[inglor]

Thanks everybody for your thoughts and prayers. We are just getting started so keep those of us along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts in them until December.

[LuthienTinuviel]

Will keep ya in my prayers too

I've read and heard about the hurricanes (and watched on TV)...I guess I'm lucky enough to live in a relatively disaster free area (earthquakes are buffered heavily by Sumatra, and all we get is a few rumble or two).

[trekqueen]

[Texasgirl]

Damn! I think I'm over stating this here - but, very sorry, Inglor, and all the rest of y'all who live in that area!

[Eruanna]

Inglor:

My thoughts are with you.

We had an earthquake here in on the West Coast, so Mother Nature must be angry...

Thinking of you...and hoping you stay dry.

--Eruanna

[NancyBrooke]

[inglor]

Storm reactions:
Tropical Storm: Bad long thunderstorm, LOTSA rain
Cat 1 Hurricane: Bad long, windy thunderstorm, Lotsa rain, might lose power for a few hours.
Cat 2 Hurricane: Lotsa Rain, limbs down, lost shingles, power out day or so.
Cat 3 Hurricane: Even more rain, trees down, power out for weeks. Batten down the hatches and you better have your chainsaw, batteries, canned food and water.
Cat 4: Hope your insurance is good and you have a friend who will let you stay with them for a few days. Going to need a skidder to get back to your house.
Cat 5: Wrath of God, Mother Nature at her absolute worst, only volcanoes and tsunami cause more damage, Flatten everything within 50-75 miles of point of landfall. Can alter regional economies. Better make arrangements with a builder, odds are that you won't have a home to come back to. Luckily they are very rare, Only 3 have hit the US coast since 1905.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/whcat5.htm

Inglor

[Yavanie]

Inglor,
from another who lives in the strike zone, that list is just so...so.... comforting?

well, let's just hope the rainmakers move quickly instead of parking and backtracking over the same areas (can you say Allison? and she wasn't even a hurricane).

[inglor]

Yav,
I just wanted to give those not on the coast an idea of what to excpect when they see something on the news. The news is so sensationalized, I didn't want folks to worry about us coasties everytime they heard Hurricane. Big nasty storms but only a real concern when a Cat 2 approaches a Cat 3. For those who haven't felt them, 60-70mph winds not too distructive, its when you get over 80 when you start to worry, over 100 and expect broke stuff, over 150, KYAGB. F=M*v^2

We've had two of those schitzo storms hit here, Danny parked over S Baldwin county for something like 2 days and Elana did a loop and hit Dauphin Island. Should be spelled HERicanes


Inglor

[Shanalir]

[Amlee]

Inglor, Are you packing yet??

[inglor]

Yep, headed to bham. Wifey works Saturday @ the hospital so we will head up after she gets back. 65 North is going to be 4 laned on Saturday so traffic shouldn't be too bad.

People camped out at Home Depot last night, almost in Panic mode down here. Ivan still fresh so everybody will prepare ahead of time.

We thought we were going to dodge this one yesterday but Dennis the Menace changed his mind last night and now we are staring down the barrel of a Cat 3-4... again. We are still recovering from Ivan, still lotsa tarp on roofs. Worse in Pensacola and Gulf Shores. I'm not sure what is worse, 3 within a month like those poor slobs in central Florida or two in successive years like us poor slobs are about to get. And the ground is wet from Cindy.

Inglor the Fleeing

[SilverMoonLady]

*sends all her good thoughts*

Keep safe and we'll be thinking of all of you in the path of the storm.

[NancyBrooke]

Good luck to you, Inglor! flee fleetly and we'll see you on the other side.

[ellisk]

My thoughts are with you Inglor and everyone else on the Gulf--I hope it hits a cold patch and weakens into a simple tropical storm before it gets to anyone on the Gulf Coast or where-ever it decides to come ashore.