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You wouldn't think of diving Nitrox without analyzing the O2 content first; why would you trust your life to CO analysis that may have been completed three months ago - IF THEY EVEN DO THAT?! The time, effort, and cost to check each and every cylinder of gas you dive for carbon monoxide is negligible, especially when considering the dire outcome of contaminated dive gas.
Geez... give the people in the PI a break. Why is their typhoon season seeming to be so extreme while the Atlantic hurricane season has been so quiet. Is it an El Nino effect?
Lupit has lost some power, now expected to arrive as a Cat-2, and not until Thursday. Flooding is generally the big killer tho, and this being the third hit for the island this month - can't be good...
Over a hundred on the island have died from a rare infection acquired from urine tainted water. Some areas still waist deep and people are wading thru it I guess.
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You wouldn't think of diving Nitrox without analyzing the O2 content first; why would you trust your life to CO analysis that may have been completed three months ago - IF THEY EVEN DO THAT?! The time, effort, and cost to check each and every cylinder of gas you dive for carbon monoxide is negligible, especially when considering the dire outcome of contaminated dive gas.
Geez... give the people in the PI a break. Why is their typhoon season seeming to be so extreme while the Atlantic hurricane season has been so quiet. Is it an El Nino effect?
El Nino, african dust and SSTs have been suppressing atlantic hurricanes.
I'm not sure what is causing so many bad typhoons, but the hotter SSTs in the Pacific due to El Nino have to be a contributing factor.
It looked like Lupit was going to sit on the northern end of the island all weekend, but they got a break. From Dr.Masters...
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Typhoon Lupit spares the Philippines
Tropitcal Storm Lupit has weakened and turn northward, out to sea, sparing the storm-ravaged Philippine Island of Luzon from further misery. Lupit never made landfall and the heaviest rains stayed out to sea, with rainfall amounts from the typhoon generally ranging from 1 - 2 inches over northern Luzon Island. Lupit means "cruel" in Tagalog, one of the main languages of the Philippines, but Lupit was primarily cruel in a psychological sense, keeping jittery residents on edge for days as the storm slowly approached. Luzon is still recovering from the destruction wrought by back-to-back typhoons Ketsana and Parma, which killed 860 people and did $642 million in damage.
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You wouldn't think of diving Nitrox without analyzing the O2 content first; why would you trust your life to CO analysis that may have been completed three months ago - IF THEY EVEN DO THAT?! The time, effort, and cost to check each and every cylinder of gas you dive for carbon monoxide is negligible, especially when considering the dire outcome of contaminated dive gas.
Now Lupit Expected to Hit Philippines at Cat-4
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