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11 AM UPDATE: Hurricane warning issued for Cuban provinces ahead of Ian

TAMPA, Fla (WFLA) — Tropical Storm Ian is expected to strengthen into a hurricane Sunday as it continues to make a projected path toward Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The 11 a.m. advisory said that Ian was 300 miles south-southeast of Grand Cayman and 570 miles southeast of the western tip of Cuba. The tropical storm had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and was moving west-northwest at 14 mph.

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The last weather chart I saw had four (4) four named storms in the Atlantic. One in the Canadian maritimes, one around Bermuda somewhere, one around the Azores somewhere, and one headed for the general Florida area. They have already capitulated on Tuesday's rescheduled moon launch, and today they'll decide whether to go back into the VAB, which would delay the launch for months at the minimum due to alignment of the earth and moon. But nothing's wrong with the climate. Ask any Republican.

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LA was the 50s, not the 60s. By the 60s there was one small and very affluent strip along the beach and another one in the hills above Sunset Blvd. Most of the rest was in various stages of decay. It hit the low point sometime in the 1990s, and then recovered. Recently, the covid, the supply chain debacle, and the insoluble social problems seem to have initiated another quick and rather sickening decline.

The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, et al basically chronicled the fun, fun, fun of rich white kids.

The rest of the city gave the world gansta rap. "Straight outta Compton." (Though the Crips and/or Bloods actually matured as a social force mostly because of the Century Freeway construction in Inglewood and Watts.) Nuff said.
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ZoWie wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 12:45 pm LA was the 50s, not the 60s. By the 60s there was one small and very affluent strip along the beach and another one in the hills above Sunset Blvd. Most of the rest was in various stages of decay. It hit the low point sometime in the 1990s, and then recovered. Recently, the covid, the supply chain debacle, and the insoluble social problems seem to have initiated another quick and rather sickening decline.
Here, in Coronado, we have a beach that's about two miles long. The Hotel del Coronado, which was built in 1888, owns a small part of the beach, and the rest belongs to the city. Back in the early 70s, 10 large high-rise condo buildings were built just South of the Hotel del Coronado and it would have cutoff access to that portion of the beach. Our neighbor, a lawyer, sued and won requiring the developer provide access to the beach. Because of that lawsuit, there is a parking lot for about 60 cars. When I take my walks on the beach, I park there because it's easier to find a parking spot. Had that lawsuit failed, half our beach would be under private ownership.
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I know where those condos are. I'm glad your neighbor saved the beach access for the people. Malibu was not as lucky, but at least in Pacific Palisades it's all state beach with plenty of public access. Santa Monica is about half and half, but everything below mean high water is public by law.

The real estate industry had a hand in the decline of LA too, luring the middle class out here by promising perfect climate and fewer of Those People. It's too bad they didn't have satellite photos yet, or by now someone would have made them into a time lapse, and you could marvel in awe at how fast wide expanses of open countryside turned into cracker-box tract houses. It was all based on plentiful water supply, and at the time there was one so it wasn't a lie. Also a lot of the new suburbs and just about all of the old rich neighborhoods had white-only deed covenants until those became illegal.

The Pacific Electric went everywhere, and it could have been built upon to provide a transit system as good as New York's, but it was the 1950s and the corporations decreed that everyone would have an automobile. The rest is history.

The freeways followed the line of least (racial) resistance. The Santa Monica Freeway wiped out a Black neighborhood. So did the 110. The Century Freeway wiped out a huge swath through Inglewood and Watts, all the way to practically Downey, and then it ran out of money and the huge area became no man's land, not patrolled or anything, and the gangs took it over. It sat abandoned, taken over by basically outlaws who had guns and knew how to use them, for something like 10 years. You simply did not go in there. It was a foreign country, for all practical purposes. Ultimately they found more money and finished the freeway, but by then the damage was done. It was when L.A. gangs became notorious worldwide, and once again the rest is history.

The point is that the LA/Orange/SB County area would not be in the pickle it finds itself in had it not been a real estate boom in search of a metro area to support it. There was no planning, no control, and eventually the climate changed and the resources ran out. It should be the textbook case of what happens when profit is all that matters.
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See Jupiter as it makes closest approach to Earth in 59 years

The best nights of all of 2022 to see Jupiter in the night sky are about to take place as the planet takes center stage in the night sky, a showing unlike any other in nearly six decades.

The sun, Earth and Jupiter will nearly align perfectly in the solar system on Monday, Sept. 26, during an event that happens once every 13 months called the Jupiter opposition. This is also around the same time that the gas giant is closest to the Earth.

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This should be good. Jupiter is bright anyway, and now it's brighter. This is the kind of thing that people in the 10th century started wars over.
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ZoWie wrote: Mon Sep 26, 2022 12:34 pm This should be good. Jupiter is bright anyway, and now it's brighter. This is the kind of thing that people in the 10th century started wars over.
Jupiter is bright as hell. Go look at it in the northeastern sky. Don't worry about finding it, there's no moon and nothing else is even close to as bright including passing airplanes. Even in LA it blasts out at you.
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Can't see a damn thing through all the storm clouds. Fortunately, there's the interwebz.

OK Florida folks, here ... we ... go. (Welcome to Hurricane Alley, Msr. Memphis).

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/ne ... rida-tampa

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We may avoid a direct strike here in Miami, but we're gonna be on the dirty side of a Cat 4. There will be no party here. Last minute wobbles n shifts are known to happen.

Meanwhile, stay safe and watch out folks in Sarasota, Tampa, St. Pete, Ft. Myers, mebbe the Panhandle ... follow evacuation orders if ordered. Remember, once it gets really bad, it's too late, emergency personnel cannot get to you.

Oh and please don't hoard unnecessarily.
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Weather channel showed the usual apocalyptic traffic jam on highways leaving Tampa Bay. Good luck down there.
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ProfX wrote: Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:18 pm Can't see a damn thing through all the storm clouds. Fortunately, there's the interwebz.

OK Florida folks, here ... we ... go. (Welcome to Hurricane Alley, Msr. Memphis).

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/ne ... rida-tampa

Image

We may avoid a direct strike here in Miami, but we're gonna be on the dirty side of a Cat 4. There will be no party here. Last minute wobbles n shifts are known to happen.

Meanwhile, stay safe and watch out folks in Sarasota, Tampa, St. Pete, Ft. Myers, mebbe the Panhandle ... follow evacuation orders if ordered. Remember, once it gets really bad, it's too late, emergency personnel cannot get to you.

Oh and please don't hoard unnecessarily.
Good luck, dont know what I can do to help, nothing probably...
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DeStupid called it a 500-year flood event.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63078885
"We've never seen [a] storm surge of this magnitude," Mr DeSantis said on Thursday. "The amount of water that's been rising, and will likely continue to rise today even as the storm is passing, is basically a 500-year flooding event."
He doesn't seem to get it that people like him blocked climate legislation, and now it's more like a 10-year event. Hell, some of those islands look like high tide will start flooding them a couple times a year at the rate the sea level is rising.
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ZoWie wrote: Thu Sep 29, 2022 11:47 am DeStupid called it a 500-year flood event.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63078885



He doesn't seem to get it that people like him blocked climate legislation, and now it's more like a 10-year event. Hell, some of those islands look like high tide will start flooding them a couple times a year at the rate the sea level is rising.
And this dumb confederate, like mouthpiece for white supremacism Nikki Haley, will be the first one wth his hands out for federal assistance.

I don't even begrudge him the federal assistance -- that's what it's for.

But he'll go right back in front of the cameras and talk about how everyone else is "government dependent." :roll: :problem:
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carmenjonze wrote: Thu Sep 29, 2022 12:22 pm And this dumb confederate, like mouthpiece for white supremacism Nikki Haley, will be the first one wth his hands out for federal assistance.

I don't even begrudge him the federal assistance -- that's what it's for.

But he'll go right back in front of the cameras and talk about how everyone else is "government dependent." :roll: :problem:
Yes the people should get help regardless, and yes those same people will go out in the rain, wait in line for hours to vote for the politician who will TAKE IT AWAY from them.

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FEMA had their Katrina moment, and they learned how not to do it. They've gotten pretty good at it since. They can mobilize a lot of logistics to get supplies to people who need them. The military helps, of course.

Between PR, the USVI, Florida, the Carolinas, the Gulf, and sometimes Hawaii, it's become very expensive dealing with climate change. Some place is going to get hit badly pretty much every year. It would have been cheaper to do something about it 20 years ago when people wanted to and Republicans had other priorities. One big investment in infrastructure would have worked out better than these major catastrophes every September for the foreseeable future.
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I wonder how many insurance companies are going to try and deny homeowner's claims like they did after Katrina. Back then, the insurance companies would say the damage was caused by wind and when it was pointed our the damage was actually caused by the wind they said it was caused by water.

Some of the problems Florida is looking at are the tens/hundreds of billions of dollars the insurers will be paying out, the lack of insurers who've stayed in Florida, and the lack of supplies/equipment to rebuild the homes, businesses, schools, etc... Hurricane Ian's impact will be felt for the next 10 years.
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New York state to adopt California 2035 EV rules

Sept 29 (Reuters) - New York state plans to adopt California's rules approved in August that would require all new vehicles sold in the state by 2035 to be either electric or plug-in electric hybrids, Governor Kathy Hochul said on Thursday.

Hochul said in a statement that she has directed a state environmental agency to propose and finalize rules adopting California's plan setting yearly rising zero-emission vehicle rules starting in 2026 that phases out gasoline-only new car sales by 2035.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos- ... 022-09-29/
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AccuWeather's 2022-2023 US winter forecast

From the abundance of acorns in the fall to the bushiness of squirrel tails, there are many fanciful forecasting techniques have been used over the years as a means to glean a glimpse of what the weather will be like in the upcoming winter.

AccuWeather's approach to concocting the winter forecast, one of its most highly-anticipated seasonal outlooks, is a bit different: The process involves a team of veteran long-range forecasters analyzing computer models, looking at how previous winters have played out and using their own personal experience to determine if it's going to be a snowy winter, if and when the polar vortex will unleash Arctic air across North America and whether it will be a good season for skiers.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-w ... st/1252283
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Nicole Mann becomes first Native American woman in space on Crew-5 mission

Nicole Mann has become the first Native American woman in space as she lifted off in command of a flight to the International Space Station on Wednesday that also included the first Russian to join a US space flight since the invasion of Ukraine.

Mann’s journey on the launch vehicle, which consists of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with a Crew Dragon capsule named Endurance, took off on schedule at noon from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... -5-mission
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Take a moment.......

https://www.yahoo.com/news/moment-zen-f ... 00918.html
Moment of Zen: Fall colors along Mississippi River in Minneapolis
WCCO's Drone 4 captured beautiful fall colors along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
Supposed to be in the high 60's, low 70's, here this weekend. It's going to be a nice ride.
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The ride was nice. The colors were good. Ya, really good. 8-) (highway 61)

If i don't get carried away with the little get together going on.........Tomorrow will be even better.

Cheers people.
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It was even better. We took the river road. The sights, the smells, the colors, it was one of the best years yet.

They're saying by Tuesday it maybe around 80. Some of the crew are planning on playing hooky.

It's time to stop and smell the roses.
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After Hurricane Ian hit Florida, a number of electric vehicles have been catching fire.
A top Florida state official warned Thursday that firefighters have battled a number of fires caused by electric vehicle (EV) batteries waterlogged from Hurricane Ian.

EV batteries that have been waterlogged in the wake of the hurricane are at risk of corrosion, which could lead to unexpected fires, according to Jimmy Patronis, the state's top financial officer and fire marshal.

"There’s a ton of EVs disabled from Ian. As those batteries corrode, fires start," Patronis tweeted Thursday. "That’s a new challenge that our firefighters haven’t faced before. At least on this kind of scale."

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Earthquake rattles Taiwan, but epicentre out at sea

TAIPEI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake with its epicentre in the sea off Taiwan's east coast rattled the island on Tuesday, the island's weather bureau said, with no immediate reports of damage.

The quake briefly shook buildings in the capital, Taipei. It had a depth of 17.9 km (11.1 miles), and could be felt across the northern, central and eastern parts of Taiwan, the weather bureau added.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 022-10-10/
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Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes off Panama's southern coast

PANAMA CITY, Oct 20 (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck off the southern coast of Panama on Thursday morning, the U.S Geological Survey said, though there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km (6 miles) in the Pacific Ocean, 62 km (38.5 miles) to the south of Boca Chica, a small coastal village.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ ... 022-10-20/
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‘The View’ Interview With Ted Cruz Interrupted by Climate Change Protesters

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s appearance on Monday’s episode of “The View” was interrupted multiple time by protesters in the audience.

While Cruz was speaking about inflation on the ABC daytime show, a group of women began repeatedly shouting what sounded like “Cover climate now!”

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/the-vi ... 235412522/
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