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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-08 07:44 PM
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Galveston - waves crashing over the seawall
This seawall, by the way, is 18 feet high, and this video was taken this morning, an hour and a half after low tide...

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid823425597/bclid877032950/bctid1790968986
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-08 07:46 PM
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1. Scary!
:scared:
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-08 07:56 PM
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2. Five hours to go till landfall.
God help the idiots who stayed on the island.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-08 08:12 PM
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3. I think they should stop numbering those things...
people completely underestimate the threat of a large Cat 2. :-(
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-08 08:20 PM
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4. DOWN GOES GERALDO!!!
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-08 08:31 PM
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7. hehe.
By far the best moment Ike will have....
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-08 08:26 PM
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5. What I want to know is...
Edited on Fri Sep-12-08 08:27 PM by jasonc
Who the FUCK looks at the weather, sees the hurricane, sees the waves, and wind etc... and says, hey hun, lets go for a drive along the seawall and see what its like...

looks like a future darwin award winner.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-08 08:30 PM
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6. Reminds me of one of my mother's refrains:
Thou seest the tempest approach, and STILL, you do not kneel and pray?
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-08 08:32 PM
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8. The ocean scares the hell outta me.
I can't believe there's anybody there to film, though I understand the prison on the island has not been evacuated, neither prisoners nor staff. :scared:
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