Posted on 08/24/2005 6:20:56 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Let's hope they're wrong..........however, I have no intentions of being unprepared. And I hope no one else is unprepared. I'd rather have extra ice in the freezer fo rthe next BBQ or fishing trip than lose all the contents because of being complacent.
I think she said Friday night.
I bet some Indian thought it would be funny to watch idiot tourists look down 4000 feet and then crap their pants...
I remember Isabel rather clearly. As it passed through Northern Virginia, one of the final 65 mph gusts toppled a 80-foot oak onto our house. It smashed through the attic and into our bedroom, obliterating my dresser mirror along the way. We weren't there, having thoughtfully retreated to the basement earlier in the evening. Power was out for 4 1/2 days. We stayed in the house while dealing with about $60K worth of repairs over the next six months -- all fortunately covered by USAA.
In case anyone is wondering, when a big tree falls on your house, it makes a really loud noise.
I'd actually be surprised if there was looting, though. It's one thing to lose your power, and quite another to have doors blown open.
This is not the time nor the place for discussing Schiavo. Please refrain from doing so here.
OMG, thankfully you were downstairs.
Thank you - you beat me to it.
thanks for all the good information, I am in the southeast corner of Alabama watching this storm closely!!
Good job, Mike.
I think the fact that it came in over such a highly populated area should be taken into consideration. Miami and surrounds spent an awful long time in one part of the eyewall or another. The slow movement probably made the wind damage even worse.
I hear the local news saying 'residents say it's the worst since Andrew,' but it's been about that long since a decent storm hit that part of the state head on.
This should be a good sign of what kind of disaster will occur at some point when a major storm plows into a massive population center... we dodged the bullet with Charley last year, barely.
Not that there's much else we can do.
I'd say that you need to head to Home Depot in the morning...
marking....
Not very encouraging words there, sir :)
Yikes.
It's a high number of power customers without power because there are lots of high-rise apartment/condo buildings in South Florida.
If one building goes out, that could potentially mean hundreds of customers. And in South Florida, especially along the water, there are rows and rows of high-rise apartment/condo buildings for as far as the eye can see in some cases.
Better safe than sorry...
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