Hurricane Season USA

[Buttoni]

A friend said 'bout the same, nothing major. The houses on that street are all sandwiched between two other houses, just a driveway apart, and both sides of the house are thus protected from a lot of the wind impact. Of course, when the tornadoes hit, nothing's gonna protect 'em. My old place had 1" holes drilled in all the downstairs closets, including the water heater closet. An island old timer told us they did that to all new houses right after the 1900 storm to keep houses from floating off their piers in high water. My place was built around 1910-15, my architect brother-in-law told me. Still had its original slate shingle roof, though, which was frowned upon after the 1900 storm, as those caused severe bodily injuries and even decapitations in the 1900 storm. Needless to say, I had hubby plug all those holes in my closets to keep mice and roaches out of the house. But we sure unplugged them for Allen. That was the only storm we had to deal with before we moved from Galveston to Texas City across the causeway.

 

[CarlTR6]

I'm glad the old place survived.

We have another potential tropical storm developing in the Gulf along the Florida panhandle - just when I am am planning a trip to Destin for the week!

 

[richc46]

I'm glad the old place survived.

We have another potential tropical storm developing in the Gulf along the Florida panhandle - just when I am am planning a trip to Destin for the week!

I hope the storm does not cause any problems. I remember just a few months ago that a Volcano closed the Rome Airport, just 2 days before I was set to fly there for a trip to Europe.

 

[CarlTR6]

Thanks, Rich; it definitely will not be good beach weather for the kids. My youngest daughter and her family and my son and his family are/were all planning to meet in Destin. We will be watching the weather. It is rare that we can get together.

 

[Phone Man]

Just Mother Nature's payback for the oil spill. Here is a link to the computer models for that disturbance. Looks like it will be gone by the end of the weekend, but computers can be wrong. Predicting max winds of 28mph.

Tropical Storm: Computer Model Hurricane Forecasts : Weather Underground

I heard Jimmy Buffet will have a big free concert on the beach at Gulf Shores this weekend.

A bad day at the beach is better than a good day at work.

Enjoy,
Jim

 

[whs]

With a good storm, the gulf area will get a good "oiling". Here is how I track them: Stormpulse / Hurricanes, severe weather, tracking, mapping

 

[CarlTR6]

Just Mother Nature's payback for the oil spill. Here is a link to the computer models for that disturbance. Looks like it will be gone by the end of the weekend, but computers can be wrong. Predicting max winds of 28mph.

Tropical Storm: Computer Model Hurricane Forecasts : Weather Underground

I heard Jimmy Buffet will have a big free concert on the beach at Gulf Shores this weekend.

A bad day at the beach is better than a good day at work.

Enjoy,
Jim

Jim, you are so right!!!

 

[CarlTR6]

Thanks for the link, Wolfgang.

 

[whs]

Thanks for the link, Wolfgang.

Carl, you are welcome. It is useful for me when I am sitting here in Germany during the summer and those storms blow over my house in Florida. Fortunately up to now we had only 1 minor storm in 12 years. The area north of Tampa seems to be relatively safe.

 

[CarlTR6]

Yes, it appears to be safe until you get to the Big Bend. From there west, it is a little hazardous.

 

[Phone Man]

Deja Vue ? This could be another Alex. Looks like the same path for now but things change.



Jim

 

[CarlTR6]

We can hope it does not develop. Looks like the low pressure area just south of the gulf coast is not going to develop; I should have good weather for my trip to Destin.

 

[bigmck]

How did you former house make out through Ike?

I am in Houston. We had 80 mph winds for 5 hours. The fence was totaled and the shingles on the roof were in a bad way, but we got lucky there. We needed a new roof and the insurance paid for it. I don't want to see one like that again. No AC for a week. That was rough.

 

[CarlTR6]

I am in Houston. We had 80 mph winds for 5 hours. The fence was totaled and the shingles on the roof were in a bad way, but we got lucky there. We needed a new roof and the insurance paid for it. I don't want to see one like that again. No AC for a week. That was rough.

I can relate to the no a/c thing. In 2004, we were without electricity for 17 days. We had a generator to power the lights and we could run the bedroom window shaker a/c. We couldn't run the main ac, though. We could run the microwave if we turned off the bedroom a/c. The generator used 10 gallons of gasoline (petrol) per day.

Fortunately, we had an artesian well so we had water and flushed the toilet with a bucket. We had bottled water supplied by FEMA for drinking. We ate lots of MRE's!

 

[JonM33]

Hurricanes are the exact reason why I only lasted 3 years in Florida (2006-2009). I only faced 2 nasty tropical storms, both were only 5-10MPH from being a hurricane. I didn't face any flooding or anything where I lived. I just couldn't take the storm after storm after storm that could be "the one".

 

[CarlTR6]

I grew up in Florida; hurricanes are just part of the landscape like earthquakes on the west coast, tornadoes in tornado ally, and blizzards in the northern tier of states. I wouldn't trade the hurricanes for the blizzards.

 

[bigmck]

It seems like every area of the US has some type of disaster for that region. I was trying to think, what does Arizona, New Mexico have? Aren't they pretty "disaster free"?

 

[CarlTR6]

I think you are probably right. They have heat and plenty of it.

 

[Phone Man]

Arizona has Illegal Aliens and New Mexico has Real Aliens.

Jim

 

[JonM33]

I grew up in Florida; hurricanes are just part of the landscape like earthquakes on the west coast, tornadoes in tornado ally, and blizzards in the northern tier of states. I wouldn't trade the hurricanes for the blizzards.

I don't know, February had a record for snow fall this year in Ohio. I quite enjoyed it.

With Florida the summers are always rainy and incredibly unbearable due to the heat and humidity. The winters you have "season" which is where all the "snow birds" come down and clog up traffic and cause accidents. You also have all the dry heat in the winter, which means a LOT of brush fires. I recall one time Alligator Alley was shut down for a couple days due to those fires. Soon those beaches on the west coast are going to be destroyed. There's also lots of crime from the illegal immigrant problem in Florida. They bring drugs, prostitution, rape, robbery and murder.

Let's not forget the bugs! First house I lived in (Lehigh Acres) we always had huntsman spiders, brown widows and black widow spiders. Second house wasn't so bad but the third house I rented I had a ghost ant infestation. I had to use Ant Kil with boric acid to get rid of them.