Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
They have guns. They'll be fine.Wonder how many people have defied the evacuation because they can 'deal with it'
Hurricane Florence: Mass evacuation, in Eastern USA, from 'storm of a lifetime'
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
You learn something every day!
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Unbelievable! Yet strangely not.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
King Cnut except with guns.
ice-is-forming
With dignified ease and grace..
Unbelievable! Yet strangely not.
We have heaps of these weather events here but I've never heard of that happening before
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
It reminds me of that line from H.G. Wells' War of the worlds - "Bows and arrows against the lightning".
Part of me really wants to believe that they're not that fucking stupid but the other half of me gets great satisfaction out of knowing there are people like this in the world.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Sadly, one of them is currently President.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I believe he started that facebook group! He told its members to liken the storm to Mexicans trying to cross the border.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Cnut has been unfairly slandered by history. His whole point was that he couldn't hold back the seas, because he was human like anyone else, and people remember it as completely the opposite. Historical fake news
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I read that as 'Killing cunts with guns'
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I read that as 'Killing cunts with guns'
Thanks to the bullets being blown back that's probably what happened.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Florence and the machine gun
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Cnut has been unfairly slandered by history. His whole point was that he couldn't hold back the seas, because he was human like anyone else, and people remember it as completely the opposite. Historical fake news
Now, had he thought about building the Thames barrier.....
ice-is-forming
With dignified ease and grace..
Iirc this Happened in Sussex at Bosham
Yeah I'm sure it was Chichester harbour area. Bosham is a beautiful village .There's fuck all water depth there but if you time it right at the top of spring tides you can get alongside the quay next to the church / green for a couple of hours
*Assuming c. 2m draft
To be fair, that's an express article sourcing a facebook page. Let's give it the disdain it deserves even if it does reward us with the gleeful idea that trump types want to shoot at a hurricane
ice-is-forming
With dignified ease and grace..
Yeah I'm sure it was Chichester harbour area. Bosham is a beautiful village .There's fuck all water depth there but if you time it right at the top of spring tides you can get alongside the quay next to the church / green for a couple of hours
*Assuming c. 2m draft
I used to go there a lot, I've got this fascination with Venice and bosham was closer. Loved sitting in the pub with the sea just below the windows!
Closest I've come to Venice here was 2008 the bush village I was living in flooded and all the roads turned into rivers for a couple of weeks
I didn't have a boat but I had a 4x4
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
TBF it's only a Express article, because it was the first link that came up, but I remember it being covered by both BBC & Sky at the time, indeed the BBC is quoted as a source in that article. It was also widely reported by other papers, including more serious ones, on both sides of the pond.
Sure the whole story was based on a Facebook page, but 27,000 signed-up to it, how many were being serious and how many were just taking the piss, is the only real question. But, with so many gun nuts across the pond, I suspect most were actually being serious.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
There are over 30k members now. It's a real faecesbook group with real
Lurdan
old wave
hmm. Serious question - how come we haven't got a 24 hour weather channel in the UK ? We could watch the same cool graphics with different presenters all day. I'd be in for that.
(I know we've got a Parliament channel but obviously that only deals with wind).
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Bbc news 24 is great fun whenever there's any kind of weather.
-And now we go live to our intern who we've sent to stand shoulder deep in what was until recently Tewkesbury high street. How's it looking there Chris?
-Still flooded here, can't feel my legs but I'm assuming they're pretty wet.
-Terrific stuff, we'll check back in with you in a couple of hours. And remember folks, official advice is to stay indoors unless absolutely necessary. Now let's hear from Lisa, who's on top of Scaffell Pike holding an umbrella. How are those thunderstorms looking Lisa? Lisa?
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taffboy gwyrdd
Embrace the confusion!
Why do these events keep getting called "storm of a lifetime" etc. when they are so frequent?
Anyway...
Anyway...
petee
no gods, no malarkey
In Flood-Hit Public Housing, a Reminder That the Poor Bear Brunt of Storms’ Fury
"This week, after a brief evacuation, she returned to Trent Court to find that flooding from Florence had turned her place into a sodden wreck. She also realized that she was now a player in the kind of redevelopment drama that tends to swamp storm-battered places like this — a story of race, class, gentrification and safety fears, and questions without easy answers about who gets to live on often alluring, sometimes treacherous, waterside real estate."
"This week, after a brief evacuation, she returned to Trent Court to find that flooding from Florence had turned her place into a sodden wreck. She also realized that she was now a player in the kind of redevelopment drama that tends to swamp storm-battered places like this — a story of race, class, gentrification and safety fears, and questions without easy answers about who gets to live on often alluring, sometimes treacherous, waterside real estate."
A once in a lifetime storm or sometimes caused once in a 100 years storm refers to hitting that particular location. Whilst terrible storms happen every year its unlikely to hit the same place twice in a lifetime / 100 years.
That's how its used in construction planning anyway.
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