Absurd flood warning

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Culled from The Weather Channel's website:

...FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1148 AM EST THU MAR 31 2005

... A FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR... OCHLOCKONEE RIVER AT HAVANA ... MODERATE FLOODING IS OCCURRING AND EXPECTED TO CONTINUE

FOR THE OCHLOCKONEE RIVER NEAR HAVANA... MODERATE FLOODING IS OCCURRING... WITH A STAGE OF 27.4 FEET MEASURED AT 11 AM THURSDAY. MODERATE FLOODING IS FORECAST... WITH A MAXIMUM STAGE OF 27.6 FEET AT 1 PM THURSDAY... WHICH IS 2.6 FEET ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. AT 26.5 FEET... STATE ROAD 12 ABOUT 10 MILES UPSTREAM WILL BE AFFECTED BY FLOOD WATERS. THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF 26.3 FEET ON FEB 20 1997.

ALL PERSONS WITH INTEREST ALONG THE RIVER SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS... AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT DRIVE CARS THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. IF YOU SEE FLOOD WATERS... REMEMBER TO TURN AROUND AND DO NOT DROWN....

What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

The wording just seems really wry to me.

What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

What's with the extra "..." at the end?

REMEMBER TO TURN AROUND AND DO NOT DROWN KITTENS.

dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

"OMG, what happened to Billy?"

"He forgot to not drown, Ellie Sue."

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

"DO NOT DROWN! HAHAHAHA!"

What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Just turning around won't save you. Just because you can't see the water, doesn't mean you won't drown.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

But if you don't turn around, you'll be running INTO the water. Remember, if you're going to run away from something, you shouldn't be looking at it.

Huk-L, Thursday, 31 March 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

the problem with all such warnings is that they are aimed at the people who always think "of course this does not apply to ME with my superior information/skills/technology"

to register with these people they have to SAY THE THING WHICH IS OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE ELSE (and even then they often don't so register)

but it should probbly read "remember to turn around AND NOT DROWN!!!!"

ie: if you fail to follow our advice YOU WILL DROWN AND IT IS YOUR FAULT NOT OURS

mark s (mark s), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

It'd be hard to turn around in a flooded roadway, wouldn't it? It'd be easier to reverse!

What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

There's a river outside our front doorstep and a lake where the back garden should be. Anybody got a yacht?

Noodle Vague, Monday, 25 June 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

grab one of the floating squashes, lash it to a pair of zucchinis for stability, tie a sail of lettuce to the top and you've got yourself a doozy of a craft.

remy bean, Monday, 25 June 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

My girlfriend, on Albert Ave, said the water's just below her front step

Forest Pines Mk2, Monday, 25 June 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

Every time some dick drives too fast up the street the waves lap over our front step. I had to wade up Newland Ave to get home, that was lunchtime. We've got a bit of flooding in the bathroom at the back. Rain forecast to stop: midnight.

Noodle Vague, Monday, 25 June 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

Wasn't Newland closed earlier? The news said Chants Ave was closed, but I assume that was the railway underpass.

The girlfriend waded home from Springhead - 3ft or so deep in some places, she said.

Forest Pines Mk2, Monday, 25 June 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

yep this is why Chants was closed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/images/2007/06/25/surfer_470x352.jpg

fair play to the surfer dude though

tom, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

Somebody was playing in a rubber dinghy on Grafton Street.

Noodle Vague, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/Pizza.jpg

Whoever ordered that pizza is evil.

Noodle Vague, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)


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