Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: GmanJoe on August 28, 2008, 11:27:41 AM
Title: New Orleans might get hit again. Gustav to become a Hurricane.
Post by: GmanJoe on August 28, 2008, 11:27:41 AM
That place should have been underwater 50 years ago. But how do you say goodbye to a place you\'ve called home all your life?
Adios!-- that\'s how. ;)
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Post by: Jar O Pickles on August 28, 2008, 11:35:29 AM
fucking george bush its all his goddamn fault
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Post by: GmanJoe on August 28, 2008, 11:47:05 AM
You tell\'em, Pickles!
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Post by: Luke on August 28, 2008, 12:06:29 PM
I blame Whitey.
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Post by: Titan on August 28, 2008, 12:32:43 PM
Quote from: Jar O Pickles
fucking george bush its all his goddamn fault
George Bush doesn\'t care about black people
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Post by: politiepet on August 28, 2008, 01:00:22 PM
Quote from: Luke
I blame Whitey.
you\'re confusing yourself with clips, heh....
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Post by: Luke on August 28, 2008, 01:56:00 PM
Don\'t sell me short there pal. I hate white people just as much as Clips does.
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Post by: Jumpman on August 28, 2008, 04:51:44 PM
One day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.
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Post by: clips on August 28, 2008, 07:38:09 PM
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fucking george bush its all his goddamn fault
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I blame Whitey
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George Bush doesn\'t care about black people
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Don\'t sell me short there pal. I hate white people just as much as Clips does.
Wow...*sheds tear*....i will remember this thread for the rest of my days.....:thumb:
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Post by: Eiksirf on August 29, 2008, 10:10:30 AM
The media is so racist, too. Like, it wasn\'t just black people looting. There were tons of Mexicans there.
/not my joke
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Post by: luckee on August 31, 2008, 10:04:45 AM
When I think of katrina I think of that infamous pick of that black ass dude with the bucket of beer and pockets filled.
Even though it wasnt caught on film, you just know that many swampnecks were doing the same thing with budweiser instead. lol
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Post by: Viper_Fujax on August 31, 2008, 10:12:49 AM
isnt there also a picture from cnn where 2 white people are walking through a flooded area with food and drinks and it says theyre "scavenging" er whatever..then a same looking picture with black people and theyre "stealing"
good stuff
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Post by: videoholic on August 31, 2008, 12:20:43 PM
Awesome. So there should be something good on tv next week.
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Post by: Jar O Pickles on August 31, 2008, 04:51:46 PM
i\'ll quote myself from another thread "its no fun unless there\'s piles of dead hillbillies afterwards"
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Post by: luckee on August 31, 2008, 06:45:13 PM
3rd time is the charm no?
Betsy Katrina Gustav?
As long as the French Quarter is ok, so am I as I have not experienced Mardi Gras yet.
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Post by: videoholic on September 01, 2008, 09:38:16 AM
Never been to mardi gras???
OK.. here it is.
Go outside and piss on your front porch.
Now step in it.
Get your wife to jump in your truck and show her beads while screaming "Show your tits"
That\'s about it.
Oh, invite 100 people to stand on your porch with camera phones as well.
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Post by: Cerberus on September 01, 2008, 09:41:30 AM
they\'ve been showing the hurricane non-stop on sky news and bbc news, quite entertaining really.
what boggles me though, is not so much why people choose to live there with all the bad weather year in year out, but why are there so many ex-pat brits choosing to move out there?
on bbc news, they must have phoned at least a dozen ex-pats who had moved over there in the last few years to ask them how they are holding up.
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Post by: luckee on September 01, 2008, 09:47:11 AM
Cerebrus, Imagine if everyone in the the world that lives in some sort of natural disaster zone were to move to areas with very little or none. There would be major overcrowding issues.
Also some great locations would never be visited.
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Post by: videoholic on September 01, 2008, 10:09:07 AM
What area doesn\'t have it\'s problems?
"God\'s on our side.." Good to be a democrat... Oh wait.. I\'m not...
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Post by: clips on September 01, 2008, 11:39:05 AM
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What area doesn\'t have it\'s problems?
"God\'s on our side.." Good to be a democrat... Oh wait.. I\'m not...
Uhm..my name is "clips"....and i do not approve this message..:D.....seriously tho,...he was just sayin\' that the hurricane is going to disrupt the RNC...yeah they were bein a bit of a jerk about it, but so what....there was a pastor at some church in denver that told it\'s people of the church to pray for rain when the DNC was poised to be at mile high stadium....*shrugs*
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Post by: luckee on September 01, 2008, 11:46:10 AM
Im sure they all say much worse shit around each other in more personal settings while sipping scotch in the Hamptons.
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Post by: Cerberus on September 01, 2008, 12:01:49 PM
Quote from: luckee
Cerebrus, Imagine if everyone in the the world that lives in some sort of natural disaster zone were to move to areas with very little or none. There would be major overcrowding issues.
Also some great locations would never be visited.
I wasn\'t talking so much about the people that have spent their whole lives there, I\'m talking about the abundence of brits who have dug up their roots in their own country over the last year or 2, to move to this region, knowing full well what the weather system is like, and how volatile it can be at this time of year.
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Post by: luckee on September 01, 2008, 12:50:23 PM
Same reason ppl uproot and move to California, mid america, so.fl.
I moved from Chicago to So.FL.
The worst I had to deal with was a possible blizzard every few years and 4 seasons, often in the same day! One of the safer areas in the states. I move to an area that can get rocked by a hurricane every year. Sometimes the good over shadows the bad ya know? I love the tropical weather, I just hate the illegals and bad drivers.
Plus this time of year is when I can make the most money. So yea, I pray for hurricanes!
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Post by: videoholic on September 01, 2008, 02:21:01 PM
Tampa is great because it very rarely hits us. We get rain, but it\'s been a long long time for us to get hit hard. the gulf just makes it go further west and usually if it turns east it turns south of us.
May the force be with us. Always.
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Post by: luckee on September 01, 2008, 06:26:22 PM
TB is indeed lucky b/c if they ever get a direct hit, they will be fucked due to natural design.
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Post by: videoholic on September 01, 2008, 06:42:07 PM
Well considering our major hospital is on an island where the entrance of the bridge to it floods at any large storm, yeah, we\'d be a little messed up. Push a bunch of water into tampa bay and dizam...
But I am fine. Both of my houses are high and dry.
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Post by: clips on September 02, 2008, 04:22:18 AM
Quote from: videoholic
Well considering our major hospital is on an island where the entrance of the bridge to it floods at any large storm, yeah, we\'d be a little messed up. Push a bunch of water into tampa bay and dizam...
But I am fine. Both of my houses are high and dry.
Speaking of houses...any updated pics of your crib?
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Post by: videoholic on September 02, 2008, 10:43:10 AM
haven\'t done much. Worked a bit on the home theater upstairs
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Post by: GmanJoe on September 02, 2008, 11:00:52 AM
Cork lining or you gonna use curtains for the sound proofing thing?
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Post by: Sublimesjg on September 10, 2008, 12:19:45 AM
well hurricane hit baton rouge pretty nicely i must say - just got my cable back today and power on friday evening although i was lucky with the power - 3-4 streets back still got nothing and prolly wont for another week or so
was a fun storm to say the least i did my typical running around like an idiot with a crappy poncho on and such flapping around - good times - also had few trees fall down and one that was over 100ft tall actually unrooted fromt he saturated ground and fell straight over but into the neighbors yard and didnt hit anything so worked out ok - other people not so lucky - so so many houses with trees on em but still wasnt as bad as it could have been.
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Post by: clips on September 10, 2008, 02:51:52 AM
^^Good to hear...:thumb:..and it looks like you guys are going to avoid the drama with ike on the way...it looks like it\'s going to hit texas,...not that i wish anything bad on texas or any state, but to be hit by gustav and then ike?...i think that would have been just an overwhelming situation....you guys might be affected somewhat by the outer bands of ike tho...still it\'s better than taking on a direct hit...
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Post by: Sublimesjg on September 10, 2008, 10:59:53 AM
yea would suck to have to clean up all the mess twice and leave on a generator for another week and half again