 flyducks
Male, 13-17, Europe
 231 Posts
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Sunday, August 28, 2011 11:48:41 AM
space is incredible |
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Musuko42
Male, 18-29, Europe
2094 Posts
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Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:44:33 AM
@terracottus
"On that note: It must be possible to build houses that can withstand strong winds a flooding."
I live in a 160 year old house built with stone walls a foot and a half thick.
I'm struggling to think how we can build homes that are storm-proof. :P |
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 radoinc
Male, 18-29, Europe
180 Posts
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Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:54:49 PM
Well, this is scary. I hope you'll be all right. |
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onoffonoffon
Male, 30-39, Western US
1252 Posts
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Saturday, August 27, 2011 11:18:10 AM
terrac, generally modern construction quality is shoddy. People in the us are only concerned with square footage(lots of it). We are so used to buying cheap consumer crap for everything that some of us accept that in our houses. Also we ignore history and build in inappropriate places. |
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terracottus
Male, 30-39, Europe
278 Posts
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Saturday, August 27, 2011 7:16:39 AM
On that note: It must be possible to build houses that can withstand strong winds a flooding. Just build low concrete bunkers, sealing them off the water should be easy. Or is it cheaper in the long run to just built cheap houses, let them be destroyed and build them again? I've heard some things about american houses... |
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 tommy2X4
Male, 50-59, Eastern US
2833 Posts
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Saturday, August 27, 2011 4:14:04 AM
The government wants you to be scared and to buy plastic sheeting and duct tape because they own stock in it. |
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 Vimto
Male, 40-49, Europe
1991 Posts
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Saturday, August 27, 2011 4:02:51 AM
Has anyone else seen 'The Day After Tomorrow"? |
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onoffonoffon
Male, 30-39, Western US
1252 Posts
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Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:30:40 AM
It's really not much bigger than a satellite. |
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jcarb10
Male, 18-29, Western US
25 Posts
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Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:24:54 AM
its a cat 2 guys... chill out |
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 danky
Male, 18-29, Western US
559 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 11:23:26 PM
lol at the people who were talking sh*t on the west coast about weather. |
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 Parkway
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
17 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 11:16:59 PM
Reporting in from Jersey here, had to evacuate LBI and just basically grabbed as much as possible out of the basement as possible. As for the houses in LBI, all anyone can do is wait and hope for the best. |
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 shiftyplus1
Male, 18-29, Southern US
312 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 10:39:59 PM
yawn...... |
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 penguinazul
Female, 18-29, Southern US
472 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 10:01:43 PM
Subushie and El Chinche, I should've dedicated my Facebook note to y'all, lol. Me, living in the midlands of South Carolina, I never really had to experience a hurricane. However, I do know that my state's coastline (along with Florida and North Carolina) spent a good portion of the 90s getting hit by hurricanes. It's nothing new. It's just a big storm; you spend some time in your basement and enjoy your family and be thankful you're alive. So what if your house gets blown over? Houses can be rebuilt, possessions can be replaced, but you and your loved ones cannot.
The worst thing that's probably gonna happen is Jersey Shore is gonna get washed away and we won't get to watch Snooki be an idiot for a little while. Oh WAH! |
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 Subushie
Male, 18-29, Southern US
1643 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 8:37:55 PM
Yup El_chinche; It's the east. If anything happened to New York or D.C. that was even 1/4 of the damage we have seen in our time in the south. It would have (probably will) 24hour coverage, about how devastating it is to be without power for 4 days, or how no one could get around because of the four or five days a tree was in the road.
Hunker down; suck down a Bloody Mary, and chill the drat out East Coast. You will be fine. |
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 El_Chinche
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
461 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 8:21:33 PM
Having lived in Florida all of my life ( i know..fml) I find the over reactions to this hurricane amusing. My family used to live in Homestead when hurricane Andrew hit (the worst/costliest hurricane in US history before Katrina) granted I was only five at the time, but I still remember that horrible howling sound during the storm and the ensuing anarchy that followed it. Then we moved to the treasure coast only to have to go through the 2004/2005 hurricane seasons. Katrina hit us first before it made it's way to Louisiana. I can't even remember all of the names of the minor hurricanes that have hit us. We rode all of them out. Unless it at least a cat 3 hurricane, no one here will even consider panicking like you guys up north. Irene hardly seems like threat to most people around here. You guys up north will be fine. Just don't do anything stupid and secure all your valuables.
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penguinazul
Female, 18-29, Southern US
472 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 7:32:14 PM
the_windy, where are you? It says you live in Canada, and unless you were vacationing somewhere down south, there's no possible way you could have already been hit by this particular hurricane. |
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 IshiiDaFishy
Male, 18-29, Canada
774 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 6:20:50 PM
Or will this be the hurricane equivalent of that earthquake?
just outta curiosities sake,i'm hoping for the first one. |
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IshiiDaFishy
Male, 18-29, Canada
774 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 6:19:11 PM
I'm wonderimg what will happen when the entire east coast becomes the ext new orleans..SPLOOOSH. |
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 SmilinSam
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
3603 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 5:43:42 PM
wow... that's a really big cloud... |
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 GasMaskKid
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
694 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 5:17:59 PM
"It's nothing we haven't weathered before!"
Well done, sir. Well done. |
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 britt566
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
2313 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 4:45:59 PM
FML |
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 chris1337
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
178 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 4:25:26 PM
...damn. |
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 Cruddup
Male, 30-39, Western US
57 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 4:22:51 PM
We're Americans! It's nothing we haven't weathered before! Of course, I'm out west and the biggest storm I've seen dropped hail about 1/2 inch in diameter. It hurt, at least. |
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Subushie
Male, 18-29, Southern US
1643 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 4:18:28 PM
It's really not that bad. It is only a category 2 with winds right now at 100mph; that will only go lower because it's making landfall. I've been through worse; the most that is gonna happen is some downed trees and power outages that will last less then a week. |
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thehitcher
Male, 18-29, Western US
237 Posts
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Friday, August 26, 2011 4:15:42 PM
my uncle is just about to move out of florida. heres to it not hitting florida cheers |
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