Holy Snot Rockets - never mind! There's a pull located on each side of each drawer. I ain't right in the head sometimes.

 

Those are deep slide out drawers, you pull on both handles to slide them out.

 

Hey, I can definitely see how you might see them as doors!

 

Yeah - From my armchair I was seeing a vertical center line & couldn't make out what was up with the cross-hatch weaving.

 

John - If they get us much rainfall/water as expected - I can't imagine I-4 will be passable for at least one week. That one area is so unbelievably low it's always flooding but this could cripple/buckle that I-4 piece. Thoughts?

 

Yes, that pattern is quite puzzling at first glance when you look at what she left natural tone veneer vs. what see decided to paint. I do think it was very ingenious on her part and makes the piece very unique.

 

The ad says Alanta. Not much going on here. Got a spud in the oven, when that's done, a N.Y. strip steak will follow along with a bottle of Bell's Amber Ale.

 

Dan - Sounds like a damn tasty dinner, wish mine was that good! 😋

 

Dan - Play on words. Jim (Jamesbo) owns Milton Fields in Atlanta. New hurricane named Milton. New Milton Fields (the 2nd) located in Florida resulting from hurricane Milton - play on words, nothing more than my bad shot at humor.

EDIT: Or, what might soon become a new Milton Fields (the second) in Florida if folks don't get the hell out - natural, organic.

 

The only good thing about Florida in rain is that the entire place is a sponge and a river. I think I-4 will get wrecked as far as the storm surge in terms of sand deposits and some washouts. I believe it should remain passable to the I-75 interchange on the inland side of Tampa. If that city gets smoked, there will be a lot of gunplay at nights as residents are a lot more well off and armed than the poor that got hit by Katrina and Rita. Plus, the national guard will not be stupid enough to try to disarm a Floridian, the state was the first one with carry permits; my dad got his in the 80s. We like sun, guns, and cocaine.

It's the Clearwater, St Pete 275 bridge that will probably be undermined by water action and be gone in large sections that I am concerned about.

 

Best I can figure out the CO website is a CO developers live "playground". A website used to "test" newly developed/written code. Hey, they're likely not going to admit it & that's fine. Look, this site is a freebie all members. I have no knowledge of the training &/or technical knowledge of their web developers. But this 5 second pause/timeout when clicking 'New Posts' is annoying lots of members. It is NOT an issue on other IB sites. Ford-Truck Enthusiasts works flawlessly. CO website is at the bottom of the food chain - let's face it. Now they're testing a new GUI on CO. Could be some time before these these little pieces get worked out. You'd truly think they had a more carefully replicated "test" environment for their developers to work - apparently they do not.

 

Agree, I think it will remain passable to the I-75 Interchange inland side of Tampa Bay. IIRC, I believe it's a stretch of I-40 about 10 miles or so West of Polk City which is very low and does in fact flood with some frequency during heavy rains. That area could be an entire washout. Just saying.

 

I have this "urge" to click on the new Report Post icon to see if it works.
Need to find someone to **** me off - LOL.

 

Jo momma wears combat boots!

I personally don't like the rearranged avatars and names on the left.

 

 

Could well be. I very rarely went west of Lakeland in my youth. The Atlantic coast was closer. I suppose I should have hauled my catamaran once to the Gulf, but we always went to New Smyrna on the Atlantic side.

 

I knew a couple people who lived in New Smyrna mostly from attending yearly Daytona Beach motorcycle event & the folks I knew were all vintage Indian motorcycle folks e.g. Doc Batsleer.

 

This is a 96 hr loop - takes ~20 seconds to load. Great video of the latest eye wall regeneration. Pressure increased when the eye wall fell apart (normal) and pressure has been decreasing again as the new eye wall formed (normal) - pressure now 912mb.

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOE...ength=96&dim=1

 

Great imagery, thanks for sharing Norm. 👍

 

11PM Eastern Time Advisory

Gusts = 201mph, 1 minute sustained = 161 mph
Pressure ~915mb, lowest = 902mb
Landfall = very slight shift South of Tampa

Ray - Hate to say it - doesn't look good.

 

A single 1 Megaton nuke (4.18 × 1015 Joules) dropped into the middle of this thing (equivalent of a 10-megaton nuclear bomb every 20 minutes) would resemble a gnat fart.

 

Do you have a computer model to verify that?

I would expect the heat and shock waves of a thermonuclear detonation would have some disruptive effects on the local weather patterns, but as it has never been performed there’s no meteorological records to go by. Computer modeling would be the only way to predict the effects.

 

That would be awesome.

 

And what if it intensified the storm’s energy? Oops.

 

It was brought up by someone, somewhere decades ago. NASA & several nuke physicists modeled it I think? I think NASA has an official statement regarding this "notion". It re-surface (again) when someone mentioned it several years ago. I guess it was 1st proposed to Harry Truman (1945) by the Mayor of Miami, FL as a way to weaken hurricanes. So, the 'notion' has been around some time.

 

Without diving into additional research (it's late) I found only one NASA statement before calling it a night:

SOURCE: NASA Hurricane Research Division

 

I think that person was Steve Buscemi's character "Rockhound", in the movie Armageddon.

 

I can see launching an ICBM with boosters to hit an asteroid, but a hurricane would be like trying to nail a custard to a wall.

 

You got me on that one. I've seen Armageddon but can't recall the character.

 

Custard to a wall....that's one for the books.

 

Oh yeah...it's coming back to me. He plays some of the most peculiar acting roles, very, very well. He's a card.

 

Yeah Norm. it certainly doesn't. Glad I'm not down there. Might be shoveling snow in a few months

 

Ray - Fingers crossed you won't be shoveling snow in a couple months.

 

All vulnerable aircraft @ USSOCOM (MacDill AFB) have been & are currently being evacuated elsewhere. Obviously, Naval, Reserve & CG operations centers have evacuated ships elsewhere.
I read it's estimated each mile of civilian evacuation alone costs ~$1 million dollars. I don't know the cost of a Hurricane Hunter flight - but I'm sure it's significant. The costs to evacuate military operations personnel & equipment ain't cheap. A single Dropsonde dropped from an aircraft costs ~$1,000. Those things are cool. They're released like a falling turd from the *** end of the aircraft. They're about 1.5' in length. Costs of the evacuation alone are crazy add the costs of the damage & repair this will be a whopping hurt in the public coffers.

 

Here's a great clip! Hope it works.

 

Chris - Great clip. The movie he refers to was Dr. Strangelove which I've watched countless times. Good stuff.

 

said by Anton Lavey describing his philosophy/movement/religion.

 

 

Yep, I've seen Dr. Strangelove several times too. Thanks for posting the clip though, always funny to see it again.

 

Never read any of his notes, publications, etc. but recall his association or head of the Satanic worship movement.