Posted on 06/08/2006 8:12:26 AM PDT by varina davis
I was having a nice day until I saw that there's a possible tropical storm brewing out there. The storm was what I was referring to as not funny. My area is still recovering from Rita's wrath. My mayor is smart and the anti-Nagin though. SWLA knows to get out of the way of a storm.
We really don't need another storm. People are just now getting in their FEMA trailers and they are not the most sturdily built at all.
I am moving from Louisiana on June 29th. Just hope I make it that long before storm season starts. I don't want to deal with that crap again this year. Moving to the relative safety of western North Carolina. I am hurricaned out from last year.
Call Shep.
The boozin' is gonna' grab Sheppie by his boy-oysters one of these days.
I don't blame you. Last year we ran out of names, plus we were having Greek alphabet storms in late December, well after "hurricane season" was officially over.
Even though I didn't take the brunt of Rita last year, that was something I don't want to re-live this year. Heck, just having every gas station along the Texas gulf coast out of gasoline for a week was a major hassle.
And the insurance companies here are going to raise their premiums about 40% this year.
I don't blame you at all.
Good luck in your move. The NC mountains are beautiful. To be fair, they do get their share of torrential rains from tropical storm remnants.
They are parachuting into it tonite,just in time to buy my foil hat holder oner....
I can hear Schoolbus Nagin now..wagons er School busses hooooo
Well, now you will have to learn about chiggers, ticks and wasps to go along with the occasional flash flood.
North Carolina is actually going to be a break. Last week, there was a dead gator in the road a quarter mile from the house that somebody ran over. During Rita, a gator parked itself in our back yard, which was flooded. I will take North Carolina in a heartbeat. Going to be living south of Asheville, in the mountains, where the weather is about 15 degrees colder right now :)
We had no power for a week after Katrina. It was in the 90's. I had a 6 month old, and we stayed cool by running into the car, and running the AC. We did stock up on gas before the storm, so that was bearable. But I don't trust the peeps in charge with good reason. Don't need to put my family through it some more. I trust Jeb in Florida, but Kathleen Blanco is going to screw up again this year if we get hit again.
If Cape Verde is ready to send tropical weather this early in the season, I think I am going to be sick.
GOOOOOO Hurricanes!
Way too early to get real excited about that wave exiting the African coast, but last year it seems as if at least half of similar ones became named storms.
I'm sure going to keep an eye on it, though, and hope that it doesn't organize or that shear kills it.
LOL yes he's a day late and a dollar short. I think that it will be different this year simply because the one's who have returned are the one's who got out and are doing the recovery and rebuilding. The one's who didn't get out of the way are sponging off of others elsewhere.
Like I said, I'm live in the smart side of the state. We get the hell out of the way when a Cat 5 storm is barreling down on us.
I think the (what is it, 90L?) current GOM storm will poop out in the Yucatan. That's just a huge nasty high over Texas that is giving us some steenkin' hot temperatures and few clouds.
If that high wasn't there, it would be a different story.
is there a direct link to this forecast? The link above only goes to the homepage. Thanks-
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