But which hurricane?
It was announced, two days ago, that the world’s largest, the world’s oldest, the world’s most important boardsports and beach/lifestyle tradeshow would be cancelled due to potential damage from an impending hurricane.
The pageant is conducted bi-annually, once in January, again in September in Orlando, Florida’s Orange County Convention Center very near other attractions like Disneyworld and Crazy Horse Gentlemen’s Club.
Now, Surf Expo’s official press release reads:
Due to the continued threat of Hurricane Dorian on Orlando, the state of Florida, the southeast and the east coast, Surf Expo announced today that it will cancel the 2019 event, as well as the pre-show outdoor festival, Waterfest, on September 4, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. Surf Expo’s leadership team has been constantly monitoring the storm closely and evaluating information from both local, state and federal officials and partners to determine the best course of action.
But I wonder if there were some other gale force winds playing into the board’s consideration. Powerful nine-mile-per-hour gusts swirling behind the mighty fistpalm of Stab magazine editor-in-chief and heavyweight Ashton Goggans.
You haven’t forgotten, have you? Haven’t let the recollection of the Punch of Social Justice slip from your memory? For it was at the last running of Surf Expo that Stab magazine editor-in-chief and Urban Outfitter ring aficionado Ashton Goggans uncorked his Storm of Hurt Feelings and sent that mighty fistpalm right into my jawneck and my vintage Ray-Bans to the floor. I fixed them very easily though they did break a month ago when I leaned over to take a sip of tea and they slipped from my nose onto the zinc countertop.
Those were the days and I truly hope Surf Expo was canceled because of Hurricane Dorian not because of Hurricane Ashton but if it was cancelled because of Hurricane Ashton then at least I had a small part in it.
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Hopefully they include a section for fake Sumo Wrestling at the next Surf Expo for you and Ashtons Sake, get Pyzel to world star film this time https://media1.giphy.com/me…
“Urban Outfitter ring aficionado” !!!!!
Peabody or Pulitzer? OR BOTH
I completely agree re China and India, at this stage. The political / socio-economics suck in that regard.
We’re all doomed, basically.
Chas, your last week of posts are inspired.
FUck yeah.
One question, as a surfer, would anyone plan a convention in Orlando in early September? Say there are no hurricanes brewing or bearing down on you or it’s too late to fly out of so might as well sell bottle opening sandals….. ? You have to know that Florida is sticky and awful in September. Horrible for your hair. Why?
Then add the annual hurricanes!!!
It’s like the industry is collectively tone deaf to surfing, even broadcasted weather!
While I have your time, why does the WSL have offices in Santa Monica adjacent? High real estate, no one surfs, expensive housing for poorly paid workers…. like I can’t see a reason beyond a VAL’s vanity posing as cred as “Surfing Adjacent”.
Why not post up in Nevada? Plenty of tennis courts…. !!!!
I’m actually at work so can’t go deep into this now, and this isn’t reeeeeeally the forum for it.
The global climate has been affected by humans in a perceptible manner since the start of the industrial revolution. This CO2 (+ other stuff) input has only increased over decades since and and has a long term creeping effect.
Trying to simplify the various inputs into the system for discussion is really doing the complexity of the issue a disservice. Weather systems can and will suddenly change course and intensity just like the swirls of soap in your bath tub, always have always will. The main point is that we are increasing the capacity of heat into the whole system, which in turn makes everything more jumpy and swirly. Like the pot on the stove. Convection currents increase in speed and intensity as the temperature increases. We increase the heat in the atmosphere a bit and it’s absorbed by the ocean, which slowly ups the background base level of heat and so on.
All I want to leave you with is this: follow the money.
Who is genuinely making megabucks out of the capitalist focus on fossil fuels?
Academics who don’t really get paid all that much more by doing basic rigorous science? Or the oil company executives who don’t want to lose their next mega yacht upgrade?
Yeah the mob I work for tried a whole heap of cloud seeding back in the 70s. It worked for a bit, then didn’t work at all. Geoengineering in general is pretty scary.
haha so he was right! Nobody ever believes him eh?
Not even a tropical storm? What about the flooding? “Lane encountered a wall of wind shear as it moved closer to Hawaii. Wind shear, a change in wind speed and/or direction with height, is an enemy to hurricanes since it can shred them apart when strong and persistent”. Or it could have been the fighter jets.
https://www.nationalgeograp…
“Hurricanes are just enormous,” Klotzbach says, adding that in a single day, a “typical” cyclone can release more energy than every nation on Earth combined. Put another way, the heat released by a hurricane is comparable to exploding a 10-megaton nuke every 20 minutes. Even if we devised a dissipation method that could match the power of such a storm, there would be the non-trivial task of knowing exactly where the hurricane will be, days in advance, in order to mobilize our defenses.
Aliens.
Illegal at that.
No doubt.
Nuclear bombs! By god he was right!
Also to this point; the Festival of Blessed Coffee Table Leaping is in October is it not?
It is! I must plan an appropriate celebration.
I’ll ready that album cover again.
#Tinfoilhat
Hilarious Goaty.
I love it.
God’s sharpie moves in mysterious ways does it not?
All the way to Alabama!!
https://www.news.com.au/fin…
#Blessed
#Thoughts and prayers
Nobody let Ashty know and he’s still saying “bye Riss, bye Leo” or whatever, to long since departed/never arrived pro’s at the cancelled event site. 12:38 for some gold medal Sycophantic antics.
https://youtu.be/5CqxzgCt_b…
That’s fucking awesome! Literally.
It is amazing how accurate the forecast has been. We lucked out.
the big question is though , will the hurricane hit Alabama , as the new USA forecasting stable genius says?
Stay safe , been on my bucket list to experience a hurricane…..
The storm itself is fun as long as the roof stays on, the multi week aftermath sucks!
Bodi had to cancel as guest speaker so he could go surf the 50 year storm so they called it off?
Isn’t that Liam’s abomination?