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Posted on 09/22/2005 5:44:09 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Someone else just posted that it appears Phillipe is dying out.
I can't even contemplate what would happen if they tried to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people out of Tidewater with a major hurricane bearing down. There's exactly ONE Interstate highway coming out of there (I-64) and in order to get to it from anywhere east or southeast of Newport News/Hampton, you have to cross at least one bridge-tunnel, either the Hampton Roads or the Monitor-Merrimac. It would be a nightmare.
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It's raised about three feet about the ground about six inches from a bay window. Normally Canna plants grow there, and it has to be raised or it wouldn't provide enough coverage for the bed.
It's pvc pipe and flexible enough to repeatedly batter the glass in the winds I'm expecting.
After trying the first solution, DUCT TAPE!, I decided that wasn't going to work. I didn't want to cut the sprinkler off, so I braced a very heavy concrete bench seat between it and the window. I'm good to go on that now. It's better than a plywood solution which is good since I have none, lol.
Which chart? I see nothing of the sort on the NHC forecast page or on Wunderground. Forecasts call for it to either be torn apart or to become extratropical.
The 11 am discussion for Philippe has it absorbed and dissipated into a larger non-tropical cyclonic circulation in the next 24 hours. Good news for the US, not so good for Bermuda, which has a tropical storm warning up.
NHC has the landfall closer to the TX/LA border. Bastardi just won't let go of his landfall call, despite the mounting evidence to the contrary.
Stay safe, LA Woman3!
File that under "silver lining."
I think I solved it before I read your solution, dirtboy, but I think I will add that to the mix. After I finish filling bathtubs, etc., I'm going to run out of further preps to do, so I might as well make the current ones even better.
Phillipe jealous of all the attention that Rita is getting?
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/144629.shtml?5day
And here's some FINE FINE advice from Blanco:
As for those who refuse to leave, Gov. Kathleen Blanco advised: "Perhaps they should write their Social Security numbers on their arms with indelible ink."
Buwahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I have never understood the fascination with bottle water. All us old Boy Scouts know to fill up 5 gallon jugs with good ole chlorinated water.
Plenty of live coverage on Fox now of water GUSHING over the Industrial Canal levee/wall break - refilling the 9th Ward with water. Let's call a breach a breach. What else can you call it?
THANKS BE TO GOD--literally! Am also praying very hard to God to send MIGHTY angels to keep the fury of this storm away from Galveston and Houston! And to keep all the Freepers in the path of the storm "safe and secure from all alarms".
But I don't want the foam to batter the window for the 10 hours of wind we're going to get.
Don't worry. We'll get that sucker where he won't even consider moving!
FNC showing levees breaching in new orleans.
It's not fay-uh! We're not getting the attention we deserve!
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