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Prof, I do have the accordian shutters. 5minutes of work and instant bunker!
So here we are on a Friday night at 8:30 PM with a hurricane the size of Texas hovering over the Bahamas not doing a damn thing. Now it’s just a waiting game. Will it move on it’s projected course? Will it make a sudden turn like Charley? Will we wake up tomorrow and it will be gone? Who knows? Right now the streets are deserted, everything is closed and all you can do is walk around the neighborhood and visit to avoid getting cabin fever.
Happy Labor Day! Another beer please.
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Yep, this is the shit aint it.
I keep finding more things to do.
I removed my screen doors around the pool as the neighbors said this was a good thing to do and would reduce the likelyhood of losing the screen over the pool.
My neighbor saw me removing my screen doors and asked me to help her so I ended up taking her doors off too.
I reprogrammed the sprinkler system to not water the lawn until next weekend. Figured it will take at least that long to dry out.
Drained about 7 inches of water from the pool and will try getting a few more inches out tomorrow. Hopefully this will reduce flooding of the patio area.
I am sure I will find more busy work tomorrow.
Looks like the Hurricane will be bypassing Miami at least so you guys should be in the clear.
Hi again,
damn that is a big one. I recently saw it on radar for the first time and couldn’t believe its size.
Has everyone thought out an emergency, emergency plan?
For instance, if you should somehow get split up where you’d meet later?
to whom you’d all call so as another way to check in on each other.
If God forbid the house does start to take on water to a serious note; what your plan of action will be?
do you have life vests within reach if you somehow did find yourselves on top of the house to avoid the water?
Also If it came to that; and you kept moving upstairs, if worst came to worse, do you have tools that might be needed to cut your way thru to the outside of the roof?
all are far unlikely scenarios, however if it came to that; they’d likely save your life and are things that would only take a few minutes to prepare
that’s as much help as I can be, I pray for my friends down south.
I hope come monday you all are laughing at my wild suggestions.
Those are definately legitimate concerns in the midwest near a river during a flood, or even here during a hurricane if you live near the ocean. Fortunately they have mandatory evacuations of everyone out by the beaches so we hope no one will drown.
Orlando is inland so we expect about two feet of water or so on the ground around here so we can at least mark drowning off the list of problems tomorrow. Pissed off Gators, Snakes and Fire Ant Floaties are about as bad as the water part should be here.
If anyone is goofy enough to NOT evacuate in the beach areas where the hurricane is expected to make land fall then I would say they are pretty much toast. They tell us that storm surge of about 14 feet is expected but could be higher. Imagine a two story tall wall of water coming at you at 110 Mph…. Not too appealing.
Hi
I’ve got some (limited amounts due to missing out on much of filming it because I was helping the neighbors move all these fancy cars like jags et. ) footage of a flood we had that the water had built up on the other side of the R&R tracks and then a coal train came along and after getting the train over the worst part of the situation the conductors decided it wasn’t safe so they unhooked the engines and left the cars of coal. sure enough the water when it crested the tracks began to turn the cars over as the R. ties which hold the rails in place, began to shoot up across the sky about 30 to maybe 50 ft in the air (not straight up but like missles fired across a pasture at you) and when enough had stopped supporting the coal cars, they fell over.
I had in places, coal that was 2 to almost 3 ft deep in out field.
this all happened about 2 hours after the raining had stopped. It was sunny and quite pleasant out.
when you are dealing with water and don’t know for sure how it will effect your surroundings you should expect almost anything.
the last thing I expected that day was to have railroad ties shot at me from across a pasture but that’s exactly what happened.
The phrase “natural disaster” has always amused me. Storms, floods, fires, earth quakes, blizzards, volcanoes are all part of nature. They have occured for millions of years before man was here and will occur millions of years after we are all gone. The only reason that they are “disasters” is because we build are homes in places we shouldn’t (sides of mountains, ocean front, etc.). If we didn’t, then it would just be “natural”.
Frances is now 100 miles east of Ft. Lauderdale and moving at about 6 mph North by Northwest. Wind gusts are about 50 to 60 mph.
I still have power (tv, stove, refrig, computers) cable and the Internet. Life is still good … at the moment!
Hi folks
I’m still here. We lost power for about an hour this morning. Winds are about 30 mph gusting to 50. Sofar we have had very little rain. Yesterday I put up all the plywood on the windows, I was so tired I went to bed at 8:30 and didn’t wakeup till 7 this morning. When this blows over we will have to undo all that we put away. Have a good day. Will monitor untill we lose power again.
Originally posted by Professor
…we expect about two feet of water or so on the ground around here…Might not sound like much, but (as I’m sure you know) people drown in bathtubs. It’s not the depth, it’s the current strength.
And remember, more people die in hurricanes from water/storm surge that from wind, lightning, tornados, or projectiles combined.
I am hoping for the Captain to check in with news today sometime… looks like Florida is hit pretty badly again.
The power outages affected Orlando and the eastern coast of Florida.
At 5:30 a.m. Sunday, Florida Power and Light, which serves 8 million customers or about half the state, reported 1,559,600 customers were without power.
Hi Dom,
I tried to call Lou, but no answer probally due to the power outage. I left him a message on his answering service to give me a call as soon as he has power back on. This storm is really bad as all can see on the weather channel this morning. We may nor here from any of our Florida friends for at least a couple of days. We all need to keep our friends in our prayers.Thank you Alan!
We will watch this space…
well its good that this storm petered out – quickly went from a 4 to a 3, 2, and now a 1 … its still dumping plenty of rain, but I would think everyone is out of immediate danger.
Now IVAN is on its way … Hurricane season is getting busy (its just now in the middle of season) – I wonder if they have ever seen a “Z” name ??
Hey Everyone,
Lou call me this evening and his family are okay. Lou says hi to everyone here. Right now he has no internet service, but will post tommorrow if possible.That is good news, Alan! Thanks for keeping us updated!
Very glad to hear that everyone’s alright – apart from power outages and property damange.
You might want to keep those boards handy……Ivan’s on the way.
