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  1. #76
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    Now you don't have to.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Hi^5!

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    I figured everyone who lived through the '80s would remember that song.

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    I grew up with MTV since their day 1.
    I cannot ever remember that song. Doesn't mean I didn't see it.

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    I thought bomb o' Genesis was when Peter Gabriel split the band.

    Fuck Phil Collins.

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    When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis


    Kindness is a bridge between all people

    Dunkin’ Donuts Worker Dances With Customer Who Has Autism

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    Quote Originally Posted by KQ View Post
    Word on the local news tonight is that there's a second, stronger storm on the heels of this one. First one hits Spokane tomorrow and the second on Sunday. Rainy but not particularly windy. However, the coast will be a different story with high winds. Should be interesting.

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    Fisherman buddy in Dutch Harbor reporting 126 knots

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    Quote Originally Posted by skialpy View Post
    Fisherman buddy in Dutch Harbor reporting 126 knots
    Oooof, I do not want to trade places with him.
    Quote Originally Posted by leroy jenkins View Post
    I think you'd have an easier time understanding people if you remembered that 80% of them are fucking morons.
    That is why I like dogs, more than most people.

  10. #85
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    I can think of easier ways to catch crabs

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    Quote Originally Posted by skialpy View Post
    I can think of easier ways to catch crabs
    What do you think they do in harbor?



    Seriously, I hope no one goes out in that storm, but I’m sure someone already is.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!

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    https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/?m=1

    Cliff mass has an update on the storm. 8-10” of water equivalent for the Sierra!


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    You're going to need a bigger boat.....
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    I guess a shitload of shipping containers are loose in the strait of juan de fuca

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    Quote Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy View Post
    I guess a shitload of shipping containers are loose in the strait of juan de fuca
    I heard they abandoned ship last night, leaving the ship to burn

    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...eT6rmk9frtpHSs

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    They've apparently gotten it under control.

    Earlier today
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    Quote Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain View Post
    Damn, surf is up in the Sound. Get sum!
    "We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch

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    I wonder what was in the containers that went swimming? Will they make it to the shelves a little salty?
    Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toadman View Post
    Damn, surf is up in the Sound. Get sum!
    That bouy is like a hundred miles off shore.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ted Striker View Post
    They've apparently gotten it under control.

    Earlier today
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    After that fire boat put the fire out they crew boarded the container ship to do some xmas shopping.

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    Quote Originally Posted by old goat View Post
    After that fire boat put the fire out they crew boarded the container ship to do some xmas shopping.
    The good kids get the presents

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    The bad kids get lumps of coal

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    nasty shit in the containers


    As the fire intensified Saturday, the Canadian Coast Guard clashed with the ship’s captain over how to proceed.

    “You have been advised to evacuate the entire vessel,” a coast guard official told the captain over marine-band radio. “All crew members and captain included. Over.”

    “Negative, sir,” the captain replied. “I will evacuate only a few crew members now, OK, and I will leave a standby crew aboard. I want to evacuate crew that I don’t need because we expect tugs to come to our vessel to proceed and continue the firefighting.”

    “We know that,” the official replied. “Tugs will be proceeding, but this is all arranged, and the advice is that you abandon, completely abandon, including all crew and captain.”

    Instead, five members of the 21-person crew remained on board to fight the fire, though they and three firefighting tugs had to avoid spraying water directly on the burning containers.

    "Due to the nature of chemicals onboard the container ship, applying water directly to the fire is not an option,” the Canadian Coast Guard said on social media.

    Two of the burning containers were carrying a total of 57 tons of a hazardous material called potassium amyl xanthate. The substance is used in large volumes in mining, a $9 billion industry in British Columbia.

    "Contact of solid xanthate with moist air has resulted in ignition," according to chemical safety information from a Canadian chemical wholesaler.

    "Emits a flammable gas upon contact with water or water vapour. Can decompose at high temperatures forming toxic gases."

    When potassium amyl xanthate is heated or decomposes, it produces carbon disulfide, another hazardous, explosive substance.

    The firefighting strategy was to keep areas next to the fire cool but let the blazing containers burn themselves out.

    By Sunday afternoon, Canadian Coast Guard Commander JJ Brickett hailed the “heroic efforts” of the crew.
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    Quote Originally Posted by old goat View Post
    that fire boat
    Strangely enough that fire boat is actually the Maersk Tender, one of The Ocean Cleanup Project's Great Pacific Garbage Patch boats.

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    A pretty cool and much need project

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