Posted on 09/02/2004 9:02:41 PM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
I cannot forget the devastation that occurred in Honduras/Nicaragua when a hurricane stalled there several years ago.
Prayers for your aunt.
My aunt is 86 and lives in the Miami area. My brother was in Miami yesterday, but she refused to go to a safer area, because of her 7 cats.
I hope no one minds much if I pray this thing hits farther north.
Awesome sign-up date, P@B. Kudos.
Well, for God's sake at least tell the idiot to take mattresses into the bathroom and for his family to get under them.
Basically can't see it till it happens. Both precise shear direction and speed, and the effect it will have on a particular storm, are basically almost completely unpredictable.
Andrew was a baby compared to this.
Two words, Holy SHiitemuslim!
early morning bump!
I called her back and said that it wouldn't do at all, and that I had been thinking more like Clearwater, and she copped an attitude. Wasn't going to budge. Finally, yesterday, the reality sunk in. She has now conceded to staying with another friend in an older, stronger home two miles inland, still in Vero Beach. At least this one has had the windows boarded - the beach condo couldn't be boarded at all!
sheesh - Trying to manage a 75 year old stubborn mom from here in CT is...well...lets just say that the Maalox bottle is now half empty.
This is certainly a unique way of describing Palm Beach!
ML/NJ
Think she might continue to weaken from here on out?
Joe Bistardi not ruling out a slight shift north even into GA, between St. Simon island and the SC coast. It's an out-lier call (but he is Joe Bistardi)
Thanks for the Mobile bump. My hometown or New Orleans Light - Home Of The Original Mardi Gras. We do have a little experience with storms. Being dead center of the Gulf's Hurricane Alley has made Mobilians learn to ALWAYS pay attention to these storms.
For what it's worth, 1100Z METAR from the airport at Nassau, Bahamas:
MYNN 031100Z 36040G65KT 9999 -RA BKN010 BKN070 27/20 Q994 3D 430 SAPO32 LPMG 031100
Winds from 360 at 40 knots gusting 65 knots, light rain, ceiling 1000 broken 7000 broken, pressure 994 mb. Yoiks!
}:-)4
I was just reading up on the history of Andrew- it weakened considerably as it passed over the Bahamas...as it hit the Gulf Stream again it regenerated from a 2-3 to a full-bore 4. Reading the latest from the hurricane center- the consensus indicates Frances will do the same. I hope NOT- I'm in southwest Seminole County...just as soon have this one pass us by.
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