OT: Hurricane Joaquin

Great spot. We lived on hodges for a while. Miss the quick bike ride to the beach. Don't miss being dead ass broke.

woolster22 said:

Great spot. We lived on hodges for a while. Miss the quick bike ride to the beach. Don't miss being dead ass broke.

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Yeah. The beach bars did a number on me in my younger days but I've since graduated college and became "wifed up" which means more nights in the house watching Netflix and drinking wine/beer/whiskey with her. I do love Hoptinger though. That's my favorite bar on the beaches right now and I still hit up Lemon Bar in the summer every once in a while. I actually met Gronk at Lemon Bar when he was there randomly partying with his squad one day.

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GMTA... well, at least I aspire to greatness

I was in New Orleans doing Katrina relief a week after the levies broke. The most widespread devastation was outside the city, along the strip of land between Lake Pontrachain and the Gulf, and the Lower 9 th ward, which was outside the levy system. I drove down a road where the surge had come ashore and scoured every house for more than 3 miles off the face of the earth, and into the Lake - nothing but sand, trash, and plumbing fixtures sticking out of the ground for as far as the eye could see. The I5 roadway where it crossed over the Lake into the city was dominoed saw tooth wise into the water between the concrete pilings. I saw a refrigerator that had been deposited in a tree - more than 30 feet off the ground; the roof and dormer of house deposited across the road when the surge went out; places where the layers of asphalt of the road itself was peeled up by the surge, and deposited, yellow lines and all, as a crackly path along side the original roadbed.

That experience had a profound impact on my outlook on life and the very real fragility of both our physical works and social constructs in the face of nature and adversity. I lived in Ocean county, New Jersey, on Barnegat Bay so those dangers were very real to me. I also vowed to myself that when I next bought a house, it would be on high ground away from the ocean with a readily available water supply. I accomplished those goals when I moved to Maryland (Harford County, shmessy). Two weeks after my NJ house closed, Sandy hit. If you have ever seen the famous picture of the house on an island by a bridge where all the land has been washed away - my house was on the other side of that bridge.

So now I sit waiting to see if this hurricane will make it's way here. I have backup a backup generator, food, water kerosene lights, heaters, propane, medical supplies, sheets of plywood for the Windows and that all purpose emergency building materiel - blue tarps.

I know I am better prepared than most - but I wonder if it is enough.

Holy crap, WTF!! There's a huge menacing white blob on a serious looking map (with lines) -- and it's coming right at Foxboro. I've never seen anything like this on Patsfans before... What is it, what does it mean, what should we tell TB to do????


Edit: I'm serious, ...the children!

shmessy said:

Holy crap, I live in Maryland!!!

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Isn't that statement redundant when living in Maryland?

"holy crap I live in hell"

Looks like more and more out to sea..a good thing

Looks like no landfall in US

patsfan13 said:

Looks like no landfall in US

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Good news...my GF is flying in from NC Late Monday night...wanted to make sure she got in ok

pdangle said:

Holy crap, WTF!! There's a huge menacing white blob on a serious looking map (with lines) -- and it's coming right at Foxboro. I've never seen anything like this on Patsfans before... What is it, what does it mean, what should we tell TB to do????


Edit: I'm serious, ...the children!

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Until he had lapband surgery I was going to suggest it was Rex Ryan but hes kinda skinny now.

EURO IS KING!! GFS and other models are now agreeing with the EURO!

KDPPatsfan85 said:

EURO IS KING!! GFS and other models are now agreeing with the EURO!

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Usually is but blew chunks on the January blizzard when New York city was bracing for the storm of the century. We still got it good here.