paul atreides

PSU, big baller

[paul atreides @jakeub]

Everything hurts #weare losers

[paul atreides @jakeub]

@Chicago_History 138

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

[paul atreides @jakeub]

@GriffinStauffer Even if this is my only tweet all year I will continue

[paul atreides @jakeub]

“Drake… where is the body of Christ?”

[paul atreides @jakeub]

@thatbad_rado @PokeNabu @pok_re92689 @TCG_IE_RESTOCKS Where does everyone get all this inside info???

[paul atreides @jakeub]

HEARTBREAKING:

young man who HATES having a tummy ache

frequently has a tummy ache

[Stavros Halkias @stavvybaby]

DA NFL IS RIGGGED!!! FUK YOU STELERS!!!!

[Butta @ButtaIMB]

Tyler Loop misses the game winning field goal vs Steelers #RavensFlock #herewego

[paul atreides @jakeub]

@RealCGriff

[Josh Morgerman @iCyclone]

Small taste of #Hurricane #MELISSA on SW coast of #Jamaica, just as we started getting raked by violent right eyewall. Belive it or not, this was before the peak conditions, when everything turned white, the screaming sound became unbearable, & we needed to bolt the door shut.

[Josh Morgerman @iCyclone]

Man. #Hurricane #MELISSA. Incredible power. Perhaps the mightiest hurricane of the 83 I've witnessed.

My location (Crawford, a tiny beach town in St. Elizabeth Parish #Jamaica) took the full force of the inner right eyewall and may have seen the peak winds in this historic, record-smashing hurricane.

First pic: as it started to get scary. Bone-rattling gusts were making roofs explode into clouds of lethal confetti. The grand palm tree out front was starting to bend obscenely—in a way I found unnatural.

Second pic: after we bolted the door shut because it was getting too dangerous even to watch the storm. (I'd randomly ended up in the hotel's kitchen with a local family.)

The hurricane's inner eyewall was a screaming white void. All I could see through the cracks in the shutters was the color white—accompanied by a constant, ear-splitting scream that actually caused pain. (Notice the woman in the pic holding her ears.) The scream occasionally got higher and angrier, and those extra-screechy screams made my eardrums pulse. Meanwhile, water was forcing in through every crack—under the floor and between the window slats.

I remember shuddering at the thought of what was happening to the town—what this screaming white void was doing to people, homes, communities.

My fears were well-founded. The impact in this part of coastal St. Elizabeth Parish is catastrophic. Wooden structures were completely mowed down and in some cases swept from their foundations. Some concrete structures collapsed. The well-built ones—like my hotel—survived, but even they had major roof, window, and door damage. The landscape has been stripped bare—the trees just sticks. The roads are blocked with rubble and utility poles.

Nearby Black River—a unique old historical town right on the water—was smashed beyond recognition: historical sites destroyed, main streets filled with rubble, the town market twisted like a pretzel, even the regional hospital destroyed.

It's a good thing I wasn't in my hotel room during the storm because one of the windows blew out, showering the bed with glass and wood. The hotel lost most of its roof, and several third-story rooms were smashed open. But in the lower flooors, those grand old concrete walls protected us. And so far I'm aware of only two deaths in Crawford—a fellow who had a heart attack at the school next door (his body was still in his car and unclaimed the next morning, a sad and disturbing sight), and a woman who drowned in the storm surge in Gallon Beach. While walking down the devastated streets of Black River, I ran into the Jamaican Member of Parliament for this region, @floydgreenja. He's a great dude and I appreciate that he already has a gameplan for turning this catastrophe into an opportunity—to build this region back better. And I vowed on the spot that I'm going to make it my mission to spread awareness of this catastrophe and get that aid flowing in. I'll be talking about MELISSA a lot over the coming months—because it is both a fascinating meteorological event and a human disaster that demands an international response. (And I swear an epic video is coming out of this.)

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

DANTE MOORE SPINS THAT BALL BEAUTIFULLY..

DAN LANNING DOESN'T LOVE THE WHITE OUT..

WITH THAT BEING SAID..

I’M FROM PITTSBURGH

THIS IS THE STATE OF FOOTBALL

🗣🗣THE PENN STATE NITTANY LIONS WIN THE BIGGEST GAME THAT THEY HAVE WON IN THE LAST TEN YEARS #CollegeGameDay

[The Penn State Troll 🦁🧌 @ThePSUTroll]

Dan Lanning in 3 days

[Bertram (beefaroni) Benson @BertramBenson17]

If Iowa beats Indiana on Saturday. I will eat a chicken nugget for every like this tweet gets (in one sitting)

[paul atreides @jakeub]

@joelrich4goblue @woodwardsports @MSU_Football Rewind to right after it happened when the trainers are first looking at him

[paul atreides @jakeub]

@joelrich4goblue @woodwardsports @MSU_Football While he was on the ground im pretty sure I saw the trainers testing his leg movement and he was able to move both feet and legs.

[paul atreides @jakeub]

@lennylenear Wisco BAAAD BAD

[paul atreides @jakeub]

All the credit in the world to this guy for not deleting this

[Kody @Kody0fficial]

Congratulations to the regular season champs Baltimore Ravens! Buffalo Bills stink, goodnight!

[Unnecessary Roughness @UnnecRoughness]

THE LIVE @BFW REACTION