Resurrection

[genshou]

/me slaps Piratecat around a bit with a large trout

Bad xmanii! No troutslapping on the forum! Go to your channel, young man!

And, um, see you there. 'Cause, you know, I spend more time in there than I do on the forums, nowadays.

 

[Piratecat]

But...the servers are in South Florida, aren't they?

The storm only hit north Florida (and even then, the windspeed when it hit was less than 50 m.p.h near the eye).

When you're a Yankee, everything that far south is one big hot indistinct "state." Disney World is next to Tallahassee, the panhandle is next to Lignum Vitae Key, and retirees are everywhere.

 

[CarlZog]

Disney World is next to Tallahassee, the panhandle is next to Lignum Vitae Key, and retirees are everywhere.

Well, you got one right....

Carl
-- born Cocoa Beach
-- raised Palm Beach County
-- grad Univ. of Fla.
-- first saw snow at age 31.
....now lives in New England.

 

[DaveMage]

When you're a Yankee, everything that far south is one big hot indistinct "state." Disney World is next to Tallahassee, the panhandle is next to Lignum Vitae Key, and retirees are everywhere.

That's okay - no one native to Florida can even spell Massachusetts. And forget about asking them to pronounce Worcester.

 

[Umbran]

But...the servers are in South Florida, aren't they?

Yes, iirc. So packets from the server have to travel the entire length of the state. Thus, service interruption in the northern part will kill the site.

 

[Henry]

The server went down right between 8am and 10am yesterday -- right as the storm was making landfall.

 

[Jdvn1]

And forget about asking them to pronounce Worcester.

[unrelated]I was trying to pronounce 'worcestershire' correctly, since most people say, "worshshshr," and I was asking a friend how she pronounced it. She said, "Lea and Perrins."[/unrelated]

 

[genshou]

And forget about asking them to pronounce Worcester.

That one's easy!

 

[drothgery]

That's okay - no one native to Florida can even spell Massachusetts. And forget about asking them to pronounce Worcester.

It's Worse-ter, and don't let anyone with a thick Boston accent saying Woostah persuade you otherwise.

(I'm a WPI alum. I can say that )

 

[Infiniti2000]

Carl
-- born Cocoa Beach
-- raised Palm Beach County
-- grad Univ. of Fla.
-- first saw snow at age 31.
....now lives in New England.

Interesting.

I2K
-- born Waltham, MA
-- raised in Newton, MA
-- raised some more in Wareham, MA
-- grad. high school in Clearwater, FL ('87)
-- grad. Univ. of Central Florida
-- now (still) lives in Orlando

The Snow vs. Hurricane debate rages on in my head. I just really really hate snow. But, I'm not fond of $120,000 worth of hurricane damage to my house either.

That's okay - no one native to Florida can even spell Massachusetts. And forget about asking them to pronounce Worcester.

Truer words were never spoken. It's pathetic, really. But, I guarantee that my children (one already native and the other soon to be) will not only be able to spell Massachusetts, but will pronounce every city/town name correctly and will NOT pronounce their R's. Useless letter most of the time anyway.