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We would be 6 – 0 if we had a freaking KICKER! I’m 62 and I can still kick better than that!!!
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DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Smarter than the average bear
AT, you’re beginning to sound like a politician. Should you change your handle to waffle cone? Raise a toast to 5 -1, 2 – 0 and top of the division. C’mon, give it a try.
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Sunrise at 6:50, I’m not taking a line on whether or not I see it. At 62 I figure everyday past 60 is gravy. YMMV. And Mac, NB 576s would be VERY hard to find. If we win I’ll shoot you an old pair of NBs (number unknown) for you to munch on. They are one of my pairs for work shoes but I could spare ’em for that.
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Roo, just to be clear Hazel did an additional 3.6 billion (today’s dollars) in Canada. The listings there put Donna and Diane above Hazel but most of their destruction was outside NC. Donna’s primary target was FL, and Diane hit CT really hard. Also in terms of cost most hurricanes that produce tremendous flooding results in greater monetary loss. That is why Katrina is #2.
To you Fran was the worst. Growing up 20 miles from where Hazel made landfall, and being old enough to remember Donna, everyone I knew said Donna was nothing, but she had done her damage in FL, nearly wiping out a great deal of the citrus crops. Diane had her high rank from the massive flooding in the populous areas in New England. Again, it’s where you are that shapes your perception. Fran’s furry looked like a war zone but her path was not as wide and the flooding was not as bad and still she came in pretty high in the list. Discount Donna’s and Diane’s cost attributed to other areas of the country and neither come close to Hazel in NC. FYI, I rode out Agnes in 1972 in a campground in upstate SC. We wound up sleeping in the van that night and it was freaky. Expected a tree to fall through at any moment. For all out fear though I’ve never heard thunder as loud or often as when David came ashore in 1979. At times I thought the roof may cave in.
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Stranger things have happened in this textile bowl. I remember a few years back the tiggers came into it looking like they would give us a whoppin before half time. They got embarrassed. Most of those kids are gone. From the beginning of this season the tiggers haven’t been as good as the prognosticators thought they would be. Are they good, Oh Yes. The best in the league and they have the record to prove it. But sometimes it takes more than the talent and the record to win a game, that’s why they play ’em. Here’s the point Mac, on paper we don’t have a chance, but we just beat a team that no one gave us a chance to beat. If lightning strikes two weeks in a row we could own the best record in the league. Maybe, just maybe, the kids are listening to those who tell them they have a chance to be great, and not to those that tell them they might as well pack it in this week. That is the difference between a coach and a fan. Until Roo’s massive diva belts out the ditty I’m sticking to “we have a chance”.
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Yep, I’m about as sick of that add as I am seeing PR not have a full team to be on. He’s done more with less than any QB I’ve ever known in the NFL in my lifetime. Andrew Luck is warming up in the wings for that title though.
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rye, both Fran and Floyd had different outcomes. Fran came slamming in head on and drove west. For those in it’s path My bet is they would disagree about “the big one”. That comes down to which affected you personally the most.
With Fran we were living in Norfolk but came down to help my wife’s family recover. From exit 79 on I-95 it usually took us 5 minutes to get to their house, that day it took almost 45 minutes due to downed trees and having to find alternate paths to get there. When we did we could not see their house from the road and it was set back about 100 feet. They had over 100 pine and oak trees down. It took them 11 days to get power back. Fran’s path resulted in much the same for those in it. It was estimated that over 500 tornadoes were spawned during that storm and recovery costs for CP&L were tremendous.
By the time Floyd came in we were living down here and there wasn’t much wind but the rain flooded farms and scores of cattle could not be saved and it single handedly wiped out hog farming as it once was in NC. The sewer ponds overflowed and were an ecological nightmare. Floyd’s flooding was pretty close to what we just experienced, it was just shifted from the coastal areas east and northeast of I-95 / I-40 to southeast of I-40 / west I-95. The common ground being the Neuse river basin near Princeton and Tarboro.
Hazel however combined Fran, Floyd, and Matthew. Category 4 when she hit, massive wind damage and flooding and loss of life and property. It was by all accounts THE BIG ONE. Imagine the beaches from Georgetown, SC to Sunset Beach, NC with only one structure, The Ocean Forest Hotel in Myrtle Beach, left standing. You could buy an acre of beachfront property for a grand (a nice car was about 2 grand). Today that same property for a 20 year lease (LEASE) is about 1 million and you either have to renegotiate or leave the building.
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If naught for a field goal we’d be 5-0 right now. If we played the pie rats right now my bet is we’d blow ’em off the field. Could we have won the ND game without Matthew, not sure, but then we’ll never know. Karma building from that game though could be huge. What I see is us having a much better chance today than we had 5 weeks ago. Could be they look past us and that could be a good thing for us.
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BOTB, Mule Days was 3 weeks ago. Had Matthew come in that weekend it would have really messed that up. Finally gott power back last night around 10. It took me actually getting a live person on the phone at Duke before things gott rolling and they came to fix it. Took ’em 1.5 hours to find it because they wouldn’t listen to those who heard the boom when the power went down. Sure enough it was a transformer right where we told ’em we heard the boom come from. Bucket truck shows up and 15 minutes later the power comes back on. Get a clue power people, sometimes the masses knows more than you think they do.
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Roo, just for the record, I HAD power for 7 hours yesterday from 1 pm till about 8 PM. I have been around the house all day and have not seen ONE, not ONE service vehicle no matter what the brand. As for DUKE I am thoroughly disgusted since I can get NO answers to why there seems to be NO PROGRESS to get my power back.
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Becton, the answer is probably yes since they are microprocessor controlled and anything with one of those inside could be hit by EMP.
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Well now mine is gone again. Blew out about an hour ago. fired up the Genny again. Oh well.
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Mine came back around 1330 (that’s 1:30 PM for you civilians). It did take a bit of instruction over the phone to make sure the wife understood what to do. While I’m certainly not going to front the money for one of those gouge your eyes out and wallet too Generac units I am considering a bit more juice, just in case. The difficulty with having hot water is something I need to overcome.
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Well I’ve been on generator since Saturday noon. We are hoping to get power back today. Phone and internet just came back up. I actually got a hot shower today by turning off just about every breaker except the water heater. If the power comes back today it will have beaten Fran by a week. That was brutal.
If you’d like a touch of irony here’s a story that’s hard to beat. My next door neighbor works for South River electric coop. He bought a 22KW generator through his work and it was delivered Wednesday. He had to get a code from Generac to fire it up after the gas company hook up LP for him on Friday. We worked most of the evening on Friday to get the wiring done and he was finishing it up Saturday as the storm was coming in. He fired it up and tried to get electrical output but nothing. Hidden way down in the documentation is one statement that only an authorized dealer has the code to allow the breaker to be shut. 22KW generator in place ready to go and could not use it at all. Yesterday he couldn’t get any dealer in the area to give him the code without them doing an inspection (at an additional cost of course) and next week was the soonest anyone would do it. I was standing beside him as he had this conversation. When he hung up he looked and me and said “it’s a good thing I couldn’t fire my gun at him through the phone cause he’d be dead right now”. I could feel his pain.
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Considering there were a lot of ND passes that weren’t well thrown I saw a lot of pretty darned good coverage. The secondary knocked quite a few away at very opportune times. Sorry AT but from my perspective the whole D played pretty well. In most games with a really sloppy field I have seen great receivers eat the secondary alive since they know where they’re going the the defenders don’t. I didn’t see many times yesterday where their receivers were wide open that much, and the coverage was what allowed the D line to put relentless pressure on their QB. And we could have made it really ugly if that TD pass wasn’t called back and we’d have stuffed it in from the 3. Both were bone head plays by the offense. From where I sit the D and Matthew won that game.
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Over 11 inches and counting, not in the dark but still on the generator but plenty to cheer. We beat the Irish and VT killed unx, showed them for the pretenders they are.
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10 freaking inches!!! Talking about the big 10 inch…Steven Tyler CLASSIC!
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YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
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State held. And I thought it was raining hard before. 20 minutes, another inch! Man I’m gonna need a boat pretty soon.
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Another inch of rain in the last half hour, up to 7.5. It’s a heck of a nice day…if you’re a duck! No signal from the satellite but hooray for the local antenna. It keeps fluttering but I can watch.
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Added ~300 more..got a total of $390 on the under 53.5 in Chapel Hill. Way more action than I typically do. Nails are gonna be bitten off.
Ummm…that’s a lock!!!
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Ummm 6.5 inches here since midnight. Power went poof with 3 minutes til kickoff. Luckily my Dish recorder is on battery backup so didn’t miss anything. My next door neighbor JUST completed installing a 22KW standby this week. I am SO eat up with envy. Oh well at least its not hot, I have a 5500 watt unit that is working well. just have to keep feeding it. That 22KW runs on LP so no having to refill it anytime soon since he has a BIG tank. Did I say I was green with envy>
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