So how does your paper make money by having people go to your web site? Theoretically, being linked to on the front page of a popular site like Drudge will result in more people who are not in Florida reading your paper's site, and thus using resources and bandwidth while lowering your ad click revenue since out of towners don't need the things your local advertisers offer. As a result, you are actually costing the newspaper money by being linked to by Drudge. Your pay will be docked appropriately.
So now the sotrm, which never did reach hurricane strength, is going to move over the state, into the Atlantic, and back over the northern part of the state, where I expect it will fizzle out.
This has been a test. In the event of an actual emergency....
From now on, I will no longer be naming these threads "The Cone of..."
Why? Because in my view, the cone should never shift. It should be REALLY broad, and then it should get more narrow. But it should never move. Every place the storm is hitting right now was originally outside the cone.
Am I being nitpicky? Of course. This is amateur fun, not meteorology.
So, from now on, these threads will be named "The WAG of..."
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I'd be surprised to see it maintain tropical storm strength if it encounters all that land.
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Raf
they're saying hurricane by the time it reaches the sw florida coast
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GeorgeStGeorge
In the words of the Black Knight from MP and the Holy Grail, "I've 'ad worse."
:)
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Well, Tropical Nuisance Fay is still barrelling north, headed for Fla's west coast. Bear it well, friends.
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might as well go for the shameless plug:
go to www.sunsentinel.com for the latest.
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Woohoo!
My story is the lede item on the Drudge Report.
I may earn my salary with this one.
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I guess the good (?) news is that a more easterly track will bring Fay over Florida sooner, with less opportunity to strengthen.
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Steve!
Tew kewl!!! WTG, Raf!!
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So how does your paper make money by having people go to your web site? Theoretically, being linked to on the front page of a popular site like Drudge will result in more people who are not in Florida reading your paper's site, and thus using resources and bandwidth while lowering your ad click revenue since out of towners don't need the things your local advertisers offer. As a result, you are actually costing the newspaper money by being linked to by Drudge. Your pay will be docked appropriately.
At least, that's what your boss might say.
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GeorgeStGeorge
Man! What a killjoy!
;)
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dmiller
Raf --- I just linked your story to a banjo site (with 30,000 members) and the thread going on there about Fay.
Your readership just improved considerably. ;)
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Oh --- Wait a minute. Perhaps you don't want 30,000 banjo pickers perusing your article.
Mea Culpa. I should have asked first, eh? :( :( :D
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So now the sotrm, which never did reach hurricane strength, is going to move over the state, into the Atlantic, and back over the northern part of the state, where I expect it will fizzle out.
This has been a test. In the event of an actual emergency....
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Nyah, nyah! Told you so!
Of course, the doomsayers still hope for Fay to float into the Atlantic, strengthen, and come back as a hurricane!
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POLICY CHANGE ALERT:
From now on, I will no longer be naming these threads "The Cone of..."
Why? Because in my view, the cone should never shift. It should be REALLY broad, and then it should get more narrow. But it should never move. Every place the storm is hitting right now was originally outside the cone.
Am I being nitpicky? Of course. This is amateur fun, not meteorology.
So, from now on, these threads will be named "The WAG of..."
Just FYI.
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Mister P-Mosh
How about this one? Florida is DOOMED!
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