Anyone morbidly get excited about September?

L31mr0d · 2006-08-18 21:42:52

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…

18-08-2006 10:42PM

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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.

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#2 18-08-2006 10:43PM

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Get a hobby.

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#3 18-08-2006 10:44PM

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I never did like Prison break...

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#4 18-08-2006 10:45PM

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Its nearly September? Stupid calendar! :mad:

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#5 18-08-2006 10:53PM

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

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#6 18-08-2006 10:56PM

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Endurance Man wrote:

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

Agreed, get something to do instead

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#7 18-08-2006 11:01PM

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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.

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#8 18-08-2006 11:03PM

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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.

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#9 18-08-2006 11:05PM

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Another "exciting" thread?

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#10 18-08-2006 11:07PM

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

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#11 18-08-2006 11:08PM

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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.

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#12 18-08-2006 11:25PM

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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.

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#13 18-08-2006 11:26PM

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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 .

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#14 18-08-2006 11:31PM

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

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#15 18-08-2006 11:36PM

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

While I'm at it, I might as well pimp my own socio-political-totalitarian agenda
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#16 18-08-2006 11:54PM

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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.

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#17 19-08-2006 12:12AM

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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).

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#18 19-08-2006 12:24AM

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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

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#19 19-08-2006 12:49AM

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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?

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#20 19-08-2006 12:50AM

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God 2007 is only 3 1/2 months away

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#21 19-08-2006 01:39AM

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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.

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#22 19-08-2006 01:48AM

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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.

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#23 19-08-2006 08:06AM

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stepbar wrote:

God 2007 is only 3 1/2 months away

4 1/2 months

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Ruu wrote:

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

That's enough out of you.

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#25 19-08-2006 09:14AM

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

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#26 19-08-2006 09:27AM

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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!

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#27 19-08-2006 09:30AM

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So ever closer to 30.

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#28 19-08-2006 09:47AM

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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.

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#29 19-08-2006 09:54AM

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JaysusMacfeck wrote:

So ever closer to 30.

Shush now.

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#30 19-08-2006 11:43AM

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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.

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#31 19-08-2006 12:18PM

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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'?

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