Hurricane Sandy

[Colonel Sanders]

It's Wednesday afternoon, and Hurricane Sandy
continues to batter the northeast:

[shitdisturber]

I'll concede, Meaty, that I'm Monday-morning-quarterbacking the decision, and that I don't have any ocean sailing experience to draw upon. And I'm a little harsh with my 'saving fools from stupidity' comment, given the experience required to captain a sailing vessel of that size.
But, despite the reason that you've mentioned for leaving port; setting sail into the face of a strong hurricane - one that had been warned about for several days beforehand - and cutting across its path, seems/ed a little foolhardy to me.

A difficult decison, though, I'm sure - and one that he has paid for with his life.

When suppertime came the old cook came on deck sayin'.
"Fellas, it's too rough t'feed ya."
At seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in; he said,
"Fellas, it's bin good t'know ya!"
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
and the good ship and crew was in peril.

I'm gonna have to side with meat on this one. SOP for a hurricane is to get the hell out of Dodge if you can because the real danger is in the shallow waters of a harbour where the waves can do some spectacular damage. I suspect you'll find for instance, that not a single US Navy vessel capable of steaming was in port during the storm. I agree it was a difficult decision but in my opinion it was the right one. As you said, unfortunately he paid with his life and a historic reconstruction of a famous vessel is now on the bottom of the ocean but sometimes even the best decisions go horribly wrong.

[Nark]

Makes for a great dive site!

I'm curious to know how Norfolk fared in this storm.

[shitdisturber]

Apparently I don't know how to embed videos but check out RMR's "Snow in Toronto".


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vmMz73F5uA

[Siddley Hawker]

Here's a shot of the Bounty, from a CG chopper probably.

[pelmet]

Hard to believe she is gone. While flying out east this summer, a few of us got a personal tour of it in Halifax at the Tall ship festival after we convinced the crew to let us on board after tour hours were closed. Friendly people. I got some pictures of this beautiful ship and some of the crew.

[Colonel Sanders]

Meanwhile, Hurricane Sandy continues to pummel
relentlessly at Ontario:



Obligatory irrelevant political comment: Looks like
McGuinty's power station move (during the last
election, to buy a riding) will end up costing the
taxpayers over a billion dollars. And he resigned
before that information was released.

Go, Liberals!