No major damage in my neck of the woods. Kemah is destroyed, Seabrook is destroyed and the space center is closed most/all week. No cool pictures just the regular old down trees and leaning power lines. I did get a picture of some dumbass driving his suv into a pond in the front of my neighborhood.

but check these out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPHRIvQQRUI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opfq7UkTerY

9/15/2008 1:39:30 PM

"we're dealing with a really wild streak of weather right now..."

cue man with no clothes

9/15/2008 1:41:55 PM

there are spiders all over my fucking house

on the bright side, i'm getting quick with the lysol, bug spray and hair spray (whichever is closer) so i can spray the fuckers then crush them

but they keep jumping

found a wasp inside by the sliding glass door. sprayed with lysol for several seconds before it finally stopped trying to get up and sting me

swept the front and back porches and driveway, did 6 loads of laundry, cleaned out the fridge and freezer. everything is back in order at the house... its everything else thats the problem. still too busy to buy more groceries. i have enough to eat still so i'm waiting until things calm down out there before i replenish

working from home until our office opens back up. not sure what kind of damage was done there or if its just a power issue

9/15/2008 4:18:15 PM

KILL IT WITH FIRE

9/15/2008 7:02:43 PM

Galveston.....

9/15/2008 9:37:28 PM

9/15/2008 10:16:53 PM

Yeah, that shit got wrecked.

9/15/2008 11:38:42 PM

Check these pics out...

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html

The football field one is surreal.

9/17/2008 2:20:35 AM

My house is pretty much fine, one of the lucky ones.

Today I went to La Porte to help a co-worker clean up their house. She lives spitting distance from the galveston bay, right beside the "Houston Yacht Club." She had 3 to 4 feet of flooding in their home. So we were basically ripping out all the walls, leaving only the bare studs. The water, as dirty and nasty as the Galveston Bay is, is nothing compared to the mud and sand and sewage that gets left behind when the waters recede. Some of the most foul smelling smells come from opening plastic containers filled with this gooey, muddy shit.

also, here is another funny link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0csM7lC0mc

9/17/2008 7:42:20 PM

Quote :

"The football field one is surreal."

i like the single house one and the dude face-to-face with the mini whirlpool

9/18/2008 2:46:44 PM

9/20/2008 9:29:55 PM

Quote :

"The models agree on a slow west-northwesterly motion for 93L today, and passage over the mountainous terrain of Hispaniola may significantly disrupt the storm. By Tuesday, 93L is expected to turn north-northwest and head towards North Carolina. A major complicating factor in the long-range track forecast is the expected development of an extratropical storm off the coast of South Carolina. This low could bring hostile wind shear over 93L, weakening it, and potentially converting it into a subtropical storm. The two storms may rotate cyclonically around a common center (the Fujiwhara effect), sending the extratropical low west-southwestward into the Southeast U.S., and 93L northwestwards towards North Carolina. This is the solution of the 06Z (2 am EDT) GFDL and HWRF model runs, which both take 93L into New Jersey on Friday night as a borderline tropical storm/Category 1 hurricane. The NOGAPS and UKMET models predict that 93L will absorb the energy that would have gone into creating the extratropical low. This might convert 93L into a hybrid subtropical storm that would affect the coast of North and South Carolina late this week with sustained winds in the 50-60 mph range. I don't have a good feel for what will happen in this complicated situation, but it currently appears that coastal North Carolina may get tropical storm force winds from the extratropical storm beginning as early as Wednesday night. Residents along the entire U.S. East Coast from Georgia to Maine should anticipate the possibility of a strong tropical tropical storm affecting them late this week. "

9/22/2008 10:50:58 AM

O man. May I remind you of the implications of a cat 1 or even a measly 4 foot storm surge into manhattan?

9/22/2008 11:08:31 AM

jesus i hope that thing does not come our way this weekend.

9/22/2008 2:19:08 PM

I noticed some models have Kyle developing and headed for Long Island / Southern New England. It all depends on how much latent heat release there is to drive that low off NC. If Kyle forms it will need that storm to make it to the northeast by way of the fujiwara effect.

9/22/2008 5:59:24 PM

this thing looks subtropical on radar loops...probably too close to land to be named or anything.

9/25/2008 8:25:41 PM

its not named because it doesn't have tropical characteristics. most of the winds and rain isn't in the center. the center is dry. There are so more things about it described in the advisory.

9/25/2008 9:01:15 PM

Are you referring to the nor'easter or Kyle?

9/25/2008 9:03:41 PM

nor'easter

9/25/2008 10:17:35 PM

speaking of this...has anyone seen the carrolina hurricanes commercial that has the fake meteorologist saying a category 5 hurricane is off the coast? It shows a 'satellite' image of a cat 5 hurricane near the east coast.

the image of the hurricane is such that the hurricane looks to be spinning clockwise
Couldn't they have done some research?

9/27/2008 2:17:20 PM

hurricane kyle bout to landfall in nova scotia

9/28/2008 8:36:08 PM

Holy leveling, Batman. I didn't know that Ike sent Galveston back to the Stone Age. That must have been about $2-4,000,000 worth of damage in that picture alone.

9/29/2008 7:56:38 AM

look out for TS Omar

10/14/2008 12:14:45 PM

Make that hurricane Omar

10/15/2008 9:48:53 AM

Paloma is out there now.

11/6/2008 8:38:38 AM

no pics?

11/6/2008 8:03:05 PM

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11/6/2008 10:52:09 PM