It's Raining!

Wow! What a letdown! That was the look south today on 95, directly into the lazy eye of Tropical Letdown Fay. Fay didn't appreciate my taunt and started raining about 5 minutes later, which wouldn't be a big deal if I wasn't rolling with the top down. Actually not a bad way to start the day. It woke me up a bit.

Anyway, I was all jacked up and excited to weather my first hurricane, as the tracking and everything from the weekend had Fay running right over the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area, bringing with it barely hurricane force winds. 70 mph, bitches! As long as you don't drive a Prius, you wouldn't get blown off the road from those gusts. However, my excitement quickly dissipated last night when the updated track showed Fay barely scraping Laudi with her weak outer bands, bringing nothing but a bit of wind and a lot of rain. Just rain? F-word, man! I'm hitting every F key from F1 through F12, because I am just that F-ing pissed. I just composed a symphony in F Major.

Feel free to sing along.

This was going to be perfect! A small, category 1 storm that PROBABLY (I get it, hurricanes are bad, stock up on flashlights and condoms, etc.) would only do negligible damage to the area, if any. I could finally experience one of these hurricanes that people are always talking about and probably live to tell the tale!

But alas, it was not to be. Tropical Abortion Fay is looking as if it will track to the west, as a buildup of strong weatherstuff will weatherforce it somewhere else or whatever the hell these people are talking about on Accuweather. Right now, it is raining relatively lightly with all things considered and relative to the typical afternoon storms in the area. Looks like it's going to continue raining hard until tomorrow morning, dropping about 5 inches of rain (which is nice, because I prefer to be bigger than the rainstorms) on the area but not keeping anybody from going to work. The schools in the are area closed, probably as a precautionary thing as there has not been a hit down here since 2005, which brings me to my next subject.

I was checking the Miami Herald today, mainly because I like the sharp shooting pains in my eyes that reading the comments gives me. Everybody is always complaining that the newspaper "blows these storms up" and "whips everybody into a frenzy". Really? Do you expect the paper of NEWS to not write about a hurricane that's about to touch the state and bring torrential rain? There was nothing frenzy-whipping about the article, and if you were whipped into a frenzy by it, you might want to seek help. I also read this great comment:

Where are all the pinko-liberals saying that Bush created this hurricane, or that this hurricane is a product of global warming?

Posted by: cao88c

Uhhhh...maybe they aren't around right now because 3 or 4 of those people actually exist? Bush created this hurricane? How many actual people capable of cogent thought actually believe that? Because some guy posted it once as a comment on a DailyKos article or something? But hey, keep up with your patriotic defense of 'Murrica. I also hate when people ask, "well, where were all of the hurricanes last year that they warned us about?". Are you serious?!!?! TWO Category 5 hurricanes hit Mexico, one of which probably would have wiped South Florida off of the map. You got lucky, not deceived. When Katrina hit New Orleans, the refugees were, from most accounts, largely victims who were unable to get out of the city. When a big hurricane hits Florida (and not rural Florida like Andew did), I would imagine that most of the refugees are going to be victims of arrogance and idiocy.

And please, spare me the "you don't know what hurricanes can do, they are terrible, you are a moron!" stuff. I don't care. Really, I don't. If I were making an analogy about how little I care I would quit halfway through due to a lack of interest. Mainly because I don't care.

But in the mean time, make it rain, Fay!

Comments

[Newman]

Sweet, my hand looks like balls in the picture.

[Vandelay]

You're just mad that you have to work.

Sweet, my hand looks like balls in the picture.

It looks like an ass. A pretty nice one too.

[phil]

Yeah, that hurricane is like a fetus out there...

[jackie]

"It looks like an ass. A pretty nice one too."

Well?

[Assman]

That F Major symphony is almost as catchy as a Billy Joel song.

The one with the ak-ak-ak business in it.

[puddy]

C'mon assmann, you outta know by now.

[Dr. Tim Whatley]

I'm not only disappointed with the fart in the wind we're calling "Fay", but that I only see one Cadillac on the road in your picture.

My previous mental image of South Florida is in the shitter now.

[Assman]

I'm not only disappointed with the fart in the wind we're calling "Fay", but that I only see one Cadillac on the road in your picture.

I'd let a Chinese Olympian fart in my mouth if it guaranteed that little traffic on my way to work.

[Newman]

You were thinking what I'm thinking Assman. I just came to note how sparse the traffic was on the way home. It was awesome, even though was like driving through an interstate canal.

[Jack Klompus]

"Uhhhh...maybe they aren't around right now because 3 or 4 of those people actually exist? Bush created this hurricane? How many actual people capable of cogent thought actually believe that? Because some guy posted it once as a comment on a DailyKos article or something?"

I think there were more than just "one guy at DailyKos." Try a Google search and you'll see. Now, certainly none of these people are cogent thinkers. But many were given a much bigger podium than a blog comments section. And let's not pretend for a second that swarms of global warming activists weren't making the connections between Bush's environmental policies and Hurricane Katrina.

[Newman]

Well, the Global Warming thing causing hurricanes is an entirely different argument, that someone with rational thought can make. But you are correct that there are many, many more idiots that just spout that viewpoint off than I alluded to. I guess it just depends on where you live...down here, it usually goes the other way. I think the idiocy tended more to the left when I was in Pittsburgh.