Anyone morbidly get excited about September?

L31mr0d

I dunno, its like the fireworks in town or something, but coming up to September and the impending Hurrican Season in the States means that the news is going to get more interesting and unpredictable for a few weeks. For the last 3 years there have been more and more huge hurricanes forming in the atlantic and hitting America, and even though the predictions are for a quieter season this year around i'm guessing there will be another one or two major events and surprises.

Its like waiting for a new TV season to start up again, all the questions: Will the wind speeds beat last years, have they protected new orleans enough, how badly hit will florida get this year, how many will there be.. all this and more will be answered next "Hurricane" Season. Beats the likes of "Prison Break" if you ask me.

Get a hobby.

TerrorFirmer

I never did like Prison break...

Ruu_Old

Its nearly September? Stupid calendar! :mad:

Endurance Man

How on earth does someone get excited about the news, thats slightly sick tbh....

iFight

Endurance Man wrote:

How on earth does someone get excited about the news, thats slightly sick tbh....

Agreed, get something to do instead

Ruu_Old

Endurance Man wrote:

How on earth does someone get excited about the news, thats slightly sick tbh....

Hold on, the prospect of seeing Anne Doyle could be exciting.

L31mr0d

Endurance Man wrote:

How on earth does someone get excited about the news, thats slightly sick tbh....

Eh... How many times have you seen lightning and stopped to look at it, or heard about the hundreds of people who chase tornados or have set up companies to bring tourists to see the tornados because they are so interested in it. Its not the news i'm interested in, its the hurricanes, which, frankly, a lot of people are also.

Black Swan

Another "exciting" thread?

Mossy Monk

news about destruction is not what i would count as exciting. but the return of Prison Break this Monday is

eiretamicha

Uh, it's been hurricane season here for quite some time now, sweetie. And there's nothing exciting about it when you've lost a house or a family member. Some people truly need to use their brains before posting stupid crap like this.

L31mr0d

Ok... I don't find lightning, tornados, hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc interesting or exciting because people have died from them. You can be in awe of somethings power and excited about witnessing it without being disrespectfull to those who have lost homes or family members because of it. There are many things that have caused people to lose their lives, Guns for example, which people get excited about using. Does that mean by firing a Gun and enjoying it, the person is instantly being disrespectful to all the people who died by it?

and, I know when the Hurricane season starts and ends in the states, but the major hurricanes only start happening around September.

Endurance Man

L31mr0d wrote:

Eh... How many times have you seen lightning and stopped to look at it, or heard about the hundreds of people who chase tornados or have set up companies to bring tourists to see the tornados because they are so interested in it. Its not the news i'm interested in, its the hurricanes, which, frankly, a lot of people are also.

Hmmm, well im from SA so lighting aint really anything special. Hurricanes a hurricane, think those people who chase them have one to many screws loose .

Gone West

actually yes.
There will be some serious surf in Ireland during this time because of that, partly


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FuzzyLogic wrote:

actually yes.
There will be some serious surf in Ireland during this time because of that, partly


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InFront

No, September still conjures up feelings of the end of the Summer, going back to school, cycling out in the morning with rain and leaves on the road and homework in the evenings. I'll never love September.

ST*

L31mr0d wrote:

I dunno, its like the fireworks in town or something, but coming up to September

I have to say I love watching anything to do with hurricanes and thunderstorms. Storm chasers become so excited about these things because they have studied them for so long. I think it is pretty courageous on their part.

(Weather forum tbh though).

Mossy Monk

InFront wrote:

No, September still conjures up feelings of the end of the Summer, going back to school, cycling out in the morning with rain and leaves on the road and homework in the evenings. I'll never love September.

it is when it hits October, then the party begins

L31mr0d

ST* wrote:

I have to say I love watching anything to do with hurricanes and thunderstorms. Storm chasers become so excited about these things because they have studied them for so long. I think it is pretty courageous on their part.

(Weather forum tbh though).

Aye... maybe the weather forum would get more of a response. One of my goals is to actually do the whole tornado chasing thing. They are so frequent in certain parts of the states you can just book to go chasing for a week and nearly be guaranteed to see one. I think growing up in Ireland where the weather is always *meh* I get drawn to places that experience the severe extremes of the weather. I spent a winter in Saskatchewan on the prairies, and I found the -50'c cold and the 20ft snowdrifts amazing, although the locals hated that time of year... I guess its all about perspective?

stepbar

God 2007 is only 3 1/2 months away

ST*

L31mr0d wrote:

I guess its all about perspective?

I think it is down to the individual themselves. It is because the Irish don't experience weather conditions like the countries that fall victim to such extremities, that causes the 'meh' attitude - as you put it.

Whenever I find something about it on TV, I'm glued. It makes you realise how lucky you are.

junkyard

I have to say I like extremes of weather too, there's nothing worse than a grey wet winter as far as I'm concerned, I like a bit of everything, from storms to snow and fine frosty weather too.

Vokes

stepbar wrote:

God 2007 is only 3 1/2 months away

4 1/2 months

Rhyme

Ruu wrote:

Hold on, the prospect of seeing Anne Doyle could be exciting.

That's enough out of you.

JaysusMacfeck

Perhaps the weather could do us all a favour and wipe every Irish person off the island. Leave this useless rock to our neighbors.

Huggles

jaysis, I'm very disappointd. I thought this thread was going to be about leaves falling, the rain and in gerneral the weather cooling down, making you appreciate coming in from work all the more.

PLUS!!! My 26th birthday is in September! Whoo!

JaysusMacfeck

So ever closer to 30.

lodgepole

eiretamicha wrote:

Uh, it's been hurricane season here for quite some time now, sweetie. And there's nothing exciting about it when you've lost a house or a family member. Some people truly need to use their brains before posting stupid crap like this.

I spent some time in Tampa in 2005 just before hurricane season and seeing people doing the final repairs to their houses with only a few weeks to enjoy in them didn't make me get that excited about the upcoming weather reports.

Huggles

JaysusMacfeck wrote:

So ever closer to 30.

Shush now.

L31mr0d

Lodgepole wrote:

I spent some time in Tampa in 2005 just before hurricane season and seeing people doing the final repairs to their houses with only a few weeks to enjoy in them didn't make me get that excited about the upcoming weather reports.

I don't understand the logic in that, I mean I would not live in the path of a hurricane just as much as I would not live at the base of an active volcano or on a fault line. What I don't understand also is that they continue to build their houses out of wood... haven't they read the story about the 3 little piggies? Plus this bout of extreme hurricanes is supposed to last for the next 20 years, I don't care how sunny it is in florida, 20 years of constant devastating hurricanes every september is reason enough to move inland.

The Sweeper

L31mr0d wrote:

I don't understand the logic in that, I mean I would not live in the path of a hurricane just as much as I would not live at the base of an active volcano or on a fault line. What I don't understand also is that they continue to build their houses out of wood... haven't they read the story about the 3 little piggies? Plus this bout of extreme hurricanes is supposed to last for the next 20 years, I don't care how sunny it is in florida, 20 years of constant devastating hurricanes every september is reason enough to move inland.

Yep... but eh, would you buy their house? So they've an unsellable property in the middle of the hurricane coast, with the next season a few weeks away - a property on which they probably still owe mortgage money.

Do you understand the concept of 'nowhere else to go'?

L31mr0d

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

Do you understand the concept of 'nowhere else to go'?

If it came down to worrying about a mortgage or worrying about the life of my family... then there is always somewhere else to go. I was watching a program on the National Geographic last night about the atitude of people who live in the path of a hurricane, it said that they could warn the people months in advance and they would still leave it until the exact last minute to do anything about, the've grown up dealing with hurricanes and surviving them so they don't fear them like we would. They said the only option is not to relocate the people, as they won't move, but to develop technologies to dissipate the hurricanes before it hits land by using stuff like this

boneless

I don't want September to come... I'll be 40 then and even more depressed than I am now...

eamoss

Not really excited about September

Im turing 19 and im leaving home for the 1st time to go off to college. Dont know y im not excited! :eek:

boneless

eamoss wrote:

Not really excited about September

Im turing 19 and im leaving home for the 1st time to go off to college. Dont know y im not excited! :eek:

That's another of us... we should form a club!!!

Pigman II

I like the start of every month, not just September but not just for the reasons you list.

I'm quite satisfied with a culling at any time of the year and take it as welcome surprise.

Ruu_Old

September always reminded me that school was going to start, that and seeing "Back to School sale!" on every shop window. *cowers in corner*

eiretamicha

L31mr0d wrote:

If it came down to worrying about a mortgage or worrying about the life of my family... then there is always somewhere else to go.

And that's where you're wrong. You think everybody in Florida has a mortgage? Jesus, whooo hoooo we're all rich! Yay! :rolleyes: The people that do have a house and mortgage can't simply up and leave their house when it doesn't sell. They just can't afford it. Where are they to go? What if they have no other family? Hotels cost money and shelters can only hold so many people...and are very temporary--and even then there's cost of living...which people have no money for if they've left their house (without selling it) and their jobs.

It costs money to go anywhere. Lots of money. And many people here simply don't have it. Bad enough my husband and I are stuck in this hell-hole til May. We'd be outta here much sooner if we had the means.

Ruu_Old

Also try getting your house insured in Florida or anywhere on the Gulf coast for that matter, I was watching a documentary a few days ago and there were a number of insurance companies refusing to do so(sure they are a business and need to make money, but still sad).

Wertz

InFront wrote:

No, September still conjures up feelings of the end of the Summer, going back to school, cycling out in the morning with rain and leaves on the road and homework in the evenings. I'll never love September.

Agreed 101%.

I loathe this time of year....the evenings getting noticably darker, weather turning sh*tty, memories of back-to-school, christmas around the corner....euugh.

However, I too enjoy watching for hurricanes on the NOOA site. Weather is fascinating, especially when it's happening way the f*ck away from here.

bluewolf wrote:

Get a hobby.

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Another "exciting" thread?

:rolleyes:

Let's see you two come up with something then....or are you too busy trying to find fault with current threads?