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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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OK, thanks, guys.
Gonna get a shower after all that shutter hanging.
Let me know if anything happens!
You should know better than to take a shower when you expect news on FR. It's like leaving moose near sisters.
Jen, you can get streaming video on c-span.org.
You ought to do it for the President tomorrow nite.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll do that tomorrow night. Tonight I've just got to get this program working...
"the young 'uns all got new camo.." SNIF, that's just Beautiful, Man.
Corin - that reallly bites. But, a bit of advice, keep a cool head, revenge is dish best savored cold.
g'nad, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Y'all stay safe down there, a strategic withdrawl can be a prudent course of action under proper circumstances.
hmmm. btw, this is Osage. :-)
Zel Miller ROCKED.
Dick Cheney STEADY.
God Bless America
G'nite
Yeah, but we'd have to withdraw about all the way to Virginia or Tennessee to get out of the way of this thing.\
Or maybe Key West.
That means tomorrow morning at the latest, IMO. I don't think all my dogs would fit in the car, anyway, esp. as one of 'em is over 100 lbs.
Well... seems I got back from dinner just in time to funkle myself to sleep... :-)
Dang, really upset that I missed the speeches. I hope the video is posted by morning on the rnc website. It reads like Zell really nailed it.
I heard he gave a good speech, Jeanne is all excited about it and she's not even very political.
Myself, I'm very concerned with Frances and where she'll go.
Been calming myself down (or something) on the related threads, which seem to be inhabited by a surprising number of freepers from FL, including many who went through Andrew.
I've been watching those Frances threads too. Seems to be that this is not one to be misunderestimated. Is it still pointed more or less at Melbourne?
I've skimmed the comments so far, and I'm seeing what might be seen to us as an alarming lack of "getting out of town" by y'all... I hope all of you stay safe... :-)
Yeah, they've still got it more or less headed to Melbourne, but they are fairly vague about it.
I'd like to get out of town, but there's not much room to maneuver from South Florida, as you can only go one direction, in this case the same approximate direction that the TPC has got slated for Frances. I figure it'll take 2 full days of driving to get out of her way, which means leaving tomorrow morning at about the latest, or else risk being caught in a massive traffic jam or something and weathering the storm on the highway. Most of us won't be ready to leave by tomorrow morning.
If we could flee south or southwest, we could do that much later in time, no problem. I suppose going to Keys is an option, though!
'Course I've got 4 dogs here, which is another problem.
Well... whenever a really bad storm was heading in, we always just got the ship underway and weathered it at sea... :-) Maybe that's not the best advice this time though, unless the boat is really fast. :-)
Yeah, if I lived down in the Keys, I'd keep a capable and fast boat handy. Far and away it would be the safest way out. 'Course, you'd have to pick up a car at some point. But that Keys highway (US 1, the only way out) is extremely unreliable and prone to being blocked by even a single accident.
Tell you the truth, I wouldn't want to weather this hurricane in even a USCG cutter. Remember when that small windjammer cruise ship sank with all hands during Mitch?
Good night, Ramius, going to get some sleep.
See you tomorrow, probably.
(((Corin))) Makes me think of Kathy Bates' line in Fried Green Tomatoes after she'd repeatedly rammed the little car of a couple of twiggy thin cuties who'd zipped into the parking place for which she had been patiently waiting, then snidely remarked to her "Face it, we're younger and quicker (or something like that). Her comment to them when they came running back upset about their car was, "Face it, honey, I'm older and I have more insurance".
gosh, no, I don't remember the Mitch incident... but I'll add that a CG cutter isn't always the best place to be in a storm. the 210' that I was on was only rated to take an 80kt wind broadside. That class is too high, too top heavy and has too shallow a draft to take the really serious stuff. Kinda the wrong ships to be playing in those waters.
There were a few times up in the Gulf (of alaska in this case) when it got pretty f'n hairy. Word has it that a sister ship that was on a patrol up there in the same storm actually got knocked down... went over 90 degrees. By a stroke of sheer luck, a lucky set of big waves knocked her back over and up on her feet again... but pretty creepy anyway.
For my part, the biggest number I ever personally saw on the inclinometer was 58 degrees. Didn't enjoy it. :-)
Niters, Sam...
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