HURRICANE JEANNE Weekend thread - LIVE - and freeper check-in

NHC/Naval Hurricanes/etc.. | 09.25.04

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Thought a thread in Breaking News for the weekend covering Hurricane Jeanne would be a good thing. Post your link, pics, updates and freeper check-in's here

[benice]

On NBC Channel 5 WPTV they said it was a Cat 3.....could be a 4 when it hits.....

[COBOL2Java]

Hang in there, Chris, and all involved! Up here in Northern Virginia the sun's out, but we're expected to get Jeanne sometime Monday afternoon.

[Mulder]

Hey Mulder, I'm in Clermont for this one, instead of Tennessee where I belong. It should be interesting. Stay safe!

Yeah... looks like the eye is headed right for Lake County. Maybe it will keep pushing west though....

[Dog Gone]

Right, but if it undergoes an eyewall replacement cycle before landfall, it conceivably could briefly lose intensity. I don't know when the last cycle was, so I don't know how likely that is.

[Giddyupgo]

That's the sad part. This storm is stronger than Frances, and these people need to leave. Prayers for everyone in it's path.

[Gabz]

I didn't think VA was going to get it until Wednesday..............

[spectre]

Hey! We just got you back, so you better be safe!

sw

[snakeoil]

My wife is out shopping for relaxation. I don't think she is going to like the 5 oclock news.

[BushCountry]

More humor -- Someone got a jump on shirts! I live in Port Charlotte and the only thing left is to grin and bear it. I think that it has made Floridains appreciate each other more. I am surprise and impressed by the kindness people have shown!

[COBOL2Java]

My info's about 24 hours old, but in yesterday's forecast they said we should start seeing the effects of Jeanne during Monday's ride home.

[ARCADIA]

Hope people have not gotten complacent since this is their 4th.

Not complacent, but exhausted:
* Physically
* Mentally
* Financially
We have been either surviving, or preparing constantly, for 6-7 weeks now.

[snakeoil]

the reply was 227- if numerolgy means anything it was the number of my ship in the Navy. A great ship and a lucky ship.

[spectre]

Well, if it means anything else, you might be going afloat again.

Just kiddin...:~)

sw

[shield]

Boy are you prepared. My prayers are with all the folks in Florida. I'm continuing to pray for a miracle. I keep looking at this storm...and I get goose bumps. She is about as awful lookin' as these storms get!!! May God help ya'll. ;o)

[Gabz]

Good grief.

I get so little in the way of local news/weather over here - it comes out of either Norfolk or Salisbury, MD that I pretty much rely on the hurricane threads on FR to figure out what's going on!!!!

[Lazamataz]

HURRICANE JEANNE Weekend thread - LIVE - and freeper check-in

I read that title to read "freeper chick-in.

So I showed up to the thread with a bottle of banana oil, a beach towel, and some D-cell batteries.

[benice]

The Tshirt is great...except the fonts are hard to read....
Is it a forgery?

[ClearBlueSky]

Financially is the factor that those who call for evacuations do not seem to understand.
Yes- it is safer to be elsewhere when a hurricane hits- BUT, these poor people in Florida( except for the millionaires) probably don't have the budgets that allow 4 evacs in a month!
Hotels/motels cost, gas, supplies- what if your car isn't going to make another long roadtrip? All of these are factors- along with the sheer ' oh to hell with it' feeling.
It's mentally exhausting. It's surreal.
I am praying for all in Jeanne's path.
The only advice this New Orleanian can give:
GET OFF THE BEACH- and pray.

[BushCountry]

Dan Rather claims it is not! Haa, haa...

[fso301]

This should pretty much finish off the citrus crop.