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View Poll Results: Which do you consider to be 3rd Coast?
Texas to Florida's West Coast 144 64.00%
Chicago & the Great Lakes Region 81 36.00%
Voters: 225. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-17-2010, 06:43 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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You have a point with Lake Maracaibo. IMO though, this looks more like a coast:




Than this:

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.
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Old 06-17-2010, 07:23 PM
 
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Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.
What are you so afraid of?
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Old 06-17-2010, 07:59 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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All this talk about ships...reminds me of when I saw this pic.

Who'd like to thread this needle in an icy river!
No thanks!


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I'd be afraid for the small white tour boat.
For a size comparison, that white tour boat is 70' long.
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Old 06-17-2010, 09:26 PM
 
Location: ☀ ѕυnѕнιne ѕтaтe ☀
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This is seriously still being debated.
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Old 06-17-2010, 09:49 PM
 
Location: Lower East Side, Milwaukee, WI
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Umm...NOT!!!

I never knew a bay could be as large as a Cat 5 hurricane. That's news to me.
What the hell are you babbling about now? Hurricanes are measured by wind speed, not surface area. A category 5 hurricane simply means it has winds exceeding 156 mph.

Are you sure you live in TX?
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Old 06-17-2010, 09:51 PM
 
Location: Lower East Side, Milwaukee, WI
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Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that those 2 maps aren't the same scale, so a side-by-side comparison is as meaningless as 99% of your posts.
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Old 06-17-2010, 10:18 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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What the hell are you babbling about now? Hurricanes are measured by wind speed, not surface area. A category 5 hurricane simply means it has winds exceeding 156 mph.

Are you sure you live in TX?
Yep, born n' raised Texan & damn proud too!

Even here in Tyler, which is 250 miles from the Gulf we sustained hurricane force winds during Rita, a Cat 5 hurricane.

It is too determined partially by surface area & not just wind speed. Rita's outer bands were battering Texas' coast days before the storm actually hit.

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Old 06-17-2010, 10:22 PM
 
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Yep, born n' raised Texan & damn proud too!

Even here in Tyler, which is 250 miles from the Gulf we sustained hurricane force winds during Rita, a Cat 5 hurricane.

It is too determined partially by surface area & not just wind speed. Rita's outer bands were battering Texas' coast days before the storm actually hit.

Is this good?
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Old 06-17-2010, 10:22 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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It seems like with every pro "Great Lakes" post, the poll number gap keeps getting wider & wider, with the lakes losing of course.

Keep em' coming guys!
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Old 06-17-2010, 10:28 PM
 
Location: Lower East Side, Milwaukee, WI
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Yep, born n' raised Texan & damn proud too!

Even here in Tyler, which is 250 miles from the Gulf we sustained hurricane force winds during Rita, a Cat 5 hurricane.

It is too determined partially by surface area & not just wind speed. Rita's outer bands were battering Texas' coast days before the storm actually hit.
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The Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale is a classification used for some Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms. The scale divides hurricanes into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds.
No mention of surface area here.
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