Charas-Project
Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: daoman89 on October 29, 2012, 02:50:52 PM
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For all those who are gonna get raped by Sandy, i wish you all to be safe! She's gonna knock on my door in a few hours.
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Ack, hope it's not too bad.
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(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcmd2cvxOA1r0ralmo1_r1_500.gif)
I live near the Gulf of Mexico. I know hurricanes pretty well. They blow. Jokes aside, be careful if you're in the area. If your area is told to evacuate, do so. It's no joke. If you aren't going, do something about your windows, stay towards the center of your home, and makes sure to have some things prepared in the event that the power goes out. non-perishable food, water, lighting, battery radio, etc.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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I live an hour approximately west of Philadelphia. I just don't like being surrounded by trees lol
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Not a thing I'd like to spend time near during a hurricane.
Burn them.
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We got a few charasians in the Northeast. I'm expecting to at worst lose power for a few days. Connecticut to the south of me is suppose to get it real bad though. They shut the interstate down.
Stay safe peeps and listen to Archem!
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lol too wet for that. well have approximately 40-70 mph winds.
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Having those kinds of winds right now here in New Jersey. I'm pretty far inland, though, so at least I don't have to worry about any flooding!
Now trees falling on the house or my car...that might be a larger concern. Nothing that can really be done about it around here, though.
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Ooo ur in NJ!? Well i wish you the best of luck and for safety etc etc. The news people are yelling at the people that stayed at evacuation areas. A lot of ridiculously stupid people out there.
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I can't believe I have to work a midnight launch tonight.
Seriously, who is actually going to come?
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what area are you in?
I have 5 different gameboys all fully charged so I'm gaming prepared.
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And on the other side of the continent, apparently the West Coast has tidal wave warnings, and Hawaii got tidal waved.
I think we pissed off Mother Nature.
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Well luckily Sweden doesn't get anything like that. We simply have too much trees and mountains to stop everything wind based. Or something.
It's snowing like mad today. Crazy, temperature just droppped over night. Trees, grass, puddles, everything was frozen by the time I woke up and then came the snow.
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Here in Westurn New Yahk, people are panicking and stocking up on supplies. Pffffft.
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Southern Ontario. It's not New York, but it's pretty bad here. We're getting 50km winds tonight, 100mm of rain and a flood warning. I have to be at the store for people who want Assassin's Creed III at midnight :(.
Oh and also IT'S ****ing COLD on top of that.
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I think they can survive a day without assassins creed 3 for a day. They wont have power anyways
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Having those kinds of winds right now here in New Jersey. I'm pretty far inland, though, so at least I don't have to worry about any flooding!
Don't count your chickens. I've seen some crazy flooding happen in my time.
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My mom's area has to worry about flooding.
It's been raining for days out here.
Even though we're not going through a hurricane...
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Here in Westurn New Yahk, people are panicking and stocking up on supplies. Pffffft.
Pfffffft indeed. The wind's only at 24 MPH right now, and I feel like I'm more likely to die from rain and windchill than trees running me over.
Of course, it's scheduled to get worst over here on Tuesday or something. Or maybe that's when it stops?
Regardless, hold tight dammit. I'm just hoping for now power outa
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Western Mass has got it easy so far. Gusts were pickin up around 5 pm EST 40-50 mph, but things have largely calmed down. Hard to tell what's going on though. News is spotty and the local news around here are a bunch of idiots.
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Fun random fact. I'm one of those crazy "tornado chasers" you hear about. I really REALLY wish I was on the east coast right now. Alas it's been clear and sunny over here. :(
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"I'd keep playing. I don't think the heavy stuff will come down for a while."
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I'm sorry, but this is a hilarious picture
https://twitter.com/SandysHurricane/status/263078028949733376/photo/1
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The Hurricane Sandy twitters are so hilarious.
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I'd like them more if they weren't so... Crude.
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Well... I'm surprised. Classes have been cancelled for today (30th).
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Virginia is getting light rains, but nothing worse. This is barely normal storm weather. Guess it's hitting north of where I live.
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I still have classes, basically the same situation as Saikar-- although we have a massive oak grove in the middle of campus and its quite possible for those trees to go down. (We lose a couple every year without hurricane winds... or remnants of them at least)
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Good over here in west mass. eastern mass got slammed. hundreds of thousand s without power. dont we have some charasians in east mass?
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Flooding, and the power's out where I live, am staying with a friend in a more solid apartment til this ends.
A woman in our city was killed last night when a sign blew off and fell on her.
I tried to take pictures, but when I pulled out my camera I got the "Memory Card Full. Would you like to delete some photos?" message. Unfortunately missed the shots. But the scene last night coming home from the midnight launch was ridiculous. I got a ride to a friend's with my assistant manager. The busiest street in Toronto was completely deserted. When we walked to the parking lot, we stopped in the middle of the road and just looked around because this never happens. We drove through the financial district and the trees were blowing sideways. At one point when the car was stopped, the wind blew so hard, the car began to rattle. A stop light was down and when I looked at one corner, I saw that there was only a red light; the section with the yellow and green light had broken off and been carried away. As we pulled onto Mt Pleasant (sort of like a highway), I saw three newspaper boxes (big, heavy, metal ones) just lying on the road. The weirdest part is that the city streets were completely deserted. No one was outside. With the sideways trees, it looked really surreal.
As for the midnight launch- maybe 45 people showed up out of the expected 250.
The centre of the storm is expected to hit my city tonight, and I called my store. Head office hasn't given us permission to close early, so I have to go to work tonight.
I'm going to be coming home in the worst of the storm, and I really don't want to be outside with the amount of **** flying around. I have my fingers crossed head office will call and tell us to close, being that many of the sales associates need to walk and take public transit to work, but they rarely seem concerned with us, so I doubt it will happen. I'm not sure who is even going to be shopping late at night anyway. I mean, I know people really ****ing want assassin's creed, but I also don't want to trek outside in a hurricane to give it to them.
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A woman in our city was killed last night when a sign blew off and fell on her.
I tried to take pictures, but when I pulled out my camera I got the "Memory Card Full. Would you like to delete some photos?" message.
I do hope you realize how bad that sounds :V
Also, your guys' head office is ****ing retarded if they're not going to give you guys the day off due to a HURRICANE.
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Oh no. I mean I was going to take pictures of the stuff going on, not the lady lol. I was nowhere near her.
And while I can't say anything bad about my company, I will say that the internet doesn't think too highly of them. You can probably figure out who they are.
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It actually wasn't bad for us eastern Pennsylvanian's i think. my power stayed on but i'd have to drive around and see what happened elsewhere.
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**** your company. i worked last night with some kid who wouldnt shut up about not being able to pick up his preorder. i wanted to smack him.
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**** your company. i worked last night with some kid who wouldnt shut up about not being able to pick up his preorder. i wanted to smack him.
Do you also work for you-know-who?
We actually ended up having a nice midnight launch. Not a lot of people came, and so we were grossly overstaffed, and they had to cancel most of the events. I ended up just getting everyone talking to each other, people made friends and met people the wouldn't have met otherwise. We all talked about the game, upcoming games, and just talked to each other like people. I wanted to get to know my regular customers a little better, and hopefully give people a positive impression of the store so they would come back if they weren't regulars already. People actually enjoyed it, one guy even commented how refreshing it was to be approached as a person from someone at our company.
Then I got in trouble for not pushing enough pre-orders and promotions at them. I said I was talking about upcoming games and starting discussion about it, but they said it had to be more direct and literal, that I wasn't supposed to converse with them, just spout out promotions and try to get them to pre-order immediately... *sigh* sometimes I wonder if the people who make these policies have ever worked in customer service before...
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Then I got in trouble for not pushing enough pre-orders and promotions at them. I said I was talking about upcoming games and starting discussion about it, but they said it had to be more direct and literal, that I wasn't supposed to converse with them, just spout out promotions and try to get them to pre-order immediately... *sigh* sometimes I wonder if the people who make these policies have ever worked in customer service before...
...what the ****.
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I guess, I always look at customer service as an ongoing relationship. With gamers especially, I find we can be shy about meeting new people. When you come to a store where it's the same people every day, there's a familiar face, and there's a person who already knows what you like, and you actually like as a person, it makes the shopping experience much better, and rather than being an awkward or annoying process, it becomes something you can look forward to. You're not going to a place where someone's going to spout whatever they're told to tell you that day. You're going to a place where the clerk is like your friend who knows your taste, and who genuinely likes to talk to you. If the store's running certain promotions, or is promoting certain games that happen to be to your taste, then the clerk will let you know, and hopefully help you out in that way, while still promoting what their company needs to sell. When I talk to customers it's because I want them to come back, and to feel positively about the store. I don't want them to buy one game and then never come back because it's such an annoying or uncomfortable experience. I feel like what my company misses sometimes is that yes, while we are a business, sometimes making money can be a little more convoluted than selling stuff to people in a pushy way, to get the immediate sale but in the end lose a returning customer. It's the regular customers who say good things about us, and who constantly come back for their purchases, who take their friends shopping with them, and who genuinely like coming to our store who will keep us going as a business.
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Power was out for 22 hours. No biggie. My DS and PSP were charged, so it was basically "The Day of Dragon Quest." Feel really bad for those that got hit harder.
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Rite Aid's all about customer service. Some customers however are crazy and don't know what taxes are or understand how long 15 minutes is.
Anyways, did anyone see the aftermath photos from Sandy?
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I saw the vid of the power plant exploding, and the picture of the subway flooding, but that's it.
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A power plant exploded!?
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lol i just saw the video and the top comment was "Dammit Goku and Vegeta stop fighting! Now is not the time!"
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Sandy_ConEd Explosion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ#)
I watched this video.
Which doesn't have comments.
Far as I've heard though, New York got pretty tore up by the hurricane.
...doesn't Mid live in New York?
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A power plant exploded!?
The hell you talkin' about? Nothing exploded..
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...doesn't Mid live in New York?
I believe so. Hope she's fine.
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I saw the vid of the power plant exploding, and the picture of the subway flooding, but that's it.
Oh, I see what happened there. Yeah, apparently a con ed facility exploded. They supply power via.. steam? I think. At least, that's what one of my friend's was telling, he lived in NYC and has some family down there, so I assume he knows what he's talking about. Then again, he's been known to say stupid things.
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According to Wikipedia, it was a transformer that blew.
I'm still calling it a power plant, though, because that's a lot easier than saying "consolidated energy company".
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in my defense somebody else said it first! lol
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I officially take back my scorn for Sandy. NYC took a hardcore beating like nothing I was expecting.
Mid lives in the Bronx, just north of Manhattan, yeah. I might have her phone number saved at some place. If I do, I'll ring her up, see how she's doing.
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I watched this video.
Which doesn't have comments.
Far as I've heard though, New York got pretty tore up by the hurricane.
Jesus, the heck was in that power plant?
The situation here is variable. My university and the hospital (obviously) haven't lost any power, but my parents' place uptown did. The biggest danger was our basement's nearly flooding due to the river next door. And that's where the computer servers for my floor are stored, so...
My university was like only one of two that weren't shut down locally during the storm. Crazy ****.
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That's why we don't have basements around these parts. Floody fuckers.
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I've never seen a basement.
Also, crap, I forgot you were a New Yorker, Bluh.
Sorry for not asking about you :(
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http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/before-after-images-sandy-20121102?pageno=1 (http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/before-after-images-sandy-20121102?pageno=1)
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Proof that nature don't **** around...
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Doesn't this happen around this time every year though?
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Yeah, in the southern states. It's incredibly rare for the New England area to see this kind of weather.
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And frankly, new england just isnt capable fending off su h powerful storms. buildings and homes arent weather proofed like they are in the south. you can also see it the geography. erosion is worse up here because there arent many major erosion events like hurricanes.
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Exactly. We're getting hammered on a yearly basis, often more than once per hurricane season, so we've put lots of precautionary measures to work and build everything to meet specific codes. Up north, it's just not something that happens, so those precautions don't exist. It's the same as if an earthquake hit here in Houston. We'd be fucked in an instant. No precautions because it's just something that doesn't happen.
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Apparently the east coast is gonna flood again with a nor-eastern storm. Talk about not catching a break for them, am I right?