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Babyvet:
Haven’t you been reading the previous post? According to the lucas99 poster he went straight from f1 to citizenship.

of course i did , maybe i should have quote him instead, just curious on how he did his thing on this planet �

Is a pity that at age of 81 when Bill Cosby should be in his retirement home, he will be now in prison. One lesson I learnt from his sentence is to take care of your today in order to enjoy your tomorrow.

How come trump hasn't been convicted for hush money payment that he was indicted of by his ex attorney.

Dremca:
Is a pity that at age of 81 when Bill Cosby should be in his retirement home, he will be now in prison. One lesson I learnt from his sentence is to take care of your today in order to enjoy your tomorrow.

How come trump hasn't been convicted for hush money payment that he was indicted of by his ex attorney.

Investigation is still ongoing. His attorney pleased guilty. He hasn't been indicted.

lillaowow:
Investigation is still ongoing. His attorney pleased guilty. He hasn't been indicted.

It's still sad to watch. I adored him growing up.

So I have a question
One thing that has always put me off the US is natural disasters.
Quakes, Hurricanes Tornadoes etc


Anyone hear ever experienced such?
Has it affected where you chose to live or
Do natural disaster prone areas have insurance packages to cover for such?

Torontoparrot:
of course i did , maybe i should have quote him instead, just curious on how he did his thing on this planet �

Yea next time just hit the quote button under the poster that you are referring too.

salsera:
So I have a question
One thing that has always put me off the US is natural disasters.
Quakes, Hurricanes Tornadoes etc


Anyone hear ever experienced such?
Has it affected where you chose to live or
Do natural disaster prone areas have insurance packages to cover for such?

Umm.. we have them in Nigeria too. We just don't call them that. There is insurance available if one wants it. I'm in Houston notified for flooding and lived through the last three major ones. Didn't really affect my decision on where to live because pretty much the whole city underwater when it happens.

Who names all these hurricanes, like: hurricane sandy, hurricane Katrina, hurricane florence and why are they mostly given female names.

Dremca:
Who names all these hurricanes, like: hurricane sandy, hurricane Katrina, hurricane florence and why they mostly given female names.

No sir.. There has been Hurricane Matthew in Florida. Not just female names

I look forward to seeing hurricane Trump happening in DC.

Predstan:
No sir.. There has been Hurricane Matthew in Florida. Not just female names

radautoworks:
Umm.. we have them in Nigeria too. We just don't call them that. There is insurance available if one wants it. I'm in Houston notified for flooding and lived through the last three major ones. Didn't really affect my decision on where to live because pretty much the whole city underwater when it happens.

So like flooded basements or flooded streets so you cant move.

Floods in Nigeria yeah but the idea of a full earthquake or hurricane....its not something I want to experience. Or maybe its tv images making it seem worse.

Hows Houston? I hope to visit soon.

Anyone experienced a real Hurricane

Dremca:
Who names all these hurricanes, like: hurricane sandy, hurricane Katrina, hurricane florence and why are they mostly given female names.

It's a process. Here is an article for you.
ABCNews
How hurricanes get their names
By
Sep 6, 2017, 3:32 PM ET

WATCH: Tropical storms and hurricanes are given short, distinctive names to avoid confusion and to streamline communications, according to the NOAA.
As Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm, begins battering the Caribbean, you may wonder how hurricanes get their names.

Storm naming is actually maintained by an international group of meteorologists known as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).


This image obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Irma, Sept. 2, 2017, at 1130 UTC. Irma picked up strength and has become an "extremely dangerous" Category Five hurricane as it approached the Caribbean on Sept. 5, 2017, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center reported.

The organization's experts meet annually to discuss hurricanes. They also decide when to retire the names of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes, such as Katrina, Rita and Matthew.

A list of the retired names dating back to 1954 is listed here.

And if more than 21 storms strike in a season, names are pulled from the Greek alphabet


Homes knocked off their foundations following the storm surge produced by Hurricane Sandy, Nov. 3, 2012, Brick Beach, N.J.
Retiring names "is based on the strength and how destructive the storms were," Susan Buchanan, a spokeswoman at the National Weather Service, a party to the WMO, told ABC News. "No one will forget Katrina or Sandy because they associate those names with a particular storm."

But it's too early to know if Harvey will join these historic hurricanes.

"I don't want to speculate whether the WMO will retire Harvey," she said.

She emphasized that the current naming system minimizes the difficulty in tracking multiple storms at once.

"They named storms to avoid confusion and it's easier to put in the history books," Buchanan explained.

Hundreds of years ago, hurricanes were named after saints, according to NOAA. The hurricane that struck Puerto Rico in 1825 was named Santa Ana, for example.


Men use ropes to pull away the debris of houses in order to look for bodies, after the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. The Category 4 storm with winds in excess of 130mph and a storm surge of over 15 feet, was the... Photo Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images

Homes in Cameron, Louisiana, lie in ruins in the wake of Hurricane Audrey, July 1, 1957. As far at 25 miles inland were inundated with storm surge of 8 to 12 feet, and leaving 390 dead. Photo Credit: Beaumont Enterprise/AP Photo
By the end of the 19th century, an Australian forecaster named Clement Wragge pioneered the practice of naming storms after the Greek alphabet. He then began applying women's names to tropical storms before the end of the 19th century, according to the NOAA website.

NOAA said a group of American soldiers in 1944 named a series of tropical storms in Saipan after their wives.

A year later, according to NOAA, the armed services adopted the practice of naming typhoons in the western Pacific after women.

By 1953, the military scrapped its storm-naming method, which worked off a phonetic alphabet, and started attributing female names to storms, according to NOAA.

Male names have only been included on the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) storm lists since 1979.

Today, meteorologists alternate male and female names for storms and rotate them out by using six lists that run through the year 2022.

"The lists are reused unless one [storm name] is retired and is substituted with a new name that is selected by the WMO," Buchanan said.


Remnants of a trailer park following Hurricane Andrew, Aug. 25, 1992.
The process, however, has been controversial. In 2014 a study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) contended that female-named hurricanes led to more destruction.

Critics, including scientists from the same agency, debunked the suggestion that storms do more damage simply because they're masculine or feminine.

Buchanan agrees.

"There's no scientific correlation between the size and strength of storms and whether they have male or female names,"

salsera:
So I have a question
One thing that has always put me off the US is natural disasters.
Quakes, Hurricanes Tornadoes etc


Anyone hear ever experienced such?
Has it affected where you chose to live or
Do natural disaster prone areas have insurance packages to cover for such?

It depends on the part of the country. West Coast experiences more earthquakes. Midwest which is more flat experiences tornadoes. Areas near large bodies of water experience hurricanes. But flooding is usually a result of the hurricane bc of the large amounts of rainfall. Northern areas experience blizzards (large amounts ofvsnow) in the winter time
Most of the time only major natural disasters make major news.
I've been thru one small earthquake which happened on an area that it doesn't ever happen in. And a couple of tornadoes.

salsera:
So I have a question
One thing that has always put me off the US is natural disasters.
Quakes, Hurricanes Tornadoes etc


Anyone hear ever experienced such?
Has it affected where you chose to live or
Do natural disaster prone areas have insurance packages to cover for such?

I don't know about separate insurance policies for natural disasters. I don't live in disaster prone area. But, there is renters and homeowners insurance that protects your property and belongings in the event of damage whether fire, burglary, weather, etc. You can add what is called clauses to the package for issues like flooding which will make the premium go up in price.

salsera:
So like flooded basements or flooded streets so you cant move.

Floods in Nigeria yeah but the idea of a full earthquake or hurricane....its not something I want to experience. Or maybe its tv images making it seem worse.

Hows Houston? I hope to visit soon.

Anyone experienced a real Hurricane

Yes. Hurricane Katrina, Ike and Harvey! No basements in Houston. More of a New York thing

Dremca:
Who names all these hurricanes, like: hurricane sandy, hurricane Katrina, hurricane florence and why are they mostly given female names.

It's alphabetical. Beyond that, they have male and female names. See my other post.

radautoworks:
Yes. Hurricane Katrina, Ike and Harvey! No basements in Houston. More of a New York thing

Do you mean hurricane "'Ike'chukwu"

Dremca:
That guy must have certainly mastered the game of seduction. Maybe, he wears lovely cologne, knows how to talk to a lady to make her heart melt and all that. He must be a master at the game of seduction.

Dremca do you program with nodejs?

Why asking

davinchecodes:
Dremca do you program with nodejs?

Dremca:
Why asking

just curious

No

davinchecodes:
just curious

Godchangemylife:
Yea you were right .It happened to a friend of mine

Nigerians always have that one friend

radautoworks:
I'm not sure what details you expected to hear but fact of the matter is I don't owe anyone the details especially since it's my husband's business and not mine. I don't know about the other guy but I do know it happened for my husband.
My husband is Jamaican. Dad emigrated, lost touch, son went to USA on a Visa, while there dad in an attempt to mend fences filed for him. That's as much detail of his story as you're going to get. I already regret sharing so much detail about his life on this forum and he'll probably be mad at me.

Moving on. Been a while since anyone had something positive to contribute on this thread. Time to unfollow or close?

Your really not providing much detail as far the actual immigration process. But whatever , it’s your personal choice. The process is not as simple as filling out a form. Nigerians are not straight forward people. When I read other immigration stories from other nationalities , they detail it which turn educate people, they just don’t make blanket statements and expect people to run with it.

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Godchangemylife:
Keep that off me pls. I don't know about the Nigerians but as for me it happened to my friend .and that's it

Then why are you responding ? The texts don’t provide any information of how he went from f1 sent to citizenship. Legal residents does not mean they are citizens they could be green card holders.

Babyvet:
Your really not providing much detail as far the actual immigration process. But whatever , it’s your personal choice. The process is not as simple as filling out a form. Nigerians are not straight forward people. When I read other immigration stories from other nationalities , they detail it which turn educate people, they just don’t make blanket statements and expect people to run with it.

Every case is different and this is not even my story to tell. What worked for one may not work for the other. Case in point, I got my green card through marriage but divorced before I got it which should have instantly disqualified me. But guess what? It was denied and i appealed and got it. So there are no hard and fast rules and it doesn't matter what worked for him as it may or may not work for you. But to simply dismiss or question people simply because your "research" says it's not possible, is simply rude. Again, this is not about the other guy but about second guessing when I said it happened for my husband.

At the end if the day, I couldn't care less if I was believed or more because he had been a citizen for decades, I have mine and the recipient of the information can do whatever they want with that.

Babyvet:
Then why are you responding ? The texts don’t provide any information of how he went from f1 sent to citizenship. Legal residents does not mean they are citizens they could be green card holders.

I'm still not understanding why you feel anyone is obligated to explain that ESPECIALLY when they don't know what went into the decision-making of the immigration officer? So if it was a case of a sympathetic officer, a fluke or mistake, they are supposed to call attention to their case by others trying to follow the same path with their status retroactively being revoked like some currently are?

radautoworks:
I'm still not understanding why you feel anyone is obligated to explain that ESPECIALLY when they don't know what went into the decision-making of the immigration officer? So if it was a car if a sympathetic officer, a fluke or mistake, they are supposed to call attention to their case by others trying to follow the same path with their status retroactively being revoked like some currently are?

Have a good day

Whoop whoop!!

Started in North Carolina for a year, moved to Texas and been here 20 years y'all! Texas is awesome!

https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-is-the-best-place-to-live-in-america-right-now-heres-why-2018-9

Anyone following the Brett Kavanaugh saga?

Republicans went from being confident of his confirmation to being angry and upset about their own process.


Democrats finally learning to play the Republican's games.

KARMA!!!

Those hypocrites won't even hold a hearing from Obama's conservative nominee.

Lindsey Graham crying like someone stole his cereal.

Drama never ends here. Skme folks here tryna be more American than even the Americans.