Posted on 08/10/2004 4:09:42 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Billy Wagner, the senior emergency management director for Monroe County, said people in the Florida Keys needed to pay particular attention to Charley, “and be ready to take quick protective action, if needed.” He said it was too early to project the storm’s course, but portions of the Keys could fall under warnings Wednesday or Thursday.
At 5 p.m. EDT, Charley was centered about 440 miles east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, moving west-northwest near 26 mph. A tropical storm watch was declared in Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and the southwest peninsula of Haiti, forecasters said.
Charley had maximum sustained winds near 50 mph and was expected to strengthen over the next day. Tropical storm force winds extended 105 miles from the center.
Power companies were gearing up for the storms. Gulf Power, which covers about 400,000 customers in the western Panhandle, started organizing a storm center to help oversee power recovery if Bonnie or Charley caused outages, said spokesman John Hutchinson.
This is one of Tom Ridge's false reports to scare the voters in a swing state and drive up numbers! I'll bet those storm charts are three years old!
I'm near Fort Lauderdale, but I'm betting that Charlie has Sarasota/Tampa-St. Pete in it's sights. Be Seeing You,
Chris
Indeed. Four days after 9/11, we got slammed by Tropical Storm Gabrielle. It cut right across Venice.
Where they expect Charlie in less than 70 hrs...according to satellite imagery and the current lightning speed of this storm they are thinking of putting this storm a bit further east by 50 miles by this timing here. If that is the case and the cold front due at the same time will swoop this thing North and East. I honestly don't see it having time to grow into a monster due to the speed and it just going over Cuba and then being over water for 12-28 hrs. Not enough time for all hell to break loose. But might be enough to cause some issues in central florida.
It was posted in breaking at first but they moved it. Maybe the mods think everyone watches the news and will know about it.
Baseball threads stayed in breaking.
I was living in Naples at the time...any other time and the storm would have been top news...to me it was just another rainy 2 days.
Umm, it's Castro's slaves that will suffer, not him...
You want me to get more of it, eh? LOL
I'm hoping it loses some of its steam once it crosses Cuba. Regardless, we're going to get a ton of rain ... and we've already had a ton lately. The Myakka River, for one, has been under a flood warning for more than a week.
Is it okay to bump this back to Breaking News when the storms get closer so as not to create duplicate / multiple threads on this?
Thanks much.
They should put it in BREAKING anyway. Charley could affect millions of people.
And, of course, I leave Friday with my family to give Michael Eisner a large chunk of my life savings. I guess I should look at the good news. Once it blows over, maybe the crowds will go down in the Magic Kingdom!
(I'm a few miles north and east of you.)
Is GOES a free download? Where ?
We downloaded this one today
http://www.hurricanesoftware.com/?Promo=twc
I was living in south florida during Andrew...the line of the night was when channel 6 at the time went to this guys house around 12:45 am-1 am...the reporter asked the man what did he expect to happen over the next 12 hrs? The man's reply was a classic line for the ages.
As he was trying to light a cigarette with matches...the wind was just starting to hit the area..and the matches kept burning out. He answered the reporter with:
"I think it's gonna blow pretty friggen hard"
Just picture some guy in a small home in Miami riding out 250 mph winds and trying to light a cigarette talking to some reporter bimbo and saying that....magic.
My daughter, believe it or not, was born on 9/11 ... five hours before the attacks. Then, out of nowhere, this tropical storm shows up ... by that Friday morning, I was camped out in an interior bathroom riding out the storm with my wife, our then-3-year-old son and our newborn. They were all troupers.
You live in Manatee County?
I completely agree. It will probably be breaking news after it hits, then maybe they won't move it.
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