A tropical storm churning in the Gulf of Mexico could reach hurricane strength and is expected to begin moving north toward Florida and the southeastern U.S. in the coming days.
Forecasters say the system, known as Tropical Storm Idalia, could intensify in the warm Gulf of Mexico waters and has the potential to clobber western Florida and the Panhandle with severe weather starting on Tuesday.
"If you're anywhere along the western Florida peninsula - so let's say from about Fort Myers northward to the Panhandle (that's about a 300+ mile area) - you really got to be paying attention, even if you're outside of the cone," National Hurricane Center deputy director Jamie Rhome said in a video briefing. It should reach us overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday. The grocery stores are gonna be fuckin' insane today and tomorrow.
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This is even worse than that bridge
that goes over to East Fuckthatistan...
You all may or may not know that I have a deathly fear of high bridges that borders on a psychosis. I tend to notice shit like this when I come across it, and just looking at pictures of this thing gives me the fuckin' Willies.
This is the worlds highest bridge, The Duge Bridge - it's also called the Beipanjiang Bridge. It's a four-lane cable-stayed bridge on the border between the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan in China.
As of now, the bridge is the highest in the world, with the road deck sitting over 1,854 ft (that's about 1/3 of a fuckin' mile) above the Beipan River.
If I was was on one side of the bridge and that whole side was on fire, I'd still have a hard time crossing that. They'd have to drug me heavily and put me in the trunk of the car. Juss' sayin'...
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Two people dressed in dark colors and wearing masks dart into a busy street on a hill in San Francisco. One of them hauls a big orange traffic cone. They sprint toward a driverless car and quickly set the cone on the hood. The vehicle's side lights burst on and start flashing orange. And then, it sits there immobile.
"All right, looks good," one of them says after making sure no one is inside. "Let's get out of here." They hop on e-bikes and pedal off. All it takes to render the technology-packed self-driving car inoperable is a traffic cone. If all goes according to plan, it will stay there, frozen, until someone comes and removes it. That's friggin' hilarious.
Here's a pretty funny report on the group:
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/autonomous-vehicles-activists-hit-sf-streets-orange-cones-thwart-robotaxis-cruise-waymo/
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This is another pretty funny article about some of the ethical issues created by these driveless cars in 'Frisco:
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might be a little hard to deal with.
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When pleasing the eye was as important as function.
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Does your little Irish angel deserve a treat?
Click on the picture for more information on this bracelet.
If you like it grab it because there's only one left...
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This picture tells you everything you need to know about the old farts that move here. There's no way that person is a native Floridian. When they move down here from Wisconsin or where-ever-the-fuck they come from in the mid-west, they leave their brains back home. I swear to god these people are the worst fuckin' drivers I have ever encountered, and I lived in the Virgin Islands for ten years ferfucksake. Having been born and raised in New Jersey, I thought I'd seen some moves in my day, but these motherfuckers'll kill ya without blinking - and I mean that pun intentionally.
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I'd much rather put up with the snow and cold here in western ny than the storms you get down there
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Bridges are just roads without dirt underneath. Heard years back the Sunshine Skyway Bridge on the Gulf side of Florida (old roadway was blown up in True Lies) used to have a "counselor hut" because some folks "locked up" halfway across.
ReplyDeleteThe old Grace Memorial bridge in Charleston was kinda scary too. Built in 29 modern cars couldn't go across side by side & riding a motorcycle across was white knuckle hell. I did take a drunken bet to ride a skateboard down it, I won but got a speeding ticket.
DeleteSomeone needs to come up with a big orange cone that can shut down all government.
ReplyDeleteJJ Cale was great, but he was a different Artis than John Cale of Velvet Underground.
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Brain fart
DeleteSo, you are Actually gonna be in the Shit,, you Live in Number Two..
ReplyDeletewith the road deck sitting over 1,854 ft (that's about 1/3 of a fuckin' mile)
If I'm falling to my death, I Want enough time to scream more than once.
Yeah, seems making things nice is just too expensive now.
I see that as a downhill spiral. The younger generations don't Get to experience living in a prosperous society. The insidious effects, the psychological impact of that forms their expectations. The topic could be a dissertation. America is so screwed up, it's so wrong to just be a boy, and be a man, I'm surprised the schools can field a team.
Sorry,, was a rough night. I could erase that, but I mean it, so, if it's just too much, I apologize.
That pix of the car in the wrong lane in Florida just reminds me of when I have driven down there. Going on the freeways in Miami area is always one time you have to be clearly awake as you can be behind a car doing 70 and it moves a lane and some oldster is doing 50 at most. I have also seen them enter and turn in the wrong ways on the side streets.
ReplyDeleteIn the Velvet Underground you can hear their influence on a lot of bands over the years....that strutting rhythm on White Lightning can be heard on both the Allman Bros. and bands like Bloodrock and later Styx....in the late 60's people were still into the bubble gum and psychedelia of Lennon/McCartney and the basic, gutty blues of the Stones along with the meaty sounds of Cream.....then came Hendrix, but that's another story....these guys were truly innovative for the time and along with Pink Floyd may have comprised some of the most original sounds of the decade....thanks, Joe....hadn't listened to this stuff in a long time....my reference to the Beatles wasn't meant as a slight....in fact, I thought Abbey Road was perhaps their finest achievement, as it told the world that, hey, we can still play good ol' rock n roll...
ReplyDeleteThose three butts bounce in perfect rhythm to the finale....
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