Omg! Ivan!!!

[RitaZ.]

Sunkissed~ The problem is that there is a high pressure system coming from the N that will be "pushing it down". The strength and duration of that system will determine the path of the hurricane.

 

[Ted and Holly]

Originally posted by sunkissed212
Am I the only one that thinks the 70degree northern turn that the forcasters have this storm taking is outrageous???

It's headed on a west/northwest path and then all of a sudden it remembers that FL is to the north so it needs to turn up and slam FL???????

I'll believe it when I see it! (Oh...and by that time I'll be back in MI watching it on the news)

Sorry sunkissed but RitaZ is right. It all hinges on what the fronts do to the north of Florida. That turn is NOT out of the ordinary.

Check out some of the historical paths of hurricanes, you will see some crazy stuff!

I am afraid that this is wishful thinking that this will fizzle. Like I said, you need to PREPARE FOR THE WORST.

If I knew a major earthquake was going to hit California, I would not go to DL.

Simple as that.

Ted

 

[KimandBrian]

Originally posted by Feralpeg
Okay fellow Floridians, I'm sorry. It must be me. Since I moved to Florida three months ago, the weather has gone nuts! I don't want to move back to Missouri, but this is getting crazy!

I feel the same way, Feralpeg! We moved from KC to JAX in July, and it has been one hurricane after another.

 

[sunkissed212]

All I know is that most of the time meterologists can't even correctly predict what is going to happen 30 minutes from now let alone 3 days from now. I'm not saying that people shouldn't keep an eye on the sky, just don't put your whole life in the hands of a local news meteorologist.

It could definitly come this way.....and.....it could go somewhere else too.....oh wait...that's what they keep saying too....they've got themselves covered either way!

 

[Jasminesmommy]

all week it says its going to the golf and now its turning and hitting Fl head on. I hope its wrong. I can't imagine what you all are going through in a months period. They say bad things comes in three's.

 

[aimee11621]

Wishful thinking, maybe. I really feel its too soon to tell. Ivan has to move through Jamaica and over Cuba.

The cone of death is just a tool and a projected path.

I live in Miami and for two days Frances danced outside at the edge of Florida's coast. All they ever said was that Frances was slow moving. Did you all happen to see the size of Frances' eye?

They didn't know eactly were she (Frances) was going or when she would make landfall. The hurricane was dancing at our doorstep FOR TWO DAYS.

TOO SOON TO TELL

Prayers and pixie dust.

 

[Rajah]

I'm praying that it will take a very sharp, VERY sharp turn to the east and end up back out to sea.

It has happened before.

 

[oogieboogie]

Originally posted by Jasminesmommy
all week it says its going to the golf

I sure hope it decides to go golfing... cause I don't know how Floridians can cope with all this mess.

What's going to hurt even more is the paranoia that people will have and not want to come to Florida at all and this state depends so much on tourist dollars. We could see the effects of these hurricanes for months/years.

Sigh... FWIW, we're leaving tomorrow to pump some tourist dollars back into the state. Prayers to all in Florida that have been affected so far and prayers that Ivan does go somewhere
else!

 

[AmyBeth68]

OMG!!! Here we go again....days of worry for you poor Florida folks! You all are in my thoughts.

 

[phorsenuf]

So first the west, then the east now up from the south???? I feel so bad for everyone there!

Ivan is very mean! Hopefully it will die out after it crosses some land.

 

[cybrarian]

Residents and tourists have been told to leave the Keys for the third time in less than a month!

Florida Keys to be evacuated because of Hurricane Ivan

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KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - Emergency officials began the total evacuation of the Florida Keys on Thursday with the powerful Hurricane Ivan forecast to hit the exposed 120-mile island chain as early as Sunday.

All tourists, people in recreational vehicles and mobile home residents were urged to clear out Thursday. Monroe County's 79,000 residents were told to prepare to leave Friday on U.S. 1, a mostly two-lane road and bridge system linking the Miami area to Key West, the southernmost city in the continental United States.

Hurricane forecasters predicted the Category 5 storm could weaken to a Category 4 over Cuba, hit the Keys late Sunday or early Monday and possibly run up the Florida mainland.

At 11 a.m. EDT, Ivan's eye was about 420 east-southeast of Jamaica and about 950 miles southeast of Marathon in the heart of the Keys with steady winds of 160 mph and gusts to 195 mph.

The evacuation order for Keys visitors was the third in less than a month following brushes with Hurricanes Charley and Frances. Hotels up and down the Keys were clearing out and not taking any newcomers, turning instead to storm preparations.

 

[currycook]

Way too early unless you are living in Florida.....