Tropical Weather

[Gatorubet]

Not looking too good for the Nutriaman. :(:

 

[Nutriaitch]

Sure hope that works out for you Nutriaitch.

took a vacation today and all but moved out of my house.
All appliances, electronics, and most furniture has been moved to higher ground (hopefully high enough).

all that is left in there, is a stove (old piece of shit), a rocker (cheap and easily replaceable) and 2 bed frames (made of metal, so I ain't worried about them).

At least this way, if my home takes significant damage (or an assload of water), at least I won't also have to replave everything in it.

 

[scooter1369]

took a vacation today and all but moved out of my house.
All appliances, electronics, and most furniture has been moved to higher ground (hopefully high enough).

all that is left in there, is a stove (old piece of shit), a rocker (cheap and easily replaceable) and 2 bed frames (made of metal, so I ain't worried about them).

At least this way, if my home takes significant damage (or an assload of water), at least I won't also have to replave everything in it.

Good call and good luck, bro

 

[Mike80]

000
WTNT62 KNHC 300953
TCUAT2
HURRICANE GUSTAV TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL072008
600 AM EDT SAT AUG 30 2008


DATA FROM AN AIR FORCE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT
GUSTAV CONTINUES TO RAPIDLY STRENGTHEN AND NOW HAS MAXIMUM WINDS
NEAR 115 MPH...185 KM/HR WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THIS MAKES GUSTAV A
DANGEROUS CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE
SCALE...THE SECOND MAJOR HURRICANE OF THE 2008 ATLANTIC HURRICANE
SEASON.

$$

And the winds have since gone up again to 120 MPH. Look for this to continue.

Another thing I've noticed from the satellite shots is the eye is still kind of ill-defined. Katrina had a very well-defined eye as did Wilma and Rita and Ivan (amongst others)......there is still room for stuff to happen there and it could become a pinhole eye too....

 

[Mike80]

Go on Nutriaitch, bet the rush and get the hell out of there....

 

[Mike80]

Just so people don't forget, Hanna could still become a monster....

Now the models are diverging yet again, but 3 of the 4 models yesterday had it hitting southeastern FLA and then going into the GOM....

 

[OCBuckWife]

took a vacation today and all but moved out of my house.
All appliances, electronics, and most furniture has been moved to higher ground (hopefully high enough).

all that is left in there, is a stove (old piece of shit), a rocker (cheap and easily replaceable) and 2 bed frames (made of metal, so I ain't worried about them).

At least this way, if my home takes significant damage (or an assload of water), at least I won't also have to replave everything in it.

Good thinking! Good luck! It's only been a year but you have become a favorite poster on the Planet for me. Do everything you can to keep coming back to BP. May your family be safe.

 

[Gatorubet]

DATA FROM AN AIR FORCE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT
GUSTAV HAS CONTINUED TO STRENGTHEN AND NOW HAS MAXIMUM WINDS
NEAR 145 MPH...230 KM/HR WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THIS MAKES GUSTAV AN
EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON
HURRICANE SCALE. A SPECIAL ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED AT ABOUT 200 PM
EDT TO MODIFY THE INITIAL AND FORECAST INTENSITIES. THE SPECIAL
PUBLIC ADVISORY WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF THE INTERMEDIATE PUBLIC
ADVISORY PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED FOR THAT TIME

Sorry Nute...we've both been expecting this, and its no surprise, but shit....

I'm at the office doing silly things to "protect" the office from the storm. Of course, it is just pointless silly shit that won't prevent anything from turning my third floor office (built in 1832) into a wind tunnel, sucking off the french doors and blowing everything in it into the street...but it gets me out of the house away from my insanely stressed wife and lets me look at channelsurfing.com for the Gator game.

 

[Nutriaitch]

Sorry Nute...we've both been expecting this, and its no surprise, but shit....

SONOFABITCH!!!!!


I wish these fuckers would move that damn track.
I have migrated inland. Went to the game vs App St today (41-13 ), and will just hang out in Baton Rouge until after the storm passes.
I'm gonna try to get back as soon afterwards as I can.

 

[OCBuckWife]

SONOFABITCH!!!!!


I wish these fuckers would move that damn track.
I have migrated inland. Went to the game vs App St today (41-13 ), and will just hang out in Baton Rouge until after the storm passes.
I'm gonna try to get back as soon afterwards as I can.

Grats on your team's win, Nutria! I bet on LSU so thanks!

 

[Nutriaitch]

just did a lil digging.
the floor of my house sits right at or around 6ft above normal sea level.
if this thing hits where it's projected, they are expecting a 14-19 foot surge.
Worst of all, I just realized that I left a bottle of 18 year old Scotch in that house. :(

Hey Gator, where in New Orleans for Hurricane Andrew back in '92?
If so, how were things in NOLA? That one's eye passed right over me (we even went outside for a little while.

Eeriest thing you can ever imagine. It was pitch black, and absolutely still. Only noises you could hear were a few generators running.

 

[OCBuckWife]

just did a lil digging.
the floor of my house sits right at or around 6ft above normal sea level.
if this thing hits where it's projected, they are expecting a 14-19 foot surge.
Worst of all, I just realized that I left a bottle of 18 year old Scotch in that house. :(That one's eye passed right over me (we even went outside for a little while.

BASTARD!

Eeriest thing you can ever imagine. It was pitch black, and absolutely still. Only noises you could hear were a few generators running.

Nature is awesome, in the original sense of the word, causing a feeling of awe. I was in North Carolina back in 1993 when a hurricane struck off the coast. Biggest storm I have ever been in and it was hardly anything in Fayetteville compared to what was just off the coast.
I was out with a man friend of mine at the time, parked on the edge of a cane field. Listening to the wind whip the canes and leaves around and feeling the driving rain on my skin was incredible. When the calm of the fringes of the eye came along, the hair on my body stood up. The intensity of the silence was both eerie and exciting.

 

[Nutriaitch]

BASTARD!

I agree

Nature is awesome, in the original sense of the word, causing a feeling of awe. I was in North Carolina back in 1993 when a hurricane struck off the coast. Biggest storm I have ever been in and it was hardly anything in Fayetteville compared to what was just off the coast.
I was out with a man friend of mine at the time, parked on the edge of a cane field. Listening to the wind whip the canes and leaves around and feeling the driving rain on my skin was incredible. When the calm of the fringes of the eye came along, the hair on my body stood up. The intensity of the silence was both eerie and exciting.

Its unbelievable what the forces of nature can accomplish.
I watched our levee collapse for Hurricane Rita in '05. The amount of force that charged through when it finally gave was absolutely amazing!!

But back to the eerieness of a Hurricane's eye.
I was a freshman in High School when Andrew passed through.
We got hit with winds around 115 mph. The direction my grandfather's house faces, we could stand on his carport, and the house would block the wind. So my dad and I were standing out there with our Q-Beams checking out what was going on. Then suddenly as all get out, it all just stopped! No gradual die down, or anything like that, just dead calm. We went around to the other side of the house (because the winds were going to be blowing the opposite way on the backside).
But during that eye, you could look up and see more stars than I ever thought possible since there was no other source of light.
Then, when the back half hit, it was like a freight train. from dead calm back to 115 mph winds with no warning.

So in a span of about 45 watched the weather go from the absolute worst I had ever seen (until Katrina hit) to the most peaceful calm imaginable, back to all hell breaking loose. And the changes coming so abruptly that it almost doesn't seem real. It is something that has to be seen to believe.**

**I do not recomend going out looking for a Hurricane just to try this out. But if ever you're in the path, take a moment to really experience it.

 

[fourteenandoh]

i've heard kite surfing is fun. seriously, cat4? GTFU!

 

[OCBuckWife]

I agree

Its unbelievable what the forces of nature can accomplish.
I watched our levee collapse for Hurricane Rita in '05. The amount of force that charged through when it finally gave was absolutely amazing!!

But back to the eerieness of a Hurricane's eye.
I was a freshman in High School when Andrew passed through.
We got hit with winds around 115 mph. The direction my grandfather's house faces, we could stand on his carport, and the house would block the wind. So my dad and I were standing out there with our Q-Beams checking out what was going on. Then suddenly as all get out, it all just stopped! No gradual die down, or anything like that, just dead calm. We went around to the other side of the house (because the winds were going to be blowing the opposite way on the backside).
But during that eye, you could look up and see more stars than I ever thought possible since there was no other source of light.
Then, when the back half hit, it was like a freight train. from dead calm back to 115 mph winds with no warning.

So in a span of about 45 watched the weather go from the absolute worst I had ever seen (until Katrina hit) to the most peaceful calm imaginable, back to all hell breaking loose. And the changes coming so abruptly that it almost doesn't seem real. It is something that has to be seen to believe.**

**I do not recomend going out looking for a Hurricane just to try this out. But if ever you're in the path, take a moment to really experience it.

I have family that lives in tornado alley, smack dab in the middle of Kansas and tornadoes are much the same. Just a storm, some wind, then out of nowhere, a sound like a freight train bearing down on you, getting louder and louder and BAM, a pressure wave knocks ya over, and then just GONE. Air pressure just sucked up, can't breathe for a minute then just.....over.
NO personal experience with a tornado so how the heck do I know, but I'm pretty sure it's not something I will chase to find out.