Howlin, here is the pic I couldn't post this morning. My living room window...
Posted on 08/13/2004 10:08:09 AM PDT by Jeff400000
The tens of billions invested Disneyland, Universal Studios, and ten thousand small businesses in Orlando and Kissimmee that depend on AAugust and September tourist traffic are what are in more danger.
Thanks goodness many schools opened this week, and so there was less existing tourists threatended.
Thanks Howlin !!
Anderson is just a whiny little albino metrosexual that thinks he's more important than he really is.
Exactly...I think it must've been meant for the lake towns in far western Palm Beach County.
But it came across as a regular warning.
I had to go re-check the radar to make sure it was well north.
Like you said, they're getting screwy.
Come on down. :-)
Damage from Hail Wind tornados
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html
Oh boy....you're asking ME? I was only there, once. Our friends live in Tampa, we stayed in Dunedee (sp),
west of Tampa, not that far.
SOMEWHERE on this thread is a map and I noticed the city...
It probably will pass over the Gulf Stream for a time but explosive development is not likely. It's going to start screaming NE (if it is not moving fast enough already) and that's not favorable for major development. It should begin affecting southern New England at this time tomorrow night.
It will not have much time before it hits water and the situation is not as conducive to strengthening.
Probably will hit as a Cat 1....maybe Cat 2 as well as it is staying organized though.
He's on CNN; Punta Gorda took a hard hit, friend. I'm sure your nephew is fine though.
Good advice!
The media lamebrains reflexivly interpret the absence of immediate news to mean "nothing bad happened" - they cannot comprehend that sometimes when all power is lost over a wide area, the bad news can't be discovered right away . . . then, when they later find out about all the damage they failed to take seriously, they try to minimize it to cover their butts for missing it in the first place. Hurricane Hugo was the classic example of this, but the pattern always repeats.
Wow.
Wind is worse here in Daytona.Any freepers north of Daytona,
get ready and HANG ON.Getting worse by the minute here !!
Howlin, here is the pic I couldn't post this morning. My living room window...
How far is Edgewater from you?
I'm just hoping that it mainly leaves the coast of GA alone. Although I'm afraid if it does, my husband is going to be slightly disappointed in some small part of his being, to find that he's done all this battening down stuff for naught. ;-)
just found this thread. Very worried about my mom, sisters and other family member living in Port Charlotte. Any update as to what's happening at this point?
Thanks, www.preparetoleave.com
It's already looking like it is restrengthening a bit on the NE quad. The storm will never regain its symmetry but will still pack a punch up the coast. I think you are right about Cat1 or 2. I'd guess cat2 (around 100-110mph) upon second landfall.
Also most networks sent their "A" talent to Tampa to do the standing outside in the wind thing (which I think is an abomination that has reduced the useful info given to the public by about 95%, but that's another story), and all of those folks are damn POed they didn't get their storm.
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