That was still one of the worst storms I've seen in a long time!
Isable, the storm that ate the entire east coast:
Posted on 08/24/2005 6:20:56 AM PDT by NautiNurse
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Soo??? Is it coming west?
LOL!!! Just waiting for the first snow flake, all normal broadcasting will stop and every fool weather forecaster will be on air 24/7 to rant and rave and get all the senior citizens riled up about stock piling food, meds, water, bread, water, etc!
He's in the terminal and off the plane now. He said that the line to get into the terminal is backed up as far as the eye can see and that EVERYONE is being checked out with the wand scanner.
It wasn't too bad....a couple bands went through, but thankfully I was inside at the time...
..the streets were not the greatest coming home....
..but I didn't travel I-95 afterall....
..took US1 and then a back street.
So all is well !
So we'll see how the night progresses...Whether this storm churns up anything else.
Gee,,
I lived in NC at that time...no electricity...you could hear the trees/limbs popping like bombs all night..
I'm not knocking anyone for their opinion. I'm simply stating that in my case, the more information the better. That's the way I see it.
Also, the 2 dead in Lauderdale were probably outside when they shouldn't have been in places where they shouldn't have been. The idiot box tells us time and time again not to do that. My point was that people should actually LISTEN to what they are saying on the television. Sometimes it saves lives (and cars).
Oh, it was awful. I hope I never hear anything like that again. Even if you put on earphones, you could still hear it.
The worst thing was that you knew they were falling, you just never knew where they were going to hit because you didn't know where the tree was that you were hearing.
Oh, for joy, you are home.
Now, young lady, don't you EVER do anything like that again!
Here in Richmond, we got the ends of Fran and Floyd.
Isabel is the horror story here. We didn't lose trees in my yard. But the eye came right over us and a tornado went thru the neighborhood.
We were without power for 8 days.
#570..Yes mom :^)
REading all these stories, it is a miracle all of us are alive!
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Ain't that the truth.
We were vacationing in Nags Head last year when Alex hit Hatteras.
But I'm just a tropical weather fanatic who's learned (and still learning) as much as I can about these systems. The National Hurricane Center guys are the pros, and their opinions are about 100 times more important and valid than mine.
But, right now tonight, I'd say the highest risk area is between New Orleans and Pensacola. The longer it tracks south of west, the further west the eventual landfall will be given the current systems in play.
That was still one of the worst storms I've seen in a long time!
Isable, the storm that ate the entire east coast:
If it went west, wouldn't landfall be later in the week rather than Monday?
It can be our secret? LOL! Hey 8 years ago tomorrow the wife and I got married in Hopewell in Va. And hurricane Bonnie was off the VA coast...it can happen ya know!
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