[WeatherOp]

Houston is basicly fine, unless Rita stops, puts it in reverse and backs over the city. All they will get, as it looks at the moment, is winds 45-60 mph, and they *may get an hurricane force gust.

What does that mean? Basicly all the damage is gonna be caused by falling trees and power will be out. But, no major damage expected wind wise, although Gaveston might get a 3-6 foot storm surge, but that is kind of minor.

A deffinite far cry from the 125-140+ winds they would have seen. And the big surge as well.

[MatthewPapa]

Originally posted by WeatherOp
Houston is basicly fine, unless Rita stops, puts it in reverse and backs over the city.

which they have been known to do

[WeatherOp]

Originally posted by MatthewPapa


which they have been known to do

Thats right, but not this one, if it does, it will be 200 miles inland. The only time hurricanes do that is when they are weak.

[Knight Templar]

[Scuddie]

Yeah, KT...  I live there too, but you don't see me *****ing about it.

[redsniper]

Bah! I'm back and we didn't even get a drop of rain in Columbus. I'm kind of happily disappointed that I traveled all that way and back for no reason. It looks like Houston didn't get hit too badly so Stealth will probably be back with us soon. Our town is a madhouse though. It's built right where two highways cross so there's no food and until recently there was no gas from all the evacuees buying it. Our local Wal-mart and HEB are closed (that's general store and grocery store to you furriners) until tomorrow.
Oh and my packing priorities are similar to Stealth's: I made sure I had my FS2 cds before I left.

[Stealth]

what a joke of a hurricane.  i feel cheated in a way, all the effort and panic we went through, for a bit of wind.  i've seen bigger hurricanes in my shower. geez.

actually i shouldn't say that, cause our house is kind of damaged, just nothing like we all thought it would be:


actually it was over before anyone though it would begin.  wind's still kind of strong up here, whistling through the trees, by 1:00 AM we knew it would miss us entirely, and it dropped to 'tropical storm' level within a few short hours.  all the predictions, and warnings of "30+ inches of rain, and 170 MPH winds" for nothing.  i'd be suprised if we got 6 inches of rain over here... very suprised.  you should see this area though.  there's hardly a house that isn't boarded up.  all the store fronts are closed with taped and boarded windows.  by 8:00 PM last night, when the wind started picking up, the only cars on the road were police cars.  goes to show you can never predict what's going to happen.  that hurricane really made a turn for the better.

[Stealth]

actually that image i posted above isn't for real... our house is fine except for a bit of damage to the roof... some branches fell down, no branches bigger than like, 4 or 5 inches in diameter though.  all our pine and oak trees are still standing strong.  the streets are full of pine needles and twigs, and one of the boards across a window broke from a branch ripping against it as it fell, but otherwise no glass broke.  power's still on, which is amazing, although it flickered for a few seconds more than once last night.  

thx for the support everyone  appreciated  will post pictures of the 'result' in a little bit

[redsniper]

Good to see you're alright Stealth.

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by Stealth
what a joke of a hurricane.  i feel cheated in a way, all the effort and panic we went through, for a bit of wind.  i've seen bigger hurricanes in my shower. geez.

actually i shouldn't say that, cause our house is kind of damaged, just nothing like we all thought it would be:


actually it was over before anyone though it would begin.  wind's still kind of strong up here, whistling through the trees, by 1:00 AM we knew it would miss us entirely, and it dropped to 'tropical storm' level within a few short hours.  all the predictions, and warnings of "30+ inches of rain, and 170 MPH winds" for nothing.  i'd be suprised if we got 6 inches of rain over here... very suprised.  you should see this area though.  there's hardly a house that isn't boarded up.  all the store fronts are closed with taped and boarded windows.  by 8:00 PM last night, when the wind started picking up, the only cars on the road were police cars.  goes to show you can never predict what's going to happen.  that hurricane really made a turn for the better.

Dissapointed?

Don't worry - the next hurricane is just around the corner...

[WeatherOp]

Originally posted by Stealth
all the predictions, and warnings of "30+ inches of rain, and 170 MPH winds" for nothing.  

For nothing, I think not,Be glad it missed you, but the warnings were there for a reason.

I don't want to sound mean, but that kind of thinking is what got of the people killed during Kat. Ivan missed them, didn't bother them too bad, so Kat wouldn't be any different, it was, and they paid for it. So it isn't wise to say the warnings were for nothing, because if this had come in about 60 miles more south, there would be an whole world of difference.

[Stealth]

i'm talking about the warnings in our area.  i'm well aware that Rita affected a lot of people as predicted, but for us, we saw half an hour of LIGHT rain, and wind for a few hours, and that was it.

[Stealth]

some pictures of our area when the winds picked up.





my cars safe in the warehouse though

[WeatherOp]

Originally posted by Stealth
i'm talking about the warnings in our area.  i'm well aware that Rita affected a lot of people as predicted, but for us, we saw half an hour of LIGHT rain, and wind for a few hours, and that was it.

Still the warnings for that area were there for a reason. Hurricanes are still unpredictable, one second they can be moving away, the the next second they can be coming at you.

Powerful hurricanes like Rita, wobble one way, than the next. And this wobbling, while not moving much at the moment, can mean 50-60 miles at landfall.

Just the next time a strong hurricane is comming at you, take the same precautions as you did, while it might cause of problems at the moment, it means everything if it saves your life. Just don't make the mistakes they made during Kat, take every warning seriously.

[BlackDove]

Originally posted by Stealth
i'm talking about the warnings in our area.  i'm well aware that Rita affected a lot of people as predicted, but for us, we saw half an hour of LIGHT rain, and wind for a few hours, and that was it.

That's because you haven't learned.

See, the only reason New Orleans was a surprise, was because everyone stopped believeing the sensationalistic retarded news-meteorologists. It was always a matter of "OH MY GOD, THE END IS HERE WITH THIS STORM", and 90% of the time, it panned out to be complete crap.

So everyone thought the same thing when the New Orleans one happened, but that time it fell within that 10% and everyone was so shocked.

This time, everyone evacuated ONLY because of New Orleans. Not because this hurricane was any different than any of the millions that always managed to miss, but because the sensationalist news got some credibility after NO, everyone believed it like gospel.

To reiterate.

Originally posted by BlackDove
It'll all be fine.

Now it is true that with each passing season, the Earth doesn't like you people. I guess it's probably because of all the shit you're testing as far as weapons or whatever goes (you know, all the tax money that goes into SUPAR SEKRET STUFF YOUR GOVERNMENT CANT LET YOU IN ON BECAUSE ITS NATIONAL SEKURITY!!!11one), and whatever the emmissions may be (hardly Global Warming, but let's call it that, because everyone believes in it), it's fueling Nature to hate your ****ing guts.

So my prognosis on Hurricanes is that the sensationalistic media bull**** will drop from being 90% false, to 85% or 80% false.

This has been public education about weather and society based on logic by BlackDove.

Don't write me an angry message.

[Stealth]

well i mean, if this happened again i'd do the same thing, i just feel a little cheated, cuase i spent a full day boarding up the house, and gathering my belongings (with the rest of my family) and locking down in the back room of a restaurant, and then the hurricane goes and misses

but yeah. we'd do it again if we got the same warning.  i know how much damage serious hurricanes can do

[Kosh]

i just feel a little cheated

Maybe the next one will come and flatten your house. Would that make you feel happy?

[karajorma]

I tell you what. Why dopn't we go round. Knock you on the head, bulldoze your house and edit your posts so that you think that the hurricane did hit you.

Happy now


Seriously though I can understand where you're coming from. There is a strange disappointment in expecting to be in the middle of a disaster and then not having it happen.

[Stealth]

well don't get me wrong, i'm glad nothing happened, and i wouldn't change that.  but everyone around here feels the same way i do .  spending a full day boarding up the house, moving stuff, etc. and then another day to clean everything up and move back in, you know, you kind of expect a little more than a bit of wind and half an hour of light rain  you should know my personality by now, and know that i'm not wanting my house to be destroyed or anything

i also get your point BlackDove.

[Bobboau]

well Rita is now hitting my, liveing 1000 miles from the ocean and it still hits me, it's still spinning, it's still identifiable as a seperate entity from all the reast of the weather, that is one resiliant storm.