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Gusts of 220 miles an hour. Coming into the little town of Marsh Harbour, where I have been. Little bitty town on a flat little Island that might be getting a lot flatter here in a minute. There is no high ground for these people to go to. If you are on the island you are stuck on the island.

Not to mention most of the people were dirt poor and worked on a adjacent Islands at little private Resorts and private homes that were only accessible by little ferry boats that ran from Marsh Harbour out to the various little Islands.

When I flew into the island of Marsh Harbour for a work-related trip I sat next to the pilot. It was a 1978 Piper Navajo. Not exactly new.

On the barrier islands drinking water had to be brought into the island by boat and pumped into the cisterns of individual homes. They also collected rainwater to be used for flushing and cleaning. The boat brought eggs and milk to the little convenience store once a week and it was the only store on the island.

They're only little wooden homes and buildings and stuff on that island. I didn't see any hardened structures like I've seen on some other Islands and didn't really see any high enough ground to escape the kind of storm surge they would have had to have seen.

I'm very troubled worrying about them.

 

Apparently, Dorian is so powerful that it has scared the state of Alabama completely off the map:





Srsy, though, this one's a big deal. Our people down in PR got lucky that it passed over them while still in ***** mode.


I was on the phone w/ mom a few hours ago. She lives in Charlotte County, FL, and they still remember Charlie like it was yesterday. In her words: "When you look at the satellite view of the storm, it's actually quite beautiful. Very well-formed."


Can't imagine the deal down in the Bahamas. Must have been like having a tornado just park itself on top of you for a whole afternoon.

 

Yeah, 18 to 30 feet of water on islands 20 feet at their highest elevation would be interesting. I worry what they actually got in the way of conditions. 220mph winds are probably deadly without any debris in them.

Doesn't sound like there's a lot of hardened buildings on the Bahamas.

https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/porta...vZ0FBIS9nQSEh/

 

That part of the world is weird.

In PR, for instance, there are lots of "homes" which are basically nailed together out of scrap plywood and corrugated steel, and that's just considered normal.

And, then, there are other homes which are literally made out of poured concrete, with poured concrete roofs. Not especially fancy, mind you, buy basically the above-ground version of Hitler's bunker, with a little decorative trim. My uncle Joe had such a house. Built it himself, along with a few friends and his two brothers. That ****** never took a lick of storm damage in the ~30 years they lived in it.

 

So here is Camera 32:


A close-up of the marking on the floor:




And the duck itself:




Now, could I have used a more professional method of indicating the nominal home-front position of the pedestal? Of course. I could have used a Brother P-Touch label printer, I could have painted a red stripe on the base, I could have done a lot of things. But none of them would have amused me as much as a little rubber duck epoxied to a giant camera pedestal.

 

Grand Bahama island satellite image shows inundation versus normal coastline marked in yellow.

 

I'm assuming it's the same one, but the Honda engineers turbo'd and 6 spd swapped and originally built this for One Lap of America maybe 6-7 years ago?

 

Part of me wishes that they had called it hurricane "Gorion"
That's what I think every time I see the name "Dorion"

 

I'm never following the rules on planes ever again.



If this mother ******* horse doesn't need to be stowed under the seat in front of you, then neither does my backpack.


Imagine having such low self-esteem that you convince a doctor to diagnose you with some bullshit, then getting a horse so people pay attention to "you"

 

 

I can't remember if I posted the photo when I mentioned it and you snipped or, either way. Here it is again for you and anyone who may have missed something I may or may not have posted.

 

**** like that is why I quit art school.

 

Haha. If you read up a ways in the thread, you'll find that this wasn't a "real" art installation. It was a wiseass thing that the shop boss did as a gag.

 

The problem is, that's what art school was like.

I was in a conceptualization class, where a girl took a mold of her hand, put it on the wall, and put thumb tack in the palm of the hand and gave some bullshit speech about how it meant something.

i played the music video of back that azz up with the music of a punk rock cover and the black girls in the class said it was offensive and mocked their culture. i said the original video and lyrics mocked their culture... that didnt go over well.

 

Not disputing the Odyssey's existence, but must point out that the photo is not legit. At least not as a genuine single photo shot at the moment. Quite likely two photos shot at T5 Rd. ATL. Somebody forgot to scale. Original scale and adequately scaled for comparison.

 

100% composited.