Now I know why I like living in upstate NY Taxes be damned.
Now I know why I like living in upstate NY Taxes be damned.
Ah, come on, Florida is a great adventure! Where else can you get hurricanes, tornadoes (Had one touch down yesterday a bit west of us) huge immigrant population, really aggressive mosquitoes, iguanas the size of rottweilers, gators the size of a Miata, monitor lizards, pythons (caught an 11 footer yesterday that was blamed for eating several goats) , wild hogs, bears, New York AND Canadian drivers, the countries most unpopular governor, but, we don't have income tax, sales tax is low, and our politicians are truly amusing. In a sick way. Florida, it's an adventure!!
Marjorie Suddard wrote: 1969, eh?Smithville, Mississippi, 2011. Margie
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/ike/photo-comparisons/bolivar.html Point Bolivar/ Crystal Beach, TX 2008
There's supposed to be a SCCA Regional at Daytona this weekend too. I'm guessing it's gonna be wet.
The worst part is everyone is glued to the Weather Channel panic stricken for the week leading up to the storm. The grocery stores get to be a frantic nightmare with everyone preparing for armageddon.
...hence the "boy who cried wolf" scenario in New Orleans.
In reply to poopshovel:
which caused everyone in houston to panic and try to leave town when Rita came through. mass chaos, and half the people didn't even get half way to austin or san antonio before running out of gas sitting in gridlock.
Ike was a bit more organized, they said that only certiain areas should evacuate, and traffic was only bad for a day or so. we booked it out of town on friday before and had wide open interstate all the way to austin...
In reply to poopshovel:
Ummm, you're forgetting how much Mary and Ray contributed to that mess.
I hate the possibility of damage to our friends in FL, but the south (including FL) desperately need rain and lots of it. A good scenario would have Emily developing in to a TS and dropping liquid sunshine from central FL, to GA and the Carolinas.
In the meantime, we have to deal with fear mongers masquerading as weather forecasters.
Might not be wet. Storm's projected to track away from the coast, and if that happens, it'll likely pull the moisture out with it and give us a very nice, if gusty/high surf weekend. Which would be too bad, because we do indeed need a nice tropical storm to put things right here.
Then again, the skies could rain blood and death, from the way the local news talks.
Margie
So...I'm leaving for Folly Beach SC (Charleston Area) on Saturday the 6th for vacation. We should be showing up about the same time as the storm, based on yesterday's forecast.
Oh well...
So...how long before one of these whirleygigs clears on past a particular point, do you think? Could the latter part of next week be nice, maybe?
Of course, I suppose a lot could happen between now and then, still.
Clem
Looks like it's moving on out Mon. morning:
Edit: Tracking should be a lot more reliable after the storm clears Hispaniola (Haiti/D.R.). That's a very mountainous island and it interferes with tropical systems a lot.
Margie
Marjorie Suddard wrote: Then again, the skies could rain blood and death, from the way the local news talks. Margie
THE WORST STORM SINCE BIBLICAL TIMES, details at 11
Thanks Margie!
Clem, the Edge of America doesn't really pay much attention to tropical storms. Like, man, thinking about it messes with the mellow. 
I hate to wish one of those nasty things on anyone.........BUT, a hurricane making landfall in Texas is what it will take to get rid of this gawdawfull high pressure dome that is baking Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas etc.
^Yes! Please!
Expecting 110+ today...........again.
So is the server in house or through a service? Is there any worry of out precious forum going down temporarily?
Be careful traveling, Suddards.
Server's through a service. No worries there, guys. As far as traveling, funny you should mention it... Tim left this morning for a week. He always misses storms!
Margie
Ever noticed how gleeful weather reporters seem when they are reporting a bad storm ?
Emily is a wuss. 50mph winds, dropping rain on DR, not expected to do anything at all here besides a bit of wind and rain. BUT, the tension is palpable, you feel it everywhere. Drivers are a bit more weird, conversations start and end with news of the storm. This is the part I hate. Just get it over with already, I'm tired of it all.
You know it's bad when Jim Cantore shows up.
Or goes on Vacation....
Nah, you know it's BAD when Jim Cantore starts strapping himself down so he won't blow away.
As a Northeasterner, the only "weather prep" I've ever had to do was buy a snow shovel. Only once in my (admittedly short) 26 years have we lost power for any significant length of time during a snowstorm, and that was in early 1993, and we had an old kerosene heater that we ran in the living room, got more blankets out of the closet, used matches to light the stove, and stored the refrigerated food outside on the back porch. Nothing drastic like, say, moving your family inland for three weeks or living in a tent because your house has no roof. I've never once been afraid that my dwelling and everything that I owned would be washed or blown away. I have no idea how you people live on the Gulf Coast (or in the Midwest or California) and don't die at age 30 of stress.
we do indeed need a nice tropical storm to put things right here.
ditto.
If I had to drive everyday in the Northeast the stress would have killed me by age 30! 
Yeah, when you grow up with things like monster thunderstorms and the threat of tornaders', you get used to it.
Especially with tornadoes, there isn't anything you can do about it (like with Hurricanes where you can travel inland), so "Hope for the best, prepare for the worse" is really all you can do.
No point in stressing about something you can't control. Most of the time us rednecks are drinking beer in the backyard looking at the sky when the sirens go off.
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