cfoxmd
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Hurricane Ivan will soon be here. Boarded up. Vehicles on high ground. Tractor away from the waterfront house and a can on the exhaust (taped down). 8-12 inches of rain tomorow night. 70-90 mile winds in New Orleans. Help!
Help Me, The Hurricane is coming!
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Bob_Skurka
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Good Luck. I was took a guy to the airport today who is flying home to New Orleans this evening. He spent the weekend watching the forcasts say the storm would go pretty far east, until this morning when it looked like it would strike a bit farther west (and closer to his home & business) than he anticipated.
JayC
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I wish you the very best. This looks like a very nasty storm. I was just reading an AP news article that said New Orleans could literally sink. Being it is so low, water could get as high as tree top levels if Ivan makes a direct hit. Experts say the water could be there for weeks. I hope you are on higher ground.
I expect the water to flood under my bayou house. Won't be able to get there for a week. At my regular house, we should see 70-90 mph winds. We are at 14 ft above see level (which is very high by local standards--I'm the highest house in the town). I've got hotel reservations in Texas, but the roads are so jammed that you'd get there only to turn around--so I guess I'll stay (all my neighbors are too). 4 tanks of propane, a generator, 50 gallons of gas, and a swimming pool full of water should bet us through.
normde2001
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Best of luck, Doc. If Ivan keeps edging west, you could see more than 70-90 mph. In my 50 years in S. Fla. I have seen 70-90 on many occasions, but never taken a direct hit of anything much bigger. We now have to stay boarded up and see what Jeanne, (our 4th in little more than a month), brings us.
SheriffSRB
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Good luck, and as with all our friends on the coast we pray for little damage and no loss of life....
Get a camera of some type so you can document any damage/flooding, etc....
Assuming you live in a small town, ya'll are going to be on your own for a while. Stay safe. God Bless.....
Get a camera of some type so you can document any damage/flooding, etc....
Assuming you live in a small town, ya'll are going to be on your own for a while. Stay safe. God Bless.....
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<font color="blue"> and a swimming pool full of water </font>
Is that drinkable? How clean do you think it will be after a big storm? I would fill up all bathtubs as well.
Is that drinkable? How clean do you think it will be after a big storm? I would fill up all bathtubs as well.
Bob_Skurka
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I know that this is a serious issue, but does anyone else see the humor, or at least the irony, in the fact that 16,000 members of the NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL are holding their convention in hotels in New Orleans . . . and the majority of them are apparently stuck in town in their hotels despite the Governor's evacuation order?
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Good luck. We just went thru that last week.. wasn't fun.
Will be thinking about you.
Soundguy
Will be thinking about you.
Soundguy
Whiskey
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Cfoxmd:
In a word there ain't much you can do....what mother nature wants, she'll get. We as humans can't compete with her & she has a major case of PMS this year!
This coming from someone who got pounded by frances just a week ago and lives in a double wide trailer. Our pastures still have shin deep water in places, huge oaks are like tooth picks lying in folks yards. The shoulders of the roads are either full of water or cut up trees waiting to be picked up, the track of the storm is still a freaking mess.
When you think of 70-90 mph winds...think of this, it ain't the wind as much as it's the stuff flying in the wind that tear up things.....so look at the stuff in the yards around you and there trees. Once the ground is wet trees fall over very easy!, oh and 90 mph winds will bend a 40-50' tall oak like a rubber tree
Anywho, board up your windows, secure anything that the can be a missle, too late to trim trees but next time around trim trees well before hand. Load some ziplock bags with important papers (insurance, medical ect.) One thing I didn't know untill it was to late....crank your frig/frez. all the way down while you still have power. If you have a mall parking garage close you can use it for one auto. Fill up on gas (cars, tractor, cans for chair saw) and learn to pucker! it's like an E-ticket ride at Disney.
They say hind sight is 20/20. Well I have orded a gas gererator all the way from Mn. do in Friday a duel burner gas coleman cooker a batery opt. coleman latern and a batery opt. TV. Funny how none of this stuff can be found local after a hurricane, or the guy who has it want's your first born for them.
Did I happen to say I now own enuff OSB to build a house, the stuff is like gold down here
Good luck we'll be crossing our fingers for you folks up there
In a word there ain't much you can do....what mother nature wants, she'll get. We as humans can't compete with her & she has a major case of PMS this year!
This coming from someone who got pounded by frances just a week ago and lives in a double wide trailer. Our pastures still have shin deep water in places, huge oaks are like tooth picks lying in folks yards. The shoulders of the roads are either full of water or cut up trees waiting to be picked up, the track of the storm is still a freaking mess.
When you think of 70-90 mph winds...think of this, it ain't the wind as much as it's the stuff flying in the wind that tear up things.....so look at the stuff in the yards around you and there trees. Once the ground is wet trees fall over very easy!, oh and 90 mph winds will bend a 40-50' tall oak like a rubber tree
Anywho, board up your windows, secure anything that the can be a missle, too late to trim trees but next time around trim trees well before hand. Load some ziplock bags with important papers (insurance, medical ect.) One thing I didn't know untill it was to late....crank your frig/frez. all the way down while you still have power. If you have a mall parking garage close you can use it for one auto. Fill up on gas (cars, tractor, cans for chair saw) and learn to pucker! it's like an E-ticket ride at Disney.
They say hind sight is 20/20. Well I have orded a gas gererator all the way from Mn. do in Friday a duel burner gas coleman cooker a batery opt. coleman latern and a batery opt. TV. Funny how none of this stuff can be found local after a hurricane, or the guy who has it want's your first born for them.
Did I happen to say I now own enuff OSB to build a house, the stuff is like gold down here
Good luck we'll be crossing our fingers for you folks up there
