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: On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:53:26 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
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: news : : On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:05:21 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
: : wrote:
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: : Hype and more hype about this dying storm Ike. They are claiming
: it's
: : going to come ashore as a cat 3 but look at the poor thing.
: :
: : http://www.goes.noaa.gov/HURRLOOPS/huirloop.html
: :
: : It's breaking up because dry air from the west is getting entrained
: : all the way to the core and it's practically broken the thing in
: two.
: : It's lucky to come ashore as a tropical storm if they were honest
: : about it. They just love to frighten people.
: :
: : Joe isn't too bright but his little lake will only come up to the
: : balcony on his lakeside apartment in that ramshackle building he
: was
: : planning to use as a company headquarters. This time he probably
: was
: : smart enough to move his automobile to higher ground, I hope. He
: has
: : no boat to worry about anymore. Poor lubber Joe. I feel sorry for
: him.
: : Everything he touches goes wrong.
: :
: : Wilbur Hubbard
: :
: : Actually, Ike is building in strength and pretty much covers the
: : entire Gulf. It's much bigger than Katrina. Galveston is already
: badly
: : flooded, and the storm is still almost 200 miles out. On it's
: present
: : track, Galveston and Houston will be hit by the Northwest quadrant
: of
: : the storm. That's decidedly the "bad" side.
:
: That's simply not so. The north EAST quardrant is the worst in a storm
: in the northern hemisphere.
:
: TYPO. So sue me.
:

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