Curse

Naprius · Sep 22, 2005, 04:14 PM // 16:14

i love holland.

the only bad weather thing that happens here is a bit of flood sometimes.. wet feet and stuff

Arturo02 · Sep 22, 2005, 04:23 PM // 16:23

I live in New England, our only weather problems are snow, Nor'Easters (which are like mini-cat one hurricanes sometimes. nasty storms), and the occasional weak hurricane. But even those aren't as bad as some of the nor'easters we have gotten.

The funny thing is people will counter with "but you got bears and lions". LOL. I lived here for 2/3 of my life and I have never seen a bear. Lots of deer and some moosen but not bears. And no lions like people think of, those big ones you see in the zoo.

I don't get why people like to live where at least a couple times in their lifetime they will lose everything they have, and worse themselves or loved ones.

Loviatar · Sep 22, 2005, 04:48 PM // 16:48

[QUOTE=Arturo02]I live in New England, our only weather problems are snow, Nor'Easters (which are like mini-cat one hurricanes sometimes. nasty storms), and the occasional weak hurricane. But even those aren't as bad as some of the nor'easters we have gotten.

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i think someone described the climate there as 8 months of winter and 4 months of poor sking

Alura Pyro · Sep 22, 2005, 04:51 PM // 16:51

everyone in the path smile god pwns jooo!!!!

wsmcasey · Sep 22, 2005, 05:01 PM // 17:01

I'm in the Dallas Fort Worth area (which is a long way from the coast), and we are expecting sever thunderstorms with winds up to 75mph including some tornado warnings.

I've heard it ain't over till the fat lady sings. I think her name is Rita......

Naprius · Sep 23, 2005, 06:46 AM // 06:46

im still wondering why we europeans wanted to colonize america.

SOT · Sep 23, 2005, 06:52 AM // 06:52

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Originally Posted by Naprius

im still wondering why we europeans wanted to colonize america.

The same reason most North American Indian cultures are now extinct: Control or demise of what you cannot control.

Naprius · Sep 23, 2005, 07:47 AM // 07:47

err well that was ur fault. we only had colonies, u guys did the western frontier thingy.

Link Ironhammer · Sep 23, 2005, 12:42 PM // 12:42

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Originally Posted by wsmcasey

I'm in the Dallas Fort Worth area (which is a long way from the coast), and we are expecting sever thunderstorms with winds up to 75mph including some tornado warnings.

I've heard it ain't over till the fat lady sings. I think her name is Rita......

I live south of where you live, since Rita shifted to the east we won't get all that, just rain and maybe wind gusts of 35mph.

Link Ironhammer · Sep 23, 2005, 09:52 PM // 21:52

Rita Updates, this will make landfall late tonight or tomarrow morning
Persistent weakening has brought Hurricane Rita down to a Category 3 storm. The eye is heading for a Saturday morning rendezvous with the upper Texas or southwest Louisiana Gulf Coast.
Hurricane Rita with 125-mph winds is now a Category 3 storm. Drier mid-level air from over the continent to the north and west of the hurricane is being entrained into the system, disrupting the eyewall core. Rita continues to successively reorganize its eye but the overall effect is to steadily weaken the hurricane. Rita is still a major hurricane but every little of weakening helps.

All preparations and evacuations should be wrapped up by this point. The fringe effects of gusty winds, rain, waves and localized coastal flooding are already being felt across the southern sections of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Hurricane Rita will make a final approach to the upper Texas coast/western Louisiana coast today and is expected to make landfall by mid-morning Saturday. Rita should make landfall as a large Category 2 or 3 hurricane with impacts extending well away from the center. Hurricane force winds extend 85 miles away from the center and tropical storm force winds extend 205 miles from the center. Residents from Port O'Connor, Texas, to Morgan City, Louisiana, should be done with preparations to protect property and should be relocated inland from the coast. Conditions along the coast are rapidly deteriorating. Outer bands in advance of Hurricane Rita's core are bringing heavy rain to coastal Louisiana and will soon bring heavy rain to the middle and upper coast of Texas, along with tropical storm force winds and possible tornadoes. A tornado watch is in effect for southern Alabama, southern Mississippi and most of southern Louisiana. Squalls of torrential rain and gusty winds extend well east and north of the core of the hurricane across southern Louisiana and southern Mississippi creating renewed flooding for New Orleans.

As Hurricane Rita comes onshore, the destructive winds and surge (a water level rise of 5 to 15 feet) could especially target the coast from Galveston, Texas, to Cameron, Louisiana. Large waves (peaking 15 to 25+ feet) will affect most of the coastal areas around the entire Gulf. Once inland, a rapidly weakening Rita could move northward and then stall in easternmost Texas and extreme western Louisiana and possibly drifting back to the south or southwest. Rainfall across easternmost Texas and southwestern Louisiana may exceed 12 inches initially, but if the stalling scenario plays out then well over 20 inches of rain is possible in some locations. The result could be extensive flooding through at least the first part of the upcoming week not just in and around the location of landfall but farther north into locations such as Shreveport and Alexandria, Louisiana, Marshall and Lufkin, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas. Although landfall is of the utmost priority at the moment, preparations for this event of excessive rainfall and the resultant flooding should begin now.

A hurricane warning is in effect for coastal Texas and Louisiana from Port O'Connor to Morgan City. In addition, a tropical storm warning is in effect south of Port O'Connor to Port Aransas in Texas and from east of Morgan City to the mouth of the Pearl River in Louisiana and up to New Orleans.

Projected Path

SOT · Sep 24, 2005, 12:05 AM // 00:05

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Originally Posted by Naprius

err well that was ur fault. we only had colonies, u guys did the western frontier thingy.

So after we kicked the King's Ass back to "Europe" we were suddenly something other than 'European'? Cmon, take some genetic responsibility