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Pffft, I'm about to get owned by Bonnie and Charlie.  

Quote from: Eli_1 on August 11, 2004, 09:38 PM
Pffft, I'm about to get owned by Bonnie and Charlie.  

Hopefully, you won't have any leaky windows.  It turns out that those aren't so fun in a hurricane.

Quote from: Eli_1 on August 11, 2004, 09:38 PM
Pffft, I'm about to get owned by Bonnie and Charlie.  

I am getting owned as we speak. This sucks, the only bright side is no school!

How about some pictures? Our storms in Wales, UK are rubbish. I'd especially like to see some from Grok when you were in the navy when at sea. Thanks.

Quote from: Meh on August 13, 2004, 02:05 PM
How about some pictures? Our storms in Wales, UK are rubbish. I'd especially like to see some from Grok when you were in the navy when at sea. Thanks.

Gladly!  Here is a picture of what it looks like at night, in the middle of the Atlantic, during a  heavy storm:

Very interesting. Its amazing how the blacknesss blends the rain and clouds in so much.

How high do the waves out there get?

So dark.... very scary.

Stupid Charley didnt even hit us. Got my hopes all up for a storm.

Quote from: Grok on August 13, 2004, 04:01 PM
Gladly!  Here is a picture of what it looks like at night, in the middle of the Atlantic, during a  heavy storm:

No thunderstorm? Post one with some nice lightning!

Quote from: Adron on August 14, 2004, 11:25 AM

Quote from: Grok on August 13, 2004, 04:01 PM
Gladly!  Here is a picture of what it looks like at night, in the middle of the Atlantic, during a  heavy storm:

No thunderstorm? Post one with some nice lightning!

Thats what I was hoping for, rather than an MSPaint black fill.

Just saw this one posted on another forum:

Quote from: Adron on August 14, 2004, 11:25 AM

Quote from: Grok on August 13, 2004, 04:01 PM
Gladly!  Here is a picture of what it looks like at night, in the middle of the Atlantic, during a  heavy storm:

No thunderstorm? Post one with some nice lightning!

No one goes on the weatherdeck during those big ocean storms.  The waves are so high they crash down on top of the carrier, bringing tons of salty seawater onto our airplanes.  Such a pain to clean them after crossing the Atlantic.

There are no city lights to light up the sky on any horizon.  The clouds totally block out all light.  We literally cannot see our hand three inches in front of our face without a flashlight.

All white lights are banned, under certain conditions.  We are only allowed to use red or blue lights.  Green tends to have too much white in it.  The lens flashlights protect the watchman's eyes from white light, which blinds him from seeing infrared.

Humans can naturally see infrared through their peripheral vision.  This is why white lights are banned from topside when going through straights, such as Gibralter and the Suez Canal.

You call those storms? Want to see some photos of the Category 4 Hurricane Charley that just pummeled Southwest Florida near Boca Grande?

Check out the slideshows on there, then tell me if you think a bad storm will do.

We barely got hit by Charley, it seemed like a regular thunderstorm without the thunder. Well, maybe it did thunder, I had been up for 23 hours+was at a laserquest lockin all night and when I got home at 6:30AM I slept for 11.5 hours so I missed it all. Was this worse than Isabel? I know it put my area out of power for about 13 days.