My Hurricane Pics

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
What are the pictures from? I thought that Katrina was a mere storm in Florida?

Katie was a cat 1 hurricane when it made landfall. There was a gust up to 92mph in my nieghborhood. Miami-Dade got it much worse than us, but we got the highest winds in the South half of Broward. Nothing comapred to what she did to the Delta though.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Strangely, the power stayed on except for a couple of bumps.

Lucky bastard.

[chequita guevara]

Anyway, it turns out, in the last 40 years, Florida has been hit with a total of seven major storms (Cat 3 or higher): Betsy, 1965; Andrew, 1992; Charlie, Francis, Ivan and Jeanne, 2004, and Dennis, this year. Last year was unusual.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Strangely, the power stayed on except for a couple of bumps.

I hate you.

/me is posting from somewhere other than his home now.

[chequita guevara]

How are things with you, dd?

[DinoDoc]

Other than the power being out at my house, fine. I live around 300 miles from the MS coast.

[SpencerH]

Since the damage is so extensive, the insurance is gonna pay for a whole new roof. Whoot!

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
I hate you.

* DinoDoc is posting from somewhere other than his home now.

Its just making up for Ivan where we were without power for 5 days while the rest of the houses in the area were only down for 2 or 3.

[Dr Strangelove]

I told you guys about our vacation in Orlando last year didn't I? We had a condo booked the week that Charlie came through central Florida. When we set off from home we used the weather forecasts to plan our arrival slipping in between the two hurricanes, but our wagon blew it's transmission at the Georgia - Florida state line. We arrived in Orlando less than 20 minutes before Charlie hit only to find that my wife had left the instructions on how to get to the condo at home. We found our condo by blind luck, grabbed the luggage that mattered and closed the hall door just as the main winds hit the building.

[Lancer]

I think it's time to count blessings...

The roof blew of the Superdome, they should switch to grass.

[Dr Strangelove]

I'll bet you could pick up a chunk of change for fixing that!

[Lancer]

Putting a roof over a football field? Do you think me evil?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I told you guys about our vacation in Orlando last year didn't I?

Musta been a nice vacation?

[child of Thor]

The bbc is covering this in quite alot of detail - i caught the reports last night when i got home. It looks really terrible and i hope all the guys who are caught up in it get some help soon.
They were talking about the authorities worrying about food shortages in some areas and the effect that might have on looting etc. showed pics of many 'lost' looking people roaming around in water.

And some of the ariel shots were terrible, like whole cities under water(in missisipi i think?). Man that is going to take months to clear up.
Water is still rising in some places and the standing water is stinking apparantly.

At the end of the reports they moved onto an enviromental discussion and were asking the usa side of the discussion if events like this was putting more pressure on america to adopt more enviromental policies for industry etc.

Anyway i think if i was in an area that kept getting these storms i might be tempted to move(tricky selling your house i guess?).

Good luck to those in it

[chequita guevara]

The things is, we don't keep getting these storms. What I keep trying to impress upon you people is this is unusal weather. The first two years I lived in Florida, we had one tropical storm. Nothing like this has ever happened before.