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So hilarious, yesterday here on cbc news had a reporter during Hurricane Fiona in Halifax say “There is a line-up at Tim Hortons, I talked to one woman, near the front, she’s been waiting for almost an hour! There’s three different lines winding out onto the road merging together as they line up for the drive-thru”. It’s a hurricane, I know lets go out and about. Another clip showed a person chasing down their hat, waving at the camera not looking as they went into the road, almost trip over debris (aluminum siding). Then the camera man pans with the aluminum metal piece as it whips up past him into the path of a dodge ram going to see if his Tim Hortons is open….. I’m surrounded by Genius. 😉
Quite a weekend!
Winds peaked at 179kmph.
Storm surge was insane.
Internet is still sketchy.
Power won’t be restored for weeks.
I see you got dug out somewhat. Sent you an email.
Thanks for thinking about me. I appreciate it. Maybe you said a prayer or two for this heathen. If you did many thanks. I won’t write the story twice so see below…
Cheers
Rob
is there anything the guys on here could do 4 you ?
supplies that would actually get to you?
$ ?
one of flea & nkit’s girls?
Well folks can always send money! And if you send girls make sure to give me a heads up so I can send wifey to Ikea in Halifax for supplies…
Serious though were good. We did plan for this and have plenty of food and plenty of water. The car is gassed up and I d have a power saw that is helping me at getting better at sharpening it.
Nik and I don’t share but Tampa wants this one to vacate his back lot trailer
to move in her sister. She has a good passport because he brought her up from Haiti two months ago.
can someone tell me how to say ahole in creole–
Coon-ass?
Tampa- Is that the lovely Sheniqua of whom Nkit speaks. The one who needs your help at night screwing in light bulbs?
bl,
that is a girl that i don’t recognize but that is not surprising since flea & nkit run so many gals in & out of here–
all colors,all nationalities,but one thing in common,they are all huge–
they are all pretty much the same but one thing is weird–all the mex gals have a miniature donkey as a pet & they always take it with them when they go down to the bar to dance–
danged if i can figure it out–
regarding sheniqua,i don’t partake–i’m not into the big ones,though i have to admit that when i was young,single,and drunk,my inner caveman would sometimes dominate —
Tampa- This is a whole new side to the community unknown to me. 🙂 I never bought the maintenance stories surrounding the trailer park. Thanks for setting things straight. 🙂
Hey Tampa, looks like Tampa is going to get hit by this next hurricane pretty bad. Do you have supplies? Is the trailer tied down extra strong? Will you ride it out or go to a shelter?
i send the family out of town but i usually ride em out here by myself,though if it turns into a direct hit i might haul ass to a relatives house–
i have 5 huge oaks around my house,plus lots of missiles around here so if we are going to get much wind i might chicken out–
you made me start thankn of my misspent youth–
no more ,there’s a maintenance emergency down in the park–
Thank da Lord you are still alive!!!! When you get the net back in full tell us of your harrowing experience there in NS.
EDIT: Did your new home make it through???
I made a video at high tide on Saturday to document the storm surge. The winds were still howling and it was quite the spectacle. The difference compared with the one posted a couple days earlier is dramatic. During the night as my wife described at was like the Wizard of Oz. The cottage not big built in wooded piles. So the air flows around above and below the cottage. Everything was shaking. We had a vibrating bed that did not need quarters
As for the house thankfully it did not arrive this week. It is a prefab and is being built offsite in pieces and will be shipped soon. Right now the lot is empty. We had been complaining about delays with contractor just last week but luck seems to have shone on us this time. We are very fortunate, as the houses each side of us have major damage and one of them had the railing on deck ripped off. It will be expensive to fix..
We were very lucky! And I won’t lie. I was scared shitless with winds that for a while bounced to a Cat 3. The cottage that we are staying in, that too fronts directly on the ocean not far away, while house is being completed was shaking and all night I could here the tink, tink, of shit flying at over 100 miles an hour hitting the windows.
The wind and surge was so high that it ate into the bank and was spraying rocks at everything. I couldn’t sleep and just lay there listening, figuring that at some point a window was going to break and the real show was going to begin. So at three in morning and at the height of the storm we had an emergency, wife and I, meeting to discuss life choices and evacuation plans if windows broke. It was decided that we’d evac to the bathroom, it had smallest window and was out of line of fire. It didn’t get to that because things clamed down. Only a little but just enuf to make a fella think that the worst was behind.
I totally underestimated the situation the wife and I were getting ourselves into. In my defense the experts at weather office predicted wind speeds that topped out around 130 kmh. I figured the small cottage we were staying in could handle it cuz winds have been that bad before and not much had happened.
But add 40 or 50 kmh and everything changes. because that extra speed lifts into the air stuff that normally wouldn’t lift off. And yeah that wind speed doesn’t rank high compared to what they get in Florida but the problem here is the trees are not designed to bend and break they do. and once they bend telephone poles break and things go sideways. Yesterday morning at 9 o’clock 410 thousand customers were with power in Nova Scotia. That is somewhere around 90 percent of households and business in Nova Scotia. Because in a hurricane it is not the wind one worries about it is the shit flying about.
I did learn a lot thru this event. Once house is compete I am going to fit it out with plywood shutters that can be quickly installed to cover windows. Another storm like this will probably not happen but a fella never what the good Lord has in store.
I suspect it will be weeks before power is restored where I live… hoping that I am wrong but expecting the worse.
I will post the video when I get it uploaded…
cheers
RiNS
Wife and I sat through a tornado outside Amarillo texas not long after we moved the in 2005 that took out 5 towns between there and Southwest Kansas. We had been told they sound like a freight train in the distance. It did but we didn’t believe it was happening to us. It hopped right over our small town but took out 3 0in Kansas after taking out two just south of us. I have been in two record typhoons in Guam and Japan and 3 record hurricanes on the eastern seaboard. I’ll take typhoons any day over a bad tornado. We promptly added a dugout shelter under the house with a battery operated sump pump just in case.
I was in Yokohama around 1973-4 when a good sized storm hit us and took out part of my bedroom wall.
Atsugi in 1967 we had a Doozy that blew out all the windows in our barracks and I slept through the whole thing. Never fails to put me asleep. Even at sea if we weren’t up every 4 hours I would sleep through them. Only time I have the chow line all to myself because all the others are sick.
LOL — I was on a minesweeper, Flea, which was a refitted Nam boat, stationed at Treasure Island. Not much bigger than a CG cutter (the crew of which we almost got into a fight with when moored across from them in Long Beach — fucking idiots didn’t know we had the power-lifting champ [in 1990; a big Mexican who used to pick us up over his head and go RAAAAA!] of the whole Navy on our boat. The way the blood drained from their faces when he stepped out on our deck is something I can still see today.).
I remember being in the middle of the Pacific, somewhere between SD and Hawaii, and getting hit by a storm which tossed us around like a rag doll — and I’m on the conn. It’s so bad that I — who up until then had never been seasick, not in 2 years — had to grab a plastic bag and hurl in it, holding it open with one hand while I had the other on the wheel. The lee helmsman, a Thai named Tranh, was passed out on the floor, moaning. Water is coming in from both sides of the boat, plus those crashing our port.
So there I am, sick as a dog, one hand on the wheel, and having to also jump over to the lee helm (which was beside me, where Tranh should have been) and nudge the diesels back or forward, depending on whichever the XO called down through the 1-MC.
“Starboard ahead two, Port back one!”
*barf, gag* “AYE, SIR!” *click click*
“You OK, (REDACTED)? Course 355 please.”
(compass shows 354) “Just fine, sir — course 355.” *retch*
Ah, memories…
RiNS- You were more than lucky, thank goodness for the delay on your house!! I sent serious prayers last night and I didn’t even realize we were talking 179 mph winds. I’m sure anyone would be scared shitless in that situation. Just elated to hear you/family are safe and unharmed.
No kilometres.. it was only about a 110 miles per hour.. Can’t imagine 179 miles per hour.. Living in Missouri is definitely outta the question now… sorry ghost… I will venture there some day but only when weather is nice and cold
So glad to see you here!
Saw a gentleman using a handsaw to cut up a tree. Hope you have a chainsaw, and didn’t use the fuel to make coffee.
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