Mohtalim

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2004 2:14 pm**

hurrycaine!

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2004 2:21 pm**

again?

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:19 pm**

heh, and vinny says he'd rather live there than deal with the rare earthquake out here. Hell, I've barely seen a drop of rain since I've been here. The worst I have to deal with is waiting for the fog layer to burn off some mornings to see the sun..

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:23 pm**

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:24 pm**

It's coming for you dave!!!

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:51 pm**

oh noes! help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

no one is getting *any* work done today at work, everyone is trying to locate stuff to protect their house (wood, tape, etc) or figurouing how to get out of here. I am probably going to stay put since I've never been through one before.

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:57 pm**

When pluralizing 'no', it is extremely important to use the 'es' suffix, or else you would be grammatically incorrect.

My in-laws are visiting tomorrow to "escape the hurricane."

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:32 pm**

I think we ought to save money by replaceing all the homes and businesses in Florida with single-story windowless concrete bunkers. Actually, I'm suprised Florida residents can still buy homeowner's insurance for anything else.

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:45 pm**

Maybe that's why there are no windows where dave works? He'll propbably be safer working through the storm than taking the day off.

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:41 am**

George wrote:I think we ought to save money by replaceing all the homes and businesses in Florida with single-story windowless concrete bunkers. Actually, I'm suprised Florida residents can still buy homeowner's insurance for anything else.

That wouldn't work. Pretty much all the soil in Florida is sandy, so a concrete house would just sink.

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:58 am**

or fall into a sink hole since parts of FL have lots of limestone in the bedrock.

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2004 12:50 pm**

Jason wrote:That wouldn't work. Pretty much all the soil in Florida is sandy, so a concrete house would just sink.

That's even better. Houses below ground level would be far less prone to hurricane damage.

Yes, I know where Florida's water table is and why concrete buildings, even underground wouldn't actually work, but it seems like there should be a better solution than multi-billion dollar reconstruction every few years.

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:39 pm**

waterproofed concrete with stabilizer wings that go out underground for a hundred feet or so to slow/prevent sinking. Plant lawns on top of the stabillizers for a valued concrete bunker.

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:37 pm**

you are all looking at it wrong. as a meche I pride myself in unique out of the box solution to troubling problems such as this.

we need to build a Great Wall.

and put it on wheels to move up and down the coast.

or better yet. a Great Turbine. and drop it inside the Hurricane.

Posted: **Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:38 pm**

Dave wrote:we need to build a Great Wall.

That's the Chinese solution to everything.

Posted: **Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:55 pm**

George wrote:
Dave wrote:we need to build a Great Wall.
That's the Chinese solution to everything.

Dave's black, so it makes sense.

Posted: **Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:57 pm**

I like how the pictures I posted keep being updated. It really shows the storm edging towards dave...

Posted: **Fri Sep 03, 2004 5:58 pm**

Oh, and watching the storm makes me think of Day After Tomorrow some...

Posted: **Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:56 pm**

I bought a shovel and dug a hole so i can burymyself up to my neck. im sure that is a safe plan.

Posted: **Fri Sep 03, 2004 9:25 pm**

Next time, outsource the digging to an indian so you can just buy the hole.

Mohtalim

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