Is everyone in the CF clump ready for this? Me, I'm not really worried yet. I'll be worried when I see the hurricane is actually going to hit my area. Until then, I've seen too many of these things blow away and hit Texas to really be concerned yet. Though, I am helping the famdamily get everything stored away and tied down.
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quote:Rappaport said it is not uncommon to have several storms brewing in the Atlantic region but it is unusual to have two of them threatening the same state simultaneously.
"We don't have anything in our records -- and the hurricane center was established about 50 years ago -- to suggest that we've had a similar occurrence during that period.
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The other one (the one that is not headed towards Central Florida) is just a little, bitty tropical storm. Most of us are too far inland to really need to be worried about it.
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I remember battening down the hatches at work the year Floyd was supposed to come through. All the computers were unplugged and put up on desks in case of flooding.
Of course, then it just headed right up the coast. We didn't even really get any rain from it.
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Good luck Icarus. Let us know how it goes (that goes for the rest of the people that might be potentially impacted by this as well).
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Oh no!!!! All you CFCers, hurricane party at my house (in Birmingham). Just evacuate! Who cares if it misses you totally. By the time you find out you wish you had, it's always far too late!
I can't believe I missed this! Saudade and Andrei, if you read this get up here right away!
Yikes, yikes, yikes! What a bad mom I am to have missed this before now! Eek!
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We are in a fairly strong home and well stocked with food and water. We cook with gas ('so you taste the meat and not the heat'), too, so at least we will have hot food.
The really bad part is that the phone lines in this area disconnect if you look at them cross-eyed, so I expect that once the storm actually hits this area, we will have no phone service, and thus no internet access, for a while.
They say it is turning eastish now. Good news for CFCers, bad news for people in the Ft. Myers/Miami area.
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PSI, the news report I just saw said that since it is now so strong, it may just cross over the state and hit the Atlantic where it will gain strength again and then head right up the the eastern seaboard.
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I'm almost glad to be in an apartment right now. I feel more secure with fewer windows.
Joe, our house is almost done. We should be closing in a matter of weeks. It's basically done but for some interior work. It should still be there after the weekend. If not, at least I'm not the owner yet.
Holy crap, it shows it coming right over the top of Orlando now.
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Yeah, they just had video from the top of some building and you can see the curve of the edge of the hurricane starting to glom over Orlando. You know that big ass ship in Independence Day over the city? Like that. A big, dark, evil mass.
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No. I looked. The ones on the local TV channels are even older. But ON the TV the path they are showing is more easterly.
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Prayers sent your way, Icarus! Hope you and Cor have plenty of board games and such to entertain the girls while the power's out.
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The Weatherbug blog has frequent, intersting updates (for all that their constant pop-ups are annoying).
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They don't really grasp the situation. We've explained to them that a big storm is coming, and that the power may go out. They are concerned that this means they will not be able to watch TV, but since it's not raining right now, they are not too concerned.
We have TONS of board games.
And if we don't lose power, I can watch the Yankees' game (or the Marlins' game) tonight on MLB.com! Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
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If a tornado comes, get in the tub! With a mattress on your head! That's my tornado-survival plan.
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If a tornado comes, will you have time to get a mattress through the bathroom door? Maybe you should keep one in there.
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Actually, our one and only bathtub is on the second floor, so I don't think we'll be doing that. We have a closet on the first floor, under the stairs, that will be our preferred hideout.
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I was in a house as it was destroyed by Hurricane Andrew. I'm not real thrilled to be going through something like this again.
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We were down there for Hurricane Andrew, too. My dad was working for the Corp and he got to clean up the mess.
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Is anybody [local] watching channel six right now? Is this the most idiotic thing you've ever seen?
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