Why is this happening???!!! (ANOTHER HURRICANE!!!!!!!!)

[Tiggerlover91]

I don't understand it everyone! I'm watching Frances and waiting to see what happens here in the panhandle from it. We should be feeling her effects by sometime tomorrow (monday). I'm searching websites for info and I find HURRICANE IVAN!!!!! Oh my gosh....he's headed the same way Frances was, and it will POSSIBLY make landfall in FL by September the 11th. Isn't that just dandy???!! We as a country have enough to remember about 9/11 and here FL may experience another hurricane...in less than a month. We've been very blessed here in northwest FL to not be hit by any hurricanes or tropical storms, but it ain't over yet. Panama City received a little bit of rain and wind from Bonnie, but the further west you came, where I live near Pensacola, the safer we were.

So anyway, pray for us please. This is a really weird hurricane season for the state of FL. Now I know how my sister-in-law feels. She lives in NC and she gets more hurricanes on average than we do. I guess this year is our year.

I hope the DISers who were in Frances' major contact area are doing okay and my blessings and prayers are with you all. Be safe and keep us posted if you read this.

Blessings,

Denise

Please know I understand why hurricanes happen, I just don't understand why FL has to take the bearing of the 4 of them and hurricane season won't be over til November

 

[Flyfly_Eclipse]

I know!! This is absolute madness...another hurricane to hit in less than a week!! The only good to have come out of it is Hurricane Days off from school, but my weekend plans to go to Orlando themeparks were ruined I feel especially bad for all those who travel long distances, and save up lots of money for a quality vacation, and then a hurricane comes to spoil things. Not to mention all of us who live here in FL...it seems if someone is left with little damage, another hurricane comes to try to make up for it (or so it seems). I live in Venice, FL and have been VERY lucky to not have gotten any serious damage from both Charley and Frances...I am DONE with these storms. But how about those already with damage? There is little or no recovery time! Horrible...absolutely horrible

 

[Antonia]

I'm a nurse and yesterday a patient's family menber was watching CNN coverage of the hurricane.

She said that "these hurricanes are teaching Florida a lesson for handling that election like they did." She thinks the hurricanes are related to the presidential election!!!!! She was serious.

Of course, I didn't believe her - I'm a Republican. LOL

 

[gottaluvPluto]

It is a bad year for hurricanes. You can bet that the insurance agencies will not write anymore home owners insurance for the rest of the year for Florida.

Oh! In October, hurricanes usually develope in the Gulf and then it is just like a pin ball machine, its going to hit somewhere.


Antonia, I was talking to a friend the other day and we have a bet about someone linking the hurricanes to the election or past election. I told her it was just a matter of time for someone to open their mouth. It is sad that someone would say something like that.

 

[lindamg]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a local newspaper had an article this week saying that the way these hurricanes were coming was due to changing weather patterns, and we could expect hurricane seasons to be like this for the next 10 years or so.

AARRGH!!

Makes me wish my retirement income didn't depend on my continuing to work for the state of Florida for the next 20 years!

 

[WishingOnAStar]

Well, I have to confess - all of this is MY fault (well, mine and Pres. Bush- although I had nothing to do with Janet Jackson's "exposure")

I have waited and waited to take the family to the World - we had reservations, a deposit down, etc. 2 years ago, but cancelled because we had a house built (dh said it was the house or Disney). We lost the deposit and everything.
So- I wait - not so patiently - and save and FINALLY dh says, "okay, plan your stinkin' trip)

and NOW ....... I just know I'm going to get a phone call 2 days before our trip saying, "we're sorry, but you can't come to WDW - there is nothing left!!!!"

 

[Tiggerlover91]

Originally posted by lindamg
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a local newspaper had an article this week saying that the way these hurricanes were coming was due to changing weather patterns, and we could expect hurricane seasons to be like this for the next 10 years or so.

AARRGH!!

 

[chager]

My best friend is currently in Pensacola. She flew in on Friday to visit her grandparents. She is due to fly out today...we'll see. She made sub plans just in case she can't make it back. Her sister is due to fly back to Tampa today also. Not sure that will be happening either Everyone down there is in my prayers!

 

[lightningcoach]

Yeah right - due to the election- get a grip on reality!

I thought it was because I am trying to get a new dishwasher installed. Both times I have made an appointment they have been canceled. The first due to Charley and the second due to Francis. The next one will be due to Ivan.

I suppose the tree fell on my roof yesterday because I voted Republican. Thank goodness it didn't do any damage- maybe because I didn't leave my chad hanging!

 

[LisaSt]

This is the NOAA projected path for Ivan over the next 5 days

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0904W5+GIF/060908W5.gif


Darren

 

[Shutterbug]

current model projections on the path are right now pretty much all in agreement:

projections

 

[Island_Lauri]

I doubt the elections have any thing to do with the weather but has anyone given thought to all the bombs that have been exploded in the atmosphere.

"Ten of the past 14 years have been the hottest recorded, and this is linked by scientists to a rapid rise in levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere - which according to ice core samples tested in the Antarctic, are the highest in 440,000 years and still rising.

Almost all climate scientists, atmospheric chemists and oceanographers say the greenhouse effect has arrived and that we should expect more droughts, hurricanes, flash floods, forest fires and giant storms. The kind of extreme weather that happened once in 100 years, they say, could soon take place every 20 years.

There's plenty of evidence that 2004 is falling into this pattern. There have been major fires in southern France, California, Greece, Ireland, Nicaragua and Alaska, where five million acres have been burning. Drought is affecting large areas of east and southern Africa and there have been intense heatwaves in Spain, Portugal, Japan, and Australia.

But 2004 may be remembered for its floods. Just eight months into the year, Bangladesh, and to a lesser extent India and Nepal, have had some of the severest seen in decades, with tens of millions made homeless.

Less noticed have been major floods in Hungary, Vietnam, Kenya, Romania, Lagos, Nicaragua, Iran, Siberia, Bosnia and Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, 17,000 people needed help after huge snowstorms in the Andes and Korea, and there were heavy falls in unlikely countries such as southern Greece, Jordan and Syria.

Last week the European environment agency produced evidence that Europe was warming faster than expected and that the number of natural disasters had more than doubled in the past decade.

Last year's pan-European drought cost 20,000 lives and billions of euros and the later floods affected at least 600,000. The agency, which said that most European glaciers were in fast retreat, warned people to expect more flash floods, mudslides, storms and droughts.

Happily, fewer people have died as a result of extreme weather this year. Last year was one of the worst on record, with the Red Cross estimating that up to 700 "natural disasters" claimed 50,000 lives, almost five times as many as in in 2002.

Heatwaves in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan took temperatures up to 50C (122F). In China floods along the Huai and Yangtze rivers swept through 650,000 homes.

The economic cost of extreme weather is soaring. This month's Hurricane Charley caused £10bn of damage in the US. Typhoons in China and Taiwan have also caused enormous losses. Last year's losses worldwide topped £34bn.

But the most unusual weather event in 2004 could have been the 90mph hurricane that hit Catarina in southern Brazil in March. Hurricanes have never been recorded in the southern Atlantic, because the atmosphere does not provide enough "spin" near the surface to get them started and winds higher in the atmosphere tend to shear off any that threaten to form.

Whether it was a true freak of nature or what we can expect with global warming is hotly debated. Climate change scientists in Britain have predicted for some time that such unprecedented events in the south Atlantic would one day be a possibility. But few believed it would happen so soon."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5002830-110970,00.html

 

[Poohbear123]

Its just our time to experience them, thats all.

 

[Pin Wizard]

Originally posted by lightningcoach
Yeah right - due to the election- get a grip on reality!

I thought it was because I am trying to get a new dishwasher installed. Both times I have made an appointment they have been canceled. The first due to Charley and the second due to Francis. The next one will be due to Ivan.

I suppose the tree fell on my roof yesterday because I voted Republican. Thank goodness it didn't do any damage- maybe because I didn't leave my chad hanging!

ROFL! Thanks for the laughs, lightningcoach!