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FourWheelDrift said:
Hurricane Dennis the Menace 
Who goes to the Carribean during our Summer anyway
Lots if eejerts do...
diddyman said:
www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/07/06/tropical.weather
Good luck to all those who booked a summer break in the Caribbean! Mwuhahahahahahaha!
Yeah, very funny
Wonder if you've actually ever been through a Hurricane ? If not, then forgive me for calling you a t
t as you obviously have no idea what effect it has on people lives, livelyhood and surroundings. I went through Fabian (2004) and spent 7 hours of the night awake, wedging my door shut so that it wouldn;t fly open and that was only a Cat 3 (Peak gusts recorded were 140Mph before the recording equipment broke free of it's mountings)
Woke up the next morning to find the causeway that connects the airport to the mainland washed away (Along with 3 people trying to cross at the time), JUST where I was - 15+ boats dismasted, some beached, some smashed to smithereens on islands. The airport was closed for 3 days due to 30 ton boulders, boats and other debris on the runway...We had no electricity, no water so unable to take a shower for days... Some houses didn't get electricity on for weeks. Monetary cost was $millions in insurance claims for rebuilding...
Hurricanes are spectaculary distructive and dibillitating to the islands affected, wonder if you would have made the same comment about people who'd booked trips to Thailand around Xmas ?
Err.. hello. Read what I said... I did not say anything about people who lived in an area where there are hurricanes, I said good luck to those who have booked a holiday to the Caribbean this summer, which happens to be hurricane season.
Seeing as I have been through typhoons (same things with a diffrent name) in Hong Kong, Truk and Guam I believe I am more than qualified to comment on the effect they have.
>> Edited by diddyman on Friday 8th July 14:22
Seeing as I have been through typhoons (same things with a diffrent name) in Hong Kong, Truk and Guam I believe I am more than qualified to comment on the effect they have.
>> Edited by diddyman on Friday 8th July 14:22
Latest thought on Dennis is that it will reach the US Gulf Coast/Florida Panhandle area as a Cat. 4 (out of 5). This track can shift left or right depending upon the strength of a ridge over Florida and what the mountains in Cuba do to it. Oil rigs in the gulf are in the process of shutting down.
My sister is a Registered Nurse in the Panhandle area (Fort Walton area) and they are all on alert for the upcoming storm.
According to some experts, it's the gulf area and the Carolinas in the US this year. Hopefully they will all weaken or bounce...
ErnestM
I've just bought a house a couple of months ago right in the middle of the track of Dennis. What luck. The centre line on the map above misses my place by about 3 miles. doh.
If it holds that track the real people who will be hit will be down by Fort Walton rather than Pensacola.
If the storm hits you head on its not as bad as being hit by the top right hand part of the storm, kinda of like a fist that comes across. Last year, Ivan hit Mobile, but the fist smashed through Pensacola.
If it holds that track the real people who will be hit will be down by Fort Walton rather than Pensacola.
If the storm hits you head on its not as bad as being hit by the top right hand part of the storm, kinda of like a fist that comes across. Last year, Ivan hit Mobile, but the fist smashed through Pensacola.
TVR Guy...
You where lucky. Kissimmee got NAILED last year (I live in Oviedo - slightly northeast of Orlando).
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Yes - Ft Walton area is on maximum alert, but nobody really knows until it exits Cuba. Central Florida seems relatively safe but we will get some rain and wind...
ErnestM
You where lucky. Kissimmee got NAILED last year (I live in Oviedo - slightly northeast of Orlando).
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Yes - Ft Walton area is on maximum alert, but nobody really knows until it exits Cuba. Central Florida seems relatively safe but we will get some rain and wind...
ErnestM
ErnestM said:
TVR Guy...
You where lucky. Kissimmee got NAILED last year
We know, some properties in our community lost entire pool screens and suffered roof/tree damage, and they then found out their insurance companies were not covering their Pool Screens as part of their policy!
We are very lucky to have got away with it, some repair estimates for neighbouring homes were for $10,000 and above. Oh and then we went to Cocoa Beach and realised how bad the whole thing had been for people living there, some homes must have been a total loss.
We are still looking forward to returning as soon as possible though, hopefully in late August.
ErnestM said:
TVR Guy...
You where lucky. Kissimmee got NAILED last year (I live in Oviedo - slightly northeast of Orlando).
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Yes - Ft Walton area is on maximum alert, but nobody really knows until it exits Cuba. Central Florida seems relatively safe but we will get some rain and wind...
ErnestM
Yes, central florida would SEEM safe, unless the hurricane track does makes a sheep shank like one of them last year.
There was an occluded front on mainland US, but whatever is there will determine whether or not it looks right or goes straight after Cuba.
juice said:
diddyman said:
<a href="www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/07/06/tropical.weather">www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/07/06/tropical.weather</a>
Good luck to all those who booked a summer break in the Caribbean! Mwuhahahahahahaha!
Yeah, very funny
Wonder if you've actually ever been through a Hurricane ? If not, then forgive me for calling you a t
Seconded. A very stupid comment.
I was in Orlando last year when Charley went over our hotel. There was nothing remotely amusing in it at all.
It was actually damn scary.
The damage was horrendous, and I can only admire the Floridians as to how they picked themselves up and started re-building. Lets be clear, if such a hurricane hit Southern England it would be a national disaster many many times worse than the Great Storm of 1987.
I suspect the original poster would find it equally hilarious if he himself had been living in Boscastle and had his home washed away.
>> Edited by alexkp on Saturday 9th July 15:12
The other half of my job (Louisiana Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness)is Emergency Management. We are currently in our second week of Hurricane preparation (Tropical Storm Cindy and now Dennis). The pre work for these are mind-boggling. 1.2 million people evacuating from a region (Southeastern Louisiana) that not everyone owns a vehicle and many are part of a migrant community that knows little English is but one of many simultaneous scenarios. I have done this for 15 years and it gets no easier. God willing, I believe my state will be spared this time. I feel genuine pity for the poor folks who do get it though.
www.ohsep.louisiana.gov
www.ohsep.louisiana.gov
TVR Guy said:
TVR Guy...
You where lucky. Kissimmee got NAILED last year
We know, some properties in our community lost entire pool screens and suffered roof/tree damage, and they then found out their insurance companies were not covering their Pool Screens as part of their policy!
We are very lucky to have got away with it, some repair estimates for neighbouring homes were for $10,000 and above. Oh and then we went to Cocoa Beach and realised how bad the whole thing had been for people living there, some homes must have been a total loss.
We are still looking forward to returning as soon as possible though, hopefully in late August.
That would be our house then. We're waiting for the pool furniture to drift over on the North Atlantic Drift!!!
Windows and doors and the screen went, and just a mess inside. Two of Dads work collegues also have one each, one was completly untouched, Another had a tree go completly through the house, front to back. The son, 22 i think, was hiding in the closet with his GF for the night on the phone home.
We sold ours in December as it never once rented, but the lads still have theirs. Parents are off shopping in Spain this summer. Lovely place, Kissimme.
My friends got a compulsory evacuation order yesterday. Dennis is seems set on landing at Pensacola at the moment, or maybe just to the west by 20 miles which will wipe out Pensacola again.
I should know whether my house still has a roof on Monday morning.
jimbeaux, can you confirm something for me. is it true that if you refuse to leave your house during an evacuation that the local cops ask you to write your details on your chest with a black marker pen to make identification easier when they find your body?
I should know whether my house still has a roof on Monday morning.
jimbeaux, can you confirm something for me. is it true that if you refuse to leave your house during an evacuation that the local cops ask you to write your details on your chest with a black marker pen to make identification easier when they find your body?
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