Message to Earl

[taterguy]

Are you sure you wanna fuck with this?

If I were you I'd turn to the East ASAP, but that's just me.

[hobbit709]

1. Mother Nature ALWAYS wins

do you really want to be like the guy in wet copper armor, standing on a hill during a raging thunderstorm, screaming "All gods are bastards"

[taterguy]

2. Is the Oregon Inlet still navigable?

Nature's been trying to close it for over a century.

[hobbit709]

3. Nature doesn't work on a mere human time scale.

[taterguy]

4. Do you want the Hurricane to turn around or not?

Sometimes you have to resort to intimidation.

[malaise]

6. He is not going to turn around

That eye will be relatively close to land. Prepare.

[taterguy]

7. Who invited Mr Doom and Gloom to this thread?

Buzz kill

[malaise]

11. Mrs thank you

It may be worse for New England given the NNW shift.

[hobbit709]

9. Looks like Gaston is going to keep moving west.

Hang on to your hat.

[malaise]

10. Yep we're worried about Gaston

but we're as ready as we can be. What will be will be.

[taterguy]

23. Nice post, Willard Scott

[depakid]

5. Hope you've got all those factory hogshit lagoons shored up this go around...

:o

[hobbit709]

8. Before you get too arrogant

Look at these pictures.
http://www.lighthousedepot.com/lite_digest.asp?action=get_article&sk=383&bhcd2=1283428296

[northernlights]

12. bad news...

I just checked the NOAA maps. Earl has shifted WEST since last night. I distinctly remember the coast of Maine (I'm 3 miles inland) was in the yellow zone of tropical force winds. Now the coast is tan zone and well inland (most of the state) is mostly yellow. Gulp.

[rug]

13. You'd have moire success with Pat Robertson.

[taterguy]

21. Moire? English. Do you speak it?

[rug]

22. You're right. I meant to say this:

خَيَّر

[Bonhomme Richard]

14. How many times have they moved that Lighthouse? n/t

[taterguy]

20. Just once

Moved it in the 1990s.

It's a big lighthouse. You really don't want to move it too often.

Otherwise it's been a beacon of hope since 1875.

[NYC_SKP]

15. John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse would kick Earl's ass....

The grandaddy of all lighthouses, IMO.

Moved back to and reassembled on shore only because of degradation of the rocks, it was an asskicker of a design on an impossible site, the third of four built there.







http://tectonicablog.com/?p=11894

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddystone_Lighthouse#Smeaton.27s_lighthouse

:patriot:

[KittyWampus]

16. Eastern Long Island here. We need rain badly. And we're used to a bit of wind.

[EstimatedProphet]

17. Why don't you challenge the hurricane to a game of chicken?

[Hawkeye-X]

18. LOL! I thought for a minute you were referring to our EarlG

I'm sure he's already hiding with those Earl jokes now.

Hawkeye-X

[walldude]

19. Me too! I thought this was going to be a demand for new top 10 list..