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Video of Hurricane Hanna Blowing Over Trumps Border Wall
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I'm pretty sure Trump already wanted to nuke a hurricane. If he didn't, it sure seems like something he would say.
It's funny when structural engineers don't understand how hurricanes work.
For those idiots like me on the ground, rushing to leap off a pier to surf to get past the break, we understand that the huge gusts are periodic and for most hurricanes slight in number. You get a big gust of wind, put your board on the ground. Then maybe three or four minutes later you get another.
But when you're designing a structure you need to realize that fifty gusts of 70-80 mph over the course of the day can destroy something.
Example: the is the pier I used to leap off of while timing our drops so we wouldn't be crushed beneath the waves against the wood:
oceanviewfishingpier.com
It used to be called Harrison's Pier (after the family of a friend of mine), Even though we were having fun as young college students or recent graduates at the time, leaping off its tip, we watched the winds eventually knock most of it down. Even though the hurricane didn't seem that bad to us. I mean we were surfing.
A lot of people outside of the eastern seaboard don't realize that it's about duration, not strength. They think it's like some Roland Emmerich film where the winds are a constant 100 mph and everything is gone with the wind. Hurricanes don't actually work that way. The dangerous part is when the scientists tell you the storm surge will be high. That's when you get out of town and don't look back.
Edit: I should say that since the pier was rebuilt, they will not allow surfers to pay the fee and jump off the pier. Also the cops no longer merely give you a ticket if caught. They will beat your ass if they catch you. You can try to run, but running half naked in a hurricane with a surf board isn't easy. They're going to catch you. So please don't do it. Just wait until the surf report tells you you're getting head high waves the day before the storm hits and surf in that. My friends and I were really stupid back in the day.
For those idiots like me on the ground, rushing to leap off a pier to surf to get past the break, we understand that the huge gusts are periodic and for most hurricanes slight in number. You get a big gust of wind, put your board on the ground. Then maybe three or four minutes later you get another.
But when you're designing a structure you need to realize that fifty gusts of 70-80 mph over the course of the day can destroy something.
Example: the is the pier I used to leap off of while timing our drops so we wouldn't be crushed beneath the waves against the wood:
Ocean View Pier
Enjoy delicious seafood and stunning views at Ocean View Pier, the best Fishing Center with waterfront restaurant in town.
oceanviewfishingpier.com
It used to be called Harrison's Pier (after the family of a friend of mine), Even though we were having fun as young college students or recent graduates at the time, leaping off its tip, we watched the winds eventually knock most of it down. Even though the hurricane didn't seem that bad to us. I mean we were surfing.
A lot of people outside of the eastern seaboard don't realize that it's about duration, not strength. They think it's like some Roland Emmerich film where the winds are a constant 100 mph and everything is gone with the wind. Hurricanes don't actually work that way. The dangerous part is when the scientists tell you the storm surge will be high. That's when you get out of town and don't look back.
Edit: I should say that since the pier was rebuilt, they will not allow surfers to pay the fee and jump off the pier. Also the cops no longer merely give you a ticket if caught. They will beat your ass if they catch you. You can try to run, but running half naked in a hurricane with a surf board isn't easy. They're going to catch you. So please don't do it. Just wait until the surf report tells you you're getting head high waves the day before the storm hits and surf in that. My friends and I were really stupid back in the day.
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If we stopped testing for climate change it'd just go away though. Stupid Democrats!
The flat portions at the top are big wind catchers if anything that will help knock em over. Believe they started to add those because of so many videos and people figuring out how to use the poles to their advantage by wrapping things around the top. But either way a strong enough wind is gonna knock down a pole, we see it all the time in FL where we get hit alot, if anything this wall was never built to withstand strong winds of a storm, so a hurricane would just destroy it if the whole thing is like this video
Yep, someone posted a Twitter thread a bit ago pointing out that it's probably mislabeled.
How do we verify this is indeed the wall? I love dunking on Trump like most people but how do we know this video isn't about something else?
There isn't a "wall" like he promised, this would just be a section of the replaced border fencing.
Poetry in motion.
Lamborghinis aren't well known for their safety, so the comparison is apt.
Real life Slappy?It was the wind of God.
RL Stine has gone too far.
It was the wind of God.
The man always looked like he was sent from the devil.
Kenneth Copeland has a very uncanny valley look to him, like he was some CG video game character that somehow crossed over into reality to cause chaos. Him and Bill Mitchell originally come from the same electric dimension Max Headroom dwells in.It was the wind of God.
Though with his light-colored eyes, he looks more like the book Slappy:I think this guy is more terrifying.
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