MarkM
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Yep. Friggen squids. Some street stuff ran a minivan full of people off the road up in St Louis. The track and closed street stuff looks pretty cool, but I always laugh when I see a squid doing that stuff in a t-shirt(one guy had on no shirt). Mmmmm road rash.
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My fav is the Jesus one. He'd be a freeflyer, of course. Long hair, tie dyed rig, cool look jumpsuit, traveling from DZ to DZ using his powers to look into the future and prevent people from burning in.
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How did Skydive Sebastian do through the hurricane?
MarkM replied to peacefuljeffrey's topic in The Bonfire
What? I thought you just moved down here and you're gonna run away already Don't let some little 100+ mph winds sustained for over 24 hours scare you away. -
Does this mean housing prices will start to come down around here? Heh. I don't really mind the hurricanes. They're the price you pay for living in paradise. Just be smart about where you live(solidly built house, not on a flood plain) and be prepared to be without power/stores/gas for a solid week at time if you have too. I was frankly quite impressed by how well people down here handled Frances.
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I just hope the MREs and wind up radio/light I ordered get to me before it hits. I got so sick of canned salmon and tuna during Frances and I forgot to buy a battery powered radio before it hit. I ended up putting my clock radio on my computer's UPS supply so I could hear the emergency reports.
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If I was buying a new canopy or reserve, I'd demo a few brands beforehand to see if I liked it. It's pretty easy to demo a lot of stuff in Florida, just travel to the right DZ. When I buy a Birdman suit this spring I'll demo one beforehand to see if I like it. But I bought both of my canopies used and figured if I didn't like them, I could just turn around and sell them for about what I paid for them. I wouldn't bother a manufacturer about a demo if I was just going to turn around and buy their canopy used from the classifieds. Gear like my rig, helmet and alt I bought based solely on rep. My suit I bought based on price, it was cheap enough that if I didn't like it I wouldn't be out much cash.
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Glad to hear Sebastian did okay. I lost power at my apartment in Broward at 9:30am Saturday and just got it back a half hour ago. I think about 1/3rd of the county here lost power. But I heard it was worse up in Palm Beach county.
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Yep. I bailed on my Naples escape plan. No way of telling whether or not it won't strike out that way. I'm a half mile from the beach in Fort Lauderdale so I'll be escaping to a friend's place who lives farther inland and just hole up there.
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I'm thinking I'll probably flee to the west coast later on today as well. I have food, water, booze, a tent for afterwards and directions to Skydive Southwest Florida which I can hit on the way back if the storm doesn't turn and flatten it.
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Expect a civil suit next.
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I hit Publix at 3pm and it was pretty well stocked yet. I think they were driving in a lot of extra supplies that people were going to need.
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If I need to go, I'm taking my sleeping bag, my tent, my rig, my expensive as hell computer system, important documents(car title, birth cirtificate), food, water, my two guns, ammo, a light, extra batteries, cooler, something to read, money and alcohol.
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Hell no. You don't need a lot of money to enjoy life. The best things are out there to be had pretty cheaply.
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Where did you get the info for this? I live east of US 1 in Broward county and would like to keep up on it if they issue an evacuation for my area.
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A Yoda day, says I, we should be having.
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I took Ninjitsu for a few years when I was a teenager(a long time ago). It was aimed at being a very practical art. We learned knives, shuriken(thrown for administering poison and held in hand for close combat), tumbles, throws kick and punches that tended to work towards breaking a bone as quickly as possible(so you could get away), improvised weapons(a guest speaker was a prison warden who brought in makeshift weapons prisoners made, and he showed us how they did it), firearms, short sword, short bo, chase and evasion techniques, nunchucks, infiltration and since we were kids we were also taught various things to defend against an abusive parent or schoolyard bullies.
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That was hilarious.
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Chicken I'd split, but odds are anywhere I went would be where it decided to turn towards. I'd be driving around in big curves watching the sucker follow me in my rear view window.
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I really like the history map on that site.
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Great. Here's the current track area. Give me tornadoes over hurricanes anytime.
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How about Bubba Ho-Tep?
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Hellboy was pretty good.
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Actually I figured it at 900-950 new as that was what people in the gear reviews on them mentioned, priced it down for 400 jumps, and then factored in a $200-250 reline from Aerodyne.
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Are they really $1500 new though when you figure the discounts you usually get from dealers? In any case, $700 sounds high. Currently in the classifieds I'm seeing a 98 with 700 jumps for $480 and another one with 20 jumps for $1000. I'm paying $700 for my Hornet with 400 jumps and a brand new lineset. Sabre2's, which everyone wants right now, sell for about a $1000-1100 with a couple hundred jumps on them. I would love to think high jump mains sell well, I have a Triathlon with 700 jumps I'd like to sell soon, but when I browse the classifieds most canopies with 600 or 700 jumps tend to be in the basement price ranges.
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Take a break for 6 months or so, try out some other things, then swing by a dropzone and see if the familiar sights and sounds of skydiving really do draw you back in more than the other sports you had gotten into during your time off. After that if you don't get instantly re-addicted the moment you step onto the DZ, then you'll know for sure it's time to move on.