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Old 06-05-2013, 10:37 PM   #1
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Andrea Barry Chantal Dorian Erin Fernand Gabrielle
Humberto Ingrid Jerry Karen Lorenzo Melissa Nestor
Olga Pablo Rebekah Sebastien Tanya Van Wendy
are this year's storms.

We are only one week into hurricane season. And already Tropical Storm Andrea has formed. It is currently in the Gulf of Mexico. Is predicted to travel up the American East Coast.
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Old 06-06-2013, 12:05 AM   #2
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I heard someone on the radio say that the whoeverdoesthatshitologists say there will be appx 7 MAJOR Hurricanes this year. Not that they would all hit us... but that they would form. Preston and Steve. That's where I heard it. Well, the News Chick on that show, anyway. Wanna make OVER/UNDER bets?
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Old 06-06-2013, 01:03 AM   #3
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RUN! NOW!
We don't get them here. Thass all I'm saying.
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Old 06-06-2013, 06:58 AM   #4
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We don't get them here. Thass all I'm saying.
Its projected path puts Andrea directed at the southern England coast. Arrival in maybe seven day. So you too can share in our rain.

We know a near zero category hurricane on the east coast can be hyped into a SuperStorm. Oh, the humanity!
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Old 06-06-2013, 08:00 AM   #5
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Gulf Coast resident, here. It has been poooouuuuuurrriiiiinnngggg all morning. Blegh.
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Old 06-06-2013, 08:11 AM   #6
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We don't get them here. Thass all I'm saying.
LOL, perhaps your just too young to remember The Great Storm of '87 and poor old Micheal Fish telling everyone not to worry about it.

I always remembered this was the last blow of a Hurricane, but the wiki page doesn't mention that.
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Old 06-06-2013, 08:49 AM   #7
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I remember it in detail.
I walked to school in the aftermath, only to be turned back because the school had lost power. I felt like I was going to be blown off my feet, and in fact Dads came and collected me (on foot) from my friend's house because I was still quite a skinny little thing then.
And we live in a protected part of the country, weather-wise.

Dads does get really cross when people call it a hurricane though.
Because it wasn't.
Michael Foot was wrong however you look at it, but to hear Dad talk, it's one of the Great Injustices of the 20th Century.

Then again he thinks it was right to hang Derek Bentley, so I have learned to filter his opinion occasionally.
(Dad, not Michael Foot.)
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Old 06-06-2013, 08:50 AM   #8
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Old 06-06-2013, 09:16 PM   #9
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Old 06-07-2013, 03:27 PM   #10
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Old 07-24-2013, 11:46 PM   #11
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Quietly and futilely the African coast has been throwing tropical storms at us. All have missed. Dorian is now formed earlier than any other. Meaning next week, somebody should get rain.
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Old 07-28-2013, 08:41 PM   #12
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We don't get them here. Thass all I'm saying.
After all, Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire is where they hardly happen.
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Old 08-15-2013, 09:32 PM   #13
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The Gulf and Caribbean have not been particularly warm this year. A potential tropical storm is over the Yucatan peninsula where it probably will meander in the Gulf. However a small amount of warmer water does exist off Louisiana. Anybody need some rain?

An actual tropical storm Erin has formed after moving off of Africa. In relatively cooler water. Give it about a week to grow up and find civilization. If it follows the tracks of Dorian, it might skirt the Florida Atlantic coast.
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Old 08-27-2013, 06:50 PM   #14
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This is finally the way to get everyone's attention to hurricanes...

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Old 08-28-2013, 11:42 AM   #15
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very funny!
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