all playing?

Go Fast Turn Left: JMan_NC: Go Fast Turn Left: The residual rain coming out this way (Raleigh) is going to make tonight's Brad Paisley concert much more entertaining during set changes.

/Have covered seats
//Will be giggling at those who don't.

My band is playing a bar downtown Raleigh tonight. The crowd will either be KILLER 'cause everyone will come in from the rain or it'll be empty as nobody will want to be out partying.

/Yes, I said, "either it will be good or it will be bad."
//Gives self "duh" facepalm.

Where in Raleigh are y'all playing?

The Big Easy on Fayetteville Street. Decent cajun food if you're hungry after the concert. ;) (We play 80's rock - Aftershock) ^pops

vicejay: Gratuitous plug for my hurricane website:

vicejay's hurricane page (new window)

That's a great site VJ. Kudos.

Maybe it'll turn left and wipeout Providence so we can start over.

Ship all the ne're-do-well's tp New Orleans.

OK - stupidity on my part.
I picked up a sunday newspaper from Charleston, SC to help decide if we would be moving there (BAD MISTAKE - we did. Wife still calls our time there "living in exile". First words out of her mouth when our first was born were "This means we are leaving for a decent school system". And her from KY. Anyway - I picked up the newspaper a month after Hugo went through, and mentioned to the wife how cheap firewood was. Which led to her pointing out a huge "DUH" moment.

I'm in Wilmington. Been raining all day, up until 2.

Let the storm come. Just keep the crappy weather away next Sunday.

/please, dear spaghetti monster, please no bad weather on sunday

5 inches of rain? 40mph winds? Just sounds like 6:00PM in Lake Charles to me.

/sick of evening thunderstorms

I am on Prozac in the Caymans, so I am really getting a kick out of these replies.

Merkin For The Weekend: I am on Prozac in the Caymans, so I am really getting a kick out of these replies.

It's "The Cayman Islands", not "The Caymans". We are not "The Bahamas" Pleeeease get that straight!

/sorry, pet peeve
// Caymanian

I'm headed to Morehead City (NE of Wilmington) tonight. Oh well, rain at the beach beats sunny days at work.

Meh. Look what WeatherUnderground™ has lined up for us here in north Jersey:



/ORLY?
//Bit chilly for July, innit?
///Somebody get me Al Gore on line 3...

exvaxman: I picked up a sunday newspaper from Charleston, SC to help decide if we would be moving there (BAD MISTAKE - we did. Wife still calls our time there "living in exile")

Surely you're not serious. Was just there yesterday, had to get dragged back to farking California. How did you not like it?

Nescio quid dicas: Surely you're not serious.

/I am serious, and don't call me Shirly

vicejay
Gratuitous plug for my hurricane website:

As a Floridian (and hurricane junkie), I've used your site for over a year to track hurricanes and storms. It's awesome! Thanks for all your work.

Vicejay--are you on ebay at all? I'm pretty sure I've used your site before too.

Roker and Cooper are on it.
24 x 7

Lambeau: I'm headed to Morehead City (NE of Wilmington) tonight. Oh well, rain at the beach beats sunny days at work.

And if the town lives up to its name, this trip could have a happy ending.

Warchild, wingnut396, tonguedepressor, grapefruitgal, et al.... Many thx, hope you find it useful.

thepostess Vicejay--are you on ebay at all? I'm pretty sure I've used your site before too.

No, haven't been on ebay in many years..(That is, I surf it a lot, but haven't bought/sold anything on there in a looong time.)

Warchild: vicejay: Gratuitous plug for my hurricane website:

vicejay's hurricane page (new window)

Ooooooh! Bookmarked. Thanks.


For your added viewing pleasure:

Streaming NC beach cam video goodness (new window)

exvaxman: I picked up a sunday newspaper from Charleston, SC to help decide if we would be moving there (BAD MISTAKE - we did. Wife still calls our time there "living in exile".

You moved to a city known for
1. World Class restaurants
2. Friendliest people in the country
3. Culture
4. History
5. Great beaches
6. Bars every 100 feet
7. Beautiful historic district
8. Great college
9. Gorgeous women
9 Tourist attractions

/I'm missing my time in "exile"

jenniferwillow: exvaxman: I picked up a sunday newspaper from Charleston, SC to help decide if we would be moving there (BAD MISTAKE - we did. Wife still calls our time there "living in exile".

You moved to a city known for
1. World Class restaurants
2. Friendliest people in the country
3. Culture
4. History
5. Great beaches
6. Bars every 100 feet
7. Beautiful historic district
8. Great college
9. Gorgeous women
9 Tourist attractions

/I'm missing my time in "exile"

Wow, Charleston sounds a lot like New Orleans... Except for #5.. and #6. (We have bars about every 50 feet. :) )