[Mr. Mulliner]

Hi Lisa. I don't frequent this thread as much as I used to so maybe that's why I don't remember seeing your name here.

I just looked at your profile page. Nice. I can tell you like football and are a true Buckeye fan. I grew up in Nebraska so you know where my loyalties lie, even though I haven't lived there since the late 70s.

Woody Hayes, huh? I remember the day he punched one of his players. I hated him even more than I hated Bo Schembechler, but had no use for either of them back then. Now I miss some of those old coaches and great football games.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

TROPICAL STORM LISA ADVISORY #10

DISCUSSION

...LISA  REMAINS ALMOST A HURRICANE...

LISA will continue westward.  Some global models say LISA will disappear in 24 hours, but those have also insisted there is no HP ridge between LISA and KARL--there is.  Indeed, the HP ridge will force LISA to continue westward.  A disturbance, which will likely become FOURTEEN sometime tomorrow, will induce LISA to move slightly south before encountering a region of high pressure in the Caribbean.  This latter feature will then push LISA NW.

The forecast motion of LISA, and the HP center over the Caribbean, will push the cyclone into open waters.  The NW course it will take at VT forecast plus four days and beyond would aim it directly at C. Hatteras, but considering it would take LISA almost two weeks to get there at her current speed (and 10 days to get to Bermuda), the interest watch area will show only a threat to shipping at this time as it is far more likely than not the Coriolis curve will keep LISA away from CONUS.

WATCHES/WARNINGS

[None at this time.]

STORM DATA

Fix Time:  5 PM ET/AT (2100Z)

Location: 14.4N by 40.3W, or 1090 miles W of the Cape Verde Islands.

Vector: WNW at 8 MPH.  This motion is expected to continue for the next 24 hours.

Winds: 70 MPH 1-minute sustained.  Some strengthening is likely over the next 24 hours.

Pressure: 990 MB or 29.23"

Diameter of Hurricane Force Winds: N/A.

Diameter of Tropical Storm Force Winds: 100 miles.

Anticipated Landfall Time:  N/A

Anticipated Landfall Location:  N/A

HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENTS

[None at this time.]

NEXRAD IMAGERY

[No portion of THIRTEEN is within 124 nautical miles of CONUS or Puerto Rico NEXRAD stations.]

SLOSH DATA

[None at this time.]

TOD DATA

[None at this time.  TOD data will be calculated if and when hurricane warnings are posted for CONUS and apply only to CONUS territories.]

STATE-ISSUED OFFICIAL EVACUATION INSTRUCTIONS AND OTHER INFORMATION

[There are no such documents for this system at this time.]

INTEREST WATCH AREA

LISA is only a threat to shipping at this time.

[LisaMalia]

Yeah, Woody messed up. As a mom, if a coach hit my child like that, he would have the wrath of me to deal with..lol.

That said, I think Woody was way past his prime, and had should have gotten out of the game sooner.

That said, he did lots of good things in his lifetime. Supporting our soldiers in Vietnam, when it was very unpopular to do so in that era, was one of them.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Woody was really before my time. I was too young to really care that much about college football when he retired. Now Schembechler I remember. I actually kinda liked him. He reminds me of my late Grandfather, with the same cantankerous, grumpy attitude and even looks like him.

And I remember the Bear. I remember he announced he was retiring after LSU beat 'Bama in '82 or '83. He knew he no longer could run one of the greatest dynasties of all time, and that the Tide was in decline.

And of course I think the last link to those legends: Bobby Bowden, Lou Holtz, and Joe Paterno(a good Pubbie), will most likely be hanging it up by the end of the decade if not sooner. Holtz is under the most heat, while Paterno is starting to feel it. Bowden spoiled the Seminole fans so much that the occasional rebuilding year is no longer acceptable. But even if they were still winning 10 games a year, age is catching up on them.

The best of the new generation are Bob Stoops, Pete Carroll(who bombed in the pros, but is just demolishing the PAC-10 and everybody else in USC's path), Nick Saban(gotta give props to LSU of course), Mike Trammel, and when he returns, which he will, Steve Spurrier.