Did The Big Storm Get The Opihi?

[Hubert Flottz]

Did the Freepers Conjure up these storms? Is the Ducks and the Fishes ok???

Come, we go to the high ground ASAP!

[proud patriot]

1. They just showed the image of the Hurricane

and it looks like it's going to hit all the Islands ..

Stay safe Opihi :hi:

[Cheswick2.0]

2. shit

I hope he stays okay ... and is Kamiaina (did I spell it right?) there too? Hurricanes are not fun.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Global warming coming to a shore near you!

Anyone who thinks the weather ain't strange lately, is brain dead! Tornados in West Virginia and Hurricanes in Hawaii, sunburns at the North Pole! Santa don't know wheather to shit or wind his watch!

Lucky I learned ark welding, looks like I'll need to build one shortly! Two critters that I'll leave behind for sure, is the pair of FReepers! dAnnie How Long Can You Tread Water? The judge had better post the blueprints for a good sturdy Ark instead of the 10 commandments!

Come, we find out how long a friggin' cubit is in feet and inches!

[Bake]

5. Riiight . . . what's a cubit?

Anybody who gets this shows their age.

Bake

[matcom]

6. a cubit?

well, i'm a working in one as we speak! not sure its big enough for all those critters tho'. maybe a yak but whadda 'bout the rest of 'em?

can just have ONE Yak in my cubit can i?

[Hubert Flottz]

7. I just got back from Homeboy Depot and Boy is my Pack Yak...

tired! It takes a hell of a bunch of 2x4s and wood welding rods to build an Arc! I did find a Nice American Flag at the Dollar Store! It was made in Hong Kong but the lower lifeforms will never notice!

[matcom]

8. go back and see if you can find a Hong Kong flag

built in 'Murica!

THEN i'll be impressed! who is invited on this little dingy of yours anyways? will there be beer?

also, can i boogyboard off the back? this might be fun

[Hubert Flottz]

12. Everyone but Repubs gets to ride!

BTW do you know how to keep a GOPer From Drowning?

[matcom]

tell me

hopefully i WONT remember :P

[northzax]

14. who knows?

no one's ever tried...

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Take your foot off his head!

I'd never do that!

[Hubert Flottz]

9. I'm just waiting on my Vector from the man upstairs now!

I'm old and ugly, but I can't swim far! It's raining again, it's just a matter of time now! I hope I don't forget the holy drain plug!

[northzax]

11. remember, when all else fails

republicans make excellent ballast.

[starroute]

21. Cubit = length from elbow to fingertip

In more advanced places, they standardized it at about 20.5 inches, but if you were building an arc by rule of thumb, that's how you'd measure.

Have I now let slip that I'm really 4000 years old?


On edit: Oops, I see somebody already got that one. (I hate it when somebody posts the answer as a sibling of the question rather than as a child. I always lose track.)

[northzax]

10. the cubit

is the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger of the local sovereign. In Egypt the Royal Cubit was generally accepted to be roughly 20.62 inches.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Ciphering gives me a hell of a headache!

Can we round that off to the nearest foot?

[northzax]

16. rounding off?

er, no, we can't make god's measurements fit our modern lifestyle and convenience. next you'll be asking to let women show their faces and priests marry, and men will lie down with men, and we'll abolish slavery. damn, have you no respect for tradition?

Personally, I'm going with the biblical measurements W's arm should be about the right length, he's a GOOD christian, unlike some of you. pshaw.

[Hubert Flottz]

17. It's christians like * who preys everyday that gives Heaven..

a bad name! Gawd can't be a happy camper when his do-gooders act like BOOOOsh! Maybe the Repubs can Sore like Asscroft's Eagles of Ride on Rush's Blimp Arse!

[KamaAina]

20. We're both up here on O'ahu, 200 miles from the action

which wasn't really that much action anyway. People in East Hawai'i(the Big Island), closest to the center, are used to torrential rainstorms anyway. My friend down there reports that she actually likes hurricanes! Then again, she is a Green...

The major storm-related news up here was a rough-water swim event that got out of hand very, very quickly. Swells generated by Jimena made the surf too rough for all but the most experienced ocean swimmers. 360 (not a typo; three hundred and sixty) swimmers had to be rescued, out of about a thousand.

http://starbulletin.com/2003/09/02/news/index1.html

And you think of the islands as being calm and placid...

All in all, pretty much just a crappy day, and I was cleaning anyway. Opihi, I suppose, was planning something a bit more traditional, though.

[opihimoimoi]

22. Damn, that ROUGH WATER SWIM(2.1 MILES) almost was the biggest

disaster since Pearl Harbor.

The HFD Chopper had the biggest day in the history of the HFD rescuing people. This mornings paper sez one was missing, not sure what the StarBulliten sez. I guess not cuz Kamma would mentioned.

Some Braddah bettah tell the Wave Akuas, "Eh, no make la dat!!"

Come, we go Happy Hour.

[starroute]

3. He posted a couple of hours ago that it was going south of him

See the tracking map at Weather Underground

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/cp200313.html

[opihimoimoi]

18. Hi Guys, happy to report my prayers were answered which means I got

a connection w the MAN.

Therefore i can run for Prez like ole Pat Robinson did, he claiming he turned one around too.

Anyways, call off the dogs, the Opi is still around farking as usual.

Been busy as shit doing the water pond thingy.

Come, we go catch Humuhumunukunukuapuaa, (the fish that grunts like a PUB)

[Hubert Flottz]

19. Tis A Foul Wind That Blows From The East Indeed!

Carries the foul odor of Bushit and Brimstoned! I wuz afeard that Jaws I, II, III, and IV had et you!

Come, we go look for the new sea shells that the storm blew in!

[opihimoimoi]

23. It was a foul wind indeed. Smelled of Brimeslim and Pub shit.

Damn, thank the Akuas it was brief.

Sending sea shells to the Man from WV