Does not look good, folks.
Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic tropical storm in almost a decade, was gearing up Monday to deliver a potentially devastating blow to the Caribbean as wary U.S. authorities began preparing for a possible landfall on the Atlantic Coast late in the week.
Well before its expected arrival late Monday or early Tuesday, Matthew was already pouring torrential rain on Haiti, where “staggering rainfall totals are possible,” said Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center.
Stay safe, everybody. It’s been a while since we had this kind of a whammy: so take it seriously, OK? Or at least don’t do anything dumb.
One of the reasons I live in the PNW…
*stage whisper*
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Cascadia Subduction Zone
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/whisper
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Yeah, I’m in the PNW .. mostly because Chicago winters were literally killing me.
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Mew
Dude, I grew up in SoCal and have been thru several large-scale quakes…I’d just rather take my chances with an infrequent event than one that happens regularly.
Dude.
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Right there with you on taking my chances .. but unless you want to be overrun with fleeing Chicagoans, play up the earthquakes-are-bad a little, huh?
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Mew
Oh…oh yeah. Earthquakes bad, folks! Very very bad!!