Post #321,122
2/8/10 4:54:15 AM
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Be {{brrrrr}} Careful Out There!! it's a Mondo blizzard
http://www.examiner....ory-photos-videos
Scott K et al: hope y'all can check-in ... Better hope: the Power is still On..
Miami! ... The Florida KEYS !! Holy Shit..
Slideshow: Snow storm could be biggest in modern history (photos, videos)
The massive snow storm that has begun and threatens millions of Americans from the mid Atlantic across the north east could be the biggest in modern history, forecasters say. Blizzard conditions are real and the storm presents extreme danger. Tonight, snow is barreling down across states across the nation and it is expected that some areas might see as much as 30 inches of snow. Flights shut down in preparation, and cities that are normally bustling with activity became powder covered ghost towns.
Maryland and Virginia is expected to see record snow fall and Maryland has declared a state of emergency and has urged all residents to stay inside and off roads. What may surprise many, however, is that the severe snow system will impact whether as far south as Miami, and possibly even the Florida Keys.
The size of the storm is massive and it is unlike anything previously seen in modern history.
The latest snowfalls are 11 inches in Westernport Maryland, 9 inches in Washington Dulles DC and 5 inches in Baltimore Maryland. Two deaths have already been attributed to the storm. The fatalities occurred in Prince William County Virginia as a 54 year old father and 25 year old son stopped to help a driver whose had lost control of his vehicle. As the men exited their vehicle to offer assistance, a tractor trailer jackknifed, killing the two men. Some areas have reported power outages, adding more trouble to the already brewing storm.
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Post #321,124
2/8/10 8:36:47 AM
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the move to mississippi was thought about a lot this am
28 degrees in georgia dang!
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
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Post #321,127
2/8/10 9:09:22 AM
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6-10" expected here tonight/tomorrow.
Overall, yawn. I don't expect much in the way of an alteration to my normal day from that. This is Chicagoland, after all.
-Mike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #321,129
2/8/10 9:12:30 AM
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yabbut your commute
is from the bedroom to the computer room. Mine is 16 miles in a rig with no heater and I forgot my gloves
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
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Post #321,134
2/8/10 9:51:02 AM
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True enough.
It's a nice commute, for sure.
-Mike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #321,165
2/8/10 1:37:38 PM
2/8/10 8:01:17 PM
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Predictions of another 8-10+" here, starting Tuesday PM.
http://www.wundergro...S/VA/053.html#WIN
Joy. :-/ There are still ~6800 customers without power around here....
[edit:] Now they're saying 10-20". YeHaw! :-/
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #321,132
2/8/10 9:36:40 AM
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I'm still here. :-)
Lots more photos are on Flikr, e.g. http://www.flickr.co...ypse&s=rec#page=0
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #321,135
2/8/10 9:53:17 AM
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could be worse you could live in King NC
buncha retards
http://www.wxii12.co...87153/detail.html
King SOE gives me a better understanding of "arrogance of officialdom" in this quote: What Have We Learned In 2064 Years? "The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero--55 BC some things never change If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
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Post #321,137
2/8/10 10:13:47 AM
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King is just up the road from Mayberry, RFD.
http://en.wikipedia....#Real-life_models
Many little towns around there are stuck in 1950s TV Land.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #321,138
2/8/10 10:16:55 AM
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another thing that never changes
...is the willingness of people like box to circulate bogus quotations like this one attributed to Cicero, which appears nowhere in the oratorical opportunist's works and which first appeared in print in an editorial in the Kansas City Star on 15 January 1896. See They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions by Paul F. Boller Jr. and John George, Oxford University Press, 1989.
cordially,
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Post #321,139
2/8/10 10:30:31 AM
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close enuff for govt work
The Truth:
This alleged quote from Marcus Tullius Cicero that began circulating on the Internet in October, 2008, is based on a true statement from the great Roman orator, but someone added a lot to it to make it match some of what the United States was facing economically.
The actual quote is: "The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
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Post #321,149
2/8/10 11:07:03 AM
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Assistance to foreign hands != public assistance
That addition makes makes the false version appear to be primarily about personal responsibility. The real quote was about the danger of over-reaching.
Which I've been thinking about lately. Someone quoted the line about Switzerland recently: "Five hundred years of peace and democracy and what have they produced? The cuckoo clock?" My first thought was, "Well, that and five hundred years of peace and democracy."
There's something to be said for an overdeveloped sense of "None of my business." Yes, the Nazis were evil, and keeping those deposits for all these decades seems wrong. But haven't (some) people been saying for a while now that you can't force people to embrace freedom/democracy/just-plain-goodness, they have to take it for themselves? Perhaps that's what Cicero was talking about, in not offering help to foreign hands.
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Drew
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Post #321,152
2/8/10 11:32:11 AM
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actually the above was a 1/2 assed apology to rand not
serious. Cut n Paste on the net is easy and lazy
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
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Post #321,153
2/8/10 11:47:54 AM
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Make it a full-assed apology and we'll talk
Your "actual quote" comes word-for-word from that same Kansas City Star editorial. It probably made its way into living memory and thence onto the internets via hack novelist Taylor Caldwell's 1965 novel A Pillar of Iron, which is apparently littered with similar bogosities. For the Caldwell connection I am indebted to a 1971 letter to the Chicago Tribune by John H. Collins, Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, who added that a novelist "has a perfect right to put invented conversations and anecdotes into a novel, but should not represent these inventions as authentic history."
Spurious quotations attributed to eminent characters of the past are by way of a minor hobby of mine, box. If I tell you one of these is of dodgy provenance you can take that assertion—but not the counterfeit nugget—to the bank.
cordially,
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Post #321,155
2/8/10 11:52:38 AM
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full-assed it is
always glad to get called on something, learn something new every day
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
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Post #321,169
2/8/10 2:08:28 PM
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We've got no snow here - but . . .
. . our mud beats your snow easy. Fortunately it doesn't cover a wide area.
Friday's "fast moving showers" unexpectedly turned out to be the most intense rains of the year, and just hung around all night.
Just checked with one of my clients who lives 2 blocks below a notorious checkdam. His place is at the end of a cul-de-sac that trends uphill, and it escaped serious damage, but he says the rest of the homes on his block were hit bad and the all the houses on the street above were totally destroyed.
The checkdam was ineffective because it quickly filled up with boulders about 10 feet in diameter and estimated to weigh about 18,000 pounds each. Heavy concrete k-rail barriers chained together to contain mud flows to the street were simply washed away like so many twigs.
The damage was, as usual, confined to wealthy areas.
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Post #321,183
2/8/10 3:32:42 PM
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:-/ Glad you're Ok. Hang in there.
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Post #321,184
2/8/10 3:41:43 PM
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No problem here - I'm below a different check dam . . .
. . and a good mile down the street. The big flooding and 12 foot rolling rocks were back in the 1920's on this street - and this street isn't wealthy enough to attract the real disasters.
The rain was intense enough, though to find a leak in the roof - which had survived an entire week of rain the week before. I'll have to go up and have a look while it's still bright, sunny and warm.
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Post #321,187
2/8/10 5:09:46 PM
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I'm curious.
How does the wealthy of the residents attract the disasters? I'm guessing because they have the funds to do monumentally stupid landscaping...
Wade.
Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
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Post #321,191
2/8/10 8:59:13 PM
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No, it's not so much their landscaping . . .
. . it's more site selection. The wealthy want seclusion, picturesque scenery and huge lots for palaces and horses and such. They build farther and farther out on the periphery, farther up slopes and farther into undeveloped areas and don't ever think of the consequences.
When there's a disaster, the wealthy are first in its path, They provide a good buffer zone between disasters and us regular folks.
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Post #321,317
2/11/10 9:16:26 AM
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Satellite image
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Drew
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Post #321,318
2/11/10 9:28:39 AM
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Neat. Thanks.
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