Here comes Earl

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical ^ | aug 14, 2004 | Mother Nature

[jpsb]

Say Hello to Earl

[stands2reason]

OMG -- they got both my husband and his ex-wife! Ewww.

I also see two nephews, a niece and a cousin.

They never do me! (stomps foot)

[ArmyBratproud]

6000.

Yeah. Different times. A lot was learned from that.

[socal_parrot]

Retired Atlantic hurricane names
Name	Year	Location(s) affected
Agnes	1972	Florida, Northeast USA
Alicia	1983	North Texas
Allen	1980	Antilles, Mexico, south Texas
Andrew	1992	Bahamas, south Florida, Louisiana
Anita	1977	Mexico
Audrey	1957	Louisiana, north Texas
Betsy	1965	Bahamas, southeast Florida, southeast Louisiana
Beulah	1967	Antilles, Mexico, South Texas
Bob	1991	North Carolina, Northeast USA
Camille	1969	Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
Carla	1961	Texas
Carmen	1974	Mexico, central Louisiana
Carol*	1954	Northeast USA
Celia	1970	South Texas
Cesar	1996	Central America [Crossed into the Pacific Ocean, becoming Douglas]
Cleo	1964	Lesser Antilles, Haiti, Cuba, southeast Florida
Connie	1955	North Carolina
David	1979	Lesser Antilles, Hispaniola, Florida, Eastern USA
Diana	1990	Mexico
Diane	1955	Mid-Atlantic & Northeast USA
Donna	1960	Bahamas, Florida, Eastern USA
Dora	1964	Northeast Florida
Elena	1985	Mississippi, Alabama, western Florida
Eloise	1975	Antilles, northwest Florida, Alabama
Flora	1963	Haiti, Cuba
Floyd	1999	Bahamas, North Carolina, mid-Atlantic & Northeast USA
Fran	1996	North Carolina, mid-Atlantic USA
Frederic	1979	Alabama, Mississippi
Georges	1998	Greater Antilles, Florida Keys, Mississippi, Alabama
Gilbert	1988	Lesser Antilles, Jamaica, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Gloria	1985	North Carolina, Northeast USA
Hattie	1961	Belize, Guatemala
Hazel	1954	Antilles, North Carolina, South Carolina
Hilda	1964	Louisiana
Hortense	1996	Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic
Hugo	1989	Antilles, South Carolina
Ione	1955	North Carolina
Inez	1966	Lesser Antilles, Hispaniola, Cuba, Florida Keys, Mexico
Janet	1955	Lesser Antilles, Belize, Mexico
Joan	1988	Curacao, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua [Crossed into the Pacific Ocean, becoming Miriam]
Keith	2000	Mexico
Klaus	1990	Martinique
Lenny	1999	Antilles
Luis	1995	Barbuda, St. Martin
Marilyn	1995	U.S. Virgin Islands
Mitch	1998	Honduras, Nicaragua, San Salvador, Mexico, Florida
Opal	1995	Northwest Florida, Alabama
Roxanne	1995	Yucatan Peninsula
*The name "Carol" was used again to denote a hurricane in the mid-Atlantic Ocean in 1965. However, because the name does not appear after that time, it is assumed that the name was retired retrospectively for the damages caused by the 1954 storm of the same name.

[rwfromkansas]

It has to be one for the record books.

Now, a cold summer seems to lead to a warm winter, which with El Nino coming probably, makes a lot of sense.

The current weather pattern would create just unbelievably brutal cold if this was wintertime......just brutal, record-breaking Katie bar the door cold.

But, I doubt it will stay that way through winter. There is almost always a pattern shift between summer and winter.

I like harsh winters (provided lots of snow falls...), so I hope I am wrong about it being a warm winter in reaction to the cool summer.

[socal_parrot]

Maybe in the near future?....

Atlantic/Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico

2003 - 2008

2003 Ana Bill Claudette Danny Erika Fabian Grace Henri Isabel Juan Kate Larry Mindy Nicholas Odette Peter Rose Sam Teresa Victor Wanda

2004 Alex Bonnie Charley Danielle Earl Frances Gaston Hermine Ivan Jeanne Karl Lisa Matthew Nicole Otto Paula Richard Shary Tomas Virginie Walter

2005 Arlene Bret Cindy Dennis Emily Franklin Gert Harvey Irene Jose Katrina Lee Maria Nate Ophelia Philippe Rita Stan Tammy Vince Wilma

2006 Alberto Beryl Chris Debby Ernesto Florence Gordon Helene Isaac Joyce Kirk Leslie Michael Nadine Oscar Patty Rafael Sandy Tony Valerie William

2007 Andrea Barry Chantal Dean Erin Felix Gabrielle Humberto Ingrid Jerry Karen Lorenzo Melissa Noel Olga Pablo Rebekah Sebastien Tanya Van Wendy

2008 Arthur Bertha Cristobal Dolly Edouard Fay Gustav Hanna Ike Josephine Kyle Lili* Marco Nana Omar Paloma Rene Sally Teddy Vicky Wilfred

[jpsb]

"The current weather pattern would create just unbelievably brutal cold if this was wintertime"

I hope you are wrong, I haven't had to turn the central heat on in three years. Save lot's of money that way.

[AnAmericanMother]

NOAA website says over 8,000 dead. Some bodies were never found, and of course with the poor record keeping of the time there were dead that no-one missed.

NOAA - Galveston Storm of 1900

American Heritage magazine, my old standby for American history, had a very comprehensive article with many photographs. The most pitiful one was a dead child's outflung hand from under a pile of debris, the most horrible the barges loaded with bodies. I read it as a young child and it gave me nightmares.

[AnAmericanMother]

If we have another winter with no snow, my kids are going to be most annoyed.

My daughter is just barely old enough to remember the blizzard we had here in early '93. She was 5 - we sledded down our street (4 inches of snow). Of course she wasn't here for Snowjam '82 - 6 inches of beautiful snow that started at 3 p.m. and caused the biggest traffic jam in Atlanta history. We waited it out at a trade show at the Georgia World Congress Center downtown, then drove home through deserted streets (we still had snow tires on the car from when we lived in N.J.) We cross-country skiied on local roads from Virginia-Highlands all the way to the golf course at Emory University and then spent a happy afternoon schussing down the front of the 7th tee (in those days you could buy skis with wire bindings that converted from Xcountry to downhill by removing the rear binding.)

Atlanta is great for ad hoc skiing or sledding, but we just don't get enough snow. Every fifth year or so there's something that covers the ground enough to slide on.

[jpsb]

Those pics are amazing, utter total destruction, an entire city destroyed, it looks like Hiroshima.

[AnAmericanMother]

The pix in the AH article are even scarier, but it's not on line and not likely to be (the issue was from some time in the 50s or early 60s).

The anecdote I remember best from the article - the Bishop of Galveston and several priests had taken refuge in the cathedral. As they stood there, the wind tore the bell tower from the roof and the bells fell around them. The bishop turned to his rector and said, "Prepare these priests for death." AFAIK they all survived. The rector, Father Kirwin, was a major force in disaster relief after the storm.

[rwfromkansas]

The NAO config is just perfect for brutal cold, if this were winter.

That is why it has been so cool this summer.

[CindyDawg]

Well, you know what? If I have evacuate now, I'll need a shelter where I can take my horse:')

[AnAmericanMother]

:-D

Seriously, I would make arrangements with a boarding stable in a safe area, just for pasture board. If you've got a trailer, no reason you couldn't do that.

My parents have arrangements to stay with a friend in Madison, about halfway to Atlanta from the coast. Of course, they don't have a horse to deal with, but Madison is full of stables and there are plenty of farmers with barns.

[CindyDawg]

Yeah, I'm going to check around.I talked with the owner here. She said she would just turn hers out and horses have a survival instinct and he would probably be ok but that there is always the risk of getting hit by flying debris.

The problem is that you never know how far inland these storms will travel and going up coast a gamble because if the storm turns you have moved closer to it. I can't go south or I would be in Mexico. I'm kind of blocked in.

[AnAmericanMother]

Can you get to hill country? A barn on the back side of a hill would be pretty safe.

I wouldn't go up the coast either. Inland is better.

[CindyDawg]

How close are you to the coast? You are in Ga, aren't you?. I'm exactly 1 mile from the port and then nothing but Gulf. Okie about 8 miles inland.

[CindyDawg]

LOL. We have concrete hills probably here til El Paso. San Antonio area my closest probably. I'm going to talk with some of the boarders that have money horses and see where they go.

[AnAmericanMother]

We're up in Atlanta, which is in the foothills of the Appalachians.

My parents live on a tidal island on the GA coast. We were just down there visiting, but scampered back ahead of the hurricane (that missed them after all, turned east further than anyone expected.)

[mewzilla]

I remember Agnes. Retired, but not forgotten.

[Gabz]

I notice that I'm scheduled again in 2007.....hopefully I won't do as much damage then as hubby did in Florida on Friday.