Posted on 07/06/2005 2:57:36 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Dennis heading toward the Gulf of Mexico
The one thing that gets him excited is the VIPR...
Darn, I'm losing the early exit polls...
LOL!
Nobody has ever accused me of being normal--I understand most of the vortex data message.
No, I am with you.....guess I need more visual aids!
We will stay with this story all night if necessary, but I can tell you, Dan, there's a sense of gloom here that you could cut with a dull butterknife that had been stepped on by a Texas steer.
LOL!!!!!!!!!
it seems to be a VERY familiar name.........I wonder why?
If you are asking for news as of this moment, PC is just fine. I live on the beach and we had perhaps six drops of rain this afternoon. Actually had one tenth inch of rain in my guage. Winds gusted to 20 MPH or so and that was it. No big deal. Of course, this was from TS Cindy.
As for Dennis, we'll just have to wait for more definitive tracking information. I'd like to have good enough info to make a stay or go decision. I stayed during Ivan and it was a Cat II here. No real damage in my block although the tornadoes were worrisome. If Dennis is a Cat III or more, then I'm out of here.
Do you have relatives here?
miele man
This I do not need to see.
Good grief.
Thanks!
It must have been terrifying riding out Andrew. But evacuation isn't always the solution either.
We live in St. Pete, last year when Charley was headed for "the mouth of Tampa Bay" (that's how the weather people put it), they issued evacuation orders.
My husband has to be at the EOC because of his job, and we're near the water (a few miles away), but our evacuation zone is D and we don't flood, so we just board up and stay put during a hurricane.
However, my parents who live about a mile from us, didn't want to deal with the storm (really they didn't want to deal with the after effects of a storm...no electricity, etc.), so they boarded a plane for my sister's in Georgia.
My MIL was in a retirement center, located on the bay, and they immediately transported all the residents to one of their centers inland in Sarasota.
So as it was, when Charley made that jog in at Port Charlotte, my MIL's "evacuation center" saw more weather than she would have seen at her place on the bay; my parents saw more weather in Georgia than they would have seen here; and we, who stayed, near the mouth of Tampa Bay didn't have much more than a strong breeze and a little rain to deal with.
No way of predicting, you just do what you feel is right.
How ironic they had to cancel the contraflow exercise in New Orleans yesterday due to TS Cindy!
If they don't, he just hooks his house to his truck and tracks them down.
I like Jerve. I don't mind Dick Fletcher either, or that Delagado fellow. Actually we have pretty good weather people all around.
Jerve's is the "new kid on the block" even though he's been around for quite a few years now. Fletcher and Delagado are old hands (and they could always bring back Roy Leep if they really needed expertise.)
Howard Shapiro is very experienced as well, I just don't like to watch him, LOL, but he does know his stuff.
Wowser--that looks like an x-ray. No privacy at all for the
little feller.
Thanks for the post. I'm sure we will be following this one very closely.
Yes, very true.
As a kids in the early 60's, my brothers and I were once in the Bahamas with our parents. A hurricane was heading in from the south, so we hopped a plane to Fort Lauderdale to escape. The hurricane never hit the island we fled, just before what would have been landfall, it made a 90 degree left turn, causing landfall instead that night near Fort Lauderdale, where we rode it out in a motel anyway, despite our efforts at escape.
Our house in Miami is on relatively high ground, so surge will not be a problem, just wind damage. It would take extreme bad luck to get such a direct hit all over again, but these things still give me gray hairs, I think. 'Course I'm not sure which gray hairs I got from my wife and kids or which from worrying about storms!
Just kidding, I love my wife and kids.
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