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Hurricane Dorian Banter Thread


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35 minutes ago, Prospero said:

OK, just learning the territory of this playground. :)

Will say that sat comparison of the Bahamas was not impressive at all from someone who does some graphic design. Accurate I could not tell, the two images should have been in scale and up-to-date. Obviously there was a vast difference on many levels, very unprofessional and almost worthless as far as a true comparison. Not to say the island is not a lot different from a few days ago, but that graphic was a very poor representation. Give me a recent before and after sat photo, I'll produce you something that you could refer to. ;)

Wait - are some arguing that’s real? It had to be a rendering based on an assumed sea level change, no? I assume it’s turned into a running joke?

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West Coast of Florida tonight, looks like the bands are staying east of us. Tonight was the night we've been anxiously anticipating for a week now. Will go to sleep tonight relaxed, maybe slightly disappointed we didn't get a "tiny" bit more, but very happy we didn't have to board up the windows or even pick up the projectiles that decorate our backyard. Whew.

Watched every WSW wobble, read every post on this and another forum, and stared at the Dorian spinning graphics for hours and hours, and hours.

It's almost over for most of Florida. Power is out and going out on the east coast in scattered places, but I am sure few will be out for more than a day or two. Irma left this home without of electricity for over two weeks. Horrible couple weeks, but our house was still here and the two trees that came down with Irma missed our home.

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5 minutes ago, TennTradition said:

Wait - are some arguing that’s real? It had to be a rendering based on an assumed sea level change, no? I assume it’s turned into a running joke?

I only saw it once and briefly when my wife was on CNN and said, "Look at this!" I just thought what a horrible graphic, nothing matched up; streets, landmarks, etc., didn't see debris, down trees, wild surf, it just did not make sense. Lot of people fell for it, for sure. I just kept thinking it was a horrible graphics that did not makes sense. LOL

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12 minutes ago, TennTradition said:

Wait - are some arguing that’s real? It had to be a rendering based on an assumed sea level change, no? I assume it’s turned into a running joke?

Some people appeared to be arguing it's real... But it's so hard to tell on here who's trolling and who's being serious... 

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1 hour ago, SENC said:

@YetAnotherRDUGuy says:..

 

NO they are outdated the Day they came out.. Quite honest about that..

Over-Development With NO regards, to the "Swamp" that is SENC.. 

Over-building, with "run-Off" NOT , being considered..   

Hence, 500 year storms" happening",,  almost every year, (even with heavy T-Storms") places are , or WILL be flooded..

Over-building with NO thoughts, on flooding OR how to drain "Wetlands".. 

I digress.. 

WTF are you talking about 

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2 hours ago, Akeem the African Dream said:

a cruise sounds awful.  the lowest common denominators of society fill those ships especially in September when prices are the cheapest.

 

I must be pretty low than. Because I love cruising. And it is still the best value in a vacation you can get.

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2 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

I must be pretty low than. Because I love cruising. And it is still the best value in a vacation you can get.

Also depends on your departure port. A cruise out of Manhattan (even on a mainstream line like NCL) gets you a different crowd than, say, NOLA. (And yes I’ve done both, recently.)

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Just now, thess said:

Also depends on your departure port. A cruise out of Manhattan (even on a mainstream line like NCL) gets you a different crowd than, say, NOLA. (And yes I’ve done both, recently.)

The line matters a ton too. When we were younger we did Carnival, Royal and NCL a lot. Whichever was cheaper. And yes. Some of those cruises were shit shows. We have since moved on to Celebrity and it is just much more laid back. Anyway. Dont want to hijack the thread.

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Just now, hazwoper said:

Which is the better experience?

Totally depends on what type of people you feel more comfortable around. Which will lead me into regional and demographic stereotypes, and no good will come of that. :)

I preferred the Escape out of Manhattan over the Breakaway out of NOLA in all aspects (ship, port, fellow passengers). But it seems like I got lucky and my commute from LGA to the port was pretty painless, so that helped. 

 

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2 hours ago, dendrite said:

Josh's career peaked back when he was regularly posting here, but he's still making a pretty decent living for himself.

Josh's money comes from his digital marketing business. He didn't get into chasing for the money. The new show probably just finally covered all the crazy plane tickets/hotels/cars/equipment he's purchased over the years so he could chase at a moment's notice.

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35 minutes ago, hazwoper said:

O.M.G.

Spoon-feed me. I don’t know where you’re going  

 

The only conversation I saw (I believe in the storm watch thread) around it was the posts talking about the fleet of small satellites to peer around clouds. Which seemed to me like an actual attempt to argue it was post-hurricane satellite imagery rather than an inundation map estimated based on surge, which is what it appears to be. I easily could have missed the sarcasm - but if they are being sarcastic about it then I assume someone earlier was arguing it was post-hurricane satellite imagery (laid over a mapped previous satellite imagery)  

EDIT:   I’ll add, yes I’m aware of radar in imagery - but the image I saw in the other thread wasn’t that. It was an inundation map based on elevation inputs and an input water height. I suppose you could argue radar imaging is all rendered anyway. But this didn’t even look that specific. 

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7 minutes ago, TennTradition said:

@hazwoper

Is this the actual image?

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/2204233001

I’ll buy this is advanced satellite imagery. The other satellite image looks rendered based on this. The water seemed much more uniform in color on the CNN clip. 

Yes that is it.  Only it included streets based on mapping 

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13 minutes ago, TennTradition said:

@hazwoper

Is this the actual image?

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/2204233001

I’ll buy this is advanced satellite imagery. The other satellite image looks rendered based on this. The water seemed much more uniform in color on the CNN clip. 

Alright - going to quote to go full-circle. Watched the CNN clip again and it still looked fully rendered over previous satellite imagery (basically an inundation map I would generate using GIS software)  

 

But then I pulled up the article and pulled up the same images and could actually see then that the video was playing tricks on me with regard to the detail I thought I was seeing in the image. 

 

I can see the base image is the same radar-imaged view. 

 

 

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