East Coast USA folks:

[abcdefz]

How are you doing with this hurricane coming in?

Please also remind us where you are.

[Adam]

Man, they get these like every year and shit.

Someone should tell the government.

[jabumbo]

we could use the rain here


hopefully some of it makes it far enough in

[NicRN77]

Sounds like here in Boston we are going to get tons of rain. Of course...the storm comes on a night I had plans to go to a Sox game. Grr....

[abcdefz]

I read that social security checks went out early to those areas to avoid delays.

It doesn't sound DIRE, but hurricanes can be unpredictable.

[ms.peachy]

Excellent surf here today in Jacksonville Beach :)

[TurdBerglar]

there hasn't been a bad hurrican up this way since 91.


all that one did was knock some trees down around here.

[FunkyHiFi]

Back in the 60s some scientists offered the idea of using a nuclear bomb to destroy hurricanes.

IIRC they thought it would work, but if didn't & it made it to shore there would be a bit of a problem with radioactive fallout.

:rolleyes:

"Yes son, your green exoskeleton resulted from The Bomb being used to keep the hurricane away, but at least the house, your Dad's Firebird and the Zenith color TV were undamaged."

[TurdBerglar]

oh wow

i grew up with a zenith tv


whatever happened to zenith

[sjp]

oh wow

i grew up with a zenith tv


whatever happened to zenith

owned by LG now.

[ToucanSpam]

It's gonna lose most of it's heat by the time it hits Canada.

[FunkyHiFi]

whatever happened to zenithIn the mid 90s, due to bad management (not bad products fortunately) they had to declare bankruptsy. :( Then LG bought the name and started slapping it on all kinds of semi-good gear, though I'm not sure if they bothered to buy Zenith's decades of product patents, their R&D facilities in Illinois etc. FYI Zenith sold the first remote control TV back in the 50s - Space Command (http://www.wired.com/gadgets/displays/magazine/test2007/vg_greatestgadget)! On their better TVs in the 70s you could also get something called Space Phone (http://bananaforce.com/pivot/entry.php?id=23), which used the TV's speaker and a mic so you make calls through the TV.

[FunkyHiFi]

As a self-proclaimed weather geek :o, here's a site I use a lot to keep track of all kinds of weather, in extra-nerdy detail: www.wunderground.com

Here's my own lil' home weather station (http://www.oregonscientificstore.com/oregon_scientific/product.asp?itmky=935359&model=BAR388HGA-BK&cat=&subcat=&sortby=&filtermfg=&page=) (no wind speed or direction though - too many trees; a solar powered version just came out and this model is being clearanced). Watching the pressure drop to alarmingly low levels during Hurricane Ike was scary, but not as scary as watching the trees nearly bend to 45 degree angles!

[Adam]

When we first got nuclear technology, lots of ideas of using bombs to bio engineer the world was considered. Including nuking the poles to have warmer climates all year round. Its amazing humans are still here sometimes.

[TurdBerglar]

i wounldn't mind the warmer weather

[Planetary]

How many hurricanes do you get?!

I was there for ten days in June and a small one hit Queens right by where i was staying. I was in Manhattan at the time, though.