Comments on: Tropical Update

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:22:51 +0000

The Katrina cottage designs are so much better than “manufactured houses” that it is a waste to buy the tacked together “double-wides”. The other problem with trailers is the overuse of formaldehyde resins that aren’t properly sealed. Not as bad as travel trailers, but still there.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:18:13 +0000

yabbut, for the same money, you can get either a smaller, well-built house or a larger, tacked-together trailer. i'd prefer smaller and better-made, but that doesn't seem to be the norm in the population at large. supersize me has been the norm for a long time now, in just about everything.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:09:35 +0000

Trailers are the worse concept there is for a hurricane zone. They should be banned. There are small houses that can fill the same niche, and are much stronger.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:44:58 +0000

i have to admit to a certain amount of fellow feeling here:

And mobile homes are smotherin’ my Keys
I hate those bastards so much
I wish a summer squall would blow them all
The way up to fantasy land
Yeah they’re ugly and square, they don’t belong here
They looked a lot better as beer cans

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:43:42 +0000

There are times over there when I get the impression they are rooting for the hurricanes.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:02:22 +0000

What I learned today ~~in school~~ on the WU site: “favorable wind shear” is one of those phrases like “HIV positive”; one has to wonder… “favorable” or “positive” for whom? 🙂

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:01:34 +0000

The letter indicates the ocean: L = AtLantic, E = Eastern Pacific, W = Western Pacific.

They have a habit of dropping the L because it is the main concern for the US.

updated: oh, yeah, it is prime time now, and these suckers can just leap up in a couple of hours, especially around the Yucatan.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:18:53 +0000

Wow. Two of the four came up on the WU site since I last looked, which was some time yesterday. I guess I’ll have to go to twice a day, or even more often.

A dumb question: why do some Invests have an L after the number and some don’t?