Hurricane Sandy (via) looks like a real humdinger, as the kids say:
A very prominent and respected National Weather Service meteorologist wrote on Facebook last night,
I’ve never seen anything like this and I’m at a loss for expletives to describe what this storm could do.
I’m confident that whatever happens with this storm, it will show that Al Gore is fat and that liberals are overreacting about something or another. The storm could also prove to be Obama’s Katrina.
Word ’round the campfire is that if it hits DC, it could delay the jobs report, which would make it part of the same conspiracy that Jack Welch exposed with last month’s job report.
Update. For those in the potential path of the storm, there is a lot of good information in this thread about predictions and evacuation routes.
Professor
What would Jack Welch say when the storm hit the East Coast?
Mike E
And Irene was only a tropical storm! You libs, with your science and disaster prep… typical.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m putting the finishing touches on my annual Fall Grand Banks fishing expedition.
dr. bloor
If they put Chris Christie and his gravitational pull out to sea somewhere, it will miss us entirely.
PeakVT
Sandy potentially could affect turnout in Virginia, where the POTUS race is a tossup. If it’s really bad, Pennsylvania, too. Some of those states may use electronic voting machines – I’m fairly certain Virginia does.
c u n d gulag
Well, you can bet that if they haven’t had another 9/11 on Obama’s watch, the Conservatives will be happy to take another Katrina.
They’ve been praying for some epic disaster they can blame on Obama, for 4 years now.
beltane
Isn’t there an “Al Gore is fat” tag? If there isn’t, there should be because I have a feeling we’ll be needing that tag a lot in the future.
geg6
FRANKENSTORM!
At least, that’s what the weather people on the local news are calling it. Should get snow up in the mountains here, but just rain and sleet where I live. Good thing we winterized our cabin up in Titusville the last couple of weekends.
dmsilev
I believe that it was established not too long ago that Barack Obama controls the weather. Therefore, this is clearly an attempt by the Obama campaign to suppress Republican votes.
? Martin
And this is the moment where the Dems huge emphasis on early voting and absentee voting pays dividends. By locking up their votes early, the effects of lower turnout on election day aren’t felt. Given the timing and trajectory being forecast, there won’t be much impact on the Presidential race, but think of all of those contested House and Senate seats in the northeast that just got a huge potential boost for the Dem.
JGabriel
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Hurrican Sandy Public Service Announcement:
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If you live in NYC, use this link to find out if you should evacuate for Hurricane (or ExtraTropical Storm) Sandy: NYC Hurricane Evacuation Zone Finder from the NYC Office of Emergency Management.
Long Islanders can find a storm surge map here.
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Lurking Canadian
Most of my childhood faith in an interventionist God has faded away, but I must say that if a weather event leads to the election of Willard Mitt Romney, that will either:
A) do for the rest of it or
B) convince me that the Cathars were right after all, and the material world is a sinkhole created and ruled by Satan himself.
schrodinger's cat
[email protected]
Did you see Bobo’s column, it is a wordy ode to the moderates, and Andrew Thespian Sullivan is hey indeeding it on the Dish. Should give you material for the next time, you are posing as a post punk Broder.
JGabriel
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Hurricane Sandy Public Service Announcement Cont’d:
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New Jersey Storm Surge and Evacuation Maps.
Weather Underground has Virgina, Maryland & Delaware Storm Surge Maps here.
Links via Terry Pinder @ DKos.
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Michael
Definitely concerned about (a) people’s safety and (b) impact on voting
beltane
It is already 70 degrees out here in north central VT. The record high for this location is 72 degrees set in 2010. Al Gore is one f*cking fat monster.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@dmsilev: If that were true, I would have hoped he would have just pounded Texas (my state) over and over with hurricanes throughout the year.
Hagiographer
Meatloaf’s endorsement of Romney just proves that this was the plan all along.
JGabriel
DougJ, you might want to add those hurricane evacuation links to the top post.
Napoleon
Serious question, could this take enought Dem votes out of the mix in PA to swing the state?
MikeJ
@dmsilev:
Krauthammer 9/5/12
Limbaugh 8/22/12
Culture of Truth
There are already 30 people dead in the Caribbean from this baby
JGabriel
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Napoleon:
Probably not, since there’s about a week to recover between the storm and the election, but I suppose it depends on how heavy the damage is.
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Culture of Truth
headed straight for Wilmington DE
LAC
@Napoleon: Everybody is clear that the election is not this Tuesday, right?
Jaysus…
Feudalism Now!
Hmm, a NATIONAL Weather Meteorologist is fluffing this to hide the polling news about Mitt-mentum. Our Dear Leader is using the power of the state to prolong his usurper’s grip on the WHITE House. It sickens me the depravity this man will sink to. Also, too.
JGabriel
@Culture of Truth:
And yesterday it was headed straight for NYC, then middle NJ. Expect the predicted path and landfall location to change several more times before the storm hits — though somewhere between D.C. and Montauk seems likely at this point.
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Ocotillo
Somebody cue Pat Robertson. Any chance he will make a call while it’s impact is unknown or will it have to be post-Frankenstorm before he tells us what God told him?
Culture of Truth
Indeed Obama knew this storm was coming months ago.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Lurking Canadian:
Kudos for mentioning the Cathars. Have you read Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s incomparable Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error ?
Culture of Truth
Why can’t Obama give us a straight answer on where this storm will land?? What is he hiding!?!?
Southern Beale
If it hits D.C., which it looks poised to do, I’m sure this will be evidence of God’s wrath against the Kenyan Moooslim Usurper Barack HUSSEIN Obummer argle bargle … Mighty Jeebus bashing the sinners with his Hurri-Bible.
That fact that Sandy first slammed into Guantanamo Bay will be completely ignored.
JGabriel
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Lurking Canadian:
Pleased to meet you, won’t you guess my name?
(I’ve long suspected this was the case.)
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Southern Beale
@beltane:
It’s been in the 80s in Nashville all week, gorgeous but … not normal. Except for last year, when it was also in the 80s around Halloween. But now some front has come through and the temperature dropped 15 degrees in the past 4 hours.
oceanic dude
Cue scary ominous music. Learned that the climate is just reacting to what we put in the atmosphere 50 years ago. There is a lag so to speak. Scientists thought that we would see bad things happen at 2 degree rise(Celsius) global temp , ie open arctic oceans, melting of arctic tundra, historic floods, droughts etc. We are at 1 degree now. Scientists now say at 1 1/2 degrees bad things start to happen. We are going to go flying past 3 degrees as it stands now, heading for 6 degrees by turn of century. At 4 degrees the shit hits the fan supposedly, refugees in the millions, collapse of societies, loss of half the species, etc., good times. It will take a massive effort to stop us from getting to 3 degrees.
shortstop
@Ocotillo: Clearly this will hit from Maryland all the way to Maine, since God is sticking it to the gay-loving Old Liners and Down Easters.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Somebody school me if I’m off here, but isn’t this pretty much the same scenario as the 1991 Sable Island storm in which a nor’easter was caught between a hurricane moving north and a cold front moving south and as a result shifted in a retrograde movement back to the west, becoming more intense as it went?
Punchy
A Cat Juan at best, and likely justa trop stizzle, and the fuckin Easters are losing their shit? Wudda they….allergic to some rain and gusty winds?
Nancys…..the lot of em.
JPL
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: Wunderground.com mentioned a storm in 1938. Hopefully, the forecasts are wrong and the storm goes out to sea.
Who would you rather have in office to provide necessary services, Romney or Obama.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
If I believed in supernatural deities, I’d think someone was saying, “Hey, you fuckers, this ciimate change thing? PAY ATTENTION!”
OT, but… this is one of the most respected foreign policy voices in Broderton, and by far the most frequent guest ever on the Sabbath Gasbagathons
Not completely untrue, but is Senator War Everywhere! War Now! War Forever! suddenly telling us the Iraq War was a bad thing?
JGabriel
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ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
Close but worse, since this time a high near Newfoundland is pushing the storm track directly into the east coast (and more strongly into the western cold front) — the Sable Island storm didn’t make landfall, if I remember correctly.
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Higgs Boson's Mate
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
Does this mean that George Clooney is going to make “The Perfect Storm 2” (In 3D, natch)?
22over7
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Yeah, but that was a long time ago. McCain doesn’t remember what he was doing then, or two weeks ago, or this morning. But he still remembers Colin Powell is black.
Commentariat: what are the best places online to keep track of (i.e., watch obsessively) this storm? Weather.com doesn’t really do it for me.
J.
Blow me. Is Schadenfreude a requirement for being a meteorologist?
I lost power for six days after Irene, and again after last Halloween’s freak snow storm. And while I’m all for being prepared, this macabre storm coverage is freaking me out. On the plus side, if we lose power, we won’t be inundated with campaign robocalls and will not be able to watch all those annoying Linda McMahon ads.
J.
Note to Northeast weather forecasters: Blow me. Is Schadenfreude a requirement for being a meteorologist?
I lost power for six days after Irene, and again after last Halloween’s freak snow storm. And while I’m all for being prepared, this macabre storm coverage is freaking me out. On the plus side, if we lose power, we won’t be inundated with campaign robocalls and will not be able to watch all those annoying Linda McMahon ads.
Scamp Dog
XKCD has an appropriate cartoon: Epsilon and Zeta. Be sure to mouse over the image to see the title text.
Elizabelle
Ah, so now it’s hurricane porn.
The derecho did us a lot of damage this summer. Power out for 3 to 7 days within the DC area; some scattered areas maybe longer.
Virginia allows absentee in person/early voting; that’s happening now.
Pennsylvania is very restrictive on early voting. I’ve wondered how they get away with that, with so many elderly and the occasional storm or snow to play havoc with Election Day.
FEDERALIZE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. Please please please.
SatanicPanic
So I tried to read the linked article and I have to admit, I just don’t get understand this stuff about record low pressure. How bad is this storm going to be? What are we talking about here?
Princess Leia
@22over7: Love the Dr. Masters blog at Wunderground.com – lots of crazy weather junkies are all over this.
sparrow
This blog has good advice for those on the East Coast:
http://meteorologicalmusings.blogspot.com/2012/10/8am-friday-hurricane-sandy-update.html
Including… VOTE!
ATTENTION FELLOW MARYLANDERS! You can vote early starting tomorrow through Thursday Nov 1st. ANYONE can vote early! Centers are open 10 AM – 8 PM and you vote a normal ballot using machines just like you would on Nov 6th.
http://www.elections.state.md.us/voting/early_voting.html
I’m going to do it when I get back from DC on Sunday. Not worth taking chances!
JGabriel
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22over7:
National Hurricane Center
That’s where everyone else in the media is getting their info. And also from the ECMWF model.
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Elizabelle
@J.:
They’re running “Frankenstorm” because they’re bored with cherry-picking polls (ZOMG) and God forbid they report on Romney’s whoppers.
Or that we’re 11 days out and he never did release his tax returns.
That’s sinful.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
So, this news could be highlighting the need to address climate change in the long term, our shitty energy infrastructure in the medium term (if only there were a politician who wanted to address those issues!), but Barack Obama almost said bullshit in a magazine interview, so let’s go to Chuck Todd for an analysis of what Lexus Moms think of the Lena Dunham ad.
Napoleon
@LAC:
No shit asshole – I live in Ohio, I am reminded every single second of every day. The predictions already are that the damage could be so extensive that the power is not back in wide sections of the NE come election day. Dem votes are concentrated close to the cost, not B– F— Pa in the middle of the Alleganeys.
mainmati
@PeakVT: Yes, this is what concerns me too. One scenario has it slated to hit the Delmarva region Sunday or Monday, 28-29 October. That is a full week before the election but it could still mess up VA (the others are safe Democratic). PA is a question mark in that circumstance but likely to remain D since the voter suppression law was judicially suppressed. The other NWS scenario has the storm veering farther out to sea and impacting New England instead.
Cermet
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: Worse – this is occuring inland – not out at sea. As I said a few days ago when I wrote about this possibly hitting the mid-atlantic – this monster will be record bad.
Elizabelle
And the intranet could be down for many crucial days.
No Balloon Juice, true.
But talk about being dependent on broadcast and cable gasbags, instead of more informative and less biased sources, for your news.
Obama said bullsh*t.
Hide teh kidz.
(Actually, I hope that people will see government at its finest, protecting and restoring us.)
Matt McIrvin
@? Martin: Unfortunately, there’s no in-person early voting or no-excuse absentee voting in Virginia or Pennsylvania. The storm is headed for the part of the US that does this kind of thing the least.
Usually, anything that depresses turnout helps Republicans. On the other hand, the places most likely to have week-plus power outages will be suburban, exurban and rural areas that lean Republican.
Mattski
AAAHHHHHH We’re all going to Die AAAAHHHHH Hurricane AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I know this because there is no way media would hype a weather event for ratings! ! ! AHHHHHHHHHH Quick to the store i need to get milk,eggs, and bread AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH If i’m going to die, I need a belly full a french toast AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH. And bottled water too AHHHHHHH because there is no way i will be able to get drinking water until months after the storm AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH That’s if i live AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ! ! ! ! !
Rosalita
@Punchy:
yeah, those week-long power outages after last years storm were SO MUCH FUN. Have a heart Punchy.
Spatula
@oceanic dude:
I feel OK about all of this, because of the massive, focused push PBO and the Dems have given over the last four years to the issue of climate change and what we MUST do NOW to prevent catastrophe…oh wait…
…never mind.
JPL
On the bright side, the media will stop bull shitting on Romney momentum and instead focus on the storm…
Mike E
@JPL: This is excellent news for John McCain!
Cermet
@sparrow: Thanks fellow Marylander! I will.
MikeJ
@Matt McIrvin:
That’s not strictly true, but it’s much more difficult to do. When I was precinct watching I got to vote early. Went to a sheriff’s substation on a Saturday and voted with all the other poll watchers. I honestly don’t even remember what hoops I had to jump through to vote early, but it can be done, just not easily.
tamied
I don’t understand why there’s such a major panic. The election is over a week away and we’ve lived thru these kind of storms before. Chill out people.
J.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Come on, Jim, we all know there’s no such thing as climate change. It’s just God farting.
LAC
@Napoleon: Yeah, dumbass, I get it! But you know what, with your fucking debbie downer track record here, you are a magic ring and a bridge away from being a troll. We have early voting going on in these areas. And we have managed to clean up after storms and the government still runs. Anything else you want to bitch about today, because you are nowhere near your quota.
Elizabelle
@Matt McIrvin:
We’re absentee in person voting now in Virginia, through Saturday, November 3.
In Fairfax County, for example, it’s 2-8 Monday through Friday, and 9-5 on our two remaining Saturdays. Voting at local government centers.
Virginia will ask you to attest why you’re voting early (ie. absentee in person), and there are lots of accepted reasons.
Being away from home for 11 hours while the polls are open (which happens regularly here, with workaholics and long commutes), being out of town on Election Day (for personal, business, or vacation reasons). Being a student, in the military, pregnant, ill or disabled, caregiver to someone ill or disabled, working at a polling place on Election Day. Being a first responder.
Here’s info from the Virginia State Board of Elections.
Elizabelle
@MikeJ:
In Virginia, you have to attest, but they do not require proof. The Commonwealth will take your word that you will be out of town or away from your polling place.
Rumor has it Pennsylvania is more stringent.
Omnes Omnibus
For people worried about loss of power and voting machines being out of commission, polling place will just have to use paper ballots.
If there are power outages on Election Day, people will be off work and better able to make it to the polls.
Shit doesn’t always have to work in favor of the other side.
Chyron HR
@Spatula:
You seem upset about Obama’s impending re-election. Why don’t you go work on your potrait of James Earl Ray to take your mind off it?
Matt McIrvin
@Elizabelle: Good to know. Thanks. (I voted absentee in Virginia when I was a college student, but I hadn’t heard of absentee-in-person!)
RedKitten
we’ll be keeping an eye on it up here in Nova Scotia, needless to say. That was one thing we insisted up on when we built the house: putting in a wood stove. Husband and I lived in Halifax during Hurricane Juan and saw how woefully ill-prepared most people are for extended power outages. it was a real eye-opener. So now if anything big looks like it’s coming, we make sure we have lots of wood in the house, lots of water stored, cash available, gas in the car, and enough non-perishable foodstuffs (including powdered milk) to get us through at least a week. We’re not hardcore survivalists, but we could get through a week or two without power relatively easily.
Persia
@tamied: Look at the pictures and shut up. Yeah, getting crazy helps no one, but this is a big fucking storm.
Booger
Guys? Can we stop the wetting our pants? The storm is looking like next week–the election is the following week. If it reduces voter turnout, then we’ll have bigger things to worry about, like the east coast having been destroyed or something.
Another Halocene Human
I remember Gloria. If you had a dead/sick tree, that muthafucka was coming down.
Tree surgeons should be selling their services like crazy right about now. Save your roof!
LAC
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh, no…we have to shriek and soak our pants in fear produced urine early and often. Oh, and run in circles. :)
chopper
uh, if this thing is anything like irene, the areas that are most likely to get washed out are rural places. if you’re worried about the vote, the cities are probably going to have their shit together more so than the red districts come 11/6.
sharl
To those living in the area “served” by PEPCO, a request:
If you are viewing one of these scary-looking satellite images of less-than-adorable Sandy – perhaps on one of those modern communications accessories you hippety-hop music-loving kids like to own – please conceal the screen while passing by power substations, distribution nodes and the like.
PEPCO is VERY sensitive and susceptible to fright; yes, it very much is…
quannlace
I know we got to prepare and I am…but I also can’t listen to too much of this coverage.
We had a major northeaster here almost exactly a year ago and were without power for 5 days. So all this is just giving me one huge anxiety attack. And it looks like Northern NJ has one big fat bulls-eye painted on it. It’s just making me sick.
Oh, and hey, kids. Halloween’s screwed over for another year!
piratedan
I predict an uptick in the playing of “The wreck of the edmund fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot by a factor of three this weekend….
Omnes Omnibus
@LAC: I am willing to run in circles. As for the rest, my potty training was apparently very strict; I just cannot bring myself to do it.
Also too, lyrics from a Meat Loaf song? Too funny.
LAC
@sharl: Oh, yeah. PEPCO… or, as I like to call it “Lindsay Lohan” – how many more times are you going to fuck up, say you are sorry and that you have learned from it?
Another Halocene Human
@quannlace: The North Atlantic coast has had shit weather forever but the difference is that in the preceding centuries you only had a few hours’ notice that The Big One was coming, batten the hatches.
The good thing about that is that the building codes are pretty strict because you could get punishing high winds, heavy snow, ice, etc, any season of the year.
Andrew was ridiculous because Florida was a real estate promoters paradise with permanent houses built no better than trailers.
This is the space age. Days to have a heart attack about a storm coming. Prepare and chillax.
Unless you’re a rich idjit who built your house out on some coastal sand. Hahaha, what am I talking about, the gov is run by 1%ers and they will bail your ass out.
Corner Stone
@LAC:
What’s the “magic ring” part?
quannlace
Soul-mate! Wish we could set up a quick support group.
quannlace
Soul-mate! Wish we could set up a quick support group.
*******
Someone else was explaining that the forecasters aren’t giddy over the possible damage; they’re just excited over studying a new situation.
Bite me!
TenguPhule
First Question that comes to mind, how do we stake out Dick Cheney to be judged by the elements?
MikeJ
@Another Halocene Human:
My dad tells me of his navy days which were pre weather satellite. He was flying airborne early warning and they discovered a hurricane approaching the Caribbean. To me that’s amazing. An entire hurricane that nobody knew existed, and it wasn’t in the 1800s.
LAC
@Corner Stone: From the movie “Troll”. Yep, I watched that on TV… (hangs head in shame). I don’t know if trolls have magic rings normally. :)
LAC
@quannlace: I know Bob Ryan on News Center 4 in DC is practically banging his boner on the desk. I am just waiting to see Jim Cantore doing his patented flexing during the storm on the weather channel. Then I know its storm time!!
Brendanyc
@? Martin: Is nobody worried about the historical record that absentee ballots are much more likely to be undercounted (lost, ignored, that is) than in person votes?
is someone taking steps in the key sing states to do something about this?
Cermet
Someone needs @Booger: And your experience for being without power or water for two to five days is?
No one is wetting themselves out East but people will be dying and you think that is over reacting?
Besides that you don’t appear to know what the fuck you are saying is fairly obvious since first off, no one here is over reacting in their posts, and second, this storm has the potential to be a monster (weather service.) Finlly, if it does hit, people will be dying both for not listening (maybe due to dick heads saying don’t worry?) and due to bad luck (poor and living in questionable places that wealthy people don’t need to.)
Killer storms like this can very well ARE something to worry about because large numbers of people on the EAST COAST live near flood zones – understand that idea? So, STFU.
JGabriel
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Omnes Omnibus:
True, but it mostly does when shit is what they’re selling.
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kate
Up to TWO FEET of snow in W. Virginia???!!!
sparrow
@piratedan: I have to admit to liking that song.
nemesis
@Brendanyc:
Read where Bamz has gaggles of attorneys in every key state due dilligentting their stuff indetifying things like polling place irregularities.
Plus, RaMad did a segment about how the Obama guy in Ohio from 2008 has remained in Ohio and has solidified the ground game here.
quannlace
Fuck. More reporting like this and I’m going to bed till Thursday
geg6
@Elizabelle:
You have to prove you can’t make it to the polls. Elderly almost always get approved, if they ask. Which many don’t. I don’t know about the eastern part of the state, but around here, Election Day is a social event for the oldsters.
I got an absentee ballot back in 2004 quite easily because I was going to be out of town on business.
quannlace
Enough of this. I’m going to listen to ‘Science Friday’ where they’re having a segment on real-life zombies
MikeJ
@quannlace: I’m so fucking sick of hearing about Mitt Romney.
Steeplejack
@sparrow:
I hate that song. It’s plodding and way too long. Much better is Lightfoot’s “Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle” (from his excellent live album Sunday Concert).
joeyess
Since early voting seems to heavily favor the President, what’s the over/under on the chances of the GOP wanting to extend voting into Wednesday or Thursday of election week?
Corner Stone
@Brendanyc:
Like the former slave states, you mean? where they’d sing in the fields during harvest time? HMMM??
gogol's wife
@quannlace:
I’m with you. We even bought a big generator after last year’s October storm, and I thought that would keep me from freaking out, but the way they’re talking about this one is making me very nervous.
Matt McIrvin
@Booger: We all remember last year. The aftermath of Irene and especially the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee had lots of areas flooded out for days and power out for weeks.
This could easily affect the election, without necessarily being the apocalypse, if half of the East Coast is still without power on Nov. 6.
Matt McIrvin
I get the impression the big deal about this one is not so much the wind strength as the gigantic area that is going to have high winds and storm surges. Lots of energy, spread thinly so that it hits a big chunk of the coast.
So I expect the power companies to have their hands full.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
Just bought water, batts and snacks. Tomorrow I’ll get all the loose crap out of the yard.
Sandy looks like some scary evil hybrid of the 1991 Perfect Storm and the 1938 Hurricane (if it really does hit NJ first). And next Monday/Tuesday are astronomical high tides (full moon). Joy. Really glad I had that dead tree in my yard taken down last year.
This place is old, and has seen & survived many hurricanes (including 1938’s), but I’m betting on a flooded basement from all the rain, and hoping the roof holds.
GxB
@dr. bloor:
Oh snap!
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us? (formerly MarkJ)
@dr. bloor: I’m surprised he doesn’t generate enough hot air to create a countervailing force strong enough to push the thing out to sea.
Original Lee
@Elizabelle: Or his medical records.
Gravenstone
@LAC: I believe the concern is primarily extensive, and prolonged power outages. Irene was the analgoous storm being tossed about on TWC this morning. If places are still without power a week from Tuesday (anticipated landfall), then yes it can fucking impact the election.
Allen
For a bit of historical perspective, 50 years ago, those of us in the Northwest were treated to a Typhoon, Freda by name, that by all accounts made “The Perfect Storm” look like a bloody picker. 160 mph winds on the coast, 130 mph winds in the inland. The big difference between New England storms and Northwest storms is where the majority of weather forecasters live. Kinda like the difference between the SEC and the PAC-12, more sportswriters there than here, ranking clearly inferior teams like Florida over superior teams like Oregon.
Maude
@Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:
I live in an apartment bldg. I’m going to tie down the garbage can in the alley. It could fly without wings.
Both of the bus drivers I was with today said they go on emergency call when storms happen.
LAC
@Gravenstone: Alrighty…I will get my old pants out (to pee in) and warm up my hands for all the “OLE LAWDY!!!” hand wringing to follow. Will that do?
Or can I just go to the store to pick up some items, make sure that things are secured this weekend, try to be optimistic and pray? IS THAT FUCKING ALRIGHT WITH YOU?
Just so that you know, I am aware of what is going down, but having a cow now isn’t going to make anything any better. The fallout could be extensive or manageable. We will all know more once we get through the next few days. We have to get through this first before we will know the impact of it on the November 6th election.
Greyjoy
You know how Minnesota was voted Least Miserable State for 2012? Come to us. We don’t get hurricanes, and 3 feet of snow overnight means you spend the next day making a snow fort, instead of spending a week wondering when the power’s coming back on. And we have election-day voter registration, so if you move to my part of town, you’d get the added bonus of voting Michele Bachmann out of office. Consider the possiblities.
I’ll also point out that we have enormous quantities of fresh water and fertile soil and, uh, those might come in handy in the next 50 years, especially if the climatologists are as right as we fear they are.