posted on July 11, 2005 08:15:07 PM new
Vintage...About 15 minutes ago. I was reading the updates on Tropical depression Five, when in the middle of the reports, they upgraded the status to a tropical storm and named it Emily. It's still way out there, and they are predicting it to take a turn to the west, so it looks like it may wind up in the gulf again.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on July 11, 2005 08:25:46 PM new
sure am glad i moved from pensacola awhile back!
was watching an aaron brown piece on cnn about an hour ago, featuring some well-heeled looking 40-something couple, "rethinking" their desire to keep their luxe-looking multi-story digs somewhere around p'cola or perdido.
what i can't understand is...who can afford the in$urance on these houses? !!! i thought about buying in biloxi at one point...especially along the waterfront. this was about 10 years ago and the insurance quote i got (i think this was where or near where hurricane camille landed) was about $12k a year. which made the whole idea a lot less appealing to me...i'd rather KEEP the $12k and drive a few hours to the freakin' beach. not that i'm all that crazy about sand anyway...which is kinda sorta why i left the area...
lived on a bayou down there. nice little place, but even slightly inland, i had to pack up and vacate three times one year due to hurricane/tropical storm warnings. put all the furniture up on the kitchen counter, on the bed, etc. cram everything i really valued into the car and head inland up to about greenville, alabama. it gets kinda tiresome. (and my landlord lived next door and was a sheriff's deputy, so when he said "evacuate" and pulled his whole family out, he wasn't joking about me leaving either. we used to rent rooms next to each other, as refugees in greenville...)
posted on July 11, 2005 08:41:18 PM new
Hurricanes are one thing we don't have to worry about in California. They outlawed them several years ago Actually, the Pacific Ocean this far north is too cold to support one, although a rare tropical storm is possible. We have a whole different set of problems to worry about. Earthquakes are at the top of the list, but forest and brushfires along with flooding are a problen. We even get an occasional tornado. Right now, the NWS is on the verge of issuing a heat advisory for this week. We're expecting temps as high as 110 degrees in the valley, where I live, and up to 125 degrees in the southeast part of the state.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on July 11, 2005 10:39:31 PM new
Personally, I wish I owned Asilomar Park, but at least here in Florida we get a warning before disaster strikes. Those earthquakes made me a tad too nervous.
I was once young and naive in Florida. Bought the beach house, paid the insurance put up with the tourists trashing the beach. Opal taught me more than one life lesson.
A. Mother Nature rules
B. There is nothing in this world worth crying over.
C. If you don't like A., MOVE!
posted on July 11, 2005 11:00:36 PM new
Roadsmith...You don't have to rub it in Be very careful if you have to go downhill this week. The trip back can cost you an engine or a transmission. Definitely not a good week to be climbing mountains.
Ltray...If you make mother nature mad,then no matter where you move, she's gonna follow you. Let's hope Emily fizzles over Cuba. I think you've had enough rain to keep your yard green for awhile. There's another developing system behind Emily, but we don't want to think about that yet.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on July 12, 2005 01:11:57 AM new
What I don't understand is all of these people and the plywood. My parents are building a house along the Gulf of Mexico in Texas and in the design they were code required to include huricane shutters. From my understanding of these. the bolts are prexisting in the frames... you just pop the metal shutters on screw down the wing nuts. Do Floridians not know about these or do homes that have them just not make a dramatic enough picture for the news cameras?
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posted on July 12, 2005 08:42:17 AM new
I was born in Fla and lived there many years,went through a lot of hurricanes. What really makes me mad is every time they have a hurricane these days,they use it for an excuse to gouge on prices of everything. They are doing more damage to the economy than the storm does.
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posted on July 12, 2005 08:45:34 AM new
Yep, Fenix - thats the way I do mine - pop them on and screw down the wingnuts and then live in the dark. The news crews really do dramatize the storms and the damn fools are out there in the middle of it. There were 2 drunks out at the end of the pier in Key West acting the fools - they should have been arrested. but no the newsman is right along there with them.
posted on July 12, 2005 12:57:07 PM new
Fenix,they know about them but are to cheap or lazy to bother.
Plus, too many people live in denial around here. That is why gas stations and hardware stores get swamped when a storm heads in. None of them considered stocking up or having shutters on hand BEFORE the storm.
Personally, I would leave town before I would stand in line at Home Depot for 3 hours for a gas can or a piece of plywood, but thats just me.
I guess I'm just tired of all the whiners.
This is life. It's the only one you get in this body. Deal with it!
I get a rush off of hurricane winds
Now this guy has the right idea...
""You've got to take a couple of lumps to live in paradise,"
posted on July 12, 2005 02:14:37 PM new
Another frickin storm, coming into the frickin Gulf again, I'm keeping my frickin suitcase packed till November! So NOT FRICKIN IMPRESSED! Maggie
posted on July 13, 2005 08:45:27 PM new
First the bad news: Tropical storm Emily has been upgraded to Hurricane Emily with measured winds of 75+mph. It's expected to intensify into a major hurricane by the time it hits land.
Now the good news: It looks like a high pressure system off the east coast of Florida is going to steer it in a westerly direction. If it continues, the storm will miss Florida and the Gulf coast entirely and slam into Mexico, although the Texans could be at a little risk.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
Actually, the Pacific Ocean this far north is too cold to support one, although a rare tropical storm is possible. We have a whole different set of problems to worry about. Earthquakes are at the top of the list, but forest and brushfires along with flooding are a problen. We even get an occasional tornado. Right now, the NWS is on the verge of issuing a heat advisory for this week. We're expecting temps as high as 110 degrees in the valley, where I live, and up to 125 degrees in the southeast part of the state.
