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Wonder if our President ^ is in the dark today or not.

 
Aw crap! I spoke too soon - Choi Wan drifted more southerly overnight and is now expected to come closer.... "damaging winds" will set in this afternoon... but only in the 40-50 mph (sustained) range. A "banana storm", but with the state of our electrical distribution system, and the massive vegetation growth we have had with 3+ years of no typhoons, I can almost guarantee our power will go out today, and stay out for at least 24 hours.
Batten down the hatches!

 
This isn't so bad - 30-40mph winds, the power is still on... and no work!!!!

 
Eh - I was wrong. :dunno: They called everyone into work this morning.

Still, it's better than a week without power, I suppose.

 
Three tropical storms in one week! One passed south of us on Monday, one is hitting Guam and Rota right now, and another is forecast to hit us directly on Saturday, as a typhoon.

El Nino.... not as bad as the '97 El Nino, but there's still 3 months of typhoon season left.

:poop:

 
Temperatures have dropped like a rock here, especially in the mornings, and the wind hasn't been helping. I hate having to wear long sleeve shirts.

 
Temperatures have dropped like a rock here, especially in the mornings, and the wind hasn't been helping. I hate having to wear long sleeve shirts.
No doubt. It's like Mother Nature looked at the calendar, saw it was now Fall and decided to drop the thermostat by 30 degrees.

 
Weather reminds me that I need to install remote start in the Maxx before the frost hits.

 
It's so dark here right now, it seems like nighttime. Lots of rain, too. Several accidents already on the roads, cuz people forget to slow down when the roads are wet.

 
Noon was 75 and nice, now it's overcast like God is angry. Tomorrow is a high of 50 with precip...here it could be rain or snow. We never know.

 
Is there a "Happy about the Weather thread"? It is currently 77 and sunny here. Not a cloud in the sky. I have my windows open and one of the restaurants around here is cooking up something really good and the smell is wafting through my office. The only thing keeping me from wanting to go to med school right now is giving up my sweet office.

 
It was a nice weekend, but it has been in the mid 60s since and in the 40s over night...fall has decided to come.

too bad the harvest wont be ontime...they are going to still be working the fields here until mid-late nov unless the snow comes early.

 
^ You're lucky. I used to work in a strip that was retail on the ground floor, offices on the second. There was a nasty Chinese place right below us. They used to stick a pump in their grease trap and pump it out right onto the field out back.

Needless to say it was pretty awful.

 
Oh Man. We have mobilized all our response teams. I have been setting in meetings all morning about the typhoon debris staging areas we will need to set up.

Hopefully it won't be so bad. You've gotta love it when the National Weather Service gets emotional with their forecast discussions:

.MARINE...MARINE CONDITIONS WILL VARY WIDELY THROUGHOUT THE MARIANAS. GUAM

WATERS MAY HAVE MINIMAL GALES AND 8 TO 10 FOOT WIND WAVES WHEREAS

SAIPAN WATERS MIGHT EXPECT WIND WAVES AS HIGH AS 30 FEET. IN

GENERAL THOUGH...MARINERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR AND SECURE THEIR

BOATS WHILE THE GETTING IS GOOD.

&&

.TROPICAL SYSTEMS...

TYPHOON MELOR HAS FINISHED ITS PERIOD OF RAPID INTENSIFICATION BUT

IS STILL INTENSIFYING. IT WILL CONTINUE TO APPROACH AND MAY BECOME

A SUPER TYPHOON AS IT DOES SO. MOST MODELS AND FORECASTS HAVE HAD

IT PASSING BETWEEN SAIPAN AND ANATAHAN...WHICH STILL LOOKS FAIRLY

LIKELY. AS THE MOST POPULATED ISLANDS WOULD BE LEFT OF THE STORM

TRACK THIS WOULD SPARE THEM THE FULL BRUNT OF ITS FURY. LET US

HOPE IT IS ENOUGH.
 
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^ typhoon Melor? Are you sure it isn't Typhoon Melkor (aka Morgoth)?

+100 LOTR

 
It kind of looks like that.

It also feels like I'm the last person int he office. Everyone else is headed home to board up. I have accordion shutters on my house, so it takes us about 5 minutes to board up. But my in-laws have nothing, so we'll be sawing and nailing plywood all afternoon and into tonight, I am sure. (we also have lots of very poor neighbors living in the proverbial stick (and tin) houses - those will probably all be gone, and hopefully not fly into my house in the process of their destruction)

 
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