Well by Tuesday I will be totally ready; however, I'm not looking forward to Ernesto. No matter where he goes someone will end up paying. If he comes in any where North of us for 80 miles or so he will blow the bay up like a balloon, and the tidel surge will get us, as we are only 17 feet above sea level. South of us and he will empty the bay.
(http://www.susanminor.org/Rayeimages/ERNESTO.jpg)
EDIT:
He is tracking just like Charley which originally was to come in just where Ernesto is tracking. In this image at the orange dot is where in a two hour period Charley went from a Cat 2 to a Cat 4 storm and turn suddenly to the right. Charley was the third or forth costliest hurricane in United States history --$15.4 billion. Charley was so big he just about covered the entire state of Florida.
(http://www.susanminor.org/Rayeimages/Charley_2004.jpg)
Here is wishing everyone in the Gulf States that he petters out and become a Tropical Storm. Our only chance is that he slows over Cuba (not wishing them any bad luck) and breaks up. However, I doubt it.
Good luck Olds - we'll be tracking it along with you.
Thank you! Between my mother with bad legs, my wife with bad feet and my handicaped dog I don't know at times to spit or go blind.....
Things can change but the 5-day is now on track to be another Charley for sure. That is good for me, but I feel for those folks as hundreds of homes still have blue tarps for roofs.
For the past few days we have had a strong wind from the gulf and with that wind some nasty T-storms. If that pressure system in the Gulf holds then the track as shown below will hold true. If it weakens then only the good Lord will know where this one will make land fall.
(http://www.susanminor.org/Rayeimages/ERNESTO1.jpg)
It has turn even more. At this rate if it continues Ernesto my turn and miss the Continent all together.
Hey olds guess what.By the looks of the map .Your my dads nieghbor .He lives in ocala.W ell not real close but in the same ballpark. ;D
QuoteHe lives in ocala.W ell not real close but in the same ballpark.
Ya that is a good couple of hours away. In 2004 Ocala got hit hard if I remember correctly. With so many storms it is hard to keep up with which one went where.
The Gulf states need a break this year. Just too many homes that still have blue tarps for roofs yet.
Quote from: Oldman on August 28, 2006, 07:24:02 AM
It has turn even more. At this rate if it continues Ernesto my turn and miss the Continent all together.
Hope Ernesto aims as bad as I do and misses you by miles and miles Old's. Hang in there and best wishes for you and family. ;)
Hopefully it will head out into the Alantic and loose some of it's "steam".
Olds you and my dad need to start cranking.Take cover and take care.Good luck :)
Olds,
In the silver lining catagory, think of all the cool new toys you get to play with!
shoot straight, and good luck.
mld
Good News,
It has made landfall but is only a TS with winds of 45 mph.
An update. Instead of picking up 5 -6 30 gallon drums for water I got from a boat salvage yard an unused 167 gallon fresh water tank. Yesterday I picked up a hand pump for it.
Is the rainfall going to cause any damage in your area?
QuoteIt has made landfall but is only a TS with winds of 45 mph.
That is good news, still breezy but well short of hurricane force. I would imagine that you are probably better prepared than most Olds judging from past posts?
From where it went in at and from its direction at the moment there is no wind or rain here. There is not even a slight breeze. Clouds yes.
Maybe later in the day we might get wet, but not at the moment. If fact we have had so much rain up until today the ground is wet, and 4 inches down it is sand to boot~~!
From what I've been following on the news up here it looks like you might get lucky Old's. Sure hope so. Carolina might not be so lucky though. Best of luck ole boy!
8pm Wed.. it is only 35 mph winds... no damage anywhere as I understand it. Yet September and October are our worse months for storms... Even though I've spent 10s of thousands getting ready I pray it is money spent by a fool....
Now it is headed up my way to ruin my weekend. There are several models, but it looks like heavy rain and winds 30-45 mph for Saturday.
It's always best to prepare. You have me thinking about disaster planning. After seeing that power can go out in NYC and not be restored for a full week; 10 days in some areas, I live upstate and I can't chance the power going out for a week in the middle of winter.
Habs,
I know the feeling. We haven't had rain here in about a month. Now it looks like we are going to get it all at once on a holiday weekend.. The rain is supposed to move out of here by Saturday night. Hopefully we will at least have nice weather Sunday and Monday. But you never know.
All i can say, is i am glad i live in illinois.Good luck with all these storms guys. ;)
Quote from: icerat4 on August 31, 2006, 08:07:05 AM
All i can say, is i am glad i live in illinois.Good luck with all these storms guys. ;)
All I can say is our house value has increase from 45K to a plus 250K in 15 years. Total taxes on it is less than 1000.00. We have no State Income Tax. Water, sewage and garbage is about 60 bucks per month. The value of our home will continue to grow at an accelerated rate as there are 250,000 people per year moving into this state.
Ya we have storms and the cost of insurance is up; however, storms are like gators... you learn how to live with them or get eaten! ;);D
Olds
Quote from: Oldman on August 31, 2006, 08:28:33 AM
Quote from: icerat4 on August 31, 2006, 08:07:05 AM
All i can say, is i am glad i live in illinois.Good luck with all these storms guys. ;)
All I can say is our house value has increase from 45K to a plus 250K in 15 years. Total taxes on it is less than 1000.00. We have no State Income Tax. Water, sewage and garbage is about 60 bucks per month. The value of our home will continue to grow at an accelerated rate as there are 250,000 people per year moving into this state.
Ya we have storms and the cost of insurance is up; however, storms are like gators... you learn how to live with them or get eaten! ;);D
Olds
That's one thing I love about where I live just across the Maryland boarder. The value of our house continues to grow as the commuters continue to move from Maryland into PA since the housing prices in the Baltimore and DC metro areas are ridiculous. Nice thing is we only need to worry about the occasional snow storm and not a storm that could take our house and everything else with it.
My brothers live in Coconut Creek, right near Fort Lauderdale, and I love to visit but I would miss the seasonal changes of the Northeast.
YEPPER .MY Dad want me to buy a house down there.Its a good possibilty.I could be your neighbor olds.Now that would be real funny.I could come over and smoke butts together.LOL ;D. 1000 in taxes wow mine are 5000 plus.Maybe i should consider this more.You will have to show me how to fend off the gators though.
QuoteMY Dad want me to buy a house down there.Its a good possibility.I could be your neighbor olds. Now that would be real funny.
AH H*ll there goes the neighborhood.
QuoteYou will have to show me how to fend off the gators though.
That is easy... get 5 pounds of marshmellows, kneel at the water edge and feed the gators... before you know it you will have them eating out of your hand. Right up until the time you run out of marshmellows. Have you ever heard of the "other" white meat? ::)
Bryan
Hope all went ok with you with ERNESTO. We had some steady winds starting Thursday late night and all day Friday. We ended up with from 2 to 4 inches of Rain. No other issues at all. Areas around us had more rain. We drove this Saturday morning and most of the winds were gone from Eastern Shore MD thru Annapolis and down to Southern Md. Still spotty rain but nothing to worry about.
We got very little rain, but the wind did us in. A lot of downed trees knocked out the power is a large area, but fortunately the power was restores an hour ago after being out for 22 hours.
Quote from: Habanero Smoker on September 03, 2006, 02:07:24 PM
We got very little rain, but the wind did us in. A lot of downed trees knocked out the power is a large area, but fortunately the power was restores an hour ago after being out for 22 hours.
Ouch!
Habs
Good to hear you got back up and on the grid. that is the fear I have. We are out in Rural area surounded by farm lands. Our community has burried lines, but the network to get to us is surounded by large trees all over the place. We have indeed had issues in the past. We dodge them all the time, the winds blow on the Eastern DelMarVa all the time. I have lost equipment recently and will have other issues in the future. Local Hardware Shop is always ready on Dry Ice and Emergency Distribution. We almost took them on Dry Ice several years ago but got back online in time.
Good thing you are up and running. Did you make it Ok otherwise.
Every thing is alright, I can't complain when I think of those who are still homeless from Katrina and previous storms. Also, like you, I live in the middle of no wheres, and when the grid goes down, we are one of the last to get back on line, so 22 hours I call fortunate, it is usually about 3 days. These days 22 hours is a pain for me. I'm going to purchase a generator. I wanted to purchase one that runs on propane, but that will be latter. For now I am going to buy a gasoline operated one that will provide power for the refrigerator, furnace, some lights; if there is some juice left over I'll hook up the TV. :)
Our power company is required to provide dry ice if the power is out for a certain length of time. The last couple of outages they did not do this. I'll have to give them a call to find out how long the power needs to be out before they provide it. They bring tractor trailers of the dry ice to various areas, like a sub station, mall or other central locations, and you go and pick it up.
Quote from: IKnowWood on September 02, 2006, 06:15:27 PM
Bryan
Hope all went ok with you with ERNESTO. We had some steady winds starting Thursday late night and all day Friday. We ended up with from 2 to 4 inches of Rain. No other issues at all. Areas around us had more rain. We drove this Saturday morning and most of the winds were gone from Eastern Shore MD thru Annapolis and down to Southern Md. Still spotty rain but nothing to worry about.
We had it about the same here. A few inches of rain and a few gusts of wind. We lucked out, no kind of damage and never lost power. Just had to pick up a few blown over trash cans. Everything has moved out and it looks like we are in store for a beautiful Labor Day. Picking up a bushel of crabs around noon and having some family over. Hope every has a great Labor Day.
Well, apparently the tail end of this hurricane hits us tomorrow with gale force 8 to severe gale force 9 with possible gusts to 80mph. A severe weather warning has been issued by the UK meteorological office........... took my boat off it's mooring at the weekend and into shelter and my lobster pots ashore.
I blame the Americans!!! ;D ;D ;D ;)
Quote from: manxman on September 19, 2006, 08:17:40 AM
Well, apparently the tail end of this hurricane hits us tomorrow with gale force 8 to severe gale force 9 with possible gusts to 80mph. A severe weather warning has been issued by the UK meteorological office........... took my boat off it's mooring at the weekend and into shelter and my lobster pots ashore.
I blame the Americans!!! ;D ;D ;D ;)
Ann and I will keep our fingers crossed Manx. Best of luck man! ;)
Man, talk about cause and effect. Got to remember that next time I cut wind in a north easterly direction.
seriously, manxman good luck with the wind and hears to hoping no damage. Make sure to strap up any outside items such as they do not become projectiles.
Thanks folks, we tend to get cut off from the UK "mainland" on a few occasions over the autumn/winter with cancelled ferry sailings and flights.... tomorrow is likely to be the first such occasion.
Fortunately we do not tend to get the catastrophic hurricanes prevalent in parts of the US at this time of year, it normally stops short at violent storm force 11.
Having said that just love watching the waves crashing against the rocky coastline.
Quote from: manxman on September 19, 2006, 03:14:49 PM
.......Having said that just love watching the waves crashing against the rocky coastline.
Now THAT'S the strength of experience!! 8) BTW Manx.....don't blame Americans, blame Bush/Blair...they get blamed by the media over here for EVERYTHING anyway!! ;) ;D
Its those Butterflies in Africa that flap their wings and kick-up the storms. Yeah that's it.
I got a previous co-worker who enjoys going to New England coastline during August and September time frame when the storms are really kicking up the waves to surf and wind-surf. Yeah - nuts. But he is a free spirit.
QuoteBTW Manx.....don't blame Americans, blame Bush/Blair...they get blamed by the media over here for EVERYTHING anyway!!
Seems fair to me Kummock! :D
This time a couple of years ago I lost my boat off the mooring and onto rocks in a violent storm, I was VERY lucky with only a few hundred £/$'s worth of damage. The boats that have come off their moorings before and after have been total loses.
Consequently I get very jumpy this time of year when the boat is still in the water!! :o
edit: appears to be the tail end of Hurricane Gordon coming in as I type, with the tail end of Hurricane Helene to follow in a few days..... deep joy! Appears I was unfair to blame America after all!!