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Sucks for Western FL...although I am glad Miami will not get it as bad. I was intending on returning around Dec. It's my 3-5 day getaway destination of choice...
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Sucks for Western FL...although I am glad Miami will not get it as bad. I was intending on returning around Dec. It's my 3-5 day getaway destination of choice...
sobrien
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Euro and NA model early predictions have Jose making landfall in NJ/NY!? That's what I just saw at least.
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Hurricane28
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Easy. Its 10 days out. 10 days out, both models had Irma making landfall as a category 4...over NYC
Its going to meander over the ocean and weaken down to a category 1. Won't strengthen as it circles due to upwelling and shear. We will see where it goes but its in a favorable position to be picked up and taken out to sea, but too early to say
Striiker
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This is pretty cool. A meteorologist in Florida steps outside of a car while in hurricane winds and has to fight to not get blown away.
https://streamable.com/29frg
https://streamable.com/29frg
Embiid
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Jeez I was just reading how meteorologists have never really seen a storm like Irma..especially when it was at its peak in the Carribbean. They might have to reclassify it as a 6 after all is said and done. Also, they worry that hurricanes of this size where it can affect both coasts of a peninsula like FL may become more frequent and it will force us to rethink disaster preparedness. The people who went East to West know all about this now. Main thing though is to get away from the coasts bc of the crazy storm surges made worse by rising seas. It's a whole new ballgame with hurricanes and extreme weather events now.
My father is in Italy and he suffered through the lucifer heat wave. Southern Italy is getting like North Africa. A girl I dated from Turkey said it was brutal there this summer. She wants to leave the country...political upheaval notwithstanding. On my way out of Miami this week I ran into a lady escaping the fires out West. Montana she said was an inferno. I mean there were 100+ days out West this summer. World is changing....
On another note...anybody use the app Zello? It is pretty cool. It acts like a walkie talkie and you can hear stations where crap is happening. I have been listening...some jackasses call in and prank but they get bounced. I must admit some are kind of funny...sounds like Howard Stern pranksters. But then you hear real stuff like abandoned animals tied to trees and nothing is amusing anymore and you get annoyed at the jackasses....
My father is in Italy and he suffered through the lucifer heat wave. Southern Italy is getting like North Africa. A girl I dated from Turkey said it was brutal there this summer. She wants to leave the country...political upheaval notwithstanding. On my way out of Miami this week I ran into a lady escaping the fires out West. Montana she said was an inferno. I mean there were 100+ days out West this summer. World is changing....
On another note...anybody use the app Zello? It is pretty cool. It acts like a walkie talkie and you can hear stations where crap is happening. I have been listening...some jackasses call in and prank but they get bounced. I must admit some are kind of funny...sounds like Howard Stern pranksters. But then you hear real stuff like abandoned animals tied to trees and nothing is amusing anymore and you get annoyed at the jackasses....
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Hurricane28
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Marcus Hayes "bitch" slapper
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Hollywood Cannon
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Beef Invictus
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He was measuring wind speed. Supposedly. Which he could have done by hanging his arm out the window.
Embiid
Marcus Hayes "bitch" slapper
He looked like he was trying to perform the running man dance. Maybe that should be a new dance move ....the hurricane?
Yeah I would think he could have used a selfie stick with the wind gauge attached or something similar. I mean the whole news coverage was silly with reporters standing outside getting drenched by rain and buffeted by high winds. They would make comments when they saw people on the roads or on the streets that they shouldn't be there and it was dangerous meanwhile they were putting on performances showing how they were braving the elements etc. Maybe one day they will stop with the histrionics when a sreet sign flys into a reporter's skull....totally unnecessary to be out there.
sobrien
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Yes but where do you fall on the fear spectrum? Do you enjoy, even seek out horror movies? If so, would an average or non-horror fan be horrified by it?
I thought it was good. I found it to be a little more creepy than scary but a mixture of both. They threw some humor into it, which I also enjoyed. For recent movies I've seen, I'd give this an 8-9ish.
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Nah, I dislike horror films in general due to my overactive imagination and history of sleep paralysis! Like I hardly ever watch them unless they are supposed to be a fantastic film (for example the Shining is one of my favourite films - because it is first a foremost a great film - then a horror second.)
But it was not very scary. Though I suppose jump scares don't generally get me (being the eldest of six children I am used to people jumping out of closets, from under beds etc!) and more psychological stuff and gore does, but more after the fact.
I thought it started really strong (It) but then kind of trailed off a bit towards the end. I'd give it a ~7.
I never had been to a horror film before at the movies. I don't normally watch them, but I remember when I was kid when the Blair Witch Project came out and people said it was frightening. So I avoided it. I eventually ended up watching it as a teen, and I thought it was dumb. The one horror film that I was creeped out was The Ring. If I saw this film 15 years ago, my opinion probably would be different.
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Anyone in the Philly area experience the Swarm of flying insects this afternoon? I got home around 5 and there was nothing unusual. 15 minutes later I went to go outside to plug my car in and boom, bugs every where. I thought they were bees at first. Looked like there was a honey bee nest that someone destroyed causing them to swarm all over the place. Took another 2 hour before most of them where gone.
Really weird occurrence, never remember that happening here before.
Really weird occurrence, never remember that happening here before.
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Mating season for gnats, per the news. I didn't see any in clusters, but experienced quite a few buzzing around my head while out for a walk.
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