Frankenstorm for Halloween??!!

[Jarhead0331]

^ my law office is open too...as long as there is electricity.  This makes me really angry because its dangerous.  Your employees are worried about their homes and their families, you need to make them feel compelled to go to work in this?  Its absurd. 

[Gusington]

Against my better judgment I turned on the tv to see that the storm is actually strengthening. It's breezy here and drizzly but nothing ridiculous yet.

JH if bridges, tunnels and mass transit are shut down, how do you report?

LB the dogs are good looking. My dog tells me he would like to clean his ears with both of them :)

[LongBlade]

-on a sandy side note

and Max hunts snakes for fun. ;)

isn't your Max a Malteser too ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d28RSKS6GJ8

Ivanhoe will surely kill a rat, ...he is alert when we doze in the sun at Rhein river's beach 4expl. and someone wanders by to close he wakes me up  8) ...and i reach for the E-tool 

as a Grog i train the dog at a WW I war memeorial,  of course  ;D

Max is the dachshund. He kills rats and snakes.

Boudreaux is a Maltese-Poodle mix. He is smart as a whip. All three of our dogs are smart, but Boudreaux is not to be underestimated.

[LongBlade]

JH, it is stupid to keep the office open. No client in their right mind is going to be walking in the door in this weather. It also sends a bad message: money is more important than people.

Gus, I suspect your dog would like to clean his ears with them. All I can say to that is there is a difference between owning a dog and owning a pack ;)

Last night we had steady rain for hours. No flooding that I could see, but a good, steady rain.

Today it's calm and cloudy. School was cancelled today and so far I would say it's not necessary. But I think the hammer is about to drop. The kids are figuring school will be cancelled tomorrow, too. Snow is expected in the mountains, and we're on the edge of those mountains. I'm expecting it will hit the valley to our west pretty hard. Whether it hits us or not is an interesting question. I'm thinking not, but one never knows. It's 48 here now. If we drop by ten degrees and the weather is right, that's a formula for colossal snowfall.

[LongBlade]

Jarhead, I just saw that the NYSE is closed today. Your boss is officially an idiot.

[Gusington]

It's colder outside your house than mine right now. From experience I say you definitely don't want snow at all in October.

[LongBlade]

Hey JH. Make sure when they deploy you they give you one of these to patrol in.

[Windigo]

The Hurricane still hasn't made the expected sharp left turn towards the west... but I expect it will. The track is now NWN. The speed of the actual hurricane has picked up from a lazy 7mph to about 18. That cold front trough in the midwest is calling it....

Gussy-poo;
I suspect your employer has been dumping water d/s in prep for the big dump of precip comming - either that or you have enough storage capacity in your res.

BTW Migsy and 40Cent.... if Sandy doesn't deke left and make landfall where they think it will ..... you are gonna be living interesting times.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Windy, do you....uh......do you watch the Weather Network with your pants off by any chance?

[Windigo]

Windy, do you....uh......do you watch the Weather Network with your pants off by any chance?

wow.....   WTF did you get that? .... Sick pervy guy! You must be projecting .....    I mean they don't even have any hottie newshosts.....   

but yah.... I'm busted  ;)

[LongBlade]

Windy, do you....uh......do you watch the Weather Network with your pants off by any chance?

LOL

[Shelldrake]

BTW Migsy and 40Cent.... if Sandy doesn't deke left and make landfall where they think it will ..... you are gonna be living interesting times.

True that!

[Shelldrake]

Sandy has claimed the tall ship HMS Bounty - 14 rescued but 2 crew members are missing. Say a prayer for them.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/10/29/ns-hms-bounty-hurricane-sandy.html

[Gusington]

^Saw that a few hours ago. Scary.

As far as more pleasant weather-related items: the Weather Channel has a lot of hawtness. My favorite is Kelly Cass who comes from the area I live in. She is not a small woman but she is damn MILFy.

Breezy the capacity of the reservoir is about 1B gallons. They typically flood the area below during storms and have gotten into some legal trouble because of Hurricane Irene last year and the planned flooding they did. They note that the reservoir and facility are a power production facility, not a flood mitigation facility.

Sometimes they just can't win.

[Staggerwing]

Sandy has claimed the tall ship HMS Bounty - 14 rescued but 2 crew members are missing. Say a prayer for them.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/10/29/ns-hms-bounty-hurricane-sandy.html

I hope they make it. Not exactly ideal conditions for a water rescue.

The water is starting to come up my street now. The houses down at the low end are probably under a foot or two. It's probably gonna rise a few more feet before it's done, assuming the storm surge isn't as epic as is being speculated on. If it does... well, it's a good thing I don't have a basement. The wind is getting pretty fierce as well. Lost power for an hour but it's back. For how many minutes/hours?  :-\