Hurricane Isabel:Live Thread #2 "Force Ten Conditions In North Carolina And Further North"

NHC | 9-17-03 | My Favorite Headache

[Slip18]

G'night, IT.

[MEG33]

God Bless.

[Mo1]

Take care and stay safe

I'm bugging out for a bit myself

[EternalVigilance]

It is going to be a long week ahead for lots of folks, too, cleaning up the mess.

[EternalVigilance]

Be careful.

[Slip18]

Still thinking about Gabz and xs here. They are both very capable of taking care of themselves and their children, though. Xs's worst fear was a tree falling. Gabz wanted to make sure she had enough beer. LOL!

[EternalVigilance]

LOL...bet they've drank it all, too.

[sheikdetailfeather]

My experience with a tornado is that it sounds like a loud and very low deep grinding noise and oscillates as when someone is using a saw on a tree. I was in a basement in Michigan and it was literally overhead breaking windows, moving the car sideways and had just flattened buildings in town. I will never forget the sound.

[Conservababe]

I don't mean to be an alarmist, but are you sure you and your family are safe with a tree through your roof and still such high winds?

During the worst of Hurricane Andrew, my sister's neighbor had the same thing happen. They left the house and came over to hers.

The wind was so strong, they could barely hang on to each other. And when they knocked at the back door of my sister's home, they were not heard because of the wind. Her husband just happened to look out and see them trying to get inside.

Anyway, this family did not have a basement, of course no one did in that region to escape to. And, the damn tree managed to fall through to the first floor from the second.

Of course, this was Andrew and much worse.

[Free Trapper]

Folks that didn't get hit by that twister but were near to it agreed with me as to the sound it made and none of us had ever heard one described like bees swarming,but it was the first thing I thought as it came down on my place.

We knew it dropped down on us because as I hit the cellar the trees in my front lot were leaning then breaking in one direction while those in my back lot were leaning and breaking in the exact opposite.

I always keep my cellar about knee deep in water for crawdads and perch for live bait but nobody complained about getting their feet wet that evening.HeHe.

[honeygrl]

"I always keep my cellar about knee deep in water for crawdads and perch for live bait but nobody complained about getting their feet wet that evening.HeHe."

eew doesn't that smell?

[Dec31,1999]

May God bless all in the path of this storm. It seems to have weakened due to meeting land at this point and on, though. What ever happened to the news people in the hotel that fell apart according to much earlier posts?

[EternalVigilance]

Actually, it was Interesting Times who got the tree through the roof...and I think he might have gone for the evening, or at least for awhile.

I have no family here...just me in this building...and I have a basement if it gets too intense.

Thanks for your concern, though...God bless FReepers...

[Conservababe]

Oops, sorry I posted to the wrong person.

And yes, thank goodness for Freepers.

[Dianna]

Prayers for all, hang in there a few more hours.

[Free Trapper]

It's no worse than a well kept baitshop if you take good care of your critters and I've got a lot of experience.

The cellar,I've found to be great because the hot summer temps are easy to contend with and heat is about the hardest thing on live bait besides the lack of oxygen.

[AFPhys]

looks like most folks in the potential storm area have either done the beddie-bye thing or lost power...

[Colorado Doug]

You know, each part of the country has it's dangerous situations ....

It rained 5 plus inches in 45 minutes a few miles up the creek from where I live. It barely rained at all here but a 6 foot wall of lumber (tree branches, etc.) came down the creek. Pretty soon, as the water rose, hundred year old cottonwoods were coming down the creek too, each of them slamming into my bridge, the steel ringing with each impact. Before long my pastures were going underwater. I had two horses on one side of the creek and two on the other, water engulfing all their dry land except for a few feet. Trees started jamming against my bridge and my fences. I used telephone poles for cornerposts but pretty soon all the logs snapped one like a toothpick. The log jam took my telephone pole, along with 700 feet of fence down the creek. Then the bridge went.

[Colorado Doug]

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The horses on the side where the fence went down, freaked out. One of them wanted to come across the creek to me. I had to throw rocks at him to keep him from going into the torrent. Another telephone pole pulled out of the ground on the other pasture but the fence held. At least my 4 month old foal and her mother were secure and had six feet of dry ground left. The levy that I had build upstream was protecting them but was eroding badly. A couple hundred tons of boulders and river rocks filled in my stream bed. I have countless trees, tree limbs and bushes piled against my remaining trees that didn't wash out. My disintegrated bridge is 500 feet downstream with my lawnmower and a few other things. No, I don't live in North Carolina. This freak little thunderstorm happened to me last week, here in Colorado but I sure can sympathize with the hurricane survivors.

[pops88]

I've been trying to find info about this. It was reported as a Fox live report and had a blurb briefly on Drudge. Nothing since the live report (which I didn't personally see). I found a post in a Google newsgroup that it was a Ramada Inn and the second floor balcony was collapsing. Another post said that the second floor had collapsed. From all I've read, it doesn't sound good. Links-

Google post

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