Hurricane!!!

You Northerners that think hurricanes are kind of neat may change your minds soon.

In reply to cwh:

Mother Nature can be a real biotch when you meet her up close and personal.

I thought I always wanted to see a tornado until we were chased by a super cell in Kansas. We got to Forbes Field, unhitched the trailer (with my car on it) and skedaddled to a welcoming party. We figured it would be safer to be inside a building than an open field. All this while watching the storm get closer and the winds really picking-up.

Tornadoes were reported in the area but nothing but straight-line winds at Forbes. However, they were strong enough to lift an EZ UP anchored by a big, full tool box. The box was thrown up, into, and through an enclosed trailer housing an original 427 Cobra. The car received body and mechanical damage and never got to compete.

Extreme weather is exhilarating right until you're in the middle of it.

oldsaw wrote: In reply to cwh: Mother Nature can be a real biotch when you meet her up close and personal. I thought I always wanted to see a tornado until we were chased by a super cell in Kansas. We got to Forbes Field, unhitched the trailer (with my car on it) and skedaddled to a welcoming party. We figured it would be safer to be inside a building than an open field. All this while watching the storm get closer and the winds really picking-up. Tornadoes were reported in the area but nothing but straight-line winds at Forbes. However, they were strong enough to lift an EZ UP anchored by a big, full tool box. The box was thrown up, into, and through an enclosed trailer housing an original 427 Cobra. The car received body and mechanical damage and never got to compete. Extreme weather is exhilarating right until you're in the middle of it.

not to sound like i'm trying to upstage you or anything, but i saw 3 tornadoes in a 30 minute period on July 2, 1997.. the first one was just a generic little twister that passed from west to east about 2 miles south of us. the second one was a monster that was about 1/2 a mile wide where it hit ground about a mile north of the big tin shed full of lumber and jagged metal where i worked building trusses and it was on the ground for a couple of hours as it tore a path across 2 counties and thru 2 of the bigger cities in the area. it was a sight to behold- then shortly after it disappeared over the horizon another slightly smaller one landed just west of us and came right at us.. it decided to skip right over our building and come back down about 1/4 mile to the east and took out a grain elevator and knocked over some train cars.. that was a pretty sketchy situation for about 15 minutes...

that being said, i want to ride out a hurricane sometime... not from right on the shore, but maybe 50 miles inland..

im about 40 miles from the atlantic here in NH and im gonna be ready for both rain and snow.. so i guess just kinda take it as it comes... got some water and othe misc stuff and full tank of propane for the grill.. and i actually am going to get the camping equipment out such as sleeping bags and lights.. but e should be fine..

It's only natural curiosity to want to see what a hurricane is like. I'd be lying if I said I never wondered. I was in the Bahams once when a hurricane passed about 60 miles offshore, but never in the direct path. Now that one is forecast to have a bullseye on us, I find myself not quite as curious. It's gonna be what it's gonna be. Doing whatever I can to be prepared, and we'll get through it.

we don't need this

no, no way

wbjones wrote:

thestig99 wrote: Now that I live in an area that got pretty royally berked by Irene last year, I'm hoping that bitch stays away. And if it snows I'm gonna be pissed.

you live in Vermont ..... how can you EVER get pissed about it snowing ?

Didn't choose to live here, and I have accomplished a very small amount of preparation that I want to do before snow flies. Things like getting snow tires, getting my car undercoated...

Well it looks like the outer bands of the storm have arrived in East Baltimore M.D around 1:45 AM More to come.

Rufledt wrote:

93EXCivic wrote: Y'all are strange.

We're strange? You're the one with an avatar of a guy who thinks women are essentially no different from radiators!

At least the guy in my avatar is perfectly normal.