Check the weird path of Camille in 1969:
Compare that with Agnes in '72:
Posted on 08/14/2004 1:42:49 AM PDT by kattracks
joe has a florida ping list. I'm up around Tampa-- we got next to nothing yesterday. NautiNurse also came out okay, and she's farther south in Palmetto.
>>"The doors were being sucked open">>>>>> I guess no one told them they should open the windows a crack on the down wind side, to keep this from happening.
How does that feel? You know, to be so damn right about everything?
My elderly mother is in a state near there, but she'll be talked into evacuating before another hurricane hits there.
Right.
I spent a summer down in Punta Gorda back in the 80s, I can't even imagine the devastation that must have happened there.
Florida FReeper checking in. It missed the Tampa area completely. My sweetie's family is in Arcadia, where it was really bad, but they're all okay, too.
FoxNews reported that the person who first made the "stacks of bodies" claim is now backing off that statement. There are casualties, but early reports may have been exaggerated.
No matter what sophisticated models Man can come up with, nature has the final say.
You need to lighten up; you've been pontificating all night long; you don't have all the answers.
Fox and Friends just reported that two semi-refrigerator trucks are on their way to Punta Gorda to take away bodies.
Everybody in mobile homes was told to evacuate.
Thank heavens! Appreciate the update.
No, it wasn't.
"We spent several hours in traffic evacuating from Floyd, which didn't hit here."
You were wise to leave just in case. I have lived in Florida for 54 years ( all my life) and nothing I can recall has ever looked any scarier than the radar image of Floyd hovering out there waiting to smash the whole state at once. That was a huge and terrible storm and I thank God that it never hit us directly, it did enough damage from where it was. There have been many bad storms but also many misses and cases where we all lucked out, too. I remember going to the Keys in 1960 and seeing pics of the damage from Hurricane Donna. Not nice at all. I was glad to be in Gainesville when Andrew went through S. Fla. I used to work for an insurance company and I can only imagine what a nightmare that was for everyone, even small tropical depressions can make a big mess.
My brother lives (I hope) in Charlotte Harbor about 150 feet from the harbor. These people were totally caught off guard by this. He was worried on Wednesday and decided they would take shelter in a local nursing home when the storm came. (but you can see that major buildings had huge damage) He took the most important momentos with him but they still had no idea it would be this bad. We haven't heard from him.
His whole mobile home park neighborhood was old folks. Alot of these old folks are not very mobile so he looks after them. That is probably why they stay...they have no family...no support system...I don't even know if the emergency managers will transport them if they don't have resources?
God Bless them.
Fox News banner: "High volume of deaths reported in Punta Gorda Trailer Park"
['high volume'?]
Also: "Hundreds of people reported missing in Florida."
CNN was reporting about 1/2 hr. ago that Emergency Officials in Punta Gorda had ordered 60 body bags. Take that for what it's worth. Let's hope it's just another symptom of the left's obsession with body bags. But unfortunately, I have a sinking feeling all those body bags will be put into service.
projection of a hurricane is never an exact science; the weather guys couldn't believe it had changed course and gained power so quickly.
I hate to say it but I'm afraid some people down there believed it to be no more than a Cat 2 that they could ride out in a mobile home.
Unfortunately, to no one's fault the storm changed direction and power.
Prayers to all involved in the rescue and clean-up down there.
Fran: 37
Floyd: 57
That is just NOT true; articles in their own papers showed that people were deciding NOT to evacuate.
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