Another *&^%$# hurricane

[S14Speed997]

So now we have "Ivan" to worry about and this one looks meaner than the other two..........At this point I kind of look at it as a "if it hits us, it hits us, i'm not leaving my house"..Both times the other storms did crazy moves, so no matter if you evacuated or not, you got f*cked up....

The boarding windows, getting sandbags, extra water, and losing power , is all getting very old......I get the hint God , you hate Floridians lol....

Had to vent......... :squintd:

[aznpoopy]

sucks man... i feel for you. last two days we had horrible flooding from the remnants of frances. it rained something like 6 inches in 4 hours. took me a ridiculous 2 hours to make a 8 mile drive to get to the ferry. doesn't help that my car is low. i can't imagine what you guys are going through; getting hit by the full force of the hurricane.

um, come up to NJ? i would leave if i were you.

[-E-]

I'm tired of this already :(

[Andrew Bohan]

i'll take earthquakes anyday.
no BS evacuations and advance notice.
bad ones are few and far between.

[Jeff240sx]

Eone! You can't talk, you're on the panhandle. You have us penninsula residents to take the brunt of these things 80% of the time.
-Jeff

[-E-]

Eone! You can't talk, you're on the panhandle. You have us penninsula residents to take the brunt of these things 80% of the time.
-Jeff

I don't live on the panhandle I live on the coast

[thelinja]

I don't live on the panhandle I live on the coast
Should've stayed in NYC.:o

[BiluMaster K's]

Good Luck, you guys cant get a break with this weather shit.....
-the N.East is supposed to get destroyed with snow this year, if that makes u feel any better.

[ZenkiS14]

We'll learn our lesson -- sooner or later
Published September 6, 2004

The good news for the Orlando area is that Frances started out as a raging beast but turned into a lumbering, slobbering dog by the time it got here.

The bad news is that Ivan is out there now. And after Ivan, there will be another storm, and then another one.

If we don't get hit again this year, wait until next year.

This is the way it is going to be for the next couple of decades. We are on the wrong end of a hurricane cycle that could last another 20 years. It's a natural cycle influenced by things such as ocean temperature and salinity level.

The most noted hurricane forecaster in the country, William Gray at Colorado State University, predicted in December that there was a good possibility a strong hurricane would hit the United States this year. He singled out Florida as a likely target.

The upswing in hurricane activity began in 1995, with 1999 producing the greatest number of powerful storms ever recorded.

The fact that we haven't been whacked until now has been dumb luck. With the atmosphere cranking these things out at a rapid clip, the science of probabilities eventually trumped luck.

Before 1995, we were on the 25-year slack side of the hurricane cycle that began in 1970. Only one major storm, Andrew, hit Florida in that timeframe. Whereas, between 1919 and 1935, Florida got hit by one Category 5 storm and three Category 4 storms. One of them, a 1928 monster, killed almost 2,000 people around Lake Okeechobee.

The hurricanes began to ease up just as Florida's population started to explode and millions of people moved to the coast. This is why Andrew was such a rude awakening.

Central Florida, meanwhile, had not been seriously hit since Donna in 1960. That's why those of us living inland felt immune to hurricanes. But with more and bigger storms beginning in 1995, it was only a matter of time before the steering currents that had protected us from this onslaught directed a few our way.

So what should you do about this? Well, you could move back to Ohio. But hurricanes are an annual probability, while zero-degree winters are an annual guarantee.

Or you could take all this hurricane-preparedness stuff seriously and install storm shutters, stockpile sandbags, get a generator, trim back the oak limbs and buy other supplies before the hurricane season begins rather than wait for the chaos that ensues three days before a storm arrives.

As someone who has long ridiculed hurricane-survival guides, that's my plan. After 50 years in this state, I'm a born-again hurricane fraidy-cat.

Unfortunately, we will get no such reassessment from the politicians and developers. The former will keep allowing the latter to plop people in harm's way, be they crammed on the coast or sprawled out in low-lying flood plains.

There will be no lesson learned because growth is the priority and all other concerns are secondary.

That's a scary thought when you look at what the future holds in terms of more hurricanes, and consider that in the scheme of things, we got very lucky with Charley and Frances. The former was a fast-moving, compact storm, and the latter began falling to pieces before making landfall.

Think about a Category 5 version of Frances hitting a place like Tampa Bay or Miami head-on. Given enough time and enough hurricanes, it will happen.

[SR240DET]

im on the gulf coast.. heheheh... so far.. the last one just gave us a lil rain.. and wind.. it was pretty damn calm... but the next one may hit us... if goes in the gulf.. ........

[sykikchimp]

Ivan looks pretty daunting at the moment..

[-E-]

Should've stayed in NYC.:o


I know :-/

[evilimport]

Im getting real tired of hurricanes....and losing power. Its SO freakin hot and HUMID in florida without AC.

[old_s13]

over here in cali, we have to deal with fake-ass actresses turned porno queens..

i dunno which is worse, hurricanes or dirty whores....

i'll chose hurricanes, atleast you're safe to bang another day.

[cali240sxdrifter]

ugh, us in melbourne got hit pretty hard, but not like west palm beach did. crazy shit...ohwell, thats what we pay for 93 octane and no smog

[thx247]

This is mother nature kicking your ass back into the stone age for not having any smog laws biaooottttcch!!


We just get the fucking ground moving around us out here.

[TurK]

im on the gulf coast.. heheheh... so far.. the last one just gave us a lil rain.. and wind.. it was pretty damn calm... but the next one may hit us... if goes in the gulf.. ........




w00t! :2f2f:

[evilimport]

^^^ hahaha good luck with that in 135 mph winds!!

[S14Speed997]

I heard reports of it getting up to 175 mph....So far it looks like the Florida panhandle, and Louisiana are in for a monster storm, but this thing could still turn...I see a couple others here live in Pinellas County, a peninsula in a peninsula lol, we would be destroyed !

[Andrew Bohan]

just think if cali got one hurricane every year.... all the smog would be blown away and spread out. w00t.


*goes to figure out how to make a hurricane*

[ZenkiSE]

the keys are done for mang

[Phlip]

Scientific studies have shown that hurricanes and tornadoes never touch down or tear shit up in the housing projects, even if they must pass through/over the PJs to get to the trailer park... Why has no one figured this out and just turned florida into one bigass housing project?

[Phlip]

the keys are done for mang
Would you miss a buncha gay resorts and shit?

[GlacierFreeze]

Damn, it's gonna hit where I live most likely, Southern MS. Too bad I'm not going to be here hehe.

[XxJaPxOxNeEs23xX]

my friends in the navy and he has to evacuate tomorrow or somthing cuz of the hurricane

[TurK]

AHHH panhandle gona get fuxord by Ivan =/

[S14Speed997]

I hope New Orleans is back to normal when i go there in a month :naughtyd:

[Phlip]

I hope New Orleans is back to normal when i go there in a month :naughtyd:
Someone missed my above post about the PJ's... New Orleans is a hugeassed ghetto, save for small parts of the city, and therefore exempt from being struck by hurricanes/tornadoes...

[S14Speed997]

Someone missed my above post about the PJ's... New Orleans is a hugeassed ghetto, save for small parts of the city, and therefore exempt from being struck by hurricanes/tornadoes...


Don't worry Phlip, we have pj's down here too...and the people living in them were swimming to work, and anywhere else 2 wks ago..LOL

But actually the main way the pj's are destroyed is when they riot (usually once every 2 years) :squintd: