You better run! Hurricane Florence!

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Re: You better run! Hurricane Florence!

Post by Rum » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:19 pm

Perhaps the building trade lobbied to leave it all alone. Just think of the repair work after all!

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Re: You better run! Hurricane Florence!

Post by laklak » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:21 pm

Big Pharma, too. Somehow.
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Re: You better run! Hurricane Florence!

Post by Forty Two » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:27 pm

laklak wrote:
Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:16 pm
State of North Carolina? FEMA? Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce?

How could it be too expensive, anyway? I mean, why not do the same thing the Dutch did to their 1,914 km of coastline to the U.S's 133,312 km? I blame Republicans. If they'd just Tax the Rich we could all be living the good life, safe behind our dikes.
I would think Trump should easily get approval for 900 miles of wall, then. It's dirt cheap!

North and South Carolina only have 10,000 total miles of coastline, and together they're only 5 times the size of the Netherlands, with 2,000,000 fewer people to pay for it, I'm sure there are no practicalities that need to be considered. They're just idiots.
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Re: You better run! Hurricane Florence!

Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:31 pm

laklak wrote:
Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:16 pm
State of North Carolina? FEMA? Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce?

How could it be too expensive, anyway? I mean, why not do the same thing the Dutch did to their 1,914 km of coastline to the U.S's 133,312 km? I blame Republicans. If they'd just Tax the Rich we could all be living the good life, safe behind our dikes.
It is all relative. Mind you maybe starting to rebuild society probably has priority.
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Re: You better run! Hurricane Florence!

Post by Sean Hayden » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:42 pm

Rum wrote:
Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:19 pm
Perhaps the building trade lobbied to leave it all alone. Just think of the repair work after all!
It is a good time to at least know how to hang dry wall. If I wasn't so lazy I'd have been on it after Harvey too. :oops:

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Re: You better run! Hurricane Florence!

Post by Forty Two » Mon Sep 17, 2018 5:47 pm

“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar

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Re: You better run! Hurricane Florence!

Post by Rum » Mon Sep 17, 2018 6:06 pm

Sean Hayden wrote:
Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:42 pm
Rum wrote:
Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:19 pm
Perhaps the building trade lobbied to leave it all alone. Just think of the repair work after all!
It is a good time to at least know how to hang dry wall. If I wasn't so lazy I'd have been on it after Harvey too. :oops:
Roof tiling is the trade to be in up in these latitudes. The winters have got windier without doubt and roof tiles get blown off regularly. You can't get a tiler for love nor money the week after a good blow...er..

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Re: You better run! Hurricane Florence!

Post by JimC » Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:26 pm

laklak wrote:
Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:16 pm
State of North Carolina? FEMA? Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce?

How could it be too expensive, anyway? I mean, why not do the same thing the Dutch did to their 1,914 km of coastline to the U.S's 133,312 km? I blame Republicans. If they'd just Tax the Rich we could all be living the good life, safe behind our dikes.
Dykes provide excellent shelter. They're usually big and strong, and their overalls are almost bullet proof...
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Re: You better run! Hurricane Florence!

Post by laklak » Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:50 pm

And they usually have beer.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Re: You better run! Hurricane Florence!

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Sep 18, 2018 3:09 am

I like the Black Dykes...



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