Ghost of Dwight Drane

Great move! I always tell God to give them a gold star for doing good work.

Very good. I don't see a lot of old school common sense and courtesy out there anymore. The truckers are the only ones I really see do the last 2. If a truck lets me in I do a quick double flash of the hazzards. A car gets the hand in the air. If I see a cop ahead and am far enough back from him seeing it, I tap the brakes 5-6 times in a second to wake people up behind me....3 or 4 deliberate pumps if it is an accident or bottleneck coming up. Once you've seen a truck plow into someone screeching the brakes at 45 MPH, you don't want to see a repeat.

This was first reported back in August. Haven't seen anything else yet, but it looks like cases are still being formed. It has to give you a little extra agita on top of the general sadness. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2187748/Penn-State-sex-abuse-scandal-Witness-says-saw-Sandusky-donor-abuse-boys.html

With the NFL taking Sunday, Monday and Thursday.....Friday night being Friday night....Saturday usually has stuff going on, and all the election hooplah......really can't say I have missed hockey one bit. Come the dogdays of February I will be looking for it, but for now, who cares?

:blush: she's suddenly gotten into painting cucumbers and gourds.....go figure? The best flashlight you can buy is the mini-maglite. Even if small it shines enough light to get around the house, and the top unscrews to use as a candle to read by. It runs off of 2 AA batteries so much cheaper than D's.

I'm giving the..."There are a half dozen posters here who gave personal stories of direct ###### from this storm, so it's probably not in good taste to post silly pictures." Sometimes book smarts doesn't translate to common sense.....like the National Weather Service never posting hurricane warnings for NYC/NJ because the texbook didn't define the system at potential landfall as a hurricane.

That's better. My bad read then, sorry. There was downplaying from day 1 about the whole event and the tenor seemed to stay the same from my viewpoint from a few. I guess I read it wrong. At least you asked where I was getting some of the data from as far as it regarded WNY. Considering on Saturday the freaking mayor of NYC said it wasn't going to be a big deal and didn't see the need to evacuate anyone when it was obvious to the scientists what was about to happen....holy cow. I guess I can't blame people for scoffing when leadership does so. At least Cuomo went nuts and over his head. Cuomo is a good leader in certain regards and I give him credit. Chicago, Ohio and points west ended up with a lot of our projected hit because the thing outsped it's center on the west side of the storm. I'm in full support of all the schools who shut down. It was the right thing to do 100% of the time in a situation like this.

Sorry for everyone who got nailed. Buffalo hit a sweet pocket. The storm hit the coast so fast that the front end gapped away from the center and states west of us are getting the stuff we were modled to with the 30-50mph winds. The front still is supposed to pass through here, but it will be a baby by then. NYC is a mess. I've got friends with a 50 foot tree in their building, and a cousin 4 blocks from the Hudson in zone B who was stranded without power. 8 million households without power, including bottom 1/3 of Manhattan. And I don't mind teasing, but considering the ramifications of what just happened and some people telling everyone not to worry and it is all hype....it's borderline retarded.

Save the bass! Thank you....for the 30% of seriousness involved in that statement. You do have a heart......

Just a note from having gone through a few of these things....if you rely on paying any bills through mail still or are expecting something, it may take a week to catch up on stuff. You have governments, airports and offices shut probably up until Thursday in some cases. You could have a bill due next Monday, put it in the mail today, doesn't fly out to hub until Wednesday, etc. etc. Not to mention Deleware is getting crushed and many corporate stuff goes there. Just keep an eye out for late charges and stuff....happened to me. Also, this is supposed to stall over land and the mix of tropics and cold will flare up more precip. The back end doesn't have much moisture now, but it will flare up. (Yes, I know)

maybe common sense in 1986.......you should see the stuff out there on a regular day That's why your grandma said to prepare!

The heavy bands are hitting the coldfront and moving towards WNY while blossoming. Some action starting in a few hours by the looks of it.

You know.....casino chips float...... :flirt:

Atlantic City, on your own. 911 shut down and no first responders out.

I thought you'd have to go to Massachusetts for that? Nice job, congrats!

If you get stranded and like seafood, Rustic Inn is around the corner from the airport. Great garlic crabs and crab sampler platter. On the canal and casual. Hard Rock Casino is a few miles away and has a bunch of places to eat. Rooms should be cheap on a Monday if you need to rough it for a night. When in Rome.....

People getting pounded everywhere. Atlantic City is already underwater and the boardwalk breaking. Just goofy. This was expected to merge into more of a nor'easter by now, but it is all tropical in the ocean. That is why it is strengthening so much right now. They just picked up 937 pressure and a 130 MPH gust at a buoy near the center. The biggest fail in my opinion is that the NWS/NHC never issued hurricane warnings because they were assuming a post-tropic transition to the storm. You saw how even people here were like "no big deal, high wind warning...." I think people would have taken this much more seriously if you called it what it is and had hurricane warnings issued from MD to Mass.....and even Tropical Storm warnings for Buffalo. They are projecting 25+ foot waves in Cleveland for cryin out loud. They got all book-smart on people.....and not only didn't they use common sense, but they are WRONG as it will be tropical at landfall. Again, hope it isn't a lifeloser, but the stronger this gets....the less leeway people have to ride it out without issues.

This is blowing up bigtime now and stronger than projected. This is what I feared back last Wednesday when I first mentioned the storm. People would laugh it off, and at the last second you would have mass panic. While the winds are now 90MPH, the pressure is 943MB as reported, and a flight just picked up 940MB. That is a category 3, pushing on 4 pressure level. Instead of having 125MPH winds that could be expected in this pressure area, all that energy is being distributed over a huge area. Hurricane winds going out 180 miles from the center and tropical storm winds almost 500 miles. That's just amazing. The hurricane is now only 9 ticks away from being one of the top 10 to hit the US all time, and already is strongest ever in the north atlantic. The other big thing is that this will slam on the brakes once it hits land. It will still be a tropical storm on Wednesday afternoon as the center of circulation comes into west/central NY, and will still be on the NY/VT border on FRIDAY! For Buffalo folks, I still wouldn't expect armageddon, but now you may see projected gusts and rain creep higher to the levels that some of the models were projecting a few days ago. I wouldn't be surprised to see school closed Tuesday and even Wednesday. The fact that this is strengthening and has the chance to really bottom out still over the next 12 hours is going to put a lot of pressure on the politicos who were slow on the draw to recognize just what this thing was capable of. Bloomberg looks like a fool for his Friday press conference......I've never seen anything like it. Cuomo went over his head....good for him. Everyone be safe, especially closer to sea. It shouldn't be a disaster in terms of lives hopefully....just damage, longevity, and inconveinence. If it were Irish, it'd be shorter.....

Here's a Nilla Wafer. We know you don't like Obama so you must be racist......

It looks like God. What a superfecta......he's going to shut down the stock exchange, slam into smarmy liberal country, ruin the pagan devil's night of halloween, and probably lower turnout enough in a few states to screw over Obama. Score one for the big guy! I can hear the panties bunching as I speak....... :P

It's 43, dark, dreary, and rain from Sandy's outer bands coming down from the east.....I'm grabbing a smoke on the deck after my religious, fall Sunday call to Uncle Vito....and just over yonder the church bells start to ring out Ave Maria. You can't buy moments like that....

Assuming that is JetBlue? Looked at flight today.....Buf to FLL lands at 1, but at diferent gate than the 3 oclock that departs to Buffalo. That tells me the plane that makes up the FLL to Buf flight isn't coming from Buffalo, but probably JFK or maybe Boston. That means prepare for probable issues as that plane probably never makes it to FLL on Monday. If they are smart, maybe they just turn around the Buffalo flight for you tomorrow, or the winds won't be bad enough yet to cancel out of JFK. I have found however that while Jetblue is great to fly if everything goes smoothly, when something goes haywire, they don't think on the fly very well so to speak. That's probably the best conglomerative site out there. Lots of pro meteoroligists with direct access to universities and models. Plenty of hobbyists and lurkers as well. I lived in Miami for a decade, so I learned the lay of the land when following a lot of this stuff. I always thought going through a hurricane would be fun, but it was a pretty scary deal, and the aftermath is miserable when nothing works and everything is in minor chaos for a week or two. Western NY isn't in danger, but I can't remember a time where we had a solid 2 days straight of 30-40MPH winds and giant gusts. Maybe the Blizzard of '77 for those around? That's the biggest problem. Like in boxing, you can do more damage with jab...jab...jab all day sometimes as opposed to swinging for the fences. If Sandy really gets going right before landfall, you don't know who gets what, for how long, and how severe. I agree with you guys that say be prepared on a regular basis.....but most people aren't. Interesting few days at least. Oh....and a sidenote to WW44......should you expect a record amount of slightly early births this week? The barometric pressure is expected to record the lowest in history for this thing as it hits land. I figure there will be plenty of babies trying to bust out. I know my blood pressure medicine works like a charm with an approaching storm. I'm peeing like I am at a keg party sometimes.

Definitely.

http://forums.accuweather.com/index.php?showtopic=30127 There are plenty of links referenced here.....and a good discussion. People are willing to spend the time to teach you there if you have the time and ability to learn.

The problem won't be either locale...it's where the plane is coming from or connecting through. My guess is Monday/Tues/Wednesday, you are a coinflip for a world of hurt in east coast air travel. Then the hotels book up and you are sleeping on the shoulder of a tourist from Wisconsin.