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Hurricane Isabel
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Isabel is looking like it will hit the US coast near Cape Hatteras late Wednesday and Thursday - the present projected path has it going across the Chesapeake Bay, right on over Washington, D.C. and up into Pennsylvania. There will be a lot of travel plans changed this week. Good luck for those who live there. Chris |
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Hurricane Isabel
Yep looks like it is coming my way. They say Friday morning it will hit my way. Not looking forward to it, but better get used to it if I am moving to Florida. May reconsider this after the week is over -- suebo Posted via http://britishexpats.com |
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Hurricane Isabel
"suebo" wrote in message ... Yep looks like it is coming my way. They say Friday morning it will hit my way. Not looking forward to it, but better get used to it if I am moving to Florida. May reconsider this after the week is over -- suebo Just take it VERY seriously - your houses aren't built to withstand the winds. Roads get clogged so get out early. Don't know where you are, but if you're anywhere near the center, take anything with you that you can't afford to lose and don't plan on having anything to return to. Trust me - 'riding it out' is a very bad idea. g Chris |
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Hurricane Isabel
" Just take it VERY seriously - your houses aren't built to withstand the winds. Roads get clogged so get out early. Don't know where you are, but That is so true - roads do get clogged very quickly. When I evacuated for Floyd it took me 5 hours to go thirty miles. People would turn of their motors, get out of their cars, and chat with each other. |
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Hurricane Isabel
Originally posted by Fishman "suebo" wrote in message - [/url]... Yep looks like it is coming my way. They say Friday morning it will hit my way. Not looking forward to it, but better get used to it if I am moving to Florida. May reconsider this after the week is over -- suebo Just take it VERY seriously - your houses aren't built to withstand the winds. Roads get clogged so get out early. Don't know where you are, but if you're anywhere near the center, take anything with you that you can't afford to lose and don't plan on having anything to return to. Trust me - 'riding it out' is a very bad idea. g Chris If you look at my location you will see I am in Maryland. I am not going anywhere. I will stay in my house - like I said basement (but knowing the way these crappy houses are it may cave in on my head). But that is the way it goes, I would rather stay here with my animals and ride it out. I haven't been tracking it and I don't know how hard it is going to hit (it is cat 5 at the moment), so the only concern that I had is that hubby is not riding his motor bike to work on Friday. THANK GOODNESS I MOVED OUT OF THE HOUSE THAT HAD MASSIVE TRESS HANGING ALL OVER IT. Now I have no trees to cave my house in. If I have power Friday afternoon. I will give you all an update Cheers -- suebo Posted via http://britishexpats.com |
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Hurricane Isabel
Fishman, sounds like you have been through it and lost a lot. Would you like to tell us all what happened!! -- suebo Posted via http://britishexpats.com |
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Hurricane Isabel
"suebo" wrote in message ... Fishman, sounds like you have been through it and lost a lot. Would you like to tell us all what happened!! -- Hurricane Andrew, August 24, 1992. 4 adults, 4 kids at a friend's house further inland than our own. Friday, the 21st, the local weather bimbo said 'the storm has made the turn' and we turned off the TV - came back home from a picnic at midnight Saturday the 22nd to an answering machine full of frantic phone calls from across the country. We chose not to evacuate - we were twenty miles inland!!! We spent Sunday preparing - boarding up the windows, making a safe room, and watching the weather. We had feeder bands, actually not a problem, for hours and hours after midnight. We watched the eye roar over friend's neighborhoods on the TV radar until power went out about 3, then listened on the radio for over an hour before it got to us - knowing we were going to get slammed and having to wait for it. We had eyewall, maximum winds, for 45 minutes. Front window & door blew in, which was good because the winds were just about to take the roof off. We had 20 minutes of calm eye, then 25 minutes of the backside of the eyewall - everything that blew out of the house onto the porch blew back in again. We were in a bathroom with two men holding a mattress against the door, feet against the sink cabinet, holding the door shut. There was no air because the ceiling vent was pulling air out, but none new was coming in. On our rural road, only three of 7 houses were standing. There was not one green leaf on a tree, no birds, no life anywhere. It was easy to imagine that we were the only ones alive on the face of the earth. Friends who were closer to the bay were in newer neighborhoods, with higher winds, and much more damage. One put her kids in the recycling buckets in the garage, between the car and the inside wall. During the eye, people were in the street in front of her house, calling out to their neighbors and begging for a safe house to shelter their children during the second half of the storm. No one could travel more than a block because trees and power lines, and fences and houses and cars and tractors were blocking every road. We cleaned up the grass clumps (with roots still attached) from the floor and ceiling, swept the water and broken glass out, tried to keep the kids occupied....and then went back to our own house about 5 p.m. I can honestly say that if there had been an empty concrete slab, it would have been just fine - we weren't dead. Anyone you see on TV crying and wailing about possessions - they evacuated and returned after. The ones who are laughing - those are the ones who thought they were going to die. We laughed a lot - your other option is to be upset, and why waste time? We left town mid-morning on the 25th - the line for people to get back into town stretched for miles and we couldn't figure out why they would want to get back in to such devastation. The National Guard did not come until Thursday afternoon - so no food supplies, no water, no emergency power for three days. When I returned two weeks later to visit, there were armed Guards at every major intersection. NY's 10th Mountain Division cleared the fallen trees from our yard. A Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale my husband's laundry, our power was turned back on by a crew from Michigan. My kids and I moved back at Christmas after the house was rebuilt, so we missed the worst part of the rebuilding - the two-hour lines on certain days of the week for the mail, the food tents set up by the army (unless you chose the MRE's they brought to the houses) and the worst of the heat. We drove 20 miles to do grocery shopping for almost a year until a grocery store opened near us; the new school was finished in 3 1/2 years, trees grew back after few years. Now, 11 years later, almost a third of Dade County residents do not remember the storm; just as more than 50% in 1992 did not remember the last major storm from 1965. We had insurance and were able to replace all of our things. My brother jokingly said we should have hurricanes more often, so we could replace our cars and rip our houses down to studs and redecorate every few years. I honestly answered him that if I cold have kept all my old stuff and saved my children from having to go through that night of fear, there would be no choice. I pray for the people in the path of Isabel and hope they make out OK. Chris |
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Hurricane Isabel
Wow that sounds absolutely terifying. I am glad you all made it out alive. I really think that it is going to hit us, but will lose a lot of its power by the time it gets inland - well I hope that is what is going to happen anyway. We have not been told to evacuate or anything yet, so we will have to see what is going to happen in the next day or two. -- suebo Posted via http://britishexpats.com |
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Hurricane Isabel
I'm keeping this to show to anybody who thinks that hurricanes are no big
deal. Thanks for posting it, fishman. "fishman" wrote in message ... "suebo" wrote in message ... Fishman, sounds like you have been through it and lost a lot. Would you like to tell us all what happened!! -- Hurricane Andrew, August 24, 1992. 4 adults, 4 kids at a friend's house further inland than our own. Friday, the 21st, the local weather bimbo said 'the storm has made the turn' and we turned off the TV - came back home from a picnic at midnight Saturday the 22nd to an answering machine full of frantic phone calls from across the country. We chose not to evacuate - we were twenty miles inland!!! We spent Sunday preparing - boarding up the windows, making a safe room, and watching the weather. We had feeder bands, actually not a problem, for hours and hours after midnight. We watched the eye roar over friend's neighborhoods on the TV radar until power went out about 3, then listened on the radio for over an hour before it got to us - knowing we were going to get slammed and having to wait for it. We had eyewall, maximum winds, for 45 minutes. Front window & door blew in, which was good because the winds were just about to take the roof off. We had 20 minutes of calm eye, then 25 minutes of the backside of the eyewall - everything that blew out of the house onto the porch blew back in again. We were in a bathroom with two men holding a mattress against the door, feet against the sink cabinet, holding the door shut. There was no air because the ceiling vent was pulling air out, but none new was coming in. On our rural road, only three of 7 houses were standing. There was not one green leaf on a tree, no birds, no life anywhere. It was easy to imagine that we were the only ones alive on the face of the earth. Friends who were closer to the bay were in newer neighborhoods, with higher winds, and much more damage. One put her kids in the recycling buckets in the garage, between the car and the inside wall. During the eye, people were in the street in front of her house, calling out to their neighbors and begging for a safe house to shelter their children during the second half of the storm. No one could travel more than a block because trees and power lines, and fences and houses and cars and tractors were blocking every road. We cleaned up the grass clumps (with roots still attached) from the floor and ceiling, swept the water and broken glass out, tried to keep the kids occupied....and then went back to our own house about 5 p.m. I can honestly say that if there had been an empty concrete slab, it would have been just fine - we weren't dead. Anyone you see on TV crying and wailing about possessions - they evacuated and returned after. The ones who are laughing - those are the ones who thought they were going to die. We laughed a lot - your other option is to be upset, and why waste time? We left town mid-morning on the 25th - the line for people to get back into town stretched for miles and we couldn't figure out why they would want to get back in to such devastation. The National Guard did not come until Thursday afternoon - so no food supplies, no water, no emergency power for three days. When I returned two weeks later to visit, there were armed Guards at every major intersection. NY's 10th Mountain Division cleared the fallen trees from our yard. A Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale my husband's laundry, our power was turned back on by a crew from Michigan. My kids and I moved back at Christmas after the house was rebuilt, so we missed the worst part of the rebuilding - the two-hour lines on certain days of the week for the mail, the food tents set up by the army (unless you chose the MRE's they brought to the houses) and the worst of the heat. We drove 20 miles to do grocery shopping for almost a year until a grocery store opened near us; the new school was finished in 3 1/2 years, trees grew back after few years. Now, 11 years later, almost a third of Dade County residents do not remember the storm; just as more than 50% in 1992 did not remember the last major storm from 1965. We had insurance and were able to replace all of our things. My brother jokingly said we should have hurricanes more often, so we could replace our cars and rip our houses down to studs and redecorate every few years. I honestly answered him that if I cold have kept all my old stuff and saved my children from having to go through that night of fear, there would be no choice. I pray for the people in the path of Isabel and hope they make out OK. Chris |
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