Sick and tired of hurricanes
...... which is not good... living on a tropical island and all that. But man, am I ever sick and tired of these things! We just got brushed by Tropical Storm Isaac, which then went through Haiti, Cuba, the Florida Keys.... and is now headed toward either Louisiana or Mississippi (or both). We were pretty lucky this time, but the peak of hurricane season still lies ahead (mid-September). Not only is there the casualties and damage from the storms/hurricanes themselves (wind, rain, flooding).... but usually these hurricanes take out power lines and many places stay without power or potable water for days or even weeks.
So here in the Caribbean it's hurricanes, whereas in central and midwestern U.S. it's tornadoes, and out west it's earthquakes. I've always been curious as to the biggest weather disturbances (or other natural disasters) occur frequently on the other side of the Atlantic (other than Miles, that is). Do you guys have specific worries out there in the U.K., for instance? You get any tornadoes over there?
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Actually while we do not get as many Tornadoes as the USA we do have the most per unit area of any country in the world. They are not very strong though mostly F0 to F2. We moan about the rain a lot and many places do suffer from localised flooding but rarely on the scale of other countries and though you can get some pretty harsh wind conditions and storms they are nothing like those in the tropics.
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Actually while we do not get as many Tornadoes as the USA we do have the most per unit area of any country in the world. They are not very strong though mostly F0 to F2. We moan about the rain a lot and many places do suffer from localised flooding but rarely on the scale of other countries and though you can get some pretty harsh wind conditions and storms they are nothing like those in the tropics.
Fog and black ice on the road is a big accident waiting to happen over there isnt it?
We are lucky here, rarley a tornado once every 20 years ,the most one has done is picked up a very large truck and took it a 100yards but it was ok landed on its wheels it was about 2 ft off the ground at the most. Its floods and fires with stunning weather in between for us. Sometimes northerly big winds coming out of the deserts behind the fires which is a real prick.
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Dam sissy weather reports...
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Actually while we do not get as many Tornadoes as the USA we do have the most per unit area of any country in the world. They are not very strong though mostly F0 to F2. We moan about the rain a lot and many places do suffer from localised flooding but rarely on the scale of other countries and though you can get some pretty harsh wind conditions and storms they are nothing like those in the tropics.
Fog and black ice on the road is a big accident waiting to happen over there isnt it?
We are lucky here, rarley a tornado once every 20 years ,the most one has done is picked up a very large truck and took it a 100yards but it was ok landed on its wheels it was about 2 ft off the ground at the most. Its floods and fires with stunning weather in between for us. Sometimes northerly big winds coming out of the deserts behind the fires which is a real prick.
Terrible fog and black ice on Dartmoor were I live every winter ,and pretty full on snow in Scotland, relatively speaking. The fires for you chaps must be a nightmare and you had some pretty severe flooding recently did you not?
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Half my staff is leaving town today and we still have clients trying to drop dogs off for boarding, baths etc. Here we go again :p
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Lucky ducks...we've not had Hurricanes or the more welcomed Tropical Storms/Depressions in the South all that often recently. Louisianna has been hit a few times, but Florida has gone a while without one. Sure these storms are destructive and can kill people, but they are just as much of a part of nature as anything else, we need them for the rain they bring.
I for one love Hurricanes, granted I now live safely in the middle of the state so even a category 5 would do very little damage to where I live. However when I was at school along the coast we would have Hurricane Parties, if it was a category 2 or lower we would be partying our asses off...great times.
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It is windy here today, blew my hair slightly.
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It is windy here today, blew my hair slightly.
You are supposed to keep your head inside the car, not stuck out the window. ;)
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Lucky ducks...we've not had Hurricanes or the more welcomed Tropical Storms/Depressions in the South all that often recently. Louisianna has been hit a few times, but Florida has gone a while without one. Sure these storms are destructive and can kill people, but they are just as much of a part of nature as anything else, we need them for the rain they bring.
I for one love Hurricanes, granted I now live safely in the middle of the state so even a category 5 would do very little damage to where I live. However when I was at school along the coast we would have Hurricane Parties, if it was a category 2 or lower we would be partying our asses off...great times.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Back in '92 we had this big block party going on until this big ass hole named Andrew came along and ruined every thing. :o
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Party in hurricanes? You lot are crazy.
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El Kabong
Lucky ducks...we've not had Hurricanes or the more welcomed Tropical Storms/Depressions in the South all that often recently. Louisianna has been hit a few times, but Florida has gone a while without one. Sure these storms are destructive and can kill people, but they are just as much of a part of nature as anything else, we need them for the rain they bring.
I for one love Hurricanes, granted I now live safely in the middle of the state so even a category 5 would do very little damage to where I live. However when I was at school along the coast we would have Hurricane Parties, if it was a category 2 or lower we would be partying our asses off...great times.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Back in '92 we had this big block party going on until this big ass hole named Andrew came along and ruined every thing. :o
HAHA... that was a big storm man. The one I partied hardest to was Isabel, not very strong but the beer & liquor flowed and much fun was had.
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Master
Party in hurricanes? You lot are crazy.
Crazy like a FOX!
Hurricane parties rock man!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGfKi6kpdTQ
WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! PAAAAAAART-AY!
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Party in hurricanes? You lot are crazy.
Them were the times. We even got photos plastered all over the place (internet) before and after the party to share with guests who showed up later.
Were some great times. ;)
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Party in hurricanes? You lot are crazy.
Them were the times. We even got photos plastered all over the place (internet) before and after the party to share with guests who showed up later.
Were some great times. ;)
Remember Bruno telling a story when he was in Jamaica and he said he saw a hurricane for the first time in his life and he knew it was serious when he saw a cow flying past his house.
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Party in hurricanes? You lot are crazy.
Them were the times. We even got photos plastered all over the place (internet) before and after the party to share with guests who showed up later.
Were some great times. ;)
Remember Bruno telling a story when he was in Jamaica and he said he saw a hurricane for the first time in his life and he knew it was serious when he saw a cow flying past his house.
Yeah, I know where he's coming from. Seen a dumpster flying about 15 feet off the ground as it went pass the window. :)
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Remember Bruno telling a story when he was in Jamaica and he said he saw a hurricane for the first time in his life and he knew it was serious when he saw a cow flying past his house.
The tornadoes that spin off of hurricanes are the most dangerous part
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Hurricanes Hugo (1989) and Georges (1998 ) have been the worst to affect Puerto Rico in the last few decades. Hugo flattened the northeast corner of the island (where I live) when it hit us as a strong Category 3 hurricane. Georges was a little less strong than Hugo, but affected the whole island by cutting diagonally through it. Mostly, we've been pretty lucky, with hurricanes "whizzing" by to the north and to the south of us.
I guess it helps being such a small target. ;D
Lyle, didn't Hugo affect your area at all? I remember it hit S.Carolina pretty hard.
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Yup, plenty of tornados after Hugo. My power went out, that's about it. It hit SC hard and Charlotte hard but my city was fairly ok. That's a category 3 storm though and anything above 2 I am wary of.
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It looks like Isaac is headed to the East of New Orleans, it's on a path similar to Katrina, a hurricane that devastated NOLA 7 years ago. The big difference this time is, while Issac may do a ton of damage to New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama, et al (manly from the storm surge & flooding) they're much better prepared. (NO has had a $14 billion upgrade to its levees and pumps) Plus, Issac is not expected to be as strong as Katrina and New Orleans could dodge a bullet if Issac makes landfall further to the East more in Mississippi.
Issac is due to make landfall Tuesday afternoon/evening, as a cat 2.
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Half of the local media almost sound disappointed that this has not blown up into a cat 2 yet. We have been waiting for this "Tropical" storm to hit hurricane status and it looks broken and deformed. Dry air is ripping it thus far and its scattered. Way too much is being made of Katrina anniversary on the exact same day of landfall...Wed. We might take a head on here and still hold up fine but have bookoo rain, hope not. This is not a Katrina, no way no how. That was cat 5 off shore day prior and fell to sudden 3 on landfall. We didn't evacuate tonight and city did not go mandatory. Nice thing was to see a 30 deep convoy of National Guard drive past street today...as opposed to 4 days later after the shit had hit the fan :-X Next update at 4 AM here and pulling an all nighter, and twisting off bottle caps!
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Half of the local media almost sound disappointed that this has not blown up into a cat 2 yet. We have been waiting for this "Tropical" storm to hit hurricane status and it looks broken and deformed. Dry air is ripping it thus far and its scattered. Way too much is being made of Katrina anniversary on the exact same day of landfall...Wed. We might take a head on here and still hold up fine but have bookoo rain, hope not. This is not a Katrina, no way no how. That was cat 5 off shore day prior and fell to sudden 3 on landfall. We didn't evacuate tonight and city did not go mandatory. Nice thing was to see a 30 deep convoy of National Guard drive past street today...as opposed to 4 days later after the shit had hit the fan :-X Next update at 4 AM here and pulling an all nighter, and twisting off bottle caps!
You'd better run out and get enough Beer to last a week Spicoli, i'm sure the electric will get KO'd for at least 3 or 4 days, so just to be on the safe side i'd get at least 10 cases of beer, and pretzels to go with it. :cool:
Drink your way through the 'cane Dude, you won't even realize there was one. ;D
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No truth to the rumor they had to double delivery's, and that I live two blocks away :-X;D
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We went 5 cases and 2 bottles only. Woke up this morning and went to check on things only to realize I was probally driving still legally drunk of my ass :-X Yet to lose power but the clocks ticking late tonight. Ice at a minimum so we'll have to drink faster ;D
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No truth to the rumor they had to double delivery's, and that I live two blocks away :-X;D
(Video) Rouse's selling record amounts of alcohol | wwltv.com New Orleans
We went 5 cases and 2 bottles only. Woke up this morning and went to check on things only to realize I was probally driving still legally drunk of my ass :-X Yet to lose power but the clocks ticking late tonight. Ice at a minimum so we'll have to drink faster ;D
I bought a large gas powered generator, and several ten gallon gas cans a few years ago after a tornado knocked out power here in East Texas. I've used the generator several times since then when hurricanes knocked the power out. I use the power to run a couple large fans, a refrigerator, TV and a Computer. For cooking i've got an outdoor gas powered grill, so i'm pretty much good to go, for a week or more.
I imagine you won't have any problem finding ice once the 'cane leaves NO, the center should be coming onshore in a few more hours.
Let me know how you're making out.
cheers
