Its that time again, Hurricane Season
 

Hurricane Dennis
Predicted path as of this moring....
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/w...is.11am.fr.jpg

Praying that it blows out to see someewhere :(

Yeah, it is at that point of no return. It has to hit the U.S. somehow. In that position, it is next to impossible for the storm to turn east. It feels as if the time in between hurricane seasons gets smaller and smaller. :(

My husband's little brother is getting married in Acapulco tomorrow. One of his other brother's left yesterday, and he told us the weather there has been AWFUL. I feel so bad for them, but I'm kind of glad we weren't able to go now!

i'm boycotting all these hurricanes.

they ruin ALL of our weekends!

honeykiss, aint it great to live in Kansas with jus tornados???

NO Damn HurryCains or Earth Quakes!

Kansas Is Good!

Well, Hot and then Cold!:rolleyes:

We've had a bunch of close calls, but luckily the last one that hit us was Iniki way back in 1992 [and `Iwa in 1982].

Still, my mom swears by our survival kit. You never know...so we're better off being prepared!

I hear ya Tom. Except here, you carry a cold/congestion about 9 moonths out of the year from the extreme temp changes or constant attack of allergies. LOL

But real, yall are in my prayers. I understand Florida is in a state of emergency.

Casa Munchkin is in the projected path of Dennis the Menace (as the silly weather guys have been calling it). Mandatory evacuations were announced for those on the Gulf as of this AM--the family has already gone. It's really hard to get hotel rooms anywhere in the Southeast.

sucks....i'm planning on being in AL and FL in 2 wks......sucks sucks. my plan was to be in ft. walton, mobile, and then later new orleans.....fun times. i hate it when i see mobile on the weather channel. :(

I saw a bunch of Florida license plates on my drive home today. I'm guessing a lot of Floridians are fleeing to the Atlanta area. That's what I did last year when Frances came through!

Tom-

I'll take hurricanes over a tornado ANY DAY!



My thoughts are with the Floridians who are ONCE again in the hurricane's path.

Hurricanes = long weekends
(Ivan=5 day weekend, but the LSU game was still on; Dennis=3 day weekend right after a holiday weekend)

I swear, between having a 5-day weekend for the 4th of July and now at least a 3-day weekend for Dennis, it's going to be the death of my work ethic. Nothing makes me more worthless than a long weekend.
My parents wanted me to go home, but alas, I have to take I-65 south for a few miles in Montgomery to do so, and as of 6 this morning, all 4 lanes are northbound between Mobile and Montgomery.

Work was a mess today, as everyone with flights in/out/via the MSY, RSW, TPA airports scrambled around to change or check on their flights.

Good times. I'm sure it'll be even better tomorrow.

We had to drive down to Gulf Shores for a wedding this past Friday. We checked into hotel on Thursday night, and watched Dennis after dinner. Friday morning, they started voluntary evacuations of the area. After wedding, my mom, who had just gotten back from Tallahassee, said not to drive over to Fort Walton Beach and was worried that we might not be able to get out Saturday morning b/c of traffic. 15 minutes later, after we leave the Gulf Shores area, she calls back---oh, get gas if you can. There isn't any in our area. Well, of course, I tried to get gas and EVERY gas station for 20 miles was out of gas. Finally found some in Pensacola Beach and filled up. Continued over to FWB, and luckily, weather was okay. When we left this morning ( Saturday) we decided not to take I-65 b/c they had turned the South bound lanes north for the now mandatory evacuation of all areas south of I-10 in Alabama. Took a smaller hwy and had not problems...traffic on I-65 from Mobile to Montgomery was awful from what I heard from other folks. 150 miles of bumper to bumper.

Parents are not thrilled about Dennis...Mom JUST had the roof fixed three weeks ago from Ivan!

I evacuated for Ivan, but am staying put for Dennis...unless my dad and his gf have other ideas. I'm in New Orleans, and I've been through the worst of 'em: Betsy, Camille, Andrew, Georges...the list goes on.

I've got a friend in Ft. Walton Beach who's staying put, also, in case he gets called into work and has to fix computer systems.

I'm pretty high and dry...for now.

Dennis = nothing.

Hurricanes are supposed to be fun when you're cooped up in the Coliseum basement! You're supposed to do fun stuff like they did for Ivan and turn the display screens over the basketball court into your personal gaming screens by pluging in your PS2!
You're also supposed to be in a shelter for more than 15 hours. They told us we could go home if we wanted at about 12:30 last night because the worst of it was over and I was not about to sleep on a concrete floor if I could help it.

(Side Note: I <3 my parents, really. But dude, when hurricanes make landfall east of Mobile, they just make the trip up the highway about 120 miles and nail our house and surrounding area pretty bad. East AL barely got hit this last time. Therefore, I kinda wish they'd stop asking me to go home for these things.)

Emily
 

It looks like there is "something" brewing thaat may be upgraded to a tropical sotrm later today (Emily). Preliminary reports say that if it does develop into a hurricane, it will be amking it to Florida by early next week. :(

Praying that it turns into nothing.

On a sad note, Honeykiss 1974, Emily is now Hurricane Emily. I'm praying, just like you, that she does not hit the U.S.A. (not that any other countries/landmasses deserve to get hit.) Georgia sometimes gets whats left of the hurricanes too. Those hurricanes last September made a mess in Atlanta.

Hurricanes be gone!

The two storms last week made a mess of Atlanta! Parts of Cobb County are underwater...literally.

Emily looks to be headded to Texas. We'll take one over here, cause you floridians have taken your fare share.

I'm calling a hit between Brownsville and Corpus as a strong Cat 2 / Weak Cat 3.

We should have started a GC hurricane landfall betting thread.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphi...204805W_sm.gif

Here she comes...

$25 on 10-30 miles north of Corpus.

/JK, I don't really have $25 right now

Is this how its played? Talk some shit and post a map? (it aint even a current map). Is Wylie on the destination map? Emily aint gonna come anywhere near you, so you best bring something more.

BTW, What, do you work for the NWS? You cant just post an old map and run. You gotta buy in. I only see two bets on the table. Put up or shut up, tina talk alot. Serious betters only.

Two bones. I aint runnin no charity table ova here.

:D

I link directly to the NHC map, whose graphic above is updated regularly.

$2 sez she'll turn a little further north and get Corpus or maybe Houston - she's big enough that Dallas will get some of her feeder bands if she heads that way. Lord knows, we need the rain. (Yesterday's frog-strangler thunderstorms notwithstanding... the commute home thoroughly sucked Friday.)

Yeah, the whole state's been in a deficit. Houston's low lying areas flood and now all the anchors on CNN and such are talking out their ass about how "Texas dosent need any more rain". Thats some BS. Yesterday afternoon, SA had its first measureable rain in 46 days. All the lake levels have dropped pretty far and people in the Valley are kinda hoping Emily hits them and stalls. My brother in law's family has a house on Lake Corpus Christi and what was once a house on the water is now a house about 25 yards from the water.