scroglodyte
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let that mean ole pressure drop....................
let that mean ole pressure drop....................
wiating on Sandy........................
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billybob420
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Sunbiz1
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Hi all,
I've been through 2 cat 4 storms, Charlie and Wilma back in 04' and 05' along with numerous lesser ones in Florida. For those of you with electric stoves, buy charcoal...now. Buy extra gasoline in whatever containers you have...now. Those are the 2 things that will save your ass during an extended power outage. I lived and went to work w/no power for 2 weeks, and it sucked really hard. If you have a vehicle you don't want damaged, find the nearest multi-level concrete parking garage...although not intended for storm shelter they do a great job of property protection. I rode out Charlie in one while these guys were 20 miles to my north:
[video=youtube;unV5KcSrY-I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unV5KcSrY-I[/video]
Fortunately, nobody will see anything near this. It was the only time I ever actually feared for my life, and I've been in a few tornadoes..lol.
Stay safe, and stay high everyone.
Peace
I've been through 2 cat 4 storms, Charlie and Wilma back in 04' and 05' along with numerous lesser ones in Florida. For those of you with electric stoves, buy charcoal...now. Buy extra gasoline in whatever containers you have...now. Those are the 2 things that will save your ass during an extended power outage. I lived and went to work w/no power for 2 weeks, and it sucked really hard. If you have a vehicle you don't want damaged, find the nearest multi-level concrete parking garage...although not intended for storm shelter they do a great job of property protection. I rode out Charlie in one while these guys were 20 miles to my north:
[video=youtube;unV5KcSrY-I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unV5KcSrY-I[/video]
Fortunately, nobody will see anything near this. It was the only time I ever actually feared for my life, and I've been in a few tornadoes..lol.
Stay safe, and stay high everyone.
Peace
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Those fools are lucky they didn't get tumbled. But man, they'll have something to tell their grandkids! cn
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Suprised you didn't say generator, I've been thru Charley too and we didn't prepare much, cold showers suck lol but when he power was out you could hear the buzzing noises everywhere.
RyanTheRhino
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I took my long board out with a large beach towel/sheet the ones people sit on when Irene hit. I just sailed around for a few hours , I would say that was fun. Always got a little nerves when going under huge tree branches but never got hurt.
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Me and my mom drove to Quiznos in the middle of one when we went to check out the damage. It was literally the only thing open with a line going out of the door but I've never experienced the full full force of one, just the outer bands but still has hit 60-70 gusts. I've always wanted to experience one coming directly at me for some reason, lived in Florida all my life and never got anything too serious.
Total Head
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i'm not so much worried about the hurricane part, i'm worried about the hurricane slamming into the snowstorm from the west and that damn frigid high pressure air from the north (thanks, canada). it's unsettling that they genuinely don't know what will happen. i'm not in the "ground zero" section but i'm still in that red zone that covers most of massachusetts. people on the cape better get the fuck out of there.
and for once in my life i feel really bad for the kids. this makes 2 years in a row that halloween will be cancelled. that's pretty shitty when you're 8 years old.
the bitch of this is going to be the enormous area of potential power outages and downed trees, etc. it's not going to be as localized as typical tropical storm damage and restoring utilities and crap for that large and densely populated an area is going to take a long time. a lot of people don't realize that there is a very specific order in which things need to be done, and when you're dealing with literally dozens of utility companies orchestrating the whole thing is going to be a nightmare. there will be no "let's flee a couple counties to the west" this time. several people could be quite fucked.
and for once in my life i feel really bad for the kids. this makes 2 years in a row that halloween will be cancelled. that's pretty shitty when you're 8 years old.
the bitch of this is going to be the enormous area of potential power outages and downed trees, etc. it's not going to be as localized as typical tropical storm damage and restoring utilities and crap for that large and densely populated an area is going to take a long time. a lot of people don't realize that there is a very specific order in which things need to be done, and when you're dealing with literally dozens of utility companies orchestrating the whole thing is going to be a nightmare. there will be no "let's flee a couple counties to the west" this time. several people could be quite fucked.
Well Irene wasn't much of a storm IIRC. Hurricane Ivan really had me scared that my house was going to come apart. Our chimney came off in the worst part and water started coming into our house very quickly. We had to hand saw a huge peice of plywood and get into the attic and patch the hole. I remember looking at the screws in the roof hoping that they would stay in for the remainder of the night. The entire roof was flexing. It was a very intense night. Never had this type of fear in my life. That area of the US is not meant for ANY type of hurricane even it be a CAT1.
I dont play with hurricanes. Hope everyone is safe and prepared.
Be careful what you wish for.
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Yeah sometimes the news likes to make people panic over nothing. There was this one reporter sating how serious this was but in the background people were swimming in the streets and people rowing boats lol.
billybob420
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Turns out my sister from DC is stuck in Dallas at the airport for 3 days (I'm assuming because the storm).
Good thing she's rich, cause she's gonna catch a plane to Monterrey, MX to wait out the storm.
Good thing she's rich, cause she's gonna catch a plane to Monterrey, MX to wait out the storm.
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Meh, I'm prepared to die a happy man lol.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I would rather not die of a great wind, unless I can do so in a sealed bunker full of prudes. cn
RyanTheRhino
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sorry to hear that. You actually got hit by the hard part i assume. Hurricanes can be huge but its really just the top right quadrant that totally destroys things.
Haha well Im not ready to die yet. 165MPH wind gusts will really make you have a new respect for storms.
RyanTheRhino
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yea bet it's almost impossible to stand in that much wind. Certainly cant walk without looking like you are a blacked-out drunk that keeps falling.
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I think the same thing about tornados, never experienced one but they scare me more since they can pick you up hundreds of feet. I would however would like to be I some kind of protective bubble and try it.
