Good to hear!

Nice!

I'll raise a glass and toast to that. :D

On a somewhat related note,

When a while ago there were constant hurricanes, it was said that the global warming is causing them.
Then there was a period when no hurricanes happened for several years. It was said that the global warming caused them to go away.
Now that the hurricanes are back, the explanation is that of global warming.

There seem to be two distinct climate changes.

1. The climate change as an ongoing planetary process.
2. The climate change as a political buzzword for when you want to blame something on your opponents.
Good to see that you are safe and have the Internet.

Global Warming and Climate Change are too different, even if related, issues - and have been separate as terms for ages in any of the actual debate among experts. Global Warming is one of the drivers of Climate Change. The two share a cause and effect relationship. So again - they are different processes. In turn the CO2 released by our civilisations are a major driver of Global Warming.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988. 29 years ago. It never was called Intergovernmental Panel on Global Warming. By the time the IPCC was seen as necessary Climate Change was already highlighted in scientific debate as something we really, really, ought to look at and act on - otherwise, no international organisation would ever have been formed.

These concepts were highlighted and clear to anyone caring to listen - I certainly learned about them in school all the way back over 30 years ago.

Glad to hear it Elmofongo. Glad you have power too.

The track just changed again (5 p.m. EST) so that it is going to come up the middle of Florida and into Georgia. They are so useless. They can't 't predict these things at all. The 2 p.m. EST track had it barely making landfall in South Florida by Miami and then heading back into the Atlantic Ocean around Cape Canaveral and making landfall on the Georgia/South Carolina border as its final landfall.

The only real thing known is that come 8 p.m. Sunday I should start to feel it and by 2 a.m. Monday I will be in the sh*t and by 8 a.m. Monday it will have moved on to North Florida.

That is if it makes landfall in Florida at all.

As it stands now - and for the whole time so far for Irma - the hurricane winds extend 60 miles out from the eye. Considering the storm is 700 miles in diameter, I am going to have to have the eye pass on top of me to get the Cat 3 that may hit in my area. If the eye is 20 miles away from my house I get a Cat 2, and 40 would be Cat 1.

If anyone was worried, Richard Branson is okay. :P

Lunatic. XD

I am suffering the aftermath, right now lots of places, incluning my house, has no power (I am running on a Power Generator and I assume most places here aswell) and my house has no water in the pipes so no shower and toilet.

But really I am glad I did not suffer 180+ mph winds and thunderstorms and flooding in my house.

So where do you do a shit?

Glad you're ok! :)

Good, I was worried.

I'm sitting here watching Big Cat Rescue get ready:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyCdaqog3E4

Very happy to hear you're fine. :)

Edit: Well, excluding the inability to take a dump, that is.

Hurricane Irma. Female.

Why is anyone surprised it can't make up it's mind and men have no clue what it's going to do from one hour to the next?

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To everyone in Irma's path (and that could be the entire east coast), stay safe and pray like hell.