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100K Lose Power As America Faces Its Third Hurricane In Three Weeks (go.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The good news: Hurricane Nate was eventually downgraded to "a tropical storm" at 4:30 Sunday morning (EST), moving north-northeast with maximum winds of 70 mph. The bad news: 100,000 people don't have power in Mississippi and Alabama, and a tornado watch is in effect until 11 a.m. "Even though Nate has made landfall and will weaken today, we are still forecasting heavy rain from Nate to spread well inland towards the Tennessee Valley and Appalachian mountains," ABC News meteorologist Daniel Manzo said Sunday morning. Saturday the Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi was hit with 85 mph winds and a storm surge of between four to five feet. "Gulf Coast residents are waking up to a wet, windy -- and in some cases, powerless -- Sunday morning," reports ABC News, "but it's still not as devastating as they expected."
Lots of hillibilly rednecks there.
a TROPICAL DEPRESSION
You know it's a slow news day when Slashdot is posting articles about the weather. Not about weather, but the actual weather.
BTW, will it rain tomorrow in San Jose?
By starting WWIII.
It's the third hurricane in about 10 years, too.
Global warming FTW!
It makes for good TV, and I'm usually bored and looking for something to watch. Bravo.
You mean fourth...
Make sure you have a hand cranked and solar-powered radio/flashlight/cellphone charger for emergencies.
I'm sure glad their president set the record straight on global warming... cause this is obviously not that
Because Wikipedia has a long list that is definitely not zero length for hurricanes between 2007 and 2016 inclusive.
hotels atop barges, and separating productive people from unhealthy...
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=2u-NDNVkCOg
The 'red' states are the ones voting men, mostly men into office on the ridiculous belief that seven billion, eight hundred million humans all wanting a car and a warm place to sleep at night have not had an effect on the global weather. We are releasing more carbon, buried for millions of years in just decades then the atmosphere can accommodate. Yes, volcanoes and forest fires happen. But those are routine events over months not a century.
What a surprise. It shouldn't be that big of a leap and assume 'God' is going to help us with a miracle. It is just foolish not understand he already has helped us. It's called the gift of a rational brain. That so many don't want to use it is amazing. Think through the puzzle and start working out the solution. So often I think humans are retard by their strange religions.
And those states have a lot of gay haters, and it is those that god is angry at. Not even god can surgical strike with a hurricane.
Why is it that the utility we rely on most, electric power, is the least reliable? Here in east central Florida, anything more than a brisk zephyr knocks the power out, let alone a hurricane. Any time there is a storm pretty much anywhere, thousands of people lose power. How can we be in 2017 with such a shitty power grid that fails at the slightest adverse weather?
I love the comments about hurricanes being about punishing red states for global warming and hating fags.
What would be great is a category 3 hurricane following Sandy's path. That pussy tropical storm demolished a bunch of leftist cuck jewish n1gg3rs' property. You fuckers get a real storm and I'll be jacking it to TWC the whole time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My heart aches for the people of Texas and Mississippi and Florida and Georgia, whose people have been punished by four hurricanes this year alone.
These states, with churches on every corner and the love of God in their hearts, are being targeted. We must ask ourselves why. Consider Toronto and San Francisco, the two gayest cities on the continent. Neither has been affected by a single serious storm.
It is time to get with God, my friends. He has made His feelings abundantly clear. It is time to make room in your hearts, your homes and your bakeries for The Gays.
You cannot argue with God...unless you want to face His punishment.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Then their god could be a bit more specifc at targetting them with his wrath.
Citizens in the Gulf Coast are waking up powerless.... is this somehow different than on any other day?
"If there was an antonym to 'Elon Musk', it would be 'Richard Branson'."
This is supposed to be a site that is News for Nerds. A weak hurricane or strong tropical storm hitting the gulf coast is not news, it is weather and in no way is it nerdy. And not particularly significant unless you happen to live there.
Power outages and hurricanes are normal events. They happen every year. Finally - Harvey hit the Texas coast in late August. Not 3 weeks ago.
Get better editors.
We just absorbed our biggest hurricane hit in nearly a decade and were without power for a week. When they're weaker than expected, it can setup unreasonable expectations for the next one. People are less likely to evacuate, less likely to take warnings seriously. "We evacuated last time and it fizzled."
What you "know" about hurricanes can work against you in the future.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Crabs are cold blooded, as in same temperature as its surrounding, so NO possible way a crab fart could raise the temperature of the water. Fucking nothing but idiots here.
storms around cities in the north have left over 100,000 without power too. this is not even interesting as normal news on a news site, why is it on slashdot. boring. trivial. of no import
Puerto Ricans are Americans.
Cause they can trigger hurricanes, too, you know.
I live in Wisconsin but we lost power for 3-4 days because of a tornado on more than 1 occassion and here's how it really goes. Not to be rude or arrogant, just being 100% real, the people with weeks of electricity-free foods to eat, a water filter, and a generator, solar array, or a car + high wattage inverter were just fine and the not so responsible people who pretend catastrophes will never happen to them were in big trouble. This is why I consider myself sort of a prepper, although not for the end of the world, just for real stuff that really happens. I just watched a few youtube vids, bought like $100 worth of stuff, and tada all set for massively bad weather occurrences. FEMA agrees with me that everyone should at least take basic steps like this. So everyone complaining about how bad the situation is, it's bad BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T PREPARE! That or their entire house was destroyed. But most are just simply without power.
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As usual, the utilities count meters as customers. The actual number of people without power is likely around 300,000.