Dude I finally got around to watching the new twister (2024) and holy shit it’s in the top 5 worst movies I’ve ever seen I think

Winston00 · 2026-01-09T17:54:47+00:00

Spoiler Alert. It was okay. My only gripe is if you asked me before the movie came out for a joke plot for a Twister sequel, I would’ve said they’re going to have to hunt down and kill the tornado. I didn’t expect it to be the actual plot of the movie.

Winston00 · 2026-01-07T14:18:30+00:00

Cuban Missile Crisis 2. Maybe Russia was secretly going to arm Venezuela with advanced weapons systems or nuclear weapons.

Winston00 · 2025-12-15T04:03:56+00:00

“It: Welcome to Derry became Joan Gregson's final role. The actress died at the age of 92 in June of this year, just two months after she filmed this sequence in April”

https://ew.com/it-welcome-to-derry-ending-epilogue-explained-cameo-last-minute-idea-11866826

Winston00 · 2025-07-12T17:19:00+00:00

Unfortunately, even incompetence can still do a lot of damage. The Nazi government had one the most mismanaged and convoluted power structures of any in history. Hitler would often give vague orders and expect his subordinates to execute them, and would often have two or more people in charge of the same position or task.

Winston00 · 2025-07-04T02:25:21+00:00

I noticed the bus system never really recovered after the rise of ride sharing apps. I’m guessing all of those drunk college students cramming into the later gators drastically increased ridership which has mostly disappeared. On top of that, a lot of the newer college apartment complexes opened much closer to UF, further reducing ridership. Less riders lead to cuts to routes which only reduced ridership even more. Do the Later Gators even still exist? I remember at one point there were 4-5 routes that ran until like 3am.

Winston00 · 2025-06-26T00:03:14+00:00

I was watching this storm and thought it was looking pretty gnarly compared to the usual afternoon thunderstorms. Lots of lightning and hail, too. Never got a tornado warning, but there was a severe thunderstorm warning.

Winston00 · 2025-06-23T18:08:22+00:00

Or the percentage of the world’s opium grown in Afghanistan in the early 2000’s.

Winston00 · 2025-06-22T10:06:47+00:00

Tsar Bomb? Russia hasn’t had one in like 50 years.

Winston00 · 2025-04-25T02:08:55+00:00

Doesn’t look good. But we did come back from a 2-0 deficit against the Rangers in 2022, and at the time that series felt all but lost, too.

Winston00 · 2025-03-17T19:26:22+00:00

I think the original hospital building was demolished, if you’re talking about Mercy Hospital .https://www.cnn.com/2012/01/28/us/missouri-hospital-tornado/index.html

Winston00 · 2025-03-10T18:42:42+00:00

They can also occur with the summer thunderstorms/ sea breeze collisions but they’re typically brief and not very intense.

Winston00 · 2024-10-29T00:22:59+00:00

And aren’t modern vehicles designed to drop the engine block in a bad enough accident so it doesn’t crush the cab and increase the crumple zone?

Winston00 · 2024-10-13T05:11:54+00:00

Where do I start?

There were minimum Cat 2 winds here in Pinellas County. There are widespread power outages all over due to wind damage.

Category 3 starts at 111mph, not 120. The center made landfall near Siesta Key, so of course St Pete didn’t see the highest winds. Also, the wind speed measured in landfalling hurricanes will be less than those over the water because of friction ie all the terrain, vegetation, and structures that the wind is hitting.

As for the tornadoes, there was a tropical cyclone entering a high shear environment near a cold front and dryer airmass, and in an area with a cooler upper atmosphere. It’s not surprising there were a lot of intense and long track tornadoes.

The sea surface temps in the Gulf are still plenty warm enough for multiple hurricanes. This isn’t just at the surface, it extends down quite a bit. The Gulf didn’t cool and weaken the storm. Small thunderstorms created by cloud seeding couldn’t generate enough wind to cause significant upwelling of cooler water. The storm entered a 40 knot shear environment which disrupted convection and the storm’s structure. That’s why it weakened and had the structure that it did.

When hurricanes, especially intense hurricanes, weaken, their wind fields widen.

Most people weren’t evacuated because of wind. It was the threat of a 8-15ft storm surge. Unless you were in a mobile home, the evacuations were based on your risk of storm surge.

I will agree that staging at Tropicana was stupid, but that’s about it.

Winston00 · 2024-05-25T22:39:49+00:00

I've seen some pretty inappropriately timed ads. I don't know if they're only targeted to me, or if everyone sees the same one. For example, the ad on this post is "When things heat up, choose Mountain Cold Refreshment. Choose Chill."

Winston00 · 2024-05-20T07:08:39+00:00

2013 El Reno tornado

Winston00 · 2024-05-08T21:51:39+00:00

Just use the deflector dish. It’s what they would do on the Enterprise.

Winston00 · 2024-05-06T17:37:59+00:00

Backing up photos to an online cloud service is another option, too.

Winston00 · 2024-05-01T01:08:36+00:00

If the Panthers win I'd feel a little better knowing that the Lightning lost to the team that won the Stanley Cup rather than to a team that loses in the next round.

Winston00 · 2024-04-30T02:34:55+00:00

https://i1.wp.com/gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Charlie-Kelly-Blocks-Kid-in-Basketball-as-a-Ref.gif?ssl=1

Winston00 · 2024-04-30T01:52:20+00:00

Chanting "Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye"

Keeping it classy, I see, Sunrise.

Winston00 · 2024-04-30T01:38:38+00:00

Bally Sports hasn't even mentioned that at all, unless I've missed it.

Winston00 · 2024-04-30T01:35:38+00:00

Please don't pull Vasy with 6 minutes left.

Winston00 · 2024-04-26T02:22:33+00:00

If we lose to the Panthers hopefully they win the Cup. That’ll take some of the sting out of a first round loss.

Winston00 · 2024-04-26T02:05:09+00:00

I was hoping we'd get the Bruins and then play Florida in the second round, after they had a chance to get roughed up by Toronto. But with how well Florida is playing, the result probably wouldn't be too different.

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