Keep your head's down.

Hey all you flatlander types in Florida, batten down the hatches and keep your heads down. Looks like your a fixin to get a blow....

Kevind53, yes, for sure- It keeps moving inland, and will be here around 6:00a.m. or so on Friday- The wind speed is about 145 m.p.h., so blowing in toward the center of the state where I am, will be around 90 m.p.h. I don't have much outside to worry about, but went shopping for supplies, so they will last a few days- Car and truck are all fueled up, so can leave IF we have to-I have access to a generator if one is needed-I appreciate the heads 'up', so to speak- Thanks!!

Yep, you got that right!! Thankyou, Ponee! :winky winky:

When you live in Hurricane Alley, you gotta pay the price.... Just ask the folks from Katrina... 

I remain,
Just4Tom74

We had four hurricanes back to back in 2004, and we rode them all out, they were right over the top of our place- The small pond across the road was 6 feet from coming into our 'Florida' room, and above the hubcaps on my truck......Power was out for 3 days-

Just keep pushing your luck terbo... and don't ever believe the good Lord didn't give you plenty of warnings.... JMO

I remain,
Just4Tom74

Ok, just where in hell are we supposed to go to? We have other homes around us, and some big assed trees that will slow the wind down, so actually, I don't foresee any issues or problems, and we are on the back side of where the winds will be, anyway-

Well, as for me personalty,  I live about 170 miles off the gulf coast and the drive to the beach is a whole lot better than risking anything in a tropical storm.. Our town is also a good place to take in the smart folks who leave the storm area BEFORE the storm hits.... We have no hurricanes, and no tornadoes as well and very rare snow storms... But I understand people gotta live where they want to live... In the end it's an individual choice, kind of like buying foreign currency..... Just saying.

I remain,
Just4Tom74

terbo56 wrote:Ok, just where in hell are we supposed to go to? We have other homes around us, and some big assed trees that will slow the wind down, so actually, I don't foresee any issues or problems, and we are on the back side of where the winds will be, anyway-

Don't worry about it Terbo.  Some people just have no sense of adventure.

:tup: :winky winky:

I do have to add one more thing- Jayzze will get slammed with sustained winds of over 145 m.p.h., and he is situated around the Ft. Lauderdale area- I am in hopes he gets through this in one piece-I just don't want to see bad things happen to him and his family, or, anyone else for that matter, as this is going to be some serious shit goin on, in a bad way- :nonono:

Even up north and inland can be a bad place to be. I live in Central Vermont, close to the NY border, a good 150 miles from the nearest shore. Irene paid us a visit about five years ago, by the time she came ashore in the North East, she had weakened to a tropical storm, even more so by the time she reached Vermont. However, when you dump 11 inches of rain, (5 to 7 was predicted), into mountains and narrow valleys, you end up with a helluva mess. Over than 2,400 roads, 800 homes, 300 bridges were destroyed or damaged. Literally every rail line in Vermont was cut. Let me tell you the sight of 60 or 70 yards of tracks and ties hanging in mid air is a little surreal. Many small towns were totally cut off, some accessible only by helicopter or 4X4 for weeks. Yet the water was mostly gone in a matter of hours.

What was remarkable in comparison to Katrina was the rapidity in which damage was repaired and roads reopened. It wasn't that FEMA responded more quickly, they didn't, it was more a case of resident's didn't wait for someone to respond, they just went to work cleaning up. The governor suspended a lot of laws rules and regulations to get them out of the way. I'm reminded of one story I heard, the day after the storm, one contractor and a few of his workers walked into work, fired up the equipment and started fixing the washed out highway (US-4), that passed in front of their business. The owner called the state DOT, only to be told he was not on the list of approved contractors. His reply, "I'm not asking permission, I'm telling you what I'm doing." All the roads, with the exception of Route 100, which had about a 25 mile stretch that had to be completely rebuilt, were reopened within about 6 weeks, Rt 100 took about 6 months, mostly because of the volume of fill that had to be quarried for the repairs.

Oh well as the old bumper sticker says "Shit Happens"

I remain,
Just4Tom74

I would not live in any other place  then sunny warm fl  btw whhat better place to spend xmas then in a pooleven if a hurricane visits once in a while. its better then an earthquake or a tornado where you have no warning. by the way when its cold and snowy in the winter the only thing cold is my beer while I am in the pool

You don't have to live in Florida to have a pool in your back yard and it may surprise you but lots of people have refrigerators as well to keep their beer cool.  My town has never had an earthquake or a tornado, or a hurricane for that matter.  Hows that working for you sitting in your pool drinking a beer in the middle of one of those concessional hurricanes???

I remain,
Just4Tom74

It sure works for me- Even the 4" puddle at the end of my driveway, after a heavy rain............

really tom  I never knew that and as for your usual bs that is not exactly what  I  meant and was stating a fact about different types of systems and warnings but I quess its a little too hard to understand.and after some of your comments over time I kind of expected this.

Personally, I need mountains and snow, I could never live full time in Florida, as much as I love the beach, too hot, too flat, too boring and too many nasty critters.

There are alot of 'nasty' critters down here at Walmart- Check out people of Walmart on you tube, you'll see what I mean- 

Creepy crawly and biting critters too .... and then there are the bugs and animals ... :winky winky:

kevin  I lived in maine for 5 years and while its beautiful country  the winters suck as well as snow and brutally cold weather I will take the hot temps but everyone is different and likes different things

I've served my time up in Maine, and IF I move anywhere, it will be somewhere out west, like maybe Albuquerque, New Mexico, or somewhere up around Prescott, Arizona-Maybe I'll have me a little rattlesnake farm, or something-Just like the drink 'Zima', zumthing different-

I need my mountains and I don't mind the cold, heck I lived in the Adirondacks for 35 years, and we routinely saw 30 below and in the Canadian Arctic where we routinely saw 70 below. Vermont is a piece of cake after that. I might consider the hills of N or S Carolina, but that's about as far south as I would want to go.

well we hain't got no hurricanes up here in Hootin Holler, but we get several snow storms in the winter. Ain't no problem fer me as long as I got some of my shine stored away....Couple swigs of that stuff and the cold is gone. Couple more snorts and I don't care about the weather

""really tom  I never knew that and as for your usual bs that is not exactly what  I  meant and was stating a fact about different types of systems and warnings but I quess its a little too hard to understand.and after some of your comments over time I kind of expected this."

Jazze, 

As far as I know I have never attacked you or degraded your post so You don't like what I say just ignore it and continue your own post.  If you love where you live, great!  As for me I am apparently far more conservative than you are.  So be it.... Live an let live I say.  I still reserve the right to post what I want to say so get used to it.... 

I remain,
Just4Tom74