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08/28/2008 12:53:09 PM · #26 |
we were about to book our vacation there. I think i'll wait a few weeks to make sure it's still there.
Originally posted by thegrandwazoo:
Originally posted by Nobody:
This has to be the ugliest probability map I have ever seen...
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Poor Jamaica! |
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08/28/2008 01:10:01 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by MattO:
*****This is not a personal poke at anyone. This is a generalized statement******
Why is it that people build or rebuild in a location that we know is prone to flooding, natural disasters, tornado, or whatever, and then want people to feel sorry for them when it happens?
Its like living in a trailer park in Kansas or Oklahoma, building in the flood plain of the Mississippi, or living on any of the coasts that are in hurricane alley. The US government spends Billions of dollars rebuilding something thats BELOW sea level and is in the path of hurricanes and tropical storms, just more of our tax dollars wasted. I just dont understand why we do what we do as humans sometimes.
****End of my personal views of this******
On another note, I do hope that this turns away and doesnt cause any problems for anyone.
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The only thing about this...is that there are disasterous possibilities in every region of the US. Floods, tornadoes, blizzards, hurricanes, earthquakes, drought, even volcanoes. True, some more than others, but a risk just the same.
Message edited by author 2008-08-28 13:12:20. |
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08/28/2008 01:23:10 PM · #28 |
At least this is just a tropical storm at Jamacia. They do have mountains there though, so big rains mean flash flooding and maybe landslides or mud slides. It will be much stronger at landfall after it crosses the warm Gulf of Mexico.
I live in a yard full of huge oak trees, so there is a possibility of getting a new house plant, through the roof when there is big wind here. This is what my back yard looks like.
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08/28/2008 01:51:13 PM · #29 |
I personally like this software better to predict the course :)
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08/28/2008 02:08:47 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by JaimeVinas:
I personally like this software better to predict the course :)
Gustav |
Cool link Mr.V, but I don't like one of the predictions!
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08/28/2008 05:23:54 PM · #31 |
Well that unguided missile's right ontop of us now. Must be an unscheduled stop :(
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08/28/2008 05:29:20 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by dmadden:
Well that unguided missile's right ontop of us now. Must be an unscheduled stop :( |
Hold on tight man! |
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08/28/2008 07:20:37 PM · #33 |
Yeah, commence hunkering.
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08/28/2008 07:40:41 PM · #34 |
thanks!
Seems pretty light so far, our mountains must be ripping his a** up. And then there's the rip off departure tax :) I think U should not have come here LOL. |
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08/28/2008 07:44:25 PM · #35 |
David, I am happy to see that you still have net service and power. I am feeling that there will be some flash flooding around the mountains, so be careful about that.
Post a few pix when it gets ok to go out again.
Something good did come from the Fay storm here. I have a 6 X 7 color photo in the county weekly this week. This one;
 It's about how good sunsets look after a storm goes by here in S W Florida.
Message edited by author 2008-08-28 19:48:58.
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08/28/2008 08:35:28 PM · #36 |
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08/28/2008 09:48:43 PM · #37 |
That orange dot in South Central Louisiana...that's ME!
5-Day Track (Weather Underground)
Gas stations are all out of fuel here tonight. I heard there was a line of 200 at Lowe's waiting on Generators. I have 20 windows I need to board up and no lumber. I was planning to head out tomorrow for these supplies...and I thought I WASN'T waiting into the last minute. I was wrong!
Storms that ring fresh in my mind every time we are under the threat...Andrew 1992, Lily (2002) and Rita (2005). We didn't feel much of the effects of Katrina here. I don't even think it rained here. I do remember a nice bright sunset that I photographed.
Message edited by author 2008-08-28 22:00:12.
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08/28/2008 09:59:43 PM · #38 |
Hope everyone holds on to something solid! Looks like we now have Hanna heading straight at us... still flooded outside from Fay. :/
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08/28/2008 11:43:57 PM · #39 |
One of the worst things about being already sogged for a while before a storm arrives is that trees are easily blown over because the ground is saturated and soft. The worst storm that I can remember being in was Donna, in 1960. I watched several homes around ours being destroyed in that one, and it was a couple of weeks before power was restored. In those days, it was pretty much everyone local helped everyone else, and we all got through the tough aftermath without much expensive government intervention. We brought the generator in from the hunting camp that my Dad ran, and we had everything that we needed at our place.
Cindi, I hope your fish find their way to a local pond somewhere when the water recedes in the woods behind your home.
I think that we will be getting a lot of rain from both systems here where I live, and possibly be in the path of one or the other before it is over. Just think, hurricane season is just getting underway for this year too.
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08/29/2008 12:39:06 AM · #40 |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
The worst storm that I can remember being in was Donna, in 1960. |
I rode that one out at age 5 with my parents in Eastern NC. It partially destroyed the house we were in. At age 5 I thought it was the most exciting thing I'd ever experienced. The windows in the old house were buzzing like a paint shaker just before the eye passed over us. I've got another thread about hurricane hunters here.
There is a flight headed out to Gustov right now.
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08/29/2008 09:46:49 PM · #41 |
 kenskid sent PM. |
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08/30/2008 12:35:09 AM · #42 |
just got my hotel on San antonio and swear I saw at least two hundred buses headed to Houston tonight
They are preparing for this one for sure
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08/30/2008 01:00:06 AM · #43 |
I hope that this one does not hit New Orleans. I was in Hattiesburg MS during Katrina and that was horrible. Alot of my friends from New Orleans have already evacuated ahead of Gustav
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08/30/2008 02:02:21 PM · #44 |
| Gustav has hit Category 4, and that's before it runs the length of the Loop Current. All DPCers in the area better get out NOW. Stay safe! |
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08/30/2008 07:33:04 PM · #45 |
We bugged out last night, beating the traffic. My house is north of I-12 (Slidell), so it should be safe from water. Wind is a different story. I work at the NASA facility in N.O., and during Katrina, it was the only dry land around. It became the base of operations for a lot of the military.
-Chad |
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08/30/2008 07:59:09 PM · #46 |
Not picking on yanks but something always puzzled jamaicans and caribbean people about american homes. Why do most home owners build houses out of lumber and drywall? Especially those of u that live in areas affected by tornadoes and hurricanes. And especially the one's that lose their homes, why would you even rebuild the same structure?
I admit that in jamaica there are some shacks, but the average home here is block, concrete and steel. A lot of homeowners go as far as to have slab roof topped off with decorative roofing. |
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08/30/2008 11:43:47 PM · #47 |
Originally posted by dmadden:
Not picking on yanks but something always puzzled jamaicans and caribbean people about american homes. Why do most home owners build houses out of lumber and drywall? Especially those of u that live in areas affected by tornadoes and hurricanes. And especially the one's that lose their homes, why would you even rebuild the same structure?
I admit that in jamaica there are some shacks, but the average home here is block, concrete and steel. A lot of homeowners go as far as to have slab roof topped off with decorative roofing. |
That's a question we have been asking for dome time now
When in the caribbean my house was pure concrete
Well I am in San antonio I am scheduled to go home on Monday but if that thing is going to hit Houston I am going to stay put
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08/31/2008 12:35:09 AM · #48 |
| i wondered if it had something to do with the summer winter climate changes. But your office buildings are concrete so that does'nt explain it. I guess yanks just love to be different LOL |
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08/31/2008 12:46:40 AM · #49 |
Originally posted by dmadden:
Why do most home owners build houses out of lumber and drywall? |
It depends upon the area. It's as rare to see a brick home in New England as it is to see a wooden house in the Carolinas. We've learned nothing from the Three Little Pigs. |
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08/31/2008 12:56:20 AM · #50 |
| I will try to make a point next time I am in that part of town to take a picture of what my family has come to call "The Hurricane House". It appears to be constructed of solid concrete in a manner to deflect winds upwards. I always forget what street it is on but I'm sure my mother remembers. |
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