[kanaloa]

What the heck? LOL

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[augie]

Hopefully Newfoundland will be spared from those other two. They're supposed to get quite the weather fom Florence as it is.

[kanaloa]

I feel sorry for folks in Bermuda. Florence socked the snot out of them on the west, and now Gordon is going to hit them from the east.

Who knows where the next one will go yet...

[augie]

Ya, I keep forgetting the other folk who get hit with a hurricane as opposed to a TD. I guess I look at home first as most would.

[kd1966]

Yeah,.......... I'm sure there's a reason here why the islands aren't more highly populated...........

[kanaloa]

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Man, this storm looks a lot like Hugo did in 89. NOT something anyone from SC/NC wants to think about. That was our worst storm, possibly ever, in recorded history.

[_Taz_]

I think Fran was a much worse storm for NC than Hugo. I was there for both of them. Floyd brought a whole lot of flodding also.

[kanaloa]

Hugo was bad for us here in SC mostly. A Category 4 when it hit. Tore up the low country bad.

[augie]

I saw a piece on the Canadian Discovery Channel that El Nino has been back since April changing the wind direction over the Pacific ocean blowing west to east which this person says will shear most srorms and prevent storms from entering the gulf altogether along with pushing East coast storms back to sea. I'll try to find a video of it as I wasn't paying close attention.

[kanaloa]

I saw a piece on the Canadian Discovery Channel that El Nino has been back since April changing the wind direction over the Pacific ocean blowing west to east which this person says will shear most srorms and prevent storms from entering the gulf altogether along with pushing East coast storms back to sea. I'll try to find a video of it as I wasn't paying close attention.

I heard that somewhere earlier too. El Nino is good in some sense bc it does destroy storms. Unfortunately it also causes havoc in the south pacific, south asia, and in portions of South America. It's very hard for the fishing business. More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o