Party in hurricanes? You lot are crazy.
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Party in hurricanes? You lot are crazy.
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
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Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
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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.
Lyle, didn't Hugo affect your area at all? I remember it hit S.Carolina pretty hard.
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.
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 fanNext update at 4 AM here and pulling an all nighter, and twisting off bottle caps!
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