BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 09:39 PM

Spent the afternoon cleanin' out ditches, pipes, cuttin' "doc", yankin' limbs, ect., in the hopes that I don't get any of my 3/10th miles drive way washed out...

Ouch, I'm sore...

But, hey, we need the rain big time... Less thas an inch over the last 5 weeks...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 09:38 PM

I don't believe this shit. Pensacola went from 1924 to 1995 without receiving a direct hit from a hurricane. Then Erin, in '95, was only a category one (less than 100 mph) storm. So now we're gonna get smacked by two category three's (around 130 mph) in less than ten months.

Brown County Indiana'd be a mighty good place to live if it didn't get so damned cold.

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 06:10 PM

Great idea. Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 05:51 PM

Dig your hole down on the edges, place boards across it and shovel dirt on top of the boards. Of course, one end of the hole has to remain open, at least big enough for you to crawl into... and maybe big enough for washisname... BG.

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 05:33 PM

Thanks, gnu. How do you batten a hole?

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 05:22 PM

Yup. If you have never used a chainsaw, don't. Watch someone who has and who knows what they are doing. Kill you in a wink.

CC... dig a deep hole and batten it. Don't know what we'd do without you.

Dennis sounds like a nasty storm. Please take care guys.

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: harpgirl
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 05:18 PM

Here is the current projected path:Hurricane Dennis


I just don't want to deal with this again.....as I said elsewhere on mudcat, too much reality today. I'm gong to hide under the covers tonight.

I hope your house isn't blown apart, BWL. You and Susan are, of course welcome over here but I have live oaks all around my house even though both neighbors went on a cutting rampage this spring. Oh well

146 more days of this shit....

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 05:11 PM

Tonight we are bracing for up to 5 inces of rain from the remnant of Cindy.

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: artbrooks
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 05:06 PM

My parents (in their 80s) live in P-cola, and are evacuating tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 03:22 PM

Where I'm situated in North Texas I don't get hurricanes proper very often. They are usually declared tropical storms once they're very far over land. Most often the hurricanes or tropcial storms from the gulf stumble into our typical weather coming out of the Northwest, and when they colide it gets noisy and messy. Tornadoes are a typical spinoff. I have on a couple of occasions been in the right place at the right time to see the interesting curved edge of the clouds when those large circular storms move toward and over the area.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 01:56 PM

Early predictions put the bullseye for Dennis squarely on Pensacola. That's a 45 minute drive from where I live. Looks like it'll be Ivan II. We're getting an early start battening down. Plans are to wait for it to get about 24 hours away and slip over toward Tallahassee to our friend John's place very early in the morning when the highways won't yet be at a slow crawl. That's if it stays on its current course. If it goes either a bit east or a good bit west we'll stay at a local friend's place. Either way, we're not staying at home. We have a couple of trees that Ivan partially uprooted that will probably come the rest of the way down. I don't want to be in the house if they fall on it.

Let's see now... What's the drill? Secure blowables, guitars in van, computer in pickup truck, board up windows, move truck up the property to where no trees will fall on it, haul ass. I think that's got it.

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: PoppaGator
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 01:12 PM

Point taken, Wes!

Maybe the safest thing to do would be just to leave those branches where they lay until they decompose in place ~ that's what happens in Nature...

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: harpgirl
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 01:12 PM

I started watching Dennis last night. I'm not mentally ready for another hurricane season but I'm going to prepare. I wish my roof deductible was less than seven thousand. If I get hit harder this year I'll have to dip into my pitiful retirement to get roof repairs.
Hang in there Gulf Coasters. Oil up your chain saw bWL.

a weary harpy

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: Wesley S
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 01:08 PM

My sister is an emergency room nurse. According to her they rarely see storm related injuries - but what they do see for weeks after the storm is a lot of injuries from chain saws and other cutting tools related to cleaning up. Just be careful with those pickin' fingers. You'll want to keep all of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: PoppaGator
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:26 PM

The folks in northwest Florida got battered last year. With this week's sudden "one-two punch," a lot of my neighbors in south Louisiana are expressing worry that this year might be our turn.

We never evacuated before last year, when we headed for Mississsippi for Hurricane Ivan (which turned out to be a "false alarm," at least for our area). The trip was a nightmare, and my wife swears she'll never leave town again; I agree. We live on the Gentilly Ridge, one of the highest areas in town (actually above sea level, unlike most of the city!), so we won't be underwater, although wind damage and prolonged loss of electricity and other utilities is always a possibility.

I suppose the threat of these storms is just the price of living in a "tropical paradise" where there's no such thing as winter. You makes yer choices and takes yer chances.

gnu ~ no damage to the house, but lots of huge downed limbs in the yard, one of which destroyed our herb garden. We have four trees over 100 feet high, a pine and three pecan trees, and these big storms always break off bits and pieces of them. Pecans are very brittle trees, and drop limbs at the slightest provocation, but I've never seen such large chunks of tree fall into the yard, or so many of them.

I'm gonna have to buy a chain saw before the weekend, and put it to use all day Saturday and Sunday ~ in past years, I've been able to clean up using a bow saw (hand-operated pruning saw), but the limbs are thicker and more numerous than ever before, and I'm not as young as I used to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:17 PM

Spent several hours yesterday waiting out tornado watches and warnings. A tornado was spotted about nine miles to the west of us, and a couple of others in two counties slightly to the north of us. Today I'm wondering in what part of Europe my son is right now and hoping he's not in London.

Monday, I'll be waiting out some more tornado watches and warnings, and wondering where I'll go if one is headed my way. That, plus whatever the regular hurricane winds bring our way.

I'm beginning to think maybe I should dig a small ditch in the back yard just in case I can't get to any other kind of shelter if a tornado hits. Otherwise, it could be a verrrrry long hurricane season.

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: Wesley S
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:10 PM

I grew up in Florida so I "feel your pain". Nothing is scarier than Mother Nature run amuck. The smart thing to do - as you know - is to batten down the hatches and head for the hills. Good luck.

Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:09 PM

Let's hope so. Gosh, we vary rarely get bad storms... only a few in my 45 years here in New Brunswick. My heart goes out to those who have to suffer through these.

Did you suffer any property damage?

Stay well.

Subject: BS: Hurricane season ~ it's ON!!!!!
From: PoppaGator
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 11:58 AM

I live in New Orleans. Tropical Storm Cindy hit Tuesday night and moved through the area very quickly, leaving a lot of wind damage ~ plenty of fallen and/or uprooted trees taking down power lines. 200,000 homes were without power for 24 hours, and half of that number (100,000) are still blacked out after 48 hours. That's the worst power outage in this area since Betsy in 1965, and the storm was not even a full-fledged hurricane.

Even though measurable sustained winds were "only" tropical-storm strength, there were many brief surges of hugely accellerated LOUD winds all night long. Tornado warnings had been issued, and maybe that's what we experienced. I've lived here for over 30 years, and have never seen so many fallen limbs and trees. In fact, I saw trees with the bark blown off some upper limbs, something I'd never seen before, and some of our plants had all their leaves blown off, again an unprecedented sight.

The next storm, Dennis, is much bigger and more powerful and is expected to make landfall somewhere along the Gulf Coast Sunday night. It could happen here, or anywhere between the Texas-Louisiana border and Tallahassee FL. And it's still early in hurricane season!

Here's hoping we all survive until autumn!