Posted on 09/07/2004 5:45:54 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Hurricane Ivan has become a Category 4 Hurricane again! Winds over 130 mph and gusts up to 160 currently. The models have shifted the last 36 hrs like never before. My fellow Floridians might not like the 8 pm model that has just come out:
ROFLMAO!! That's great!
Ugh. I just found out from phone calls over the past 24 hrs that my family's made it through Frances ok (Mom caught a flight back home to KY today) and now this? *grabs her first beer of the night*
It's deja vu all over again!
Only the BAM model was run at 8:00 PM the rest were from earlier in the day.
More recent models have actually moved it further sout missing Florida almost completely
http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atlstorm9/projectedpath_large.html?from=home
I got whacked twice with both hurricanes in Orlando.
However, my rule is don't even think about these hurricanes until landfall is 36 hours away. They simply change too much when you are looking out 48 hours plus.
I just can't look at a weather channel map without laughing...seriously..no offense. Everything depends on how much the trough effects the storm by Friday.
FWIW my mom rode out the storm at her nephew's house in Ocala. They still don't have cable and they just got back their phone and power last night.
Thanks. I'm sure I will hear from her as soon as she can contact me. It's just that she is 75 years old and alone. She refused to leave her condo to go to a shelter.
Ivan will brush Florida and then turn out to sea.
If Ivan crosses South Florida and out to sea..the Bahamas might as well give up being a country and N.C. is finished off of Cape Fear.
Those models always change. Hurricanes are unpredictable.
Oh, gee whiz. . .if it really heads this way, we might want to try turning our fans en masse on it to blow it back out. :o( Or see if we can get kerry to do a campaign stop in Miami, get all that hot air working for us.
That said, I'll be restocking tomorrow. I'm still amused at how the stores sold out of even Spam, vienna sausages, and deviled ham last week!
Real disaster in Grenada:
ISSUED BY: Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA)
DATE: September 7, 2004
TIME: 7:30 pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GRENADA SEVERELY IMPACTED BY HURRICANE IVAN – CDERA AND PARTNERS DEPLOYING
IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE
Barbados, Sep 07, 2004 (CDERA) – Grenada, a member state of the Caribbean
Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) was severely impacted by Hurricane
Ivan. Three people are confirmed dead.
The Capital St Georges suffered incalculable damage. [b]The Emergency Operations
Centre (EOC) and the residence of Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell were
destroyed.[/b] The EOC is presently relocating and re-establishing communications.
The CARICOM Secretariat has received a full brief from CDERA.
The Eastern Caribbean Donor Group is meeting at CDERA headquarters in the
morning to receive a detailed damage report which will inform their emergency
response.
The Caribbean Disaster Response Unit operated by the Regional Security System
is deploying restoration teams to Grenada as well as CARILEC which has
mobilized power utility restoration teams from Belize, Turks and Caicos, Cayman
Islands, and Antigua.
HMS Richmond, the British Naval patrol vessel is available to support immediate
response in Grenada.
The Emergency Assistance Funds operated by CDERA, CDB, FirstCaribbean
International Bank are being activated.
Yeah, Ivan is incredibly far south. It would be terribly good if it would knock off Chavez in Communist Venezuela.
Dang can't Florida catch a break?
I live in Port Charlotte, it hasn't been a fun month! One thing I can say, "I don't like living in interesting times!"
I just realize that boring is better!
I've seen dozens of Nor'easters, some of which approached hurricane force.
Life goes on.
The modern media hype of nature's fury only adds fear to the mix.
Nothing short of a direct asteroid collision frightens me.
My sister and her husband live in Port Orange.
If you look at the information as to when the models were ran in the upper right hand corner, only one has been run since 2pm this afternoon. I'm very interested in what the 11pm advisory will be also.
That is, in fact, an ancient Chinese curse: "May your life be interesting."
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