One of the Uncles Munch lives not too far from there. Last my parents spoke to him, he was still without power. My parents, on the other hand, who live about 25 miles from P-Cola and have a big-ass oak resting on the roof, have power.

This storm stuff is madness.

My parents live in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and dad works for the city. The damage he has seen is UNBELIEVABLE! The pix on the tv are minor compared to what he has had to work with. There was a small barge in the middle of downtown Fort Walton Beach. Lots of docks were destroyed. My parents were quite lucky...they only had the back fence blown off and they lost a storage shed with the items blown about. The storage shed landed two yards over, and the items all over the neighborhood. Interestingly, the lawnmower and metal chairs that sis put in the shed were in the exact same place. Some roof damage--will know about that more later. We in Birmingham had mixed results..some people are still without power, some had flooding. Hubby and I were lucky..only a few power flickerings here and there.

Tempted to look for six other signs...

my aunt and cousins live in Fort Walton Beach. i hope everything is okay:(

Pittsburgh got the most rain ever in one day on Friday. I just got my internet back after being down since Friday night. Didn't have water most of yesterday, and no cable tv until last night.

I am SO thankful that I left work early on Friday. If I hadn't I would've been stranded and probably would've lost my car, as it was parked in Carnegie, which was one of the hardest hit areas around here. 100% of the businesses there had damage or lost everything. Hundreds of people have lost everything.... very sad

Omigosh!!

One of the women who worked for us quit to help her husband build up his business - when he moved it to downtown Carnegie last summer.

We haven't been able to reach them, either at home or at the store. I could cry for them...

My brother & his wife helped a family from their church today - they said there's a line about 6' up on the wall where the water was. They're going to try to salvage the furniture, but Calvin said it's a lost cause. :( I have this feeling that the extra sofa that my mom has downstairs is about to find a new home.

well apparently Ivan's leftover made a u turn and has hit Florida with disgusting weather. it is in the low 60s which i know isnt that cold, but mixed with this freezing ( or at least ridiculously cold) rain, it is miserable here. and i did not bring a sweater with me to school, so i am so cold right now. at least i am at home now and i can bundle up.
also, it seems that Ivan has a hand in pushing Jeanne out of the way, so i guess i should thank Ivan now?? i don't know. with all of this weird weather, i would not be surprised if the temp drops to the single digits this winter here in FL. it is not uncommon for the temp to be in the 20s, but i think we are going to set a record this year.

It's been awful here today. A high of only 81 degrees. It's still warm but not the norm for this time of year in Central Florida. It's usually in the high 80s/low 90s. It's been rainy and windy all day. Like smiley said, at least this is keeping Jeanne away from us and it doesn't look like Karl or Lisa will be coming anywhere near the US so that's great too.

My boyfriend is in Atlanta and called this morning to tell me how cold he was. It was about 50-something degrees outside which, once again, not the norm for any Southeastern city this time of year.

I ready for it to be winter so that I don't have to worry about hurricanes anymore but I'm dreading the possible freezing weather we may get here. The reason I refuse to move out of the South is so I don't have to deal with cold weather!!!! :)

I don't know if I'm ready for the winter or not. It seems like every Fall/Winter I always end up blowing a bunch of money on the girl I'm with at the moment. The new miss cashmoney, I can already tell, is one of those I'm going to have to wine and dine all the time.

well you have a very high standard of taste for your S.O. which of course is not bad. but you always are seriously dating the high maintenace types. am i wrong? i have never met any of them, but from what you say- this seems to be the case. :)

A-

You're totally right on the standard thing...but I don't know if I'd call her high maintenance. We're both attention whores and we completely get off on the attention both of us give each other. Some people would say thats high maintenance but I don't. Besides, she's an awesome lady and a DG. ;)




BTW, do you know a Tri-Delt at JU named Jackie C.? She's got light blonde hair and really pretty blue eyes. Drives a black Pathfinder with a Tri-Delt tag on the back. I know JU is a small school so I figured you'd know her.

i dont know her personally, but i think that i have seen her car

I dated her for awhile. I know it sounds stupid, but she was the main reason why I moved to Jax. We met when I still lived in Gainesville and she used to come stay with me on the weekends. Its a long story, but she got fed up with always coming over to see me and then there'd be an ass load of girls at my place every weekend....so she asked me to move and I did. It was such a douche bag thing to do. Told myself I'd never do anything like that again unless it was for a wife or fiance.




I think I'm better off with DGs anyways.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by smiley21
[B]well apparently Ivan's leftover made a u turn and has hit Florida with disgusting weather. it is in the low 60s which i know isnt that cold, but mixed with this freezing ( or at least ridiculously cold) rain, it is miserable here. and i did not bring a sweater with me to school, so i am so cold right now. at least i am at home now and i can bundle up.


It was very cold here in Birmingham this morning! I had to do morning traffic duty at the middle school and the cold combined with the wind was awful!! It almost felt like I was going to get frostbite. Will definitely have gloves the rest of the week...

One of my gifted lit. students made the comment..."Looks like Ivan came and brought his friend Autumn..."

Chances are they have their power back. My grandparents never lost it.

FWB, except for those who live on the water, didn't get nearly as bad a hit as they could have. The pictures of Pensacola made me want to cry.

Anyone here in West Virginia? I'm just wondering how things are going there. I was watching the news tonight and they mainly reported on PA.

I'm worried about a friend of mine that goes to WVU. Another friend said she called her cell last night twice and she's usually pretty good about returning calls. She didn't get an answer last night so I was wondering if WV got hit pretty hard.

I'm sick of all of this hurricane talk, hush and move to Missouri. :D

i don't think Morgantown got hit much. It came up more towards the Panhandle of WV and up past Pittsburgh. Wheeling and those areas of WV got hit hard, but I think Morgantown was fine. Mr. Kddani was there Saturday for the game and he said nothing was bad there

One of my sisters-in-law goes to WVU and she didn't mention anything about the weather to her mom over the weekend, so I don't think it was bad there.

Ya'll this is insane.
 

The low that was the remains of Ivan moved out into the atlantic, down to florida, over the pennesula, into the gulf and has REFORMED. It is again, a tropical storm, named Ivan again, and is now headded towards the Texas coast.

They dont think it will strengthen to hurricane status, but Houston is prone to hella flooding from tropical storms, think Allison a few years back.

This is just crazy. The weathermen are saying they havent ever seen anything like this.


LOL. Told ya fools it was coming to Texas. Just didnt think it was by way of West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics...F/062103W5.gif

I think the hurricanes are a conspiracy do with this year's presidential election.

Jeanne is doing bizarre things too. She was going north, then northeast, then did a loop-de-loop and is heading toward Florida or South Carolina now. Totally bizarre hurricane season...

very very strange weather.
ivan could end up affecting el paso yet.
ditto on jeanne. kind of weird.

Well, isn't this just craptastic?

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics...F/230923W5.gif

Ivan redevelops in the Gulf of Mexico
 

Ivan redevelops in the Gulf of Mexico
5:38 A.M. ET Thu.,Sep.23,2004
Matthew Newman, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel

The remnants low pressure area that was once Ivan has found its way all the way back to the Gulf of Mexico and has now redeveloped and earning tropical storm status. The system is heading toward the Texas Coast and will likely make landfall late tonight or very early Friday. While Ivan is not expected to pack a major punch with wind, it will cause coastal flooding and possibly inland flooding. Meanwhile, Hurricane Jeanne, several hundred miles east of the Bahamas, is one to watch closely if you live along the coast of the Southeast. Jeanne is migrating toward the southwest now, but a large high pressure ridge building north of the storm may drive it west, back toward the southeast coast of the U. S. over the next several days. Come the weekend, residents from the Carolinas to northeast Florida may be glued to their TV sets, watching The Weather Channel... again.