#hurricane danger

[don-lichterman]

Rescue teams search for people who may still be trapped in homes after Hurricane Ian

Rescue teams search for people who may still be trapped in homes after Hurricane Ian

Nearly a week after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida, search and rescue teams are still on the job. More than 100 people were killed in the state during the storm and its aftermath. Utility workers say it will likely take until the weekend for power to be restored to the more than 400,000 customers that remain without electricity. William Brangham reports. Stream your PBS favorites with the…

[blood-injections]

Every time i think about the zones i get distraught over the fact that the killjoys cant reach the beach which like isn't even something touched in canon maybe they can who knows but just in headcanon worldbuilding im like yeah lol cant get there for reasons ill elaborate on one day(basically the city is in the way) and just break my own heart because i just. I just know in my heart that Kobra Kid would absolutely fucking shred those barrels. That boy would surf!! We were robbed of beach killjoys and one day yes i will write an au where they can access the beach and i can finallly explore the zones surf culture that lives in my head just as much as the zones racing and skating culture does

[rainbowcutieo3o]

The hurricane approaches! its so rainy already... just like the hit indie game Rain World!!! yeah I think ill do ok, but this seems pretty bad, if you feel like supporting me or something that would be super nice, you can help via my kofi :) thank youuuuu https://ko-fi.com/rainbowcutieo3o

[snepdragon]

Trigun is the only show ever bc after witnessing the havoc that follows Vash, people sent a fucking insurance company to watch his ass

[giganotus]

Tornadoes and hurricanes are the closest thing this world has to actual eldritch horrors and I cannot be convinced otherwise

[masquenoire]

What Kind Of Love Are You?

Love as a Force of Nature

Your love is like whiplash –– it comes in with the rain, it blows the doors wide open. When you fall in love, it is sudden and hard and immense. It is powerful. It is earth-shaking and world-ending. Nature is a force, and that force can be destructive if you're not careful. See how the world is doused in gasoline and set on fire –– your love consumes, your love takes, your love burns. You're hot and cold all at once, a hurricane and a wildfire bound together in skin, and when you're in love, it can feel like it's eating you alive from the inside out. When you love, it is with everything you have because it is everything you have. Be careful, darling, because not everyone survives the storm.

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[ahloveisboo]

babygundans everywhere screaming, sobbing, throwing up

[sergeifyodorov]

Could u talk about how Carolina achieves goalie haven!!!!!! I am so intrigued sjdhsysosjshs (especially bc one of my fav players is an occasional Carolina goalie 🤭🤭🤭)

aaa Yes. sorry this took so long!!

One of the biggest questions among analysts in hockey is: how much of a goalie's quality is determined by the team they play behind? If you move a goalie to a different team and their numbers change drastically, is it the goalie not adjusting well to the move or is it the team? How separable is a goalie from his skaters?

So, we're going to talk about mathematics. Not in any technical terms, because it is two in the morning as I write this, but just sort of general stats stuff. In hockey (and in other sports but we're talking about hockey,) there is a metric called expected goals, or xG for short.

The general gist of xG, for the uninitiated: it is a made up number that you cannot watch the game and materialize, unlike shots or goals or times your favourite player was shown close up on camera -- you need a computer to generate it. There's also multiple different xG models, since every stat bro seems to have his own. However, they all function in a pretty similar way: determine the odds a shot goes in the net based off its location (on ice), its location (relative to the net), and its location (relative to other skaters, who may be inclined to block the shot in order to prevent this expected goal from becoming an actual one.)

Expected goals are, for lack of a better term, a smoother way of determining the way a game really went than its result. You ever watch a game where your team was in the offensive zone the whole time, just totally dominating play, but a couple of bad bounces and dumb mistakes means you lost? The expected goals might tell a different story.

Back to Carolina. Someone in their front office, many eons ago (I got seriously into hockey only last season, so I can't give you a date) realized this: over the course of one game, anything can happen, but over the course of a dozen? 82? the numbers tend to line up. So the most guaranteed way to win, at least through the regular season, is to find a way to jack up your xG and drop down your opponent's. And the way they do this is with Corsi.

If you're still uninitiated, Corsi is essentially the total amount of shot attempts: shots on goal plus blocked shots plus misses. Corsi ratios actually tend to line up very similarly with xG ratios: if you have twice the shot attempts of your opponent, odds are you'll have twice the goals. Quantity over quality!

The on-ice way they do this is with a very, very high-structure game: your defenders are there to dump the puck in and then make sure it doesn't get dumped out, and your forwards are there to chase the puck and pepper the opposing goalie with softies until he slips up. In the defensive zone, they hound the opponent's forwards, forcing them to either lob a soft one on net or give up the puck. Carolina is currently third in shots for per game (34.91), and dead first in shots against (25.74).

So: say you're a goalie on a team that routinely gives up 45 shots a game (hello John Gibson!) versus a goalie on a team that only gives up 25. That's a much, much lower workload -- on average one shot you'll have to stop every two and a half minutes or so (although shots as a rule tend to come in chunks, so the standard deviation is very high here.) And because you'll have this lower workload, odds on you'll be better rested for every shot, thereby being fresher and more likely to stop it.

Also, because of how tight Carolina is in the defensive zone, very few of these shots against are of significant quality -- they rarely give up breakaways, which are typically the major generator of high-danger chances.

All in all: a Carolina goalie is going to have a good time, not necessarily because they are a good goalie, but because they are in Carolina -- facing few chances and especially few high-danger ones allows the goalie an easier time stopping pucks, which boosts their stats.

[animatronicabundance-archived]

@curseofbreadbear asked: ❝ something isn’t right. i really don’t recall doing something illegal this time. ❞ -gregory for cassie

“I dunno, maybe they finally found out about all those high scores you hacked?”

While there wasn’t a law about arcade hacking as far as she knew, Cassie would at least qualify it as not cool. That couldn’t be what got the workers they saw run past into this tizzy though as she carefully watches them. It was like someone kicked a beehive, in fact all the runnings a bit loud so she turned down her hearing aids, but where are they going?

“You wanna follow ‘em?”

[mckitterick]

Who in Columbia, MO, angered an elder god?

watching this storm system on Doppler radar - it's bigger than Missouri, building and spiraling in place, centered right over the middle of the state like a curse

[alteredstatesstuff]

vikings storm

[don-lichterman]

Hurricane Ian leaves behind catastrophic damage after tearing through Florida

Hurricane Ian leaves behind catastrophic damage after tearing through Florida

Hurricane Ian left behind massive damage and widespread power outages after tearing through Florida. President Biden declared the storm a major disaster, paving the way for federal funds to support rescue and rebuilding efforts. After crossing the Florida Peninsula, the storm is now back over the water and expected to make a second landfall in the Carolinas. John Yang reports. Stream your PBS…

[theidiotwhowritesthings]

I just started the New Girl AU series that you have, CAN I JUST SAY YOUR FANCAST OF CLINT IS JUST PERFECT???

i mean no hate to Renner tho, but I've read Matt Fraction's Hawkeye. That's the kind of Clint we were deprived of.

Oh no, oh no, I can feel myself climbing up on a soap box y'all get ready. I FUCKING LOVE DISASTER CHAOS CLINT BARTON COVERED IN BAND-AIDS AND FALLING INTO DUMPSTERS MARVEL CAN TEAR HIM FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.

more of the soap box rant below.

So, before I became a hopeless slut for Din Djarin, I started this story on AO3 with a female original character (who is technically from my original work but i wanted her to hang out with the avengers crew for fun and a three chapter drabble turned into a book i'm a mess). ANYWAYS, i say that b/c in that story the Clint Barton I started writing for the first time was absolutely Matt Fraction's Hawkeye and ever since then he has lived in my brain rent free. He's one of my fav marvel characters to write (next to Tony Stark, who is going to be in New Girl AU eventually b/c i'm a slut for him too).

And, mentally once I started writing that version of him I didn't like Renner as the mental image I had? No hate on Renner, just like you said, my brain just couldn't fathom it. So internally I re-casted him as Jensen Ackles and it worked.

I MEAN LOOK AT HIM:

LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME THIS FUCKER DOESN'T SCREAM CHAOTIC/DISASTER CLINT BARTON. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL.

Alright, sorry, I can rant about this shit all day long. Uh, where were we? OH. Thanks for reading and sending me a message, dude!😌

[yesterdayiwrote]

I was going to make a glib joke about the police in that video of George at the Puma store in Mexico, but actually it shows how concerned they must be about driver safety out there right now...

[oddthesungod]

Icelandic anon here! If you think that gif is bad you should see it now haha roads are closed due to snow. People getting stuck on roads due to snow. Flights cancelled/delayed. Golden circle trip cancelled. It's been bad. We're expecting a blizzard again tomorrow morning so my sister & her fam can't come to dinner to celebrate the end of the year and beginning of the new year.

oh i'm aware how bad it gets over there, I have an Icelandic friend that often posts updates about the weather :)

[unbearablylight]

love how this summer has felt world-ending and yet like....... we're all just kinda pretending it's not happening