Duck and cover = Perfect Storm a comin'

[macdoc]

snuck a last ride for a while - 3 degrees, rainy and windy but hey - that's what gear is for. Not the only one - buddy is meeting here

[DaveDodo007]

Fact follows fiction. Why does it always happen to New York?

snip.

Always with the negative waves, look on the bright side. NY'ers can pretend they live in Venice and go shopping by gondola: how cool would that be.

[Audley Strange]

This is God's anger for you lot not beheading the Westboro Baptist Church. God Hates the WBC.

[macdoc]

hehe

Gotta love satellites for the big picture

[laklak]

Hades, get yourself a gumbo limbo tree in a pot (Bursera simaruba). I'm reliably informed, by a Haitian vodou houngan, that it will protect your house from storms. My sister planted one eight years ago and has never been hit by a hurricane. Sounds legit.

[macdoc]

this one is from NOAA at 2 pm today - that sucker is HUGE!!!!

[Audley Strange]

And hypnotising.

Must... obey... must become floater rainbow.

[macdoc]

Why Sandy Has Meteorologists Scared in 4 Images
By Alexis C. Madrigal

She's huge. She's strong and might get stronger. She's strange. She's directing the might of her storm surge right at New York City.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a ... es/264198/

[Audley Strange]

I've been a tad flippant, but to all those who may be affected, be careful and stay safe.

Except the WBC.

[Wumbologist]

Gonna be a fun next couple of days around here, to be sure!

[macdoc]

Some areas of New York are being evacuated

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012 ... sandy.html

Yeah, I'm a storm hound but this is one time I'm prepared to deal with underwhelming....under performing.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ian, this may be the day you jump the shark, going for the newspaper.

[macdoc]

Never heard of this phenomena - what the fuck is baroclinic enhancement....sounds like the back pages of PopSci?

his morning, the Wall Street Journal's Eric Holthaus (@WSJweather), tweeted the following map. "Oh my.... I have never seen so much purple on this graphic. By far. Never," he said. "Folks, please take this storm seriously." The storm is strong *and* huge. And when it encounters the cold air from the north and west, it will develop renewed strength thanks to that interaction, a process known as "baroclinic enhancement

[Ian]

The storm track keeps shifting north every time they update it. I'm worried it might miss me.

[JimC]

Have you all stocked up on Gin?

Good luck, guys and dolls!