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macgyver655
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject: O.T. Isn't this just GREAT........ |
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Latest projection puts Tropical Storm Hanna passing directly over my head after only being on land for about 75 miles. Warnings of 60 mile per hour sustained winds with higher gusts at my location.
EVERYBODY WATCH OUT FOR FLYING PROJECTOR PARTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
At least we have a brick house. Let the wolf huff and puff....... 
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MikeEby
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How close are you to Papi? I remember seeing during one of his meets he lives in a mobile home. I hope he takes cover somewhere.
Mike
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macgyver655
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He's about 45 minutes from me and closer to the beach but the main eye misses him. He is still in the same wind forecast area though so I dont know whats hes doing as far as preparation.
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grogthegreat
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At least you don't have to worry about our friend Ike. 120MPH sustained winds might be enough to even send these huge projectors flying!
-Greg
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macgyver655
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| grogthegreat wrote: | At least you don't have to worry about our friend Ike. 120MPH sustained winds might be enough to even send these huge projectors flying!
-Greg |
Not yet anyways. They've changed his track about 4 times in the last 2 days. They really dont have a clue which way any of these storms are going. They're just giving best guess's until it gets closer. Time will tell....... But yes H4 to H3, wow!!!!!!!!
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jkruger
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Location: Carlsbad, CA
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Whenever I think we might get some heavy wind/rain weather I make sure all the valuable electronics are unplugged before the stuff hits. We don't get much weather here in So Cal but we sure did in Washington.
Batten down the hatches boys....
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tse
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Shouldn't be too bad unless a tree or big limb falls on your house. The really crappy part is if the power goes out for a couple of days. Still too hot for no AC.
Good luck,
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macgyver655
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| tse wrote: | Shouldn't be too bad unless a tree or big limb falls on your house. The really crappy part is if the power goes out for a couple of days. Still too hot for no AC.
Good luck,
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Thats what I was thinking so I fired up the generator to make sure its ok and went and filled up the gas cans. Along with flash lights.
Looks like Ike is heading in your vicinity Scott. Hope that one veers away from you................
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WanMan
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My wife has been praying that we'd get a hurricane. We need the water. My thoughts are no stinking hurricane has the cajones to come our way. Heck, even Ike with smite us and go hit New Orleans at Cat5.
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papalek
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| MikeEby wrote: | How close are you to Papi? I remember seeing during one of his meets he lives in a mobile home. I hope he takes cover somewhere.
Mike |
I have no worries. I bought my house in 2001. They have changed the codes around here. Anything along the coast must meet 120mph wind loads. I bought the top of the line model and it exceeds that. There must be about 60 ground anchors under it. I will only start to worry when it is a cat 4 or 5 
The storm came on shore about 15 miles from me. I have remote weather monitoring in the yard. My stongest wind was only 22.4 miles an hour. I did get 5.4 inches of rain though. I live on higher ground than my surroundings. I have no standing water anywhere on my land today. 
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perisoft
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| papalek wrote: | | I live on higher ground than my surroundings. I have no standing water anywhere on my land today. |
I see those commercials about flood insurance, saying ominously, "It can happen... TO ANYONE!" (dun dun DUNNN)...
OK, theoretically that's possible, but if it happens to me, flood insurance will be the least of my problems...
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WanMan
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Would it cover the bathroom if the bath floods the floor? I always thought one had to be in a designated flood zone in order to get flood insurance. Heck, my TV needs flood insurance with all those f-ing commercials on it.
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lostmandan
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perisoft,
Is that your back yard? If so.. wow, I am jealous
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perisoft
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| lostmandan wrote: | perisoft,
Is that your back yard? If so.. wow, I am jealous |
Yeah, that's part of it.  The other side of the house is a forest that goes back up the hill, and has a gorge and a stream running through it. It -is- pretty cool. That picture flattens out the hill quite a bit, actually. When you're actually on the porch, it kind of looks like there's a diorama set wrapped around the hill.
(That's last year around the middle of October, by the way... it's not quite that bad here yet!)
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lostmandan
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Amazing
No worries, part of what makes everything so crisp and clean is the frost and fall weather. No stranger to it here, although we haven't gotten frost quite yet either.
I'd love to get out of the city at some point - have a nice place with the technology, HT, etc and a property that would keep me away from it 
Anyways, very nice place!
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garyfritz
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Yeah, I live on a lake, but flooding is impossible for me too, unless Noah starts building another ark. The lake spillway is probably 15' below the level of my basement. The lake is on fairly high ground, and my basement is at about 5100', so if my house gets flooded, just about everything east of the Rockies will be under water. 
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perisoft
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| lostmandan wrote: |
I'd love to get out of the city at some point - have a nice place with the technology, HT, etc and a property that would keep me away from it
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Since when is Kitchener a city?
My wife and I had a small apartment in Brooklyn for a while - two stops from downtown Manhattan - and had to relinquish it now that we have our kid. But it was great to have the place; there's nothing cooler than being able to spend time right in the middle of *THE* city, and then to have our place up here, too. We're going to get a new place in NYC as soon as we possibly can... I really miss the place!
Anyway, you're not too far off. If you ever want to enjoy the country side, give me a holler! Just give me some notice so I can work on the astig...
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AnalogRocks
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| perisoft wrote: | | lostmandan wrote: |
I'd love to get out of the city at some point - have a nice place with the technology, HT, etc and a property that would keep me away from it
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Since when is Kitchener a city?
My wife and I had a small apartment in Brooklyn for a while - two stops from downtown Manhattan - and had to relinquish it now that we have our kid. But it was great to have the place; there's nothing cooler than being able to spend time right in the middle of *THE* city, and then to have our place up here, too. We're going to get a new place in NYC as soon as we possibly can... I really miss the place!
Anyway, you're not too far off. If you ever want to enjoy the country side, give me a holler! Just give me some notice so I can work on the astig... |
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perisoft
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Oh, sh*t! *runs*
My only problem with parties is that my HT only seats four at the moment... 12x14' room, not a whole lot of space. Marlo's adamant about carpeting, and putting in a riser and another row, when we get the chance, though.
Anyone who comes by will definitely get a spin in the 401 - assuming it's operable. It usually is, but sometimes we're doing weird things to it to test stuff out. There was a time last year when it had a big piece of 1/2" plywood braced up on top of it like a roof, with three LCD projectors ratchet-strapped to the underside and aimed at a big section of foam core. We do some strange stuff...
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lostmandan
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| perisoft wrote: | Since when is Kitchener a city?
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Good point *laughs*
That being said, I grew up in a village outside of Waterloo (Ontario) and I enjoyed it. Close enough to get to the normal stores and entertainment, but a bit quieter.
From Brooklyn to the country-side .. well that sure would be a big change
I haven't seen too many places in New York - it definitely would be a nice trip.
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