Something About Nothing..........# 9

[bubba's mom]

janet...i sent u email... DE beaches are under mandatory evacuation

 

[keishashadow]

janet...i sent u email... DE beaches are under mandatory evacuation

oh noooos

TU

 

[Melanie230]

Clouds are rolling in today. No sun, no wind. Blah day...baseball games are cancelled tomorrow. We have been asked to secure yard items and prepare for power outages. We are expecting around 2 to 3 inches of rain and 50 mph sustained winds. We have done this before, but this big girl is sort of scary. My poor husband is a police officer and will be at work tomorrow. Going to be a busy day for him tomorrow.

 

[macraven]

No, I don't think we will have to leave...we will move the cars up North though. Some businesses have boarded up their windows....its getting very eerie right now because the weather is so calm.

Going to go move some of the porch furniture and secure some things down.

Catch you all later!

i am guessing you didn't go to skool today..........

Thank you ever so much for reminding me of my bad luck.

andy, i have never met a homie that changes ressies so frequently .....
but, i know that is a gift.


brab, son in chgo and he will be getting out on time now.
wish i had his type of luck.

 

[KStarfish82]

i am guessing you didn't go to skool today..........

We don't go back until the 6th...so I guess we luck out there! The boat ramps are so crowded with everyone yanking out their boats! I have never seen so many boats on the road

 

[tink20]

All homies in Irene's path
1. Stay safe and be careful
2. Check back here ASAP after the storm, so we know yall are okay

 

[macraven]

and turn the oven off before you leave your house......




with power outages in that area when Irene comes to town, i assume it might be awhile before we hear from the homies.



unless you raise homing pigeons,
in that case, send the birdies to damo.....

 

[Melanie230]

Possible good news. Updated just now...winds have downgraded to 100mph and the storm is speeding up. That is VERY good news for our coast, and better news for those of you up north! Let's hope this big girl picks up more speed and she loses her stamina!

 

[Melanie230]

Here is an outer band we just got here: (click on the picture and you can watch the video)

 

[Bluer101]

We had some outer bands all day yesterday here in South Florida. Hope everyone stays safe.

 

[macraven]

Mr Blue, how much will this Irene affect youse?


heavy rains?

 

[KStarfish82]

Well luckily, I don't have an oven because my kitchen is being redone.

The unlucky news is that my area is under a mandatory evacuation

Not sure what our plan of action is yet, but we are waiting to see what the morning brings...

 

[Bluer101]

Mr Blue, how much will this Irene affect youse?


heavy rains?

We had some heavy bands as Irene past our area yesterday. It really was no different than average summer afternoon thunderstorms.

I feel for everyone in it's track, but sure glad we missed another one. Don't get me wrong I love hurricanes but the destruction and aftermath is no fun. The last one that hit our area hard was Wilma.

We were out of electric for 3 1/2 weeks and no water for 2 weeks.

 

[bubba's mom]

brab, son in chgo and he will be getting out on time now.
wish i had his type of luck.

that's GOOD to hear

they say Philly burb's (I'm hour NW) going to get 30-50mph wind and 5-10" of rain.

our area (and near Philly and south NJ) has had so much rain lately (our area's wettest month EVER) they say it'll flood w/ 3" (again...happy to live on a mtn)

We lived thru Charley in '04 IN Fla. We were staying about 10-15 miles of where the eye passed over land. No big deal. We did that with no problem.

We'll see what happens....

 

[KStarfish82]

We were out of electric for 3 1/2 weeks and no water for 2 weeks.

 

[Melanie230]

We had some heavy bands as Irene past our area yesterday. It really was no different than average summer afternoon thunderstorms.

I feel for everyone in it's track, but sure glad we missed another one. Don't get me wrong I love hurricanes but the destruction and aftermath is no fun. The last one that hit our area hard was Wilma.

We were out of electric for 3 1/2 weeks and no water for 2 weeks.

YIKES!!! In 1996 when Fran rolled through we lost power here for 13 days. I couldn't leave my home due to downed trees throughout our neighborhood. I lived in a townhouse up on a hill, but the low lying townhomes were flooded with 7-8 ft of water. HORRIBLE when you see a FEMA truck parked in your neighborhood. IRENE is packing a punch today. We lost power last night but it is back up. The tv station here is now running on generators. It is going to be a long day!

 

[macraven]

Well luckily, I don't have an oven because my kitchen is being redone.

The unlucky news is that my area is under a mandatory evacuation

Not sure what our plan of action is yet, but we are waiting to see what the morning brings...

well, i think cooking is highly overrated as it is.........

i saw on tv where some of the evacuation sites are.
i assume that would be a decent place to move to during the mandatory evac.
wishing you the best...

We were out of electric for 3 1/2 weeks and no water for 2 weeks.

wow, that is horrible....
it puts such stress on you even more with the situation as it was.

hope you and your fam don't have to have repeats on that again.

when homies gather supplies for future inclement weather, i guess it is a toss up on how much of what you need to store.

water is needed for so many things.
going 2 weeks without city water supplies to the house is mind boggling...

hope you don't have many storms this year.

 

[Bluer101]

After Wilma hit and left I walked around out neighborhood a little and looked at all the damage and the main concrete power lines were all down. I walked back to the house and told my DW start packing, we need to leave, we are screwed. Lucky we still had cell service and called a family member with a big 4x4 truck to come pick up us and the cats. Right after we started to leave the cops started to close down the main roads due to the power lines all over place.

What normally takes 10 minutes to reach my folks place took an hour to get there. We lived with them for the next 3 1/2 weeks due to us with no water and electric. They ended up having water and got their electric back on in 6 days. The only thing that was nice about Wilma was is was cold out after she was swept through by a cold front.

For the next few weeks I ended up once a week going back by our place to check the status. One of the trips I hauled the generator over just to be able to clean and run the vacuum due to the mess. The cleanup was nasty without electric and the fridge had stuff we left behind that spoiled.

Now if it happened again, yes I would still enjoy it, but not the aftermath.

Most of my neighbors left too. That is no place to stay after I we looked at the damage. I knew that the power would be off for a long time after seeing the concrete poles down and that was just our little area, let alone the rest of South Florida.


If I have time later I have some photos I will post up.

 

[keishashadow]

FLA residents put up with lots of scary weather events, give me snow storm any day over a hurricane.

lots of rain up north causes more flooding vs same rainfall in the south as soil isn't sandy to suck it up. Many older cities have storm sewers overloaded on a good day. We had situation here a week ago where sudden storm in a oft-prone basin/valley area caused a disaster. It blew the manhole covers off and a 9 foot wall of water covered up all the cars on the busy rush hour traffic. It killed a few people who didn't make it out of their cars in time to scramble up the nearby mountain side, more if brave sorts hadn't swam and rescued elderly folks standing on top of their vehicles with rapidly rising water.

 

[Melanie230]