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Nothing beats a Honda generator. I'm just too cheap to buy one, so I get the Chinese knock-offs for 25%. If you have the room you could buy four of the knock offs and just throw them away every couple years. Hondas are so much quieter though. The neighbors will appreciate it.
 
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Gatorubet;1976248; said:
Nothing beats a Honda generator. I'm just too cheap to buy one, so I get the Chinese knock-offs for 25%. If you have the room you could buy four of the knock offs and just throw them away every couple years. Hondas are so much quieter though. The neighbors will appreciate it.
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Some dude sold me a Hawnduh generator from the back of his truck. The first time I plugged something into it a power surge wiped it out.
 
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Going over the details of some of the deaths caused by Irene, it appears that many were Darwin's theory Deaths

In Volusia County, 55-year-old Frederick Fernandez died Saturday off New Smyrna Beach after he was tossed off his board by massive waves caused by Irene. The Orlando Sentinel reports the high school teacher had a large cut on his head, apparently from hitting the sea floor.
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In Flagler County, 55-year-old tourist James Palmer of New Jersey died Saturday in rough surf. Family members say they lost sight of him after he waded into the surf in North Florida. He was pulled to shore and his wife attempted CPR, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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Another man in Pitt County drove through standing water, went off a road and died after striking a tree on Saturday.
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New Hanover County deputies on Sunday afternoon recovered the body of Melton Robinson, Jr., who had been missing since falling or jumping into the Cape Fear River as storms from Irene reached North Carolina on Friday night.
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A 58-year-old Harrisburg man was killed Sunday morning when a tree toppled onto his tent, state police said. The man was one of about 20 people at a party on private property in East Hanover Township, Dauphin County, some of whom who decided to sleep outside.
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DubCoffman62;1976530; said:
Going over the details of some of the deaths caused by Irene, it appears that many were Darwin's theory Deaths
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In Volusia County, 55-year-old Frederick Fernandez died Saturday off New Smyrna Beach after he was tossed off his board by massive waves caused by Irene. The Orlando Sentinel reports the high school teacher had a large cut on his head, apparently from hitting the sea floor.
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This is the quality of educator we had in Volusia County. Although I'm guessing he taught at NSBHS or Spruce Creek, not Mainland. NSB gets the best waves in Volusia, but you have to go to sebastian to get decent waves on the east coast of Florida.
 
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sepia5;1976767; said:
It's as if you don't even care about us here in DC.
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Experience all of that expense of fleeing, all of that press over-exaggeration, have it happen one to three times per year for twenty years, and you will get why not everybody in New Orleans fled yet again - for the umpteenth time - for a storm that would likely go east (like it did) to Mississippi like it always did. For the fixed income folks, they had no money to leave as the storm hit at the end of the month for medicaid, medicare, retired/social security check surviving on folks. Add to that the folks that could not trust their car to sit in traffic for hours and not break down in the middle of nowhere - the folks that had no credit cards or cash to pay for a motel - and the folks that had stayed every year since the mid 1960s when there was a "Hurricane Scare" and not had any adverse consequence, save the glares from the idiots who fled, spent all their money, and returned home broke to a safe dry house - and you have a side to why people here did what they did that is more easily explainable.

After decades of "scare" announcements about why they had to leave - only to find it was all a waste of money and panicky pundits - folks chose to stay. They were not idiots. They were just making decisions using a thought process that included memories of the dozens of times they had been told to flee "the big one" - only to find that the press was wrong.

I bring this up because it is the sixth anniversary of Katrina today.
 
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Gatorubet;1976778; said:
Experience all of that expense of fleeing, all of that press over-exaggeration, have it happen one to three times per year for twenty years, and you will get why not everybody in New Orleans fled yet again - for the umpteenth time - for a storm that would likely go east (like it did) to Mississippi like it always did. For the fixed income folks, they had no money to leave as the storm hit at the end of the month for medicaid, medicare, retired/social security check surviving on folks. Add to that the folks that could not trust their car to sit in traffic for hours and not break down in the middle of nowhere - the folks that had no credit cards or cash to pay for a motel - and the folks that had stayed every year since the mid 1960s when there was a "Hurricane Scare" and not had any adverse consequence, save the glares from the idiots who fled, spent all their money, and returned home broke to a safe dry house - and you have a side to why people here did what they did that is more easily explainable.

After decades of "scare" announcements about why they had to leave - only to find it was all a waste of money and panicky pundits - folks chose to stay. They were not idiots. They were just making decisions using a thought process that included memories of the dozens of times they had been told to flee "the big one" - only to find that the press was wrong.

I bring this up because it is the sixth anniversary of Katrina today.
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Exactly. Just like all the pundits saying you should wear a condom. Fuck that. Just blame someone else when you catch the HIV.
 
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BUCKYLE;1976790; said:
Exactly. Just like all the pundits saying you should wear a condom. [censored] that. Just blame someone else when you catch the HIV.
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Great analogy bro!
 
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