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Wednesday, October 26. 2011In Doc's study (Doc skims over a news site) Hurricane Rina Lumbers Toward Mexican Resort Towns "Oh, big deal! Probably nothin' more than a bunch of fat-cat 1-percenters living in the lap of luxury off the sweat and toil of us hard-working 99-percenters! Go get 'em, Rina! Kick some Wall Street ass!" (goes back to reading, glad he got it out of his system) Ding! "Hmm, an email. From the landlord? Wonder what that's all about." Subject: HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS PLAN "Huh?" (goes to NOAA web site)
"Uh, yeah? And? Who gives a shit what happens to Mexico? What the hell's my landlord talking about?" (fearing he's being suckered into playing into the hands of a demented madman, Doc goes to the Stormpulse site, since it has such pretty graphics)
"Oh." (preparing for a long evening of picturing the worst that could happen when hit by a Category 18 hurricane, Doc grabs the blender and whips up one of his famous Valium-Vicodin-Jack Daniels-methamphetamine milkshakes and heads over to Terrapin, his usual mainstay for hurricane tracking because it uses the combined plot of the six best agencies in the business) "Well, at least we can be grateful that we live in a day and age when hurricanes can be accurately predicted," he says fatefully.
"Okay, so maybe there are still a few kinks to work out of the system." And that's the sitch at the moment. If it continues on the Stormpulse track (also in this video), you'll have some real, live hurricaneblogging here at Maggie's. With emphasis on the "live" part, hopefully. Trackbacks
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OT comment for Doc Mercury:
Visited your website pages about optimizing Windows Vista & followed many of your protocols. Result: excellent. Thanks for the tips!! T K Tortch,
Pardon your "visitation of Doc's website pages about optimizing Windows Vista & following the many of Doc's protocols (normally it's me who posts off-topic). I'm, personally, more concerned that Doc won't wrap another loop on the cleat so that the "Minnow" won't end up stranded on the roof of the local "Motel 6". Should that occur, we'll know him as "Dr Gilligan". Just tinkin'. Or, to put it another way, I was a lot happier getting TK's comment than my landlord's. :) While it's still projected to come this way, it appears to be weakening. If it gets down to tropical storm levels, everyone down here will lose interest. I know it always sounds crazy when I tell people this, but tropical storms aren't unusual in the tropics. Just another 'blow' passing through.
Hey Doc,
I hear ya ! Here's hoping that all you get is a slight swell and/or light chop. BTW, I've never seen a projected storm track do a 90 degree turn before, either. Think it might be AGW related? Gar (or "Dr. Hinterland" as he's known in some circles) -
"I've never seen a projected storm track do a 90 degree turn before" How about a 270-degree turn? When I was living in Lakeland, we first got clobbered by Charley, then Frances, then part of Ivan. As Jeanne was heading up the east coast of Florida, away from us, we all breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly, Jeanne slapped herself on the forehead and said, "Holy shit, I almost forgot about Lakeland!" Did you see Jeanne's path? Every time I see the term "hurricane path prediction", I think of Jeanne. Merc,
No I hadn't seen Jeanne's path. I just checked it out. Maybe you do have a bullseye painted somewhere. It's enough to give a lesser man a complex, eh?
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Good luck - batten down the hatches, tighten the lines, blah, blah, blah...
Doc, that cocktail, you really ought to add some wheat germ --
Its called a milkshake Buddy - that's health food enough in Florida. :>)
When a hurricane is moving, they can predict pretty much where it will go and when it will get there. When it ain't moving much, the prediction business ain't so good.
Damn Doc, you're gonna get your boat washed for free again? You 1%'er you! Man up and at least have the Hooter's girls do the scrub down in the rain... and don't forget to post the pictures!
You dang Southeasterners stole our hurricane again. We need the rain here. Get your own storms for a change.
Oh, that's just so typical of you Texans. "We want our own hurricane!," they whined. Well, folks, that's what ya get when you let republics and commonwealths into the union. I believe that's where the expression, "One bad apple spoils the barrel" came from. So true, so true.
In the meantime, can you believe the turnaround that thing made? What have I, got a bull's eye painted on my boat?? Your boat? Nah, Doc...face two mirrors together and step on in between 'em and you'll get the picture.
Weather it well, Doc. Give us the blow-by-blow if you're linkified. Jeph - I tried that mirror trick and discovered infinity. I could see forever!
Interestingly, both Stormpulse and Terrapin have scaled back their projections. Yesterday, they were both extended to about the midway point between Mexico and Florida, but today they're only going a bit past Mexico. I'm not sure if that's good news or bad news. Well, wherever it was thinking of going, it up and dissipated instead. At least we got a nice cold front, the next best thing to rain.
Ditto down here. It's plummeted from a scorching 85 down to a bone-numbing 81 -- in just two days! I say, bring back global warming NOW!
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