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inglor
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 Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:23 am Post subject: Bleh! Here we go again |
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Sort of, not as nasty as Ivan but we are breaking out the life preservers... LOTSA rain
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/085008.shtml?3day
Inglor the soon to be Wet
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:54 am Post subject: |
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Oh jeez, I'm sorry Inglor.  Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but where in all that mess do you live, exactly?
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Have you ever considered moving to Southern California? It's usually nice and dry - just finished an extended drought. True, we do get the occassional earthquake, but they're here, and then they're gone, none of this watching one's imminent destruction slowly creeping north.
Seriously though, hope it doesn't get as bad as they predict! You and yours will be in my prayers!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:21 am Post subject: |
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It seems even the weather gods know how fun you are to hang out with, Inglor. Hang in there.
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ellisk
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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This is not even remotely funny.  Last year, Charlie, Frances and Jeanne were ALL direct hits for me. I still have plastic sheeting for a roof because roofers can't get around to all the houses in our area that need fixing. And it is starting on June 10th this year!  Hopefully this will be the only one. May all the tropical systems develop in the middle of the Atlatic and fall apart long before they get anywhere near land that anyone lives on!
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Alassante
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah I was talking to someone from FL the other day and she said - "Gee its hurricane season. I wonder whose gonna get beat up this year - you or us?"
I live in NC but I am far enough inland that if it hits NC or Northern SC, it usually misses us in my city as it travels NW. But if it hits Southern SC and GA, we get the effects.
Although when Bertha then Fran hit NC dead on in 1996, we did get some effects. Half of the NC coastline was buried under water and some inland cities were completely flooded for weeks/month. That was very bad.
'Course we started that year buried in snow, then had big, extended storms that caused flooding and lightening damage, then we had three huge storms that caused tornados, plus another hurricane (Arthur) brushed us as well. 1996 was our bad year for weather. But it wasn't nearly as bad as Florida last year. I don't think that mother nature has a big sense of humor! 
Ellisk - you are right about it not being funny in FL last year. My cousin lives there and she and her two young sons were running back and forth between home and her parents house in TN. They tried going to Alabama where her sister lives but they were in danger of one hitting. Her husband was working elsewhere and couldn't get back home to help out. It was a mess. I feel for anyone in FL.
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| DreadLadyFreya wrote: | Have you ever considered moving to Southern California? It's usually nice and dry - just finished an extended drought. True, we do get the occassional earthquake, but they're here, and then they're gone, none of this watching one's imminent destruction slowly creeping north.
Seriously though, hope it doesn't get as bad as they predict! You and yours will be in my prayers!
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I agree! Where I'm at our weather is pretty stable and we don't have extremes often (though this past winter was quite strange with all the rain!). The range of daytime temps here is about 55 in the winter upwards to 85 in the summer though we do get an occasional 90-100 once in a while but due to being on the ocean it regulates our weather quite well. Plus there's lots of us LOTR nuts out here and I heard a few of the hobbits live not too far south of here. 
Hope your storm doesnt get too bad!
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inglor
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I feel for anyone trying to get homeowners insurance in Florida...
USAA won't write any below I10. Ours went up about $300 w/ a$3000 hurricane deductible
Ellisk, we have the same problem up here, Pensacola is still a wreck. Gulf Shores/Orange Beach is still crawling with bulldozers and earthmovers
Where do I live, dead center of the projected track...
But at this point it is just a long, bad thunderstorm. The problem will be the rain, a couple of years ago, Danny(a cat 1-2) dropped 40+inches in 48 hrs in South Baldwin County. Our afternoon Tstorm cycle has started so we are already wet. We are hoping it won't be one of those.
RE: SoCal:
Reasons I won't move to SoCal (but it's still a nice place to visit)
1. PAC 10 Football
2. Can't prepare for earthquakes
3. Taxes too high
4. property too high
5. Too much government (There is a town nicknamed The Peoples' Republic of Santa Cruz (yeah, I know, near San Fran but hey...))
6. No Forest Products companies
7. too dry, grown up w/ near 100% humidity, I might dry up and blow a away.
8. No countryfried steak, mashtaters w/gravy, purplehull peas, or cornbread made from buttermilk and cooked in bacon grease.
9. I feel guilty enough for my countryfried steak, mashtaters w/gravy, purplehull peas and cornbread made from buttermilk and cooked in bacon grease without having to be reminded by legions of health nuts running past my car window.
10. I live 2 blocks from the water and I didn't have to sell my first born for it.
I'll keep my hurricanes, cheap gas, cheap land, cheap living, pine trees, strokes and cardiovascular disease; I'll go visit the earthquakes
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ellisk
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| inglor wrote: | I feel for anyone trying to get homeowners insurance in Florida...
USAA won't write any below I10. Ours went up about $300 w/ a$3000 hurricane deductible
Ellisk, we have the same problem up here, Pensacola is still a wreck. Gulf Shores/Orange Beach is still crawling with bulldozers and earthmovers
Where do I live, dead center of the projected track... |
Oh yeah, the whole panhandle seemed to be still recovering the last time I was in St Marks just a few weeks ago. I saw lots of blue roofed houses still. And we won't even mention insurance. That's just a lost cause. I felt so bad for the Panhandle folks when I saw the path of this stupid thing. I read where it might be almost a Cat 1 when it lands. I know that's no Andrew, but heavy, sustained rains can do just as much damage. And the tornados! That's what people don't get. Jeanne was weak by the time she got us last year (barely a Cat 1) but she stayed a Cat 1 over our house for 48 solid hours. I've been in lots of hurricanes but Jeanne was by far the worst because of that. The stress of listening to your roof peel away and watching trees fall and your outbuildings blow away and knowing you can't do anything until the d*** winds die down is just awful. She did more damage than the other two combined.
Like I said, Inglor, I hope it this thing is nothing but I quick rain for you guys and that it moves through to the north where they want some rain. And I hope it's the last one anybody sees this year.
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ellisk
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| Alassante wrote: | | Yeah I was talking to someone from FL the other day and she said - "Gee its hurricane season. I wonder whose gonna get beat up this year - you or us?" |
I think that was me, Al. Else I had that conversation with someone else recently too. Else, I'm hearing voices in my head. Anything is possible. 
I can tell you when a hurricane is going to hit NC, though. On July 18 when I go to Wilmington for a business trip. Hurricanes follow me. When I moved to Florida, Orlando got Erin. When I visited the Panhandle, they got Josephine. When I visited Puerto Rico, they got Georges (that was a nasty one). So, be prepared. 
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Alassante
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| ellisk wrote: | | Alassante wrote: | | Yeah I was talking to someone from FL the other day and she said - "Gee its hurricane season. I wonder whose gonna get beat up this year - you or us?" |
I think that was me, Al. Else I had that conversation with someone else recently too. Else, I'm hearing voices in my head. Anything is possible.
I can tell you when a hurricane is going to hit NC, though. On July 18 when I go to Wilmington for a business trip. Hurricanes follow me. When I moved to Florida, Orlando got Erin. When I visited the Panhandle, they got Josephine. When I visited Puerto Rico, they got Georges (that was a nasty one). So, be prepared. |
It was you I was talking to as a matter of fact!! 
Thanks for the advance warning on July 18. I will be on alert.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Inglor,
been thinking of you and yours with this first storm of the season. Ya'll will be in my thoughts and prayers. Thanksgiving is a long waya away (that's the end of the season).
will be keeping track of ya the next couple of days, weather permitting and the lights still work, keep us updated!!
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Just dropping by to say good luck to all of you who might get hit! We Europeans are lucky; hurricanes here are few and far between...
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:03 am Post subject: |
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Hope it all goes well! You (and everyone on the coast) will be in our thoughts.
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Amlee
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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Inglor,
I thought I would drop by and check in on you. It looks like it's going to just be a big bac thunderstorm. Got worried there for a bit, but she ain't no Ivan!!!
Hope you and your family are safe!
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RE: SoCal:
Reasons I won't move to SoCal (but it's still a nice place to visit)
1. PAC 10 Football
2. Can't prepare for earthquakes
3. Taxes too high
4. property too high
5. Too much government (There is a town nicknamed The Peoples' Republic of Santa Cruz (yeah, I know, near San Fran but hey...))
6. No Forest Products companies
7. too dry, grown up w/ near 100% humidity, I might dry up and blow a away.
8. No countryfried steak, mashtaters w/gravy, purplehull peas, or cornbread made from buttermilk and cooked in bacon grease.
9. I feel guilty enough for my countryfried steak, mashtaters w/gravy, purplehull peas and cornbread made from buttermilk and cooked in bacon grease without having to be reminded by legions of health nuts running past my car window.
10. I live 2 blocks from the water and I didn't have to sell my first born for it.
I'll keep my hurricanes, cheap gas, cheap land, cheap living, pine trees, strokes and cardiovascular disease; I'll go visit the earthquakes
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