Hurricane Season 2006

[Seven Force]

Well it looks like Ernesto or whatever the fuck its name is will hit my area around Tuesday. Which means I gotta spend money I didn't need to spend (along with my family) to prepare for our lack of power for the next week or so. I have the tiniest sliver of hope that it'll be real weak or just miss us in the last minute, but you know how that turned out last year and the year before that.

I hate this fucking place.

[DamnthatDavid]

Funny that, Time Magazine had a article about why Americans live in Danger Zones. Lots of blah blah blah, but it came down to one thing. WE ARE EXTREME. The rest of the world is a bunch of pussies.

I myself live in a Red Zone, endangered by Earthquake/Volcano/Terrorist Region, so says Time magazine's helpful little colored map. Most likely I will die. BUT IT IS EXTREME!

If you don't like it, move to Canada.

[Fathom Zero]

If you're real extreme, like me, you'd live in a place with storms that tear billboards in half about a block away from your house.
XTREME.

[Seven Force]

I'd rather face cold and tornados and irrate polish elderly and collapsing porches and a corrupt government and a dumb governor than live without plumbing for weeks on end. I go crazy without a means to bathe.

[Zomboid]

The only time I've ever seen a damaging storm around here was a couple years ago, and all it did was knock over one street light, break a bunch of windows, and blow stuff around. Very extreme.

[Guitar Woman]

I fell off a surfboard once and got tossed around by the waves for a few seconds. That's pretty extreme, right?

[Seven Force]

It's extreme, sure. But it's not Xtreme.

[HickMan]

Extreme cheese? Ohio is for puss-balls

[Esuohlim]

Ohio has Xtreme rollercoasters :D

[liquidstatik]

we had an ice storm a few years back, and it was pretty bad. the whole town was without electricity for 5 or 6 days. and it was real cold, and nobody could go anywhere cause all the roads were iced. :O

[DamnthatDavid]

We had a ice storm a couple years back also. Everything was coated in Ice. But we had... XTREME UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC CONDUITS, so even when the wires snapped, it was only phones.

[Sethomas]

I'm the only person in my family of five who hasn't been in a major hurricane. During my older sister's ordeal, she was hit by the eye of Hurricane Ivan in Grenada while studying there. I seem to remember that Mock's parents or something were entailed in the same one, or something. As I told SF, the country was so ill-prepared for anything (they hadn't had a tropical storm in 80 years) that everyone rioted and all the prisoners who were held in a 17th century fort (serving as a jail) escaped. A security guard she would talk to on her grocery runs was assigned to prevent looting and he ended up decapitated with a machete.

Those Caribbeans really are JUST LIKE those Malibu and Red Stripe commercials, you know.

The ABC news branch here has a service called "Call 6 for Help", and my parents called them to say "Hey, our daughter is studying on an island and it's gone now. Do something." So, they interviewed my parents about how they felt about all of it in our house in Indiana and surreptitiously we got through to her on an emergency phone when they were there so they talked to her and the news lady was all like, "so, hurricanes suck, no?". For some odd reason, Univisión picked up the story and aired our segment nationally, probably under the assumption that people spoke Spanish there after Cuba tried to take it over.

As for me, I think I get enough adventure without the help of natural disasters.

[Chojin]

Miss Dynamite really kinda sucks, guys

[Guitar Woman]

While I'll agree that the ongoing webcomic isn't very funny and the flash cartoon is only a touch above mediocre, the annual action comics sirkowski puts up on the site and the comics that appear only in print are fucking awesome. They sort of feel like a precursor to Dr. McNinja, only with a hell of a lot more ass kicking.

Also I lol'd at the episode of the cartoon where they drove nails through the balls of a backstreet boy ;<

[Chojin]

i like his porn, but even that's just ok.

[Guitar Woman]

does he really draw dickgirls

[Chojin]

not that i've seen, but then i've only seen two. he has one with usagi and misty and another with the FFX girls ;<

[Chojin]

and i am talking about sailor moon usagi not the samurai rabbit and the internet has taught me that such things often require clarification

[Guitar Woman]

I don't remember anyone named Usagi in Sailor Moon

[executioneer]

japanese for rabitt

[Fathom Zero]

Originally Posted by Guitar Woman

I don't remember anyone named Usagi in Sailor Moon

THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAID.

[Guitar Woman]

It's what I meant, dickface

[Juttin]

Originally Posted by Sethomas

I'm the only person in my family of five who hasn't been in a major hurricane. During my older sister's ordeal, she was hit by the eye of Hurricane Ivan in Grenada while studying there. I seem to remember that Mock's parents or something were entailed in the same one, or something. As I told SF, the country was so ill-prepared for anything (they hadn't had a tropical storm in 80 years)

Being an Island AND being in the Atlantic Ocean is enough to be prepared for a tropical storm 24/7

I'd blame their ignorance on the crime waves afterwards.

[Sethomas]

Grenada is in the Caribbean. Hence, much of the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" and its sequals was filmed there. It's not in the Atlantic, although you could consider it part of the larger Atlantic water system. By that standard, you could consider everything including Lake Michigan "The Ocean".

And I find it remarkable that you can totally overlook the fact that they hadn't had a sizable storm in three generations and yet quote it at the same time. Despite what you may have read in your copy of Meteorology for the Mentally Deficient, you can't just dictate "hey it's an island lol it's screwed". Grenada hadn't experienced any storm like that in the history of its Western occupation because of its position in the wind system.

I'd blame their ignorance on the crime waves afterwards.

Shit, a population that's been content with being dirt-poor (because it was an improvement upon slavery), who will always be dirt-poor because their economy is based on nutmeg, turns to crime when their shacks blow away? I can't decide whether I should nominate you for the Nobel Prize in Economics or Sociology.

[Juttin]

Lake Michigan is generally land-locked, so it doesn't apply to what I'm saying.

Grenada is out there, surrounded by water.

It doesn't matter how long without a storm they'd gone, they were under a constant threat of active hurricanes, due to their location.

I mean, they had to be prepared in SOME WAY.