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[dezbee2008 827]

On 9/10/2017 at 09:55, bestmen said:

 

she means that she is somewhere in the road   to escaping the storm

 

Thankully I didn't have to evacuate, but I did lose power for about a day and a half. I got it back Tuesday night, and internet came back yesterday

[heywoodu 16,459]

7 minutes ago, dezbee2008 said:

 

I live in a town northeast of Orlando called Deltona, which between here and Tampa is a 2-hour drive.

I find it curious that Americans often talk about how long the drive is from A to B, whereas here we usually talk in terms of distance  (since a 2 hour drive could be anything from 100-120km to 260km on regular roads here  )

[dezbee2008 827]

52 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I find it curious that Americans often talk about how long the drive is from A to B, whereas here we usually talk in terms of distance  (since a 2 hour drive could be anything from 100-120km to 260km on regular roads here  )

 

Yeah, we generally place an extremely high value on time. As for actual distance, Tampa is 114 miles (183.5 km) west of my hometown, and that's if you take the interstate.

Edited September 14, 2017 by dezbee2008

[AmericanHero40 243]

3 hours ago, dezbee2008 said:

 

Yeah, we generally place an extremely high value on time. As for actual distance, Tampa is 114 miles (183.5 km) west of my hometown, and that's if you take the interstate.

 

Is there no traffic between Orlando and Tampa?  I can't go anywhere from l.a without encountering serious traffic 

[bestmen 2,922]

have drowned as boat carrying Rohingya  capsizes, shame to you "Aung San Suu Kyi" the Nobel price of peac

 

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[heywoodu 16,459]

Here We Go Again: Chapter 7264 - Exploding bucket on a tube train in London

[dezbee2008 827]

21 hours ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

 

Is there no traffic between Orlando and Tampa?  I can't go anywhere from l.a without encountering serious traffic 

 

I'm not someone who takes the interstate everyday, but you would find traffic there especially during morning and evening rush hours. Most of the time they are minor, but it's usually because a car had hit a rail.

[heywoodu 16,459]

Not cool, that system with the red X has a 90% chance to form into a hurricane within 48 hours and the Caribbean islands might already get warnings today. That'll either be Lee or Maria, depending on if/when Fourteen becomes a tropical storm.

 

Edited September 16, 2017 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,459]

Here we go again, almost the same islands that were hit by Irma are about to get the full force of Maria today/tomorrow.

 

[heywoodu 16,459]

This is 2 hours ago and Maria is still 3-4 hours away from Dominica...this is gonna be a rough day/night for them.