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best of luck. The track of the eye of the hurricane seems to be heading straight towards you.
If you are west of Springfield, there’ll be lots of rain.
What part of the Berkshires are you in?
Yes, prediction is the true miracle here. It is the true gift from heaven. We shouldn’t focus completely on the destruction and terror of this natural event, but on the bravery, tenacity and brilliance of the people who learned to predict hurricanes.
These days, only a handful of people die in each severe hurricane, many of them because they are doing something stupid, have ignored evacuation orders or are nobly trying to rescue people who did something stupid or ignored evacuation orders.
After the storm has passed, when you say a bracha for the safe survival of ALMOST everyone, don’t forget these heroes.
We had days to prepare for this hurricane. Charlie is almost right about the hurricane of 1938 – the only warning the Boston area had was when the hurricane hit Rhode Island. Then by extrapolating the landfall in Long Island and Rhode Island, they figured it was heading straight for Boston, giving them about an hour to prepare. That’s not even enough time to get the word out to the police force.
For many years following WWII, hurricane prediction was accomplished by having brave (perhaps crazy is a better word, except their insanity was so noble) pilots and flight crews fly into the eyes of the storms.
One good definition of a hero is one who runs into danger to help others while others are fleeing the same danger. Those aviators and meteorologists were true heroes who saved tens of thousands of lives, while risking their own.
what are we, primitives, who look at natural occurrences and the entrails of dead animals to divine the mood of the gods?
Or are we modern people with a mature relationship with our Creator, whom we can trust to guide us more clearly?
Irene is inevitable for the east coast. Enjoy the ride, stay inside and don’t do anything stupid. It’s dangerous out there.
or, in the form of the blessing that the rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof suggested for the Czar:
May the Lord bless and keep Hurricane Irene . . . . far away from us.
everything is deeply intertwingled.
– Ted Nelson
I know I have already quoted WS Gilbert once this week, but I the last comment makes me think of the Mikado, as Yum-Yum muses over her beauty:
Yum-Yum: Yes, I am indeed beautiful! Sometimes I sit and wonder, in my artless Japanese way, why it is that I am so much more attractive than anybody else in the whole world. Can this be vanity? No! Nature is lovely and rejoices in her loveliness. I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
please let me correct my words — what I really meant to say was that the events were independent events, no coincidences. The world was set in motion by HKBH with a complete set of physical laws. There’s a big earthquake in NY every century or so, there’s a big hurricane every decade or so. The universe seems to be exactly in order, as He planned it. The fact that that the two came in such proximity is coincidence.
please don’t take the title back now that I’ve earned it the old-fashioned way. I’ve been trying for two years.
The only thing better would be to have 600kilobear say, “Shaygetz, Aroys!”
First time I’ve been called an apikorus here. It’s my lucky day. Is it just a coincidence that it happened the day before a hurricane?
I do agree with Sam who is about to post something significant.
Focus on preparation for the extreme weather first, the on Shabbat. You need to preserve your life and the lives of others, lest you not enjoy another Shabbat.
Lt me clarify: the forces that are causing these phenomenon were set in force by the Creator of the Univesrse when he created the world. The fact that these two Natural events happen at the same week in the same place is neither rare or terribly surprisimg.
Pure coincidence.
Put some in your eyes. (ronrsr) [ I never swam in the ocean. Does it sting?]
depends on how salty it is. If it’s about the salinity of tears, it won’t hurt. If it’s much saltier, it will. Try swimming in the Dead Sea; it hurts.
You look pretty good for your age. I’ll let you decide if that’s best or worst.
Try evertek.com for surplus electronics.
Best bet (from experience): write your post out on a dry scrap of paper; place it in an empty bottle; cork the bottle; address it to: ywn att: coffeeroom; release the bottle in the flood waters; pray for delivery.
Good luck!
There is now a tropical storm watch for the berkshires of massachusetts.
Oh, please!
I am reminded of the admonition: Pray as if the world depended on Hashem, act as if the world depended on you.
Fidel Castro implemented a hurricane readiness program for Cuba, a country which has many more intense and more frequent hurricanes rhan here. They evacuate most of the coastal population inland at the threat of a hurricane and have cut the death tolls to small fractions of what they were. If that godless country can do it, so can we!
Recognition! In my own lifetime! In my mother’s own lifetime! She will be so proud.
If I read the posek right, it’s battery-powered radios, in case the power goes off.
The message: have a SAFE and happy shabbat, with an emphasis on the safe, so you can have many more.
As of last night the Berkshires were right on the projected path. You will get lots ofmwind and rain, depending on the exact. Path. You won,t get a storm surge or flooding.
Tehillim may be in order, but preparation comes first. This is really a case of Hashem helps those who help themselves. Clear your yard of debris that can become deadly missiles in high winds and follow the advice of the authorities. They know of what they speak! If everyone acts properly, only property will be damaged, no people hurt.
Preparation first, tehillim second, please.
Chain letters. — oy.
She too is quite broad in the beam, measuring over 400 miles at the widest point.
Why? Are you considering a shidduch with her? She’s very powerful, I hear.
I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.
We are truly fortunate to live in an age when hurricane’s paths can be predicted with some reliability. The first indication that all new englanders had that the hurricane of 1938 was coming was when it made landfall in Rhode Island. Authorities in Boston had less than an hour before the storm would inundate them. That was not enough time. Hundreds of people were killed.
Today, many scientists, pilots, flight crews, meteorologists, computer programmers, historians have used their time and great minds, given to them by their creator, to solve the hurricane prediction problem.
Now we have DAYS to prepare so no one in the midatlantic or northeast need die. Most of the people who do die during these affairs are usually doing something foolish, or trying to rescue someone doing something foolish. Prepare, make sure your neighbors are prepared, then enjoy the show. Then help clean up after the storm.
Have a happy hurricane.
lots of people will be late for work on Monday.
is heartburn tznius?
It’s from the Internet, it must be true,
Hooteninny?
Should I take a kayak to Quincy or Nyack?
I would like mine to stay as “Member”
What? An aftershock?
I missed the big one earlier because our bathroom was being demolished, the whole house was shaking anyway.
Sesquipedalian words are always tznius, if you know what they mean.
You overestimate the inconvenience. For you it will just be a rainy weekend and a few hours of lots of wind-driven rain.
Take your precautions, then sit back and enjoy it.
To quote W.S. Gilbert:
There is beauty n the bellow of a blast
There is grandeur in the growling of a gale
There is eloquent outpouring
When the lion is a-roaring
Or the tiger is a-lashing of its tail.
Cut your finger and pour some water from each glass on the wound.
Put some in your etes.
Sunday night
Where’s your area?
I knew Yossi Z was here, occasionally. I thought I saw him in the Stop & Shop in Allston a few weeks ago. but I could be wrong, all those Jews look the same to me.
Its a comparison to other people who traditionally work on heads, the headhunters and headSHRINKers of South America, who would shrink their captured heads for trophy, ritual or trade purposes. It is a shortened form of headshrinker, which was once a popular moniker for psychiatrists.
My preferred terminology for a trip to the shrink. Is “a check-up from the neck up.”
With or without a computer?
Thank you. I feel the love.
Yes, Mr. Coffee, I live in the Boston area, I will be sending reports as long as humanly possible.
add dexedrine to their breakfast cereal. Offer them a few cans of diet coke at lunch.
and the other important questions: is she pretty? is her father rich?
Let me just bring up a side note. Many relatives of criminals get branded for things their criminal relatives have done. They can sometime be shunned or branded. That’s not fair. Many of the relatives are decent people. Witness the moving story we have heard above.
I am also thinking of the family of a recent murderer in Brooklyn. I have heard that people are seeking to exact revenge on his family, or at least shunning them. They are ignoring the fact that they are innocent victims, too, and had nothing to do with the murder in any way. They are in pain and may need our understanding, support and solace, too, as any innocent victim deserves.
I am ready for her in New England. Bring ‘er on!