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Bloody hells, ANOTHER hurricane?

Thats it, we officially need a machine invented to kick these hurricanes into space or something...

Yeah, it is going to hit SC first and then NC. The USA is like a giant magnet. This hurricane was heading into the atlantic then it just made a loop back towards us.

I've been watching the news...as current as I've heard, Ophelia's not supposed to pack much punch. Keep an eye on the news, and if you want to evacuate just in case, do it. Don't wait until it's too late to do so. *hugs* No fear. It'll be okay.

Miguel wrote:Yeah, it is going to hit SC first and then NC. The USA is like a giant magnet. This hurricane was heading into the atlantic then it just made a loop back towards us.

If it's headed your way you have to leave because I'm sure you've seen what's happened to alot of people who stayed to long Please leave Miguel get to safety

I was just gonna say, "Screw it. Get out of there." If you're right, you'll have your whole life ahead of you. If you're wrong, you just took a roadtrip.

Don't be like the dunderheads who said, "This is my home and I've never left it in my life!" No, they didn't...

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I've been through four hurricanes in the past - and one thing to keep in mind, is that the Carolinas aren't New Orleans. Whatever in the Carolinas that is below sea level is already underwater, and nobody is trying to live there. But at the same time, awareness of what that storm is doing is always crucial. Keep your eyes open.

If we have 6 more hurricanes named, then the National Weather Service is out of names for the year and is forced to name the extra ones after the letters of the greek alphabet.

But anyways, the wind speed is predicted to be around 74-95 MPH, not as bad as the rest, but still destructve nonetheless.

Ophilia is doing the weird loops that some of them do. When they do that, they're very hard to predict, so I wouldn't count on it's staying a category one. Katrina went from tropical storm to category two in less than twelve hours, and that's while making landfall, when they're supposed to break up.

Back in 2002, my wife and I had planned a trip to Las Vegas, but we couldn't fly out the day we had scheduled, because Hurricane Lili was headed towards us, and by then the airport was expected to be closed. I had a board certification exam there, so I had to be there, so it wasn't just a matter of missing a vacation. We ended up rescheduling to fly out two days earlier, and they still closed the airport, forcing us to drive to Houston to catch our connecting flight.

While I was there, I contemplated the idea of building a massive construct, a "hurricane breaker." It would be some thirty miles in diameter and resemble an enormous starfish with giant, six or seven mile diameter fans that would blow it upwards above the ocean surface. It would float into a hurricane eye, fly upwards, and then rotate clockwise, against the wind directions, and disrupt the center of the storm. I contemplated such a construct for use on another planet, one with somewhat rougher weather than Earth, but I was inspired to think of the thing because of the troubles Lili was causing. It ended up missing our house--which was at the time in Groves, next to Port Arthur. Instead, it hit... New Orleans. It was no Katrina, so New Orleans lived on three years of borrowed time.

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Everyone thinks these hurricanes are a bad thing, but really...they're not. It's just part of nature. Like death. People may not like it but that's the way things are. If there were no hurricanes then alot of places (including where I live) would get no rain. Everything would dry out and die. It would be like the Sahara, which was actually a rainforest at one point. Even the tiniest amount of water can make all the difference in the world between survival and death. Too much water is bad, yes, but too little is just as big of a problem. If you've ever lived in a desert then you would know water is more valuable than gold.

I hope NC is spared especially the outer banks =) I am due to travel there on 9/24 lol

I hope all is well with the people of NC and also you miguel!

It's still just sitting there. Maybe if I went back in time and brought back a pair of humpback whales?