Hurricane Gustav!

All I have to worry about are earthquakes.

 

You've so much more to worry about in California than Earthquakes . .

but you know what, don't worry

just prepare for the worst.

 

has anyone else noticed how crazy national disasters are at the moment? hurricane gustav is going to pound new orleans, an earthquake in china destroyed thousands of peoples homes, 700,000 people in India are cut off from a giant flood, this is crazy.

 

The end is near lol

 

No.:leaving:

 

lol yes

 

my PawPaw stayed through katrina, hes my great grandfather, and lives near pascagoula/biloxi mississippi. he lost all his outbuildings, sheds and stuff like that, but the house stood strong.
the names are chosen several years in advance, and rotated throughout the seasons. when theres a really bad hurricane (like katrina) they retire the name. that way you don't get cat 5 katrina
confused with a tropical storm katrina in years to come.
you can submit names to the list too. but since only names taken off the list have to be replaced, it can be awhile before your pick comes up, if ever.

this year has some names i recognize, on the list are Arthur (my grandpa's name), Dolly (my Great Grandma, who passed away last year), Rene (my mom, and yes, the male spelling) Sally (my great aunt, who passed away several years ago)
im just glad Dolly didn't turn toward my Grammie in Florida.

"
Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive given names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods. These advantages are especially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundreds of widely scattered stations, coastal bases, and ships at sea.
Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center. They are now maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The original name lists featured only women's names. In 1979, men's names were introduced and they alternate with the women's names. Six lists are used in rotation. Thus, the 2008 list will be used again in 2014. Here is more information about the history of naming hurricanes.
The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it.
Several names have been changed since the lists were created. For example, on the 2007 list (which will be used again in 2013), Dorian has replaced Dean, Fernand has replaced Felix, and Nestor has replaced Noel. Here is more information about retired hurricane names.
In the event that more than 21 named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and so on. If a storm forms in the off-season, it will take the next name in the list based on the current calendar date. For example, if a tropical cyclone formed on December 28th, it would take the name from the previous season's list of names. If a storm formed in February, it would be named from the subsequent season's list of names."

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

i love that website, you can see the satelite pictures and moisture readings, it makes me interested in meteorology

and yes, jokerman, you are the asshole.

 

i kinda want obama to be president and not send that much releif and Knaye say Obama doesnt care about black people

 

yea the earth is pissed its trying to tell us GO GREEN MOTHER FUCKERS!

 

i smoke so much green my pee is green.. thats pretty fuckin green yo... oh you're talkin about fossil fuels.. fuck that.. i love my truck

 

the earth probably doesnt give a shit about fossil fuels it just wants to keep its trees

 

the worst thing thats happended to london was a tornado http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/includes/columns/community/2006/12082006b.jpg thats my friends house you can see into his bedroom.

 

fuck gustav. im evacuated now but it has changed direction and is coming right for me. ah well, it can't be worse than rita. at least ive got a half to keep me company

 

Well, Gustav was lame. Really fucking lame Gustav the storm cloud.

 

at least precautions were taken this time so even though the storm was weak you guys were ready.

 

according to a fat black alcoholic, hoodoo is responsible for the hurricanes in nawleans. ::shakes fist::

 

Hoodoo? Do you mean voodoo?
Oh, and by the way, it's N'awlins, if you want to articulate it in the Cajun way.
Get it right people! New Orleans is my second home. I love that place.

 

pshh...havent you ever seen the movie the skeleton key? hoodoo is a type of witchcraft, a cajun blend of voodoo or something like that.