Supreme Cmdr Posted September 1, 2004 Report Posted September 1, 2004 woohoo!! here comes the fun!! I'm in the direct path. Now would be a good time to go buy a surf board.
admiraltigerclaw Posted September 1, 2004 Report Posted September 1, 2004 I can see it now... KENDRIC: Beaach house, has been destroyed. ROOF, is damaged. Living room, is flooded.
Charles Lindsey Posted September 1, 2004 Report Posted September 1, 2004 Hmmm. I remember last time. Got your code all tucked safely away? quote:KENDRIC: Beaach house, has been destroyed. ROOF, is damaged. Living room, is flooded.Usually you are silly but that was pretty good!
admiraltigerclaw Posted September 1, 2004 Report Posted September 1, 2004 I don't maintain a perfect five star rating for being non-silly. Silly, plus well placed humour. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!! *Grabs a surf board* Surf's up! BRING ON THE STORM SUGRE!
Guest Posted September 1, 2004 Report Posted September 1, 2004 you and I derek. Seems Charlie is sending his big sister to trot over poor ol' Orlando too Really pissy situation too... we had just finally bought almost a months worth of frozen food (meat, fish, lobster, etc) and now we get another one coming on us to take our power away again. ARGH. Board up them windows, raise shields & tie resnig to the dish in the roof. Good luck Derek & others in Fla!
Guest Grayfox Posted September 1, 2004 Report Posted September 1, 2004 i do feel sorry for you guys down there... 2 hurricanes in what, 2 weeks? one reason im glad im landlocked... cept here we worry bout tornadoes. good luck you guys down there
Mordax Blyrr Posted September 2, 2004 Report Posted September 2, 2004 All the support I can send you is going your way.. which is not much... or basically, nothing material anyway But it's the thought that counts! Yeah! And I am sure everything is going to be fine! For real, though. Hang in there guys if it comes.
LostInSpace Posted September 2, 2004 Report Posted September 2, 2004 I hope you have a water tight underground bunker SC. Boy, you must wish you were here in NY right about now.
Supreme Cmdr Posted September 2, 2004 Author Report Posted September 2, 2004 Screwed?!?1 We're not screwed; we're f*cked. Again. I live in the city of Weston which is just outside Sunrise and about 30 mins from Fort Lauderdale and I'm on the direct path if it maintains its NNW course. I just came inside from helping my guys put up the shutters around my house. In 92 degrees weather. Yesterday, it was a mad, mad world, trying to get supplies. I can't wait to poison myself with Carbon Monoxide, once I get the gas grill going. Indoors. Yesterday morning and today, I did a full off-shore backup of all my systems; updated my laptop etc. If the roof goes, my laptop is coming along for the ride. I remember hurricane Andrew back when I used to live in Miami many years ago. Half the roof? Gone. I don't even want to think about that. Luckily, all the new homes (like the one I'm in) built post-Andrew, are up to special hurricane codes that are supposed to withstand CAT 5 hurricanes. We'll see. Frances had better not be Andrew's long lost boyfriend or it could be as bad as this.
admiraltigerclaw Posted September 3, 2004 Report Posted September 3, 2004 Odd, The eye appears to be collapsing... and there seems to be a lot of wind sheer on the northern side of the storm... The storm may well weaken before it makes it to florida. It's too strong to collapse right now, but from the looks, it may very possibly lose much of its punch... I wonder what the NWS has to say on some of that...
Guest Posted September 3, 2004 Report Posted September 3, 2004 it seems to have slowed down now but still strong wind-wise (which is bad) ....but it seems to have taken a more northerly course (which is good..well for fla that is). And theres ANOTHER hurricane coming in from the atlantic as well. I think Im beggining to like the solution proposed by the 7yr old girl i sometimes entertain while the 'old folks' chat in the living room: All of FLA should take out their fans, point them East and put them on HIGH. Push it away
admiraltigerclaw Posted September 3, 2004 Report Posted September 3, 2004 You know... if we had enough fans... that could actually work... But you'd need the really big high power fans rated with LOTS of horsepower. A few hundred JET ENGINES bolted to the ground wouldn't hurt either.
jamotto Posted September 3, 2004 Report Posted September 3, 2004 From a hypothetical view wouldn't this just strengthen the hurricane by helping its updraft? Besides i don't think you can escape mother nature that easily.
Scrivener Posted September 3, 2004 Report Posted September 3, 2004 It's the end of the world. I just know it. I have family who live down there. They were only JUST starting to rebuild... now they're flying back to California for another week. Hope there's still a house left to go back to.
Supreme Cmdr Posted September 3, 2004 Author Report Posted September 3, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Scrivener: It's the end of the world. I just know it. OK, we know that you hate most all movies, but proclaiming the end of the world for a hurricane that isn't even close to the most disastrous hurricane of all time - and which didn't end the world - is ludicrous.
admiraltigerclaw Posted September 3, 2004 Report Posted September 3, 2004 IT'S THE END! JUST GET OVER IT! THE WORLD IS OVER! However, I hear the next episode of The World picks up after a brief commercial break. It may be the end of The World, but the series goes on...
Darkling Posted September 3, 2004 Report Posted September 3, 2004 Well at least your in Weston, I'm in Coconut Creek and a lot closer to it than you SC
LostInSpace Posted September 4, 2004 Report Posted September 4, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Scrivener: It's the end of the world. I just know it. Nah. But it will reek havock with the tax payers again since we will be bearing the brunt of this storm in emergency funding. Also, insurance premiums will go up too after this one.
Charles Lindsey Posted September 4, 2004 Report Posted September 4, 2004 If she tracks the way they been plotting she gonna push up to Birmingham. Hopefully it weakens and it will be on par with a bad thunderstorm by then.
Supreme Cmdr Posted September 4, 2004 Author Report Posted September 4, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Darkling: Well at least your in Weston, I'm in Coconut Creek and a lot closer to it than you SC I didn't realize I had such close neighbors. You should stop by one day. Invited of course.
admiraltigerclaw Posted September 5, 2004 Report Posted September 5, 2004 *Watching the landfall of the EYE as I type... * I told you guys it was going to lose much of its wallop. It went from cat 4 to cat 2. If you still have power and network SC, give as an update. If you've lost contact, give us a nice full AAR.
Supreme Cmdr Posted September 5, 2004 Author Report Posted September 5, 2004 We're still getting very high wind gusts, lots of rain etc. All in all, it barely grazed us here in SE Florida but its currently pounding North Florida pretty bad.
Charles Lindsey Posted September 5, 2004 Report Posted September 5, 2004 Good news. She's only Category 1 but she's BIGGG!!! And the latest theory I just read is that she could travel relatively "straight" across florida, nip the gulf, and strengthen again. Ughhh. Projected path graphic from weather.com
Supreme Cmdr Posted September 5, 2004 Author Report Posted September 5, 2004 Yeah. And Ivan is up to 125mph winds. Yet another powerful storm. I guess I won't be taking the shutters down anytime soon.
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