Well, I think I'm ready for her. The pantry's stocked up and the fridge is full of water and lunchmeat etc. I cut the grass one more time tonite since the yard will most likely be flooded for the next few days or more. I'll try and get pics and video assuming I don't cut and run inland for the weekend. Watching to see where it headed before I make that decision. Right now it appears we're on the very edge of the predicted path here in Jacksonville. Hangskier, keep your head down. The trucks full of gas along with 2 gas cans just in case I need to head for my neice's place in Durham. _________________ Freedom 170 FR
Well, I think I'm ready for her. The pantry's stocked up and the fridge is full of water and lunchmeat etc. I cut the grass one more time tonite since the yard will most likely be flooded for the next few days or more. I'll try and get pics and video assuming I don't cut and run inland for the weekend. Watching to see where it headed before I make that decision. Right now it appears we're on the very edge of the predicted path here in Jacksonville. Hangskier, keep your head down. The trucks full of gas along with 2 gas cans just in case I need to head for my neice's place in Durham.
Bobfly,
No offense intended, and believe me, I wish everybody there the best of luck, but...
I will never understand why anybody who could run from a hurricane does not do so. I was stationed a few miles from where the eye of Hurricane Camille came on-shore. I lived, but nobody had the guts and brains to evacuate us, so we just waited on-station, and hoped. Camille made Andrew look like a summer rain-shower. Interstate highway (by the mile) was ripped out and gone, as were houses and businesses. Only bare dirt was left in those places, and no trace of what had been there.
The hurricane dropped hundreds (yeah, hundreds) of tornadoes, as it hit land. There was a lot of stuff that people thought would be hurricane-proof, but none of it was tornado-proof. I flew over the coastline (where I lived) in a Cessna, in the days afterward. The tornado-tracks stopped for nothing. No tornado path even veered slightly, when it went through anything.
If you like getting scared, go to the movies, or watch the gas prices. Your presence will not change what the storm does in the slightest, except maybe for the worse.
Adventures are not adventures, while you are having the adventure.
We humans are only given just so much luck. Don't squander it; I needed mine later.
+1 on what Red said. Even if you don't take a direct hit, the aftermath of a hurricane is no fun to live with. If you stay and do get hit, it could be weeks before you have electricity or water. If you go and don't get hit, then you can get home quickly. Go visit your niece, or come down our way and go flying. The forecast looks similar to what we had earlier in the week, where someone got to 11,000' MSL.
Most people who don't live in a hurricane zone like in Florida most all of their lives will never understand the full effects before and after a hurricane whether your near it or not. If your on the edge of it it's just as bad as being in the center of it.
Once you see the damage and the aftermath in person then most *get it* but it usually takes 2 or 3 more times for them to wake up. If you can get out then do it man. The ones who say they are going to party and ride it out are fools and that's as simple as it gets. Hurricanes are nothing to mess with. _________________
No offense taken, Red. I've been thru hurricanes, a typhoon in Okinawa and had a couple of near miss tornadoes in Texas. I know and understand the risks. Max winds (predicted) for this area are 60 mph and heavy rain. I've been watching the weather non stop for the last 3 days to determine if leaving is necessary. I'm not taking this lightly as are most of my coworkers. I'm 20 miles inland so the surge won't effect me but I'm still prepared to leave if need be. I've spent the last 3 days preparing my home and property for this storm. Of course, a tornadoe is the wild card in the deck and those could occur as far as 250 miles inland. I appreciate all the concern. _________________ Freedom 170 FR
No offense taken, Red. I've been thru hurricanes, a typhoon in Okinawa and had a couple of near miss tornadoes in Texas. I know and understand the risks. Max winds (predicted) for this area are 60 mph and heavy rain. I've been watching the weather non stop for the last 3 days to determine if leaving is necessary. I'm not taking this lightly as are most of my coworkers. I'm 20 miles inland so the surge won't effect me but I'm still prepared to leave if need be. I've spent the last 3 days preparing my home and property for this storm. Of course, a tornadoe is the wild card in the deck and those could occur as far as 250 miles inland. I appreciate all the concern.
Bobfly,
My GoogleEarth says that most of Jacksonville is maybe 10' (3m) above sea level. Hope you are on a hilltop, there.
Best wishes, just one (Okinawa) typhoon veteran to another.
i'm just wondering how the dunes of the OBX will be sculpted this time. always different. the last time we had a major storm through here, we had experienced over a month of rainy weather, and the ground was soaked. because of the wet ground, hundreds of thousands of trees fell, along with power lines. this time, we've been going through a prolonged drought to the point that we have several thousand acres of swamp that has been burning for weeks.
living in a country that does not have this kind of threat, dont get me wrong we have other threats, but bobfly for purley dealing with this threat you have my respect. its a big thing coz us brits dont just hand out a lot of respect.
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No offense taken, Red. I've been thru hurricanes, a typhoon in Okinawa and had a couple of near miss tornadoes in Texas. I know and understand the risks. Max winds (predicted) for this area are 60 mph and heavy rain. I've been watching the weather non stop for the last 3 days to determine if leaving is necessary. I'm not taking this lightly as are most of my coworkers. I'm 20 miles inland so the surge won't effect me but I'm still prepared to leave if need be. I've spent the last 3 days preparing my home and property for this storm. Of course, a tornadoe is the wild card in the deck and those could occur as far as 250 miles inland. I appreciate all the concern.
Bobfly,
My GoogleEarth says that most of Jacksonville is maybe 10' (3m) above sea level. Hope you are on a hilltop, there.
Best wishes, just one (Okinawa) typhoon veteran to another.
Google earth shows me at 52 ft. I expect some flooding in my yard and if I'm cut off from town by flooding, I have plenty of supplies and water.
Thanks Bisleybob. Your kind words are appreciated.
And if the surge does make it this far, I have the getaway vehicle in the driveway.
Latest Update
Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 5:00 PM EDT
Category
Hurricane - Category 2
Wind Speed
100 mph
Pressure
951 mb
Latitude
31.7° N
Longitude
77.4° W
Movement
N at 14 mph
It’s kind of hard getting out of the way with 29 million evacuating. NYC has first ever mandatory evac.
I evacuated from Eastern Shore, VA to about 100 miles inland from the NC coast. The elevation I left is 4’ and the elevation I’m at is 28’. I was going to be about 30 miles from the eye and now I’m about 50 miles from the eye. Still in a high wind zone. We are looking at a cat 1 at 100 mph. So I’m looking at about 70 here. I heard that Eastern Shore has not seen this high of wind since 1938.
I was stationed in Key West when Andrew came through. A shipmate sent his family to Alabama. Well, his family ended up getting more wind and their pants scared off than if they would have stayed in Key West. After Andrew went through, we patrolled from the Gulf to Miami. Radar picked up a large object in the water at night. Very large oak tree about 40 miles of the coast of Ft. Myers. At the time, we did not think the tree floated that far out in that short of time. We thought that it was set down out in the water. Found a refrigerator floating between Miami and the Bahamas. Mother nature is unforgiving but also still unpredictable. _________________ Aspiring Pilot for LIfe and Focused
1st Flight/Solo Nov 1993
I'm as ready as I'm going to be. $!>< and I took the wife's out for our last meal last night. This morning I gassed up the generator, van and chainsaw. Filled the tubs with water and took in the deck stuff.
I would feel much better about things if they would stop showing the computer models with the track going right over my house, whats wrong with the house next door. I'm in Durham Ct. about 30 miles from the shore, 600+ feet ASL. I built my house on an interior lot in the woods and I saved as many trees as I could. So my only fear is one falling on the house.
My 7 year old son is running around saying " prepare for the worst" and telling anyone that will listen all about hurricanes.
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The trucks full of gas along with 2 gas cans just in case I need to head for my neice's place in Durham.
Your presence will not change what the storm does in the slightest, except maybe for the worse.
