Posted on 05/15/2006 9:54:48 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Reuters is jumping the gun on this one.
Shouldn't they have waited until a minimum of a month before the elections?
Interactive Hurricane Site - scroll down to year/storm to see the track of each storm
Organic, native grown, organically born and bred. (Yum! Yum!)
Does anyone else find statements like this incredibly stupid and misleading? From a dollar standpoint, I would expect even a minor storm today to cause more damage than a major storm like the Galvaston Hurricane in 1900, the Labor Day Hurricane in 1935, the Northeast Hurricane in 1938, or any of the devasting storms from the 1950's. Unless the dollars are trended for inflation, the statistic is pretty much meaningless. (I also have a problem when the media claims that a recently released movie has grossed more than any other movie in the history of Hollyweird. Only an idiot would think otherwise given the ticket price of a movie today compared to the cost of a ticket in the 1930's.)
Thanks for the ping.
That's why we call it LA.... Lower Alabama
FYI
Bastardi on Fox now (7:38 CST)
Bastardi off now (7:41 CST).... back to work.
Getting my hurricane kit ready. Thanks for the ping.
I remember 18 days without current after Frederick in '79. I'll never eat toast off a grill again as long as I live. I grew up off DIP on Bay Front Road. We got more water with Katrina than any other storm. Our house sits 22 ft above sea level and the water came up to the steps. Lucky.
The morning after Frederick hit, the only TV signal I could pick up from mobile (here in Panama City) was WKRG-TV 5 broadcasting from their transmitter site in Baldwin County. I was surprised to see my friend Dick Hylton doing the broadcast (he and I used to work at WABB Radio back in the 60's)...it was almost a "radio" broadcast because they only had one camera and little else.
Did you get your power back yet?
I didn't realize so many had lost power until I saw the local news last night. We never even flickered here (west Hgn.)
I missed that report, but don't doubt it.
Glad you got power back!
Not. Even. Funny.
(From Baton Rouge.)
We did the same thing last year after Katrina, before Rita. (We live near Baton Rouge) We bought a small Honda Generator; it'll run the fridge & freezer during the day, and a small window unit A/C at night.
Now I just need to stock up on cans of tuna fish, bottled water, and Pop Tarts!
How long will gasoline last unused?
I put one of those STP fuel [optimizers?] into the tank. The best thing is to empty the tank after the season. But last year I didn't. The STP seems to hold the gasoline intact. At least it has for me.
What I do is I run the set at least once a month for about five minutes. Instead of turning it off at the switch, I turn off the fuel supply line to allow all the gasoline in the carburator to burn so it doesn't turn into gunk between starts.
Thanks for the info!
Wish you better luck this year.
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