OT: If on the East Coast, GTFO (Class III Kill Storm Open Thread)

You made me check mine. Luckily, we've still got 154 options available. No worries yet

if you have ANY relevant information about a possible threat to our ranch supply you had better tell us . . . NOW.

Probably will not come to that.  We have plenty of lawyers in NY before we have to resort to eating people...

Tuesday obviously.  Jesus man, you aren't tough to go even ONE DAY without a decent meal.  East coasters are such drama queens!

Its all about what you are used to.  we deal with hurricanes about as well as you would deal with a big snowstorm.  And there is some real danger simply because people up here don't do the simple things to prepare (and buildings are not made with these type of things in mind)

Or watch the movie "Perfect Storm."  It's a confluence of events, one of which is a comparatively minor hurricane/tropical storm, which is about to drop some serious shit.

Also in South Florida, but I don't agree with you. This won't be like our storms, but in some ways will be worse. This storm will be all about rain and surge, rather than wind. A big part of the issue with the storm is the geomorphology of where this storm will hit, which will probably massively magnify the storm surge on the northeast side, because (1) full moon high tide at landfall and (2) landfall projects just south of the New York Bight, which will push all of the water into the New York Bight and the only place all that water can go is into New York Harbor and Long Island Sound.

Wasn't really hype for those who got flooded out in NJ.  But in the Baltimore-DC-Nova megaburb, yes, Irene was a big letdown.

Please put a cool MGOBLOG reference on your sign, so that we know it is you.  Something like, "Help me! Tacopants!" 

Not everybody thought Irene was a 'letdown.' 

Here in Vermont I still see FEMA trucks driving around dealing with the mess, and there have been numerous money drives to help finance rebuilding homes, businesses and infrastructure that were lost as a result of babbling brooks turned into raging rapids.  Thankfully not many lives were lost, at least. 

I don't mind having new roads in places, but there was plenty of destruction as a result of Irene that can't be undone.  After seeing that firsthand, I'm OK with a hurricane "letting me down."

I had a colleague whose house on Long Island was nearly hit by a huge tree branch and who couldn't get to the city for about a week because all of the train lines were covered with fallen debris.  And people were without power in CT, NY, and NJ for quite some time.  Sure, it wasn't Stormpocalypse, but people freak the balls out about snowfall in parts of the country that would make northerners laugh.  It's all about how you can handle the situation and how bad it can be relative to those expectations.

The areas it affected it affected with mucho damage.  Some folks who live on the harbor went to their country cottage a bit upstate.  Big mistake.  No trees falling on the harbor, but lots of them falling on houses and cars and power lines where trees actually exist.  (Or existed, I should say.)

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Posted from my phone. Hope the kinky worky.

Old Market is nice but it probably rolls up the sidewalks about 5 pm on a Sunday night, I'm sorry to say. There is a casino in Council Bluffs, and if you are there during the daytime there is a great railroad museum (Union Pacific) there too. In Omaha the Joslyn is really impressive. Not sure if it closes on Mondays like so many museums do.

OPM made it official--tonight, we drink without worry!

Your wife finally threatened to leave you because you spend more time on mgoblog than you do with your kids?