I'm sure you've known or still know very intelligent, college-educated professionals who are long-time smokers or were functioning alcoholics who continue to engage in these same bad-health, potentially deadly habits despite knowing smoking those cigarettes will eventually give them lung cancer, emphysema or bladder cancer.
There’s a difference between conspiracy theory and cognitive dissonance. One can some day be proven true, the other is just not true.
So, you at least get part of my previous post in that Rush held or still hold strong libertarian leanings.
We’re as prone to veer off topic as a hurricane is to veer from its projected path
You make it sound so simple and convenient. We've been discussing UFO's/USO's and assassination theories, some of which go back decades and some even centuries. Their are historical leaders, like Tiberius on Capri, that we as historians still aren't sure how he died. Some say Caligula murdered him on his bed via Cassius Dip and Tacitus, but as a consensus, we simply don't know and never will. A few historians still think that Napoleon might've been slowly poisoned by British authorities on St. Helena to quicken his death.
well Neil Peart certainly did - he describes it mostly as part of his idealist 20s (my dalliance was in existentialism, but it feels like it was a similar journey)
I flew a prop plane one time in life... USAir from Charlotte into Hilton Head Island. After that experience, I just flew my arse into Savannah and drove the rest of the way.In the late 90s, I flew from Charlotte to New Bern, NC - a small airport about 35 miles inland from the lower Outer Banks. We flew into New Bern into the edge of a tropical storm that made landfall overnight that night. I'm not sure exactly which year it was, but I think it may have been Tropical Storm Dennis (formerly Hurricane Dennis) was moving toward the NC coast after meandering a bit in the Atlantic over the Labor Day weekend in 1999.
We were in an American Airlines regional operator, flying a Saab 340 twin turboprop. Things were fine until we got close to the field and then it got super nasty. I couldn't see the ground until we just about hit the deck. The plane was yawing all over the place, the props groaning into the wind. I'm certain that we were the last flight they let in before the storm hit.
I remember that the coolest thing was when we got to the deplaning area (it was one of those external stair sets on wheels - not a jetway), the pilot got out and yelled at the grounds crew because they had us facing into the rain, making it worse for all of us to deplane. I remember thinking "this guy is bad arse!"
I was in my 20s and don't recall being that frightened - but I'm sure it would be terrifying if I had done it more recently.
I don't know about size, but Katrina was a category 5 until maybe 3 or 4 hours before landfall.
This is a picture of the recently music built venue in Clearwater. A you tuber was saying they thought it would make it through since it was undoubtedly "made from very strong materials". I say it won't make it. What say you guys?
Yeah, I was thinking about width, not strength, trying to imagine that with the strength how wide the damage is going to touch. Knowing Katrina basically filled the Gulf, I'm guessing it won't stretch as wide.
This is a picture of the recently music built venue in Clearwater. A you tuber was saying they thought it would make it through since it was undoubtedly "made from very strong materials". I say it won't make it. What say you guys?
DedThis is a picture of the recently music built venue in Clearwater. A you tuber was saying they thought it would make it through since it was undoubtedly "made from very strong materials". I say it won't make it. What say you guys?
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