Ok, the storm isn't even in the gulf yet, they have no real idea where it's going, and the NHS has it headed west towards Corpus Christi anyway give or take 800 miles

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My money's on Galveston, unless it bounces off of the high pressure dome in the Gulf. Then I'm betting on Mobile Bay.

Maybe it'll hit Houston.

My wife is from Illinois and hasn't seen a real hurricane yet ;)

I love second chances.

SpinStopper: Maybe it'll hit Houston.

My wife is from Illinois and hasn't seen a real hurricane yet ;)

Has she seen a real earthquake, tsunami, volcano, or meteor impact?

/and do you like your wife? :)

corgic: Ok, the storm isn't even in the gulf yet, they have no real idea where it's going, and the NHS has it headed west towards Corpus Christi anyway give or take 800 miles

actually, they have it heading west towards the Gulf. anything beyond that is outside any credible forecast (if you can call them that)

Snarfangel: SpinStopper: Maybe it'll hit Houston.

My wife is from Illinois and hasn't seen a real hurricane yet ;)

Has she seen a real earthquake, tsunami, volcano, or meteor impact?

/and do you like your wife? :)

I like her just fine. She's a weather junkie, and thinks it would be cool. Besides, our house is built to withstand at least a Cat 3, if not a Cat 4.

No, she hasn't seen any of those. But I've seem 'em all, except for a tsunami. Well, I've seen a meteor impact crater ;)

It looks like Galveston/Houston is more in the path than Louisiana now...



But they won't know until Wednesday where it will really go. It'd be somewhat smart to start getting things together if you live anywhere between Brownsville and Mobile.. :)

As a resident of the great state of Louisiana, I would like to share the wealth. Someone else may have our share of Ike.

You do realize that the target bullseye for all projected paths start at the mouth of the Mississippi River?

Hurricane Ike



He fights for his friends....but he's going to fark you up.

You'll get no sympathy from him. Great WAether.

The updated projections have it heading further west. Like, Houston.

http://www.stormpulse.com/hurricane-ike-2008

Click the projection models on to see what each model predicts. Half take it into LA, half take it further west. Who knows at this point.

Here's hoping it will hit us here in Houston. We'll let the morons in Galveston take the storm surge-- our buildings can handle the wind and if it comes near here I get to be trapped in the hospital for 36 hours of double overtime pay!

I think it's time we took the lesson from all this: Nature abhors a Cajun.

Failing_Junk: SpinStopper: Maybe it'll hit Houston.

My wife is from Illinois and hasn't seen a real hurricane yet ;)

I am sure she will have a wonderful time.

That looks like every Friday afternoon in Houston!

In any event, it looks like Cuba is going to get torn up which may weaken the storm a bit before it hits the gulf.

No this is Hurricane Ike

Check out the science guy for a good blog. Lately it's been all hurricane talk. He has a knack for putting it in layman's terms.

http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/

I like Ike!

/Not really.
//This is why I'm not going to Key West until November.

My house is only good for Cat-2. Any more than that and your neighbors start calling you "That crazy cat person."

I feel for Haiti. Didn't it get a share of almost every tropical storm or hurricane this year?

Cue the "Ah, Geez, not this shiat again" pic...

Snarfangel:
I like her just fine. She's a weather junkie, and thinks it would be cool. Besides, our house is built to withstand at least a Cat 3, if not a Cat 4.

As are the neighbors' houses, roads, cars, grocery stores, electric lines, and key infrastrusture components. What is also nice about hurricanes in Houston is the elevation... as water has no chance of collecting in low lying areas and causing death and destruction.

/you are a douche

looks like Texas is up for this one. (new window)


Ike'll ride a Cuban and a Texan in the same week. lucky farker.

Here we go gettin' screwed again...



/no, it's not Ike

Above quote should have been attributed to spinstopper, not snarfangel.

/i am a quote douche

This is total bullshiat. My dad, brother and his GF are supposed to fly out on Wednesday from LA to come visit me. I'm gonna be hella pissed if they get delayed. Oh well, not much I can do about it anyway.

IdeasGuy
I feel for Haiti. Didn't it get a share of almost every tropical storm or hurricane this year?

Isn't Haiti the place that has massive starvation problems? Natures way of decreasing the population?

Mother nature isn't done scratching her fleas off yet...

SpinStopper: Maybe it'll hit Houston.

My wife is from Illinois and hasn't seen a real hurricane yet ;)

Just send her to southern California for some of our earthquakes. They're exciting enough, they always surprise you and get you out of work, and people almost never get killed.

It blows my mind when people move here from tornado alley and tell me how afraid they are of earthquakes. Ummm, last time we had an earthquake, nobody's house was flung across town, thanks. I'll take a good shaking over a thorough thrashing any day.

Coronach: My money's on Galveston, unless it bounces off of the high pressure dome in the Gulf. Then I'm betting on Mobile Bay.

On the west end of Galveston (the area NOT protected by the seawall) they have built all those $1,000,000+ beach houses. Almost poetic justice, except they'll make the taxpayer bail everyone out.

arched: Ike'll ride a Cuban and a Texan in the same week. lucky farker.


arched wins the thread.

thatmanfromtexas: Coronach: My money's on Galveston, unless it bounces off of the high pressure dome in the Gulf. Then I'm betting on Mobile Bay.

On the west end of Galveston (the area NOT protected by the seawall) they have built all those $1,000,000+ beach houses. Almost poetic justice, except they'll make the taxpayer bail everyone out.

Galveston deserves to be destroyed. The place is nasty, these days, and the whole point of a barrier island is to live inland from it so that the island takes the storm surge. Living on a barrier island's about as stupid as living in a place below sea level between three large bodies of water (oh, wait).

I love the "Big Easy" ... but it is an engineering nightmare. It is below farking sea level. Again... it's *below* sea level. I think this is what a lot of people don't get. The majority of New Orleans is a catastrophe waiting to happen. The people living there are asking for it.

The whole city should be razed and moved. I love my hometown just as much as the next person... but if it becomes a death-trap... well... I'm going to move.

And yes... there are families that can't afford to move. Pay to settle them somewhere else. How much money are spending on this city?... and we're ultimately going to fail.

Republicans are in favor of this hurricane! They have been since 1952.



When the media gets ahold of this, the race is gonna be over. You can't hide this, Republicans! How can you support a hurricane that could endanger thousands of Americans? Can we trust a party that has been pro hurricane for over 50 years?

If computer models can't even predict where this storm will be in 4 days, why should we believe what computer models say about global warming?

Houston's overdue for a major storm. Alicia hit in, what, '83?

Yeah.

I'm evacuating to New Orleans if it comes here.

You better run - Hurricane Dicksmasher is coming!

Cathedralmaster
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The projected path also takes it past Key West, guess [Florida] needs to evacuate ASAP, right Subby?

Remember how they pegged down exactly what Fay was supposed to do? Remember Fay? That screwy biatch?

The only thing that knows what a hurricane is going to do, is the hurricane. There's no absolutes with these things.

If anyone REALLY wants to know where its going, just take a look at this:







Now, everyone on the Gulf Coast not in the path of the storm can stop panicking. One model even has it going off the end of the earth, so there's really nothing to get excited about.

Greetings from what's left of Baton Rouge. In layman's terms, it's been tore up from the floor up. As of yesterday, just over 50% of the power had been returned to the area after a week. Some are facing another 19 days without power.

Ike can just move along somewhere else. Another major hit and this area won't exist, and neither will 20% of the US Oil production and refining. So, think about that the next time you fill up. Your gas may soon be on the order of $7 a gallon if Ike hits Louisiana. If you think it doesn't affect you, wait till you try to run down to WalMart to get a few things and it costs you four times what it used to. Our dependence on foreign petroleum isn't just felt at the pump. The majority of non-food items in this country have some link to petroleum. Isn't that wonderful???

Heck, I have only had power back 19 hours after 127 without. It's a valuable commodity. It gets really hot here!

So I'll be seeing all those Louisiana plates here in Chattanooga again.

Looks like it's gonna shiat all over Cuba first.

eff ewe: Snarfangel:
I like her just fine. She's a weather junkie, and thinks it would be cool. Besides, our house is built to withstand at least a Cat 3, if not a Cat 4.

As are the neighbors' houses, roads, cars, grocery stores, electric lines, and key infrastrusture components. What is also nice about hurricanes in Houston is the elevation... as water has no chance of collecting in low lying areas and causing death and destruction.

/you are a douche

Uh...

The projected path also takes it past Key West, guess [Florida] needs to evacuate ASAP, right Subby?

Remember how they pegged down exactly what Fay was supposed to do? Remember Fay? That screwy biatch?

The only thing that knows what a hurricane is going to do, is the hurricane. There's no absolutes with these things.

Checked the news lately? The Keys are evacuating.

Paging Glen Campbell, if he can still hear