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Maria
d'Kong76 Sep 20 2017 12:48 AM |
Dominica, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico... crazy season 2017.
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themetfairy Sep 20 2017 12:52 AM Re: Maria |
Dominica has apparently been devastated. It's heartbreaking.
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d'Kong76 Sep 20 2017 02:16 AM Re: Maria |
Indeed. Not looking good going forward.
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Frayed Knot Sep 21 2017 02:53 AM Re: Maria |
So 'J' was Jose, 'M' got assigned to Maria, which means that, after 'N', 'O' has got to be Olazabal
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Lefty Specialist Sep 21 2017 12:02 PM Re: Maria |
Two-stroke penalty for that one.
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Benjamin Grimm Sep 21 2017 12:36 PM Re: Maria |
He probably thinks he won their electoral votes last November.
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Frayed Knot Sep 21 2017 12:39 PM Re: Maria |
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Despite the voting fraud against him. Maria on to the Dominican Republic now.
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Vic Sage Sep 21 2017 06:06 PM Re: Maria |
i thought they called the wind "Mariah"
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Benjamin Grimm Sep 21 2017 06:08 PM Re: Maria |
I guess I should add to that...
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Centerfield Sep 21 2017 06:17 PM Re: Maria |
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Golf clap.
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Lefty Specialist Sep 21 2017 06:22 PM Re: Maria |
It's heading for Turks & Caicos next. I was there last January and it's a beautiful place. Irma ripped it up pretty good, although the place we stayed said they would be reopening in October. They may want to put that on hold for a bit now, though.....
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Frayed Knot Sep 21 2017 06:28 PM Re: Maria |
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They of course pre-name all the storms or potential storms prior to the season ever starting, going through the complete alphabet even if many of them wind up not getting used. And many years ago they decided the names would alternate between male and female, the previous practice of giving them all female names on account of hurricanes being unpredictable was no longer socially acceptable (we're all so sensitive these days). Besides, the old joke went, if you gave them male names you'd have to start calling them Himicanes. Anyway, one year, it must have been the year he was going for the all-time hit record, consecutive storms 'P' and 'R' (they don't use Q) were intentionally pre-assigned as Pete(r) and Rose. IIRC the named storms for that year never got that far, but it shows that even weather nerds can show a sense of humor occasionally. Unfortunately, I suspect Olazabal doesn't meet their name criteria.
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Ceetar Sep 21 2017 06:54 PM Re: Maria |
I don't get whatever the joke is. (music i imagine)
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cooby Sep 21 2017 07:16 PM Re: Maria |
I don't either. Google some pictures it'll lower your spirits
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Frayed Knot Sep 21 2017 07:31 PM Re: Maria |
Jose-Maria Olazabal is a Spaniard who's had a substantial career on the pro golf tour. So with Maria coming right on the heels of Jose I was campaigning for the 'O' storm to be Olazabal, sort of like
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Benjamin Grimm Sep 21 2017 08:41 PM Re: Maria |
Reports say the entire island of Puerto Rico is without power. The entire grid has been destroyed and it may be four to six months before power is restored. The airport in San Juan will open tomorrow, running on generators and without air conditioning, so that flights can resume, allowing residents to flee and rescue workers to arrive.
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d'Kong76 Sep 21 2017 08:56 PM Re: Maria |
3 1/2 million people stranded on an island with virtually nothing. Hard to fathom.
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Lefty Specialist Sep 22 2017 12:02 AM Re: Maria |
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There better be plenty of supplies coming in or this could get ugly really fast.
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cooby Sep 27 2017 05:56 PM Re: Maria |
I think it would be hilarious if Obama and or Hillary could get to PR as private citizens to help with recovery, however I'm sure that would be seen as spite.
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Benjamin Grimm Sep 27 2017 06:36 PM Re: Maria |
He knows that nobody in Puerto Rico can vote for him or against him in 2020.
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Frayed Knot Sep 28 2017 02:03 AM Re: Maria |
Puerto Rico at night, with (pre-Maria) and without power
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cooby Sep 28 2017 11:12 AM Re: Maria |
No lights, AC, refrigeration, power tools, medical equipment...wowee
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Lefty Specialist Sep 28 2017 12:25 PM Re: Maria |
Expect a huge migration from the island once it's possible to do so, because this could take years to fix.
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metirish Sep 28 2017 12:58 PM Re: Maria |
Jessica was finally able to talk to her mom yesterday, they are all ok,extended family too, had to drive miles to find a a place to call from, there are locations where the cell service works at times, people are letting others use their phones to call family, this is how her mom was able to call. It's been a very scary long week for Jessica not knowing how they are.
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d'Kong76 Sep 28 2017 02:11 PM Re: Maria |
Good to hear. Everyone I know or sorta know with connections to the island are
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cooby Sep 28 2017 02:37 PM Re: Maria |
That is good news!
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 28 2017 03:12 PM Re: Maria |
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No. But they can migrate en masse to Florida, where there's already a large Puerto Rican presence, especially in the Orlando region, in numbers large enough to flip Florida from a swing state to a blue state. Puerto Ricans despise Trump.
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 29 2017 04:26 PM Re: Maria |
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Which is looking likelier by the day as news accounts describing the devastation to Puerto Rico wrought by Maria are using words like "uninhabitable", "apocalyptic" and "dystopian". New York will get its share of PR evacuees, given its large existing PR population. But if there's any political justice to this, Puerto Rican evacuees would migrate mostly to Florida and Texas, flipping those states and fucking the GOP for generations to come. What would likely happen, though, in the event of a mass exodus to Texas and Florida, unfortunatley, would be that the GOP controlled states would pass some combination of PR targeted voter suppression obstacles and also totally gum up the paperwork process that should enable former PR residents to vote in their respective states.
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d'Kong76 Sep 29 2017 04:31 PM Re: Maria |
I know you're hard corps, but it's hard for me to read someone politicizing this.
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 29 2017 04:37 PM Re: Maria |
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I'm just multi-tasking. I can have sincere empathy for the victims of this terrible hurricane while simultaneously thinking about the politics. You think the Florida GOP isn't worried to shit about the fallout from a mass PR evacuation? Don't kid yourself.
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d'Kong76 Sep 29 2017 04:38 PM Re: Maria |
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And I'm just chiming in, no biggie...
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batmagadanleadoff Sep 29 2017 04:41 PM Re: Maria |
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I know. I wasn't offended. In fact, I'm never offended.
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d'Kong76 Sep 29 2017 04:45 PM Re: Maria |
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I'll try harder, after the World Series of course. :^)
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cooby Sep 29 2017 05:28 PM Re: Maria |
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Maybe so but this is rapidly becoming political.
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d'Kong76 Sep 29 2017 05:49 PM Re: Maria |
Yeah, on some channels more than others.
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cooby Sep 29 2017 07:17 PM Re: Maria |
Absolutely. But a visit from the president would at least boost morale
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d'Kong76 Sep 29 2017 07:46 PM Re: Maria |
Hard for me to fathom him boosting anything positive. I get depressed at
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Edgy MD Sep 29 2017 10:53 PM Re: Maria |
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I'd like to think so, but I'd guess that's probably untrue.
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d'Kong76 Sep 29 2017 11:04 PM Re: Maria |
Current takes can change. Hourly, if need be.
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cooby Sep 29 2017 11:15 PM Re: Maria |
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Considering the problems with transportation it may be so. There is a bunch of stuff waiting to be distributed as soon as they can move. It doesn't sound like a red tape issue for once.
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d'Kong76 Sep 29 2017 11:22 PM Re: Maria |
Yes, non-partisan reports all seem to say there's a lot of stuff there just sitting
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Edgy MD Sep 29 2017 11:30 PM Re: Maria |
I'm sure the will to help is strong. But the reality is that we certainly haven't filled upper level government posts with qualified individuals capable of handling state-wide emergency-level logistics, and a disturbingly high amount haven't even been filled at all, indeed haven't had candidates nominated or vetted.
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Edgy MD Sep 30 2017 02:56 PM Re: Maria |
"They want everything to be done for them," tweeted our terrible president on his way to his golfing responsibilities this morning, accusing Puerto Ricans of not helping thier own people.
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Lefty Specialist Sep 30 2017 04:48 PM Re: Maria |
I'm sure that tweet played very well with the White Supremacist base.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 30 2017 05:39 PM Re: Maria |
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This is probably best, If you haven't been doing so already.
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Ashie62 Sep 30 2017 07:35 PM Re: Maria |
Nobody rushed to help NJ after Superstorm Sandy.
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themetfairy Sep 30 2017 07:41 PM Re: Maria |
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No, that's not accurate. I know there were crews from Texas and Florida helping to restore the downed power lines in my neighborhood after Sandy, and there was a lot of other assistance during the immediate emergency. A lot was done to restore essential services in Sandy's aftermath.
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Ashie62 Sep 30 2017 07:57 PM Re: Maria |
I guess. 21 days without power made me really wonder though.
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themetfairy Sep 30 2017 08:07 PM Re: Maria |
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Ashie62 Sep 30 2017 08:12 PM Re: Maria |
We may have lost more trees. Morris County is heavily wooded. Thats nature.
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themetfairy Sep 30 2017 08:21 PM Re: Maria |
I don't have a comparison, but we lost a ton deeply rooted trees during Sandy.
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Nymr83 Oct 02 2017 02:25 AM Re: Maria |
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New Jersey definitely got help, so much so that Governor Christie even thanked Obama, a week before an election!
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metsmarathon Oct 03 2017 07:47 PM Re: Maria |
if it was a random island in the middle of some faraway ocean that got ravaged by a category 5 cyclone, i would expect under any other administration, that sufficient supplies and resources would be marshalled in half the time it's taken this rancid brain dead cheese curd to shamble away from his golf resort. it is utterly shameful that almost 3.5 million american citizens are suffering without basic necessities for this long, either because they are not somehow american (read: white) enough for him and his administration to care about, or because he and his administration are so utterly, depravedly lacking in compassion and empathy that any human suffering would fail to move the needle as regards the speediness of their response.
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Edgy MD Oct 03 2017 07:56 PM Re: Maria |
A problem with that is that the rest of the electorate has to vote on their admission. And since that means their admission would throw off the balance of power in Congress (indeed would allow them to participate in the banishing of this administration to the historical dustbin), that's no fait accompli.
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Benjamin Grimm Oct 03 2017 07:58 PM Re: Maria |
Statehood for the District of Columbia would also require a Constitutional amendment, wouldn't it?
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metirish Oct 04 2017 02:32 PM Re: Maria |
Trump in PR yesterday was a disgrace.
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MFS62 Oct 04 2017 02:37 PM Re: Maria |
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I'm hoping his tossing the paper towels is his "Let them eat cake" moment. Later
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metsmarathon Oct 04 2017 03:34 PM Re: Maria |
i wish he would just throw in the towel figuratively, instead of literally.
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 04 2017 05:34 PM Re: Maria |
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Of course, this is true, but isn't Trump a horrific disgrace every single day? Isn't Trump consistently awful? Can anyone out there even keep track of all of steady stream of horrificness anymore? Every day, it's another pussy grabber. It's reminding me of those people who live right next to the highway or the elevated train track, who've gotten so accustomed to the noise that they don't even hear it anymore. Does anyone doubt that there won't be another horribly embarrassing Trump incident today, and then tomorrow?
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d'Kong76 Oct 04 2017 05:49 PM Re: Maria |
My neighbor posted this on fb...
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metirish Oct 04 2017 05:54 PM Re: Maria |
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Agree, he is a disgrace each and very day
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 04 2017 06:27 PM Re: Maria |
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_______________________ What Happens If Hundreds of Thousands of Puerto Ricans Flee for the Mainland United States? excerpt:
https://slate.com/business/2017/09/what ... masse.html
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cooby Oct 04 2017 06:29 PM Re: Maria |
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I just stole it....
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d'Kong76 Oct 04 2017 07:08 PM Re: Maria |
I won't tell!
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Lefty Specialist Oct 05 2017 05:08 PM Re: Maria |
The thing about Trump is that he can't even FAKE empathy. I mean, there's something missing in his makeup that prevents him from even trying. It's kind of weird; it's a basic human trait.
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batmagadanleadoff Oct 05 2017 05:12 PM Re: Maria |
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It's because he's a rage filled sociopath. If he was born into average circumstances instead of essentially inheriting a present value amount of about a billion dollars forty years ago, he might've been a serial killer. And I'm not joking as I write this post.
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Chad Ochoseis Oct 13 2017 12:18 AM Re: Maria |
Trump isn't helping, but Carlos Beltran is.
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Lefty Specialist Oct 13 2017 01:17 PM Re: Maria |
Trump's already moved on. Those lazy PWERTO Ricans are asking for too much help. They have debts, so they'll just have to fend for themselves. At least they have the very best, the softest paper towels. Mission Accomplished!
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Edgy MD Oct 13 2017 01:28 PM Re: Maria |
So many hateful mofos online celebrating the TRUMP TO PR: DROP DEAD storyline. So many lies they're spewing.
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metsmarathon Oct 13 2017 02:56 PM Re: Maria |
they do realize that puerto ricans are actual american citizens, right, and that puerto rico is not an actual different country?
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Edgy MD Oct 13 2017 03:07 PM Re: Maria |
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I'm trying. But their reasoning is so tortured. And I'm on a fast from arguing. (I'm failing.) And I've also taken to wondering when and if I'm arguing with a Russian troll.
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Ceetar Oct 13 2017 03:18 PM Re: Maria |
well, you're probably arguing with people that have made up their mind regardless of fact.
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Lefty Specialist Oct 13 2017 06:33 PM Re: Maria |
My decision not to join Facebook looks better every day.
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