2024 Tropical Weather Thread (9 Viewers)

[superchuck500]

I assume y'all are getting your power outage numbers at the same place I am, but it's 1.349 million now. Doubled in about an hour.



All my people are further north. I'm thinking they're okay. Not sure yet.

Map - not down the to address but gives you area numbers.

OFF THE GRID: United States and Florida Power Outage Tracker

As severe weather or blizzards threaten, this database aggregates power outage information from more than 1,000 companies nationwide. It will automatically update every 15 minutes.

data.heraldtribune.com

 

[Saintman2884]

Is LT. Dan alive?

I sincerely hope this Lt. Dan doesn't also end up getting "magic legs" after being paralyzed from missiles, and debris careening like insane IED's in Kandahar Province by some drunk Taliban Islamic fundamentalist.

Or, he ends up worse than Gary Sinise' iconic character and is killed and his body isn't discovered 5-10 years from now in some swamped Everglades in a remote fishing community near Cedar Key, Florida.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Yes, it's a Filipino delicacy. I'm Filipino and I have never had it, nor do I have any desire to.

No offense to you or your people, but i spent a few months last year working in the Philippines and i cannot express to y’all how absolutely wretched the food was.. both the local Filipino food, and their versions of Western food.. it was so bad that for my last month there, i ate every meal from a TGI Fridays in the mall, and from a Costco pizza place…. I dont know how Thailand does it , but their food is the polar opposite- it’s like NOLA in that it’s really hard to find a bad meal in Thailand, and it’s about 1/10th the price of food in America.. they are both ‘developing nations’, so i dont get it.. anyway, sorry to derail the thread .

 

[Madmarsha]

God, I simply must insist there be no more big hurricanes for at least two decades now.

 

[Madmarsha]

Is that Thai ? I thought that was Filipino or something ? Either way, ive never had it, but i do eat many delicious Thai foods every day .

Fertilized duck eggs street food.

 

[HoustonGold]

Hurricane-force winds are whipping debris and shredding trees

Wind speeds have picked to 102 mph in Sarasota. The tops of palm trees are being shredded and sent scattering into the dark.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[superchuck500]

Here’s where my good friend from college is.

I'm pretty sure he's lost power and cellular (checked the outage maps).

 

[Sailorsaint]

God, I simply must insist there be no more big hurricanes for at least two decades now.

I don't think He's listening.

 

[HoustonGold]

 

[zatsnzapps]

Brandon's footage on cnn tee-vee at the moment

[edit] - moved away from it. It was a video shot of Venice surge flooding

 

[superchuck500]

This is the part where I have to take Z-Quil to go to bed because my hurricane trauma doesn't let me sleep when storms are hitting but I have to get up at 6:15

 

[Sailorsaint]

Why does all the worst weather hit in the middle of the night?!

 

[Tapxe]

There are some wonderful people in this world. Then there's whoever did this.

 

[Maxp]

This is the part where I have to take Z-Quil to go to bed because my hurricane trauma doesn't let me sleep when storms are hitting but I have to get up at 6:15

Find you some Canadian manufactured Unisom. Way better, less grogginess. Check the bottle for country of manufacture.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Find you some Canadian manufactured Unisom. Way better, less grogginess. Check the bottle for country of manufacture.

I use Unisom and it typically works really well.. ive never noticed the country of manufacture, but i make sure to use the Sleeptabs as opposed to the Sleepgels, Sleeptabs work much better .


ETA just checked the bottle, mines were manufactured in Tennessee USA .