Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
Posts: 15966
Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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MartinS
Reged: 05/25/03
Posts: 778
Loc: Anna Maria Island, Florida.
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Stop Mike, hurricane season is 71 days away, let us enjoy the time without it. Chamber of Commerce weather in these parts right now. Having a powder day out there?
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
Posts: 15966
Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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forewarned is foreearned
there will never be a season to top this one for powder.....
hey at least they are saying its the northeasts's turn now....thats got to be worth something
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Andynap
Reged: 10/24/02
Posts: 12387
Loc: Philadelphia
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Actually they are talking storm surge in New England big time. Have to scare everyone before vacations start.
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St. Barts- where no day is ever the same and one day is not enough
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
Posts: 15966
Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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Hurricane Bob proved how unprepared New England is....I had no electricity for 17 days...and when I finally got it back, the electrical surge was so strong a TV and an alarm clock went on fire..it was a mess on the Cape for the better part of August...but as far as tourists coming or not???..we learned to stop worrying about that sort of thing a loooooong time ago...nothng will ever top 9/11 and its impact on us anyway...and we survived it....barely....que sera?....sera
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ProLurker
Reged: 03/15/03
Posts: 1826
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Let us not overlook the recent articles about East Coast tsunami fears/predictions (if that's spelled correctly). Ric
PS~1 hour notice to clog the Interstates or find a coconut tree.
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
Posts: 15966
Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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except hurricane predictions are far more accurate then tsunami predictions
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Island Visitor
Reged: 12/19/02
Posts: 10396
Loc: Retraité
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I am not too concerned about a tsunami. For the most part, tsunamis aren't horrifically deep, just a huge wall of steady water coming at you. Get to the third or forth floor in a sturdy building and you should be okay as a general rule (Bien sur, if you are ground level they are VERY dangerous).
What scares the heckle and jeckle out of me is a Superwave as will occur when Cumbe Vieja erupts, splits the island of La Palma (Canary Islands) in half and sends a land mass larger than Manhattan crashing into the sea. The resulting wave is predicted to hit the Americas eight hours later and could be up to 1800 feet (yes, 1800 feet) tall all the way from canada through south america. It would innundate the coast for a distance of at least 20 miles and probably nothing would survive in its path.
I have often pondered how the caribbean islands will do in such a scenario. For instance, St Croix faces shallow water (bad scene) to the north but tremendously deep water just off its shore to the south. As such the Superwave MAY pass them underwater without ever building up, just a long giant ripple in the ocean. Then again, anywhere there is shallow water, the wave will go vertical.
Could be a bad scene.
Cumbe Vieja is overdo to erupt and an eruption could come tomorrow or ten thousand years from now. If it is the latter, then we need not ponder the consequences further at this time.
Fingers crossed.
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Island Visitor
Reged: 12/19/02
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As to the good news, most authorities believe the original estimates of an 1800 foot wave were GROSSLY exaggerated and most place the predicted height of the wave hitting the east coast at only 180 feet.
Just wanted to ease some concerns.
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marybeth
Reged: 05/22/04
Posts: 276
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IV,
Can you post that hurricane/month little poem again? I'm too lazy to search....
mb
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Island Visitor
Reged: 12/19/02
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IV,
Can you post that hurricane/month little poem again? I'm too lazy to search....
mb
June: Too soon
July: Stand by
August: It must
September: Remember
October: It's over
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marybeth
Reged: 05/22/04
Posts: 276
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Thanks!!!
Now if only I can remmber it...
mb
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georgedp
Reged: 06/22/04
Posts: 2804
Loc: Beautiful hunterdon county new...
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As to the good news, most authorities believe the original estimates of an 1800 foot wave were GROSSLY exaggerated and most place the predicted height of the wave hitting the east coast at only 180 feet.
Just wanted to ease some concerns.
Well, thanks for that - now I'm relieved. An 18 story wall of water hitting the east coast - piece of cake LOL. A 180 story wall of water hitting the east coast and YCKYAGB.
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Andynap
Reged: 10/24/02
Posts: 12387
Loc: Philadelphia
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Hey george- I guess most of New Jersey would be gone- darn!
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georgedp
Reged: 06/22/04
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Loc: Beautiful hunterdon county new...
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Hey george- I guess most of New Jersey would be gone- darn!
Fortunately I do not live in an area likely to get wiped out. About 50 miles inland and the Watchung Mountains (really hills) in the way - I would be safe even if the wave were 1,800 feet and travelled 20 miles inland. On the other hand, I could see that monstrous wave travelling up the Delaware River and banging into Philly big time and pushing that mothballed fleet of old navy ships
unto land and crushing thousands of unsuspecting philly residents to death.
So, I think you have more to fear than I LOL.
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
Posts: 15966
Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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yes george but your area would get inundated by the untold millions of pounds of trash and toxic debris that would be picked up by the storm surge and conveniently dumped inland...thus effectively cleaning up the filthy coastal areas of the likes of Elizabeth, JC, Bayonne, Perth Amboy etc...and dumping it in the less filthy toxic inland areas of the Garden State...
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Island Visitor
Reged: 12/19/02
Posts: 10396
Loc: Retraité
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Laff it up funny boy. When (not if, but when) the supervolcano under Yellowstone goes off, the entire left coast will be gone in a flash. The east coast will probably survive the initial blast although no one knows who will survive the several years of "nuclear winter" that will result.
The last supervolano was approximately 74,000 years ago near Sumatra. It is believed to have reduced the human species almost to the point of extinction, some saying that only 10,000 humans survived. Because of that, we are more genetically related today than our ancestors were.
Take heart, supervolcanos only go off every 50,000 years or so. And while that means we are overdo for one (and yellstone has risen a couple of feet over the last few decades) I dont think anyone is predicting it today.
Bonne chance.
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
Posts: 15966
Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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several years of nuclear winter eh???..hmmmm....I better make sure all my skis are sharpened and waxed then
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Island Visitor
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several years of nuclear winter eh???..hmmmm....I better make sure all my skis are sharpened and waxed then
I dont think you will survive the blast. As I understand it, anyone within 1000 miles of the supervolcano will be killed by the explosion which will be seen, heard and felt on the east coast.
Bummer.
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
Posts: 15966
Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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good thing we re going back to NH fulltime in a year then
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Island Visitor
Reged: 12/19/02
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good thing we re going back to NH fulltime in a year then
Dont let the predicted Northeast Hurricane (overdo, say the Scaremongers) get you.
As a general rule, hurricanes are the disaster I fear least. Southerners are taught, from the time we are kneehigh to a hunting dog, that when the winds get bigger and bigger and the waves get stronger and stonger and you can no longer see the horizen, it's time to head to Asheville. The Biltmore is quite lovely. And the spa at the Grove Park is the rizzle madizzle fo shizzle.
Hurricane coming? Run.
It aint rocket science.
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Andynap
Reged: 10/24/02
Posts: 12387
Loc: Philadelphia
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You are moving to New Hampshire?
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
Posts: 15966
Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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You are moving to New Hampshire?
moving??..no..We maintain a home there as well..always have.....we' re just shifting back to there full time....next June....the back and forth with the shops will not work when Lena becomes school aged, and my mother really does need me close by now, so we re moving her up.....and I got a chance to be an ssst coach in a D3 college back there....and on and on....so off we go.......
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
Posts: 15966
Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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Dont let the predicted Northeast Hurricane (overdo, say the Scaremongers) get you.
no biggie..I lived on the Texas Gulf coast from 79-83....was on the Cape when hurricane Bob blasted us....you just do what you gotta do and life goes on
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Dennis
Reged: 04/05/04
Posts: 3205
Loc: Chicago
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Laff it up funny boy. When (not if, but when) the supervolcano under Yellowstone goes off, the entire left coast will be gone in a flash. The east coast will probably survive the initial blast although no one knows who will survive the several years of "nuclear winter" that will result.
The last supervolano was approximately 74,000 years ago near Sumatra. It is believed to have reduced the human species almost to the point of extinction, some saying that only 10,000 humans survived. Because of that, we are more genetically related today than our ancestors were.
Take heart, supervolcanos only go off every 50,000 years or so. And while that means we are overdo for one (and yellstone has risen a couple of feet over the last few decades) I dont think anyone is predicting it today.
Bonne chance.
Yeah...but...the sbonline forum will still be here...right??? I mean, that would be REALLY scary if we didn't have this anymore!!!
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Kara Brooks
Reged: 09/30/02
Posts: 1399
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sbhonline is indeed supervolcano proof
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
Posts: 15966
Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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along with cockroaches..those are the two that will survive anything and everything
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Island Visitor
Reged: 12/19/02
Posts: 10396
Loc: Retraité
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sbhonline is indeed supervolcano proof
Damn!
Nothing like Yankee knowhow!
Merci madame.
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Dennis
Reged: 04/05/04
Posts: 3205
Loc: Chicago
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along with cockroaches..those are the two that will survive anything and everything
WHEW! Then "Bring it on!"
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fins85258
Reged: 05/02/05
Posts: 1113
Loc: Scottsdale, Az
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there will never be a season to top this one for powder.....
Ooooooooooohhhhhh Yaaaaaaaaaaaaa,
We had close to 40 inches of powder spread over 5 days at Mammoth last week on top of 12 feet of base. They're having another great year.
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Island Visitor
Reged: 12/19/02
Posts: 10396
Loc: Retraité
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If this be global warming, then lay on McDuff and damned be he who first cries 'Hold, enough!'
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
Posts: 15966
Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12915678/
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