OT: The Thread About Nothing

[BenedictGomez]

Hugo, that’s the one. Can’t seem to find another named one. This could end up being quite the event.

Here's something I had on my computer you might find interesting.

Keep this in mind every time you hear some bobblehead on the news scaring you screaming, "hurricanes are getting much more frequent and much more powerful every passing year!!!!!!" - because it's categorically (see what I did there?) false. What they're doing is confusing the predictions which were made with the reality of what happened. It's true that that was predicted a few decades ago, but it's also true that that never actually occurred.

 

[njdevils1982]

did a 10k canoe on the local canal this morning……...great weather…...…too bad the market off the side of the water was overpriced.

2 bucks for a bulb of garlic, and small ones at that…..cmon

8oz homemade canned whatevers were 8.50

 

[BenedictGomez]

8oz homemade canned whatevers were 8.50

My homemade canned bread & butter pickles would be a bargain at any price!

 

[BenedictGomez]

was everyone here born in the 1960s or something?

No, but even if I was that wouldn't make me feel old.

What made me feel old today was hearing/realizing that someone graduating college this year wouldnt remember the 9/11 attack.

 

[OmNomNom]

No, but even if I was that wouldn't make me feel old.

What made me feel old today was hearing/realizing that someone graduating college this year wouldnt remember the 9/11 attack.

i still remember that day - i was in 5th grade, either doing the pledge of allegiance or getting the milk crate for the class (i think it was the milk crate)

i was laughing to myself and then i walked into a dark classroom, dropped my smile, and sat down at my desk. it was super serious

 

[JimEIV]

1970 - I missed the 60's by almost 8 month.

 

[New Jersey]

No, but even if I was that wouldn't make me feel old.

What made me feel old today was hearing/realizing that someone graduating college this year wouldnt remember the 9/11 attack.

we are less than three years away from people born in 2000 being able to legally consume

as for 9/11, i was in second grade. i vividly remember everything. my mom pulled me out of school at like 11:00 am and i just remember watching the news all day with them. at seven years old i LOVED big buildings and bridges, and i just remember thinking the seven-year-old equivalent of "holy shit this is so f***ing bad."

later in the day, about 5:30 pm, our neighbor who worked on a low floor of the south tower walked by across the street when we were sitting on the stoop reeling. apparently he got one of the last boats back to jersey and was able to get a train out of hoboken. i'll never forget the sheer look of horror on his face. all he said, "it's a mess down there."

a couple years later i found out he was actually a hero when my parents re-told the story after they had seen him a couple more times before he moved away to massachusetts. he worked on the 27th (?) floor of the south tower. when the first plane hit, the south tower was still technically "secure" for those 15 or so minutes between the planes, and there were the automated announcements of "the building is secure, remain at your positions" or whatever. he was a supervisor/senior level guy and basically said "f*** that, everyone go home." second plane hit when he was only a couple blocks away.

 

[OmNomNom]

do you all remember where you were/what you were doing during 9/11?

 

[BenedictGomez]

Newest spaghetti plot just out. Pretty good agreement for a NC hit.

 

[BenedictGomez]

do you all remember where you were/what you were doing during 9/11?

I lived 3 miles from the base of the F-16 squadron that responded, and I worked evening shift, so I was asleep that morning.

I woke to the sound barrier being broken by a fighter jet screaming literally right over my place & pictures shaking on my walls. I recall thinking that pilot will never fly again (it's not like Top Gun, it's a big violation breaking sound barrier over civilian population) & I went right back to sleep.

About a minute later I woke to another F-16 breaking the sound barrier over my place & a minute later another F-16 breaking the sound barrier over my place, and I knew something absolutely terrible must be happening so I turned on the news.

 

[None Shall Pass]

I was in science class in 8th grade. Our extremely goofy teacher said, "Boys and girls, I think you should see this," very somberly, and turned on the TV, just as the 2nd plane hit live.

My neighbor worked downtown near the WTC and came home with dust on his truck.

 

[Davegarri]

Most recent euro model run for Florence was an interesting one. Stalls off the coast of Wilmington, NC and turns down to make landfall in SC and goes down into Georgia. Weird.

 

[Better Call Sal]

It's surreal to think back to that day. I was in 7th grade and my father worked in the city. I had no idea where he worked in relation to the towers. What was unbelievable was that our school didn't say anything about it to anyone of us unless a parent or someone came to pick you up, as we had one student in our grade who unfortunately lost his father, a Port Authority police officer.

Finally, in last period sometime after 2, they simply told us "a terrorist attack has happened in New York City". I hear murmurs at my locker that they flew planes into the Twin Towers. I spend the whole bus ride home in a panic, 2001 was already a horrible year for my family in losing two members, so I was fearing the worst. I get to my driveway and see 5 or 6 cars parked and immediately sprint up and into the house. My mom said my face was completely white.

Thankfully, my dad worked far from the towers, but had yet to arrive home. The other cars were my other family members who had come home early from work but didn't work in the city. I don't think I've hugged my father harder than I did when he finally arrived home.

 

[Davegarri]

do you all remember where you were/what you were doing during 9/11?

I was in elementary school at the time. Everyone just kept getting picked up from school and I was so confused as to why. I got home and everyone was just watching the news crying. Since I was so young, I did not really know how to react. It didn't really hit me until my friend came over a few days later and told me how her and her family were in the city walking to the WTC for a modeling photo shoot in one of the towers that morning and had to flee in a crowd of people away from the buildings.

A few days later I found out a kid I played baseball with had his brother pass away since he worked in the towers.

Just a sad day in our area and I will never forget it. That day drastically changed so much in this country and around the world.

 

[VaxjoDevil]

I left the US on a flight 8/11. No joke. I changed flights in Paris to Copenhagen and while on that flight the towers were attacked.

 

[Billdo]

do you all remember where you were/what you were doing during 9/11?

2nd period, high school history class. Everyone basically stayed in that period the rest of the day.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

I also made a not art:

 

[Emperoreddy]

Newest spaghetti plot just out. Pretty good agreement for a NC hit.

Going to be a giant mess.

 

[njdevils1982]

I also made a not art:

oh man….hell yes

you gonna darken it? or it this the final look?

 

[TheUnseenHand]

oh man….hell yes

you gonna darken it? or it this the final look?

It should naturally darken some more, but it won't get much darker than that. I was instructed to make it that color

 

[MartyOwns]

Going to be a giant mess.

well if puerto rico (3k dead) was an “incredible, unsung success”...a “giant mess” would translate to 40 million dead, give or take. hopefully fema is already on the ground there, throwing paper towels at people as we speak

 

[devilsblood]

Here's something I had on my computer you might find interesting.

Keep this in mind every time you hear some bobblehead on the news scaring you screaming, "hurricanes are getting much more frequent and much more powerful every passing year!!!!!!" - because it's categorically (see what I did there?) false. What they're doing is confusing the predictions which were made with the reality of what happened. It's true that that was predicted a few decades ago, but it's also true that that never actually occurred.

Counter to this would be storms like Katrina and Sandy were monsters without having overly strong winds at time of land fall. Sandy was not even a hurricane when it hit.

Or Matthew in 2016 which, was also a massive storm that just skirted the coast of florida with winds at 120 mph, but didn't officially make landfall until the Carolinas when it was a category one.

 

[njdevils1982]

It should naturally darken some more, but it won't get much darker than that. I was instructed to make it that color

"instructed" …. how so?

a woodworker or your wife?


seeing this reminds me i havent had my record player setup in a while due to fixing up the place…..need to get on that (the record player)

 

[Davegarri]

Counter to this would be storms like Katrina and Sandy were monsters without having overly strong winds at time of land fall. Sandy was not even a hurricane when it hit.

Or Matthew in 2016 which, was also a massive storm that just skirted the coast of florida with winds at 120 mph, but didn't officially make landfall until the Carolinas when it was a category one.

Wind speed doesn't really matter in terms of damage. Sandy was a whole different beast because of when it hit, full moon at high tide or whatever it was. That really drove higher levels of storm surge.

The water is what you really have to worry about. Itll knock down your house much quicker than wind will. Storm surge is the most dangerous and destructive part of a hurricane, rainfall is second. This storm has been projected to dump 25+ inches of rain on some areas in NC which will flood almost any body of water there and cause massive amounts of damage. The wind wont really be a big factor or danger unless you're standing outside for some reason.

 

[BenedictGomez]

So this newspaper cartoonist is getting negative comments for the below being called a "racist" cartoon.
I dont know how anyone can possibly call this "racist", he drew her as a baby throwing a tantrum (which seems pretty accurate). But it's 2018, and there are people who "search" for racism to call out because they think it makes themselves look good I guess. Racism is everywhere, you'll find it if you look under your couch. SMH.