Hurricane Ike

LOOON · 09-12-2008, 02:47 AM

Is fucking huge!!!

If any of you are in the path, I hope you are prepared.

That is all.

Wobbly Goblin · 09-12-2008, 06:44 AM

Nobody on our google map in that area, but that's one scary looking storm!

TreeTopFlyer · 09-12-2008, 08:11 AM

Some of us play with D-man. He drove out there earlier this week. He live in Sebring, FL and now he's in Houston, Tx! He has some business to take care of for a couple of weeks. I called him last night and he said they're closing incoming roads to Houston so they can have more lanes to evacuate. I told him I'd say a prayer for him. He'll need it because he has no plans to leave.

Wobbly Goblin · 09-12-2008, 09:08 AM

We've been praying for everyone in the path of these storms since the season began, so I'd be happy to add D-Man to our prayers.

LOOON · 09-12-2008, 10:24 AM

I watched Geraldo get knocked off his feet by a huge wave.

LOOON · 09-13-2008, 08:02 AM

An estimated 20,000 idiots stayed in Galveston.

They are going endanger rescuers to save there sorry asses.

Photofinishron · 09-13-2008, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by LOOON

An estimated 20,000 idiots stayed in Galveston.

They are going endanger rescuers to save there sorry asses.

Those who choose to ignore evacuation orders (And I likely would be one of them) should be put on a lowest level priority.

And another thing we do that is stupid is we don't let people back in after they've been evacuated. They should be sent back in as soon as the storm clears to start cleaning up.

Wobbly Goblin · 09-13-2008, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Photofinishron

They should be sent back in as soon as the storm clears to start cleaning up.

Negative! I spent the bulk of my life building power lines and the last thing you need is a bunch of people handling potentially energized wire. How is it energized when the entire system is down you ask? Well, you see those same idiots that aren't smart enough to get the hell out of harms way are the same idiots that plug generators into their homes and end up back feeding the cities electrical system. Here's the deal. Transformers don't care is they're energized from the top down or bottom up. All they do is raiser or lower the voltage applied to them based on the ratio between primary and secondary windings. That said, if you back feed a 120/240 12KV transformer with 240 volts, you'll energize all the primary wire attached to that transformer @ 12,000 volts. I'm sure you can imagine what happens when an unsuspecting person grabs the seeming harmless wire laying across their driveway and gets hit with 3 times the voltage used in the electric chair.