I thought "thejupmeister" was a nice touch. That's totally the handle Jupiter would have chosen.
Is it the apocolypse?
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Perhaps Sextilis should read Augustus. The month was renamed in 8 BC and Vesuvius didn't erupt until AD 79.
Glad you got that.
More accurately "thegodfather" as that's what Jupiter means (Iou Pater) but, being a jovial type, he's more hip than that.
I'm sure by AD 79 Jesus had been dead for quite some time.
LOL! I knew there was bound to be something, somewhere!
Oh my mistake it is the apocalypse.
*heads for the hills*
Maybe while you're up in those hills, you could use your free time to learn how to read past the first paragraph.
Ok, maybe that's a bit dramaticYou have to admit though, it seems like there have been a lot of weather/natural events lately.
For example, in the US, real recently we had a relatively large earthquake for the area, on the east coast, which was felt by a lot of people (me included.) I know, Californian's will say 'meh', but here on the east coast, we haven't had one that big in a very long time. Then there was a hurricane that worked its way up the east coast, with major flooding. Then we have this tropical storm Lee which has worked its way up, again, lots of wind and flooding. Now we have wildfires in Texas, causing damage, being a menace. We also have Katia out there, but looks like it will turn away. Who knows what other hurricanes will pop up the rest of this season.
And if we want to look back not too long ago, we had the huge earthquake in Japan. And right now they've had this huge Typhoon there too. I'm sure there are other events happening over the world right now I don't know about.
A lot of events lately. Seems like there are big events like this more and more recently.
Just because a few "events" have happened in areas where the don't as frequently means nothing. There are millions of earthquakes of all sizes around the world each year and thousands above 5.9. http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/other/quake1.html 2011 has not been significantly different.
There are 50-60 volcanic eruptions a year on avg, about 1 a week. There is no statistically significant increase this year.
Category 3 storms hit every 2-3 years. The busiest season on record had 11 hurricanes in the Atlantic. 2011 is expected to be slightly above normal, with up to 19 named storms, 7-10 hurricanes. Its unusual for them to track this far up the east coast, and we haven't had a direct hit since 1968. Irene was a tropical storm when it hit New Jersey and NY, not a hurricane and was nowehre near a category 3 when it hit the Carolinas..
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/figure2.gif
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We're doomed!!! *runs for the hills*
Wasn't just a week here. My friend said on the first day it happened "I hope it clears by next week for my birthday" and I said "Of course it will, it will never last that long" and it lasted for weeks after. It's odd because we get barely any snow in Hull, and what we do get never lasts more than a couple of days.
I'm telling you, Allah has had enough of this shit.
