US purchases Louisiana Territory from Surrender Monkeys.
Posted on 09/15/2004 7:38:29 PM PDT by lainie
You must be talking about the parents of your Grandchild....that is the way I feel about my Sister's husband...lol
At this time it appears that little, tiny Oyster Bay is smack dab in the middle of the eye, about four, five miles NW of Gulf Shores...
For some reason, the Elgin radar is still showing the best image of the eye...
In the eye, "completely calm and barely a drizzle" said Gary Tuchman one minute ago.
710am Mobile radio station just said at 2:12 that they had received the official word that the eyewall edge had reached land at Gulf Shores.
US purchases Louisiana Territory from Surrender Monkeys.
Gotta love Gary LOL he's actually doing a pretty good job.
Yes....I felt it was a dumb choice for my sister's family to stay, when they were only a four hour drive away from family , north of them. They are brand new home owners, nice home. I know they are safe, but still stupid to stay.
My mother use to love in Daphne. There is some hills and forests around there that will protect them a little bit.
A woman north of there was reporting that her roof was partially blown off.
It's just so sad to think of all the devastation. I remember driving through Alabama after Hurricane Frederic. My mother's condo had damage then but it seemed like every fifth tree was blown over.
Perdido Key says the main road is underwater and the winds have stripped the siding off the man's house. They just got a call from Loxley too (U.S. 59 & I-10) but he wasn't too helpful except saying it was "real bad".
Channel 15 NBC affiliate in Mobile has gone off the air.
Was all that before FEMA got into the act?
Don't quote me on this, but I think Hurricane Hugo was FEMA's test run, and from what I hear, they didn't perform well. We were lucky because we were living in AF base housing at the time and for the most part the base weathered Hugo pretty well.
We ended up with 17 people staying with us-family, mobile home freinds and neighbors whose windows had blown out. But we all took care of each other and pooled all our food together afterward for huge bbq's. Made it a whole lot easier to get through when we all shared.
I know what you mean. My wife's aunt and uncle have a new home and felt they would OK in their so-called "safe room." They could have been safer with family in Birmingham.
be glad when it is over, for them...we are getting 50 to 70 mile an hour winds here in Columbus Georgia ..tomorrow.
It must have been before FEMA...as I don't recall it even being mentioned when we went with our Mom to the shelters she organized and ran.
Exactly!
Next time, I will strive to provide a much more accurate prediction.
However, when you compare my prediction against the official government hurricane path as of 9:14 PM CDT...
I kicked their butt!
Yes, when I lived through Hurricane Alicia in 1983, we had telephone but no electricity. My friends nearby had electricity but no telephone. We "shared".
BTW, the nursing home has generators. They'd better.
President Carter's 1979 executive order merged many of the separate disaster-related responsibilities into a new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Among other agencies, FEMA absorbed: the Federal Insurance Administration, the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration, the National Weather Service Community Preparedness Program, the Federal Preparedness Agency of the General Services Administration and the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration activities from HUD. Civil defense responsibilities were also transferred to the new agency from the Defense Department's Defense Civil Preparedness Agency.
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