[Max Sterling]

Hi.

If you dont hear from me for a few days, don't be surprised.

[diamondgeezer]

Rallies, hurricanes. Your life's almost as much of an exciting adventure as Lardman's...

[phreak]

hurricanes are a *****, aren't they.  my uncle lives in baltimore. he cant evacuate since he is a paramedic

[Unknown Target]

EDIT: Removed, 'cause Woolie's not being any fun, and I don't want to get in an argument.

[Woolie Wool]

This is why I would never think of living near a coast.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
Mmmm...I love hurricanes. So much fun

Anyways, most of you stateside guys (the ones that don't live directly on the coast, anyways), shouldn't worry. After it's been over land for awhile, it'll degrade down to a category 2 or 3 (if it hasn't already) which aren't bad at all.


(And before anyone thinks that I think they're fun because I've only been thru a category 1 or anything, you're wrong. I live in the tropics, I know what a hurricane is )

Have you been through Hurricane Andrew where people would try to loot what was left of your house (I'm glad I haven't), and you had to live dirt-poor in tent cities and trailers for years because you were conned by someone who claimed he would rebuild your house (I have never lived in Florida, and I never will live there)?

[Hippo]

Originally posted by PhReAk
hurricanes are a *****, aren't they.  my uncle lives in baltimore. he cant evacuate since he is a paramedic

Same. Except,  Fire Fighter, not Baltimore, and me, not my uncle.  *resumes boarding windows*

[Max Sterling]

Good luck to all of you.

[Solatar]

I used to live right where that hurricane is going to hit, glad I moved.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Hippo


Same. Except,  Fire Fighter, not Baltimore, and me, not my uncle.  *resumes boarding windows*

That sucks.

[Hippo]

I cant go further then 20 miles from my town before it hits, and must be at one of 2 stations during it... neither of the stations are waterproof... its supposed to hit within 6 hours...

[Grey Wolf]

I'm quite a ways from the coast (It's going to cross over almost half a dozen states before it hits me) and it's still supposed to be a tropical storm when it gets here.....
Hope we don't lose power. Our neighborhood is always the last to get power back, and I'd like to be able to take a shower before next Wednesday.

[IceFire]

Up here in Ontario were also bracing for the worst.  A low pressure system is set to collide with the low pressure system that is the hurricane (by the time it gets here it'll be only a tropical storm) and they are worried about a reintensification.  Not upto hurricane strength mind you...but enough to cause significant flooding (good thing I live at the top of a valley) and cripple an already tedious power grid.

Good luck to everyone else in the path of the storm.  I'm sure we don't have it as bad as some of the others along the coast...but we're going to get a taste of it...

[Deepblue]

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[Knight Templar]

Hi.

[Nico]

Ah, europe... you never get to see huricanes here.
but you americans are going to see more and more of those.

[J.F.K.]

Whoa, dudes... hope you stay safe when it hits.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Indeed, batten down the hatches lads!
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[J3Vr6]

Max, did you come out ok?  How about friends and family?  I hope the best for you and loved ones.

I live in Miami, so I know what it feels like to get hit by hurricanes.  Andrew is not an experience I would like to live through again.

One of the problems that compounded the destruction from Andrew wasn't really that it was powerful (although it had 160+ mph winds with `75 mph gusts and only moving at a snails pace), but that South Florida grew complacent to hurricane preparedness.  It really didn't have a harsh hurricane before that for like 20+ years.  New homes weren't constructed to hurricane specs, and residents didn't start preparing for the hurricane til the day before.  Since we hadn't been hit by a hurricane in almost 2 decades and always having close calls, many didn't think Andrew was going to hit either.  Luckily my family came out with only roof damage to our home, but many others were left homeless.

I remember driving down the streets I've lived around for 16 years previous to Andrew and landmarks were completely gone.  I remember being just 3 blocks from my house, on a major road that I had driven down countless times, and not knowing where I was cuz every landmark around that was torn down including houses, trees, street signs, etc etc.

Here's a link to some photos from Andrew so those who were too young to remember or not from the US can see how bad a hurricane can get:

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/9200/index2.html

Anyway, I hope everyone out there who had to go thru Isabel came out ok.

[Krackers87]

I live in fairfax county (south of DC) and we didnt get too hard but my backyard is messed up and the water plant has problems.

The pressure is gone so we get a little trickle and they say its probably contaminated so we have to boil our water.

They also say it wont be fixed for 3 days.

Edit: Nm, no more pressure.