Here on Long Island, Tropical Storm (nee Hurricane) Isabel has been causing some fairly high winds to blow, but otherwise the weather doesn’t suck too badly. Actually, I kind of liked Jon Stewart’s
COMMENT: “A hurricane. After everything we’ve been through in the past two years, we say: Bring it on, bìŧçh. We’re looking forward to it. It’ll wash the anthrax off everything. New York: Come for the anthrax, stay for the hurricane.”
Why? What did *you* think the subject header was about?
PAD
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Is it just me, or is Stewart getting better and better every night? I’ve actually laughed so hard this week I teared up.
I thought it was another reference to talk like a pirate day.
ho ho – blow the man down
I’m sure there is another interpretation in that as well.
im married, so i can honestly say i have no idea what the title meant.
Even a Gentleman Pervert like me could recognize the excessive innuendo of the subject header. Too obvious to be what it was.
As a fellow Long Islander, I was also underwhelmed by the weather following the warnings about flooding, power outages, and massive winds. We had a little rain and some gusty wind. Still, better to have wrong weather reports than horrendous weather.
I am in NC and and the eye of Hurricane Isabel passed very close to me. Our area did very well due to a lot of preparation. We we hammered by Floyd and the resulting floods four years ago so we don’t take these things lightly. I am back at my desk this morning thankful I didn’t have to row to work.
I don’t know much about this hurricane business, but I know there’s been some crazy weather up here by Albany today. We’ve had wind, clouds, sun and seemingly three different types of rain.
We also got some dire portents here in Philadelphia from the local weather folk. Sure, it got a little nasty for a bit, but on the whole it was a bit underwhelming, considering the pounding we took from Floyd a couple years back.
I will agree with the poster who said better to be warned and have it not happen. Like Jack Marlowe said in Wildcats: better to have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it…
JLK
Glad Isabel isn’t hitting you too strongly.
And yes, Stewart has been amazingly on this week. Living in CA, I especially liked some of his comments on the recall. (Okay, “I’ll say it again — do they think we’re retarded?” was the runaway winner, but lots of the others were good too.)
TWL
we heard reports of 24 deaths so far. the one that made me go wtf was the canoe death. i mean wtf?
‘honey, i think i’ll go canoe during this hurricane’
i’m from all over north carolina, I have to say i found isabel a great disappointment… two days of moving boats offshore and we didn’t even lose a shingle…of course it was kinda fun offshore…
Ra!
PD: “What did *you* think the subject header was about?”
Leaf blowers. Like, duh.
Well, here in Georgia, we’ve had quite possibly the best weather we’ve had in a long time. Near zero humidity, which is pretty uncommon.
Do we have Isabel to thank for that?
Bobby
Bobby Nash
Writer @ Large
John Stewart rocks! does he know how to handle that power ring or what? Hal who? Guy who? yeah boy!!!
….you guys do know i’m joking, right?
saw him live back in March. funny guy. he IS The Daily Show.
With hurricanes it depends on where you are. Isabel was rather serious here where I am in eastern NC. The population is very low around here and people were prepared, so it may not sound impressive in death toll or cost of the damage.
The storm came right over us. The newspaper said there were sustained winds of 95mph with higher gusts here. 75% of our county didn’t have power as of last night. Many neighboring counties have NO power at all. Huge trees are down everywhere. We’ve never had a mess like this, not with Floyd or the legendary Hazel.
I enjoy hurricanes normally but this one was a little less fun. This time I know we were just very, very lucky so few people were killed amid all this damage.
Where in North Carolina were you that you didn’t get decimated by Hazel? Were you here at the time and if you don’t mind my asking how old were you?
No offense, but Hazel’s winds were far nastier than Isabel’s could dream of being, and if i may be so bold, the damage in the Hazel may not have been as bad due to the fact there was less to damage, but not from the storm itself…
Blows and doesn’t suck? What did I think it was about? Given the discussion over the last month or so, I thought it was about the “Fallen Angel” controversy.
Isabel has been terrible where I live, which is Richmond Virginia. Over 94% the local power company’s customers lost power. That’s a little over one million families. Personally I was with out power from Thursday to Sunday, and I know many more that won’t have power till the middle of the week. Also the Water Plants have been shut down due to Isabel. So everybody has been having to boil water to brush teeth and bath or drink.
It’s really been an eye opener to how dependant society is on modern technology.
My wife is due in her pregnancy tomorrow. We just knew that we were having our baby during this mess.
I know Hazel was stronger. I did not mean it was a lesser storm, just did less damage around my area. I wasn’t around then, but older people I know say that right here it did less damage. My point was that storms impact places differently and that here the storm was hardly disappointing. Sorry if I didn’t make myself clear before.
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