Greyson
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Get Ready, Florida
- Thread starter Don M.
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Pappy
Living the Dream
We will be leaving to our home in Florida around the 10th of October. If it does go up the east coast, we can kiss everything goodbye unless it weakens a whole lot. I don't know which is worst. Sitting up here in NY or being down there going nuts worrying about where to go to get away from this monster.
Drink that vodka now, jujube, and keep your fingers crossed that it stays south.
Drink that vodka now, jujube, and keep your fingers crossed that it stays south.
Lara
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I'm praying for all of our Florida members here and wherever it goes from there. Everyone be safe...evacuate when it's mandatory. I hear there's a big party over at jujube's 
Greyson
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Lolly
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This is all really frightening.. two major Hurricanes in two weeks? I understand there is another one brewing way out in the Atlantic...
Katybug
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Same here, Butterfly.
jujube
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It's a good time to go on a diet.....I might just grow fins instead.
Central Florida is in full panic mode. For many years, lots of people have been ho-hum about a hurricane supposedly coming. Lay in a jug of water, maybe some canned soup but no biggee. I'll admit I've been one of them for years. I remember my first hurricane after I moved here in 1978. Among other things, I bought 20 cans of Spam. Why? HURRICANE COMING!!! END OF THE WORLD!!!! BUY SPAM!!! LOTS OF SPAM!!!!
The Spousal Equivalent just headed up to Wally Mart and Home Depot to try to get some water and plastic drop cloths. I'll bet there won't be hide nor tail of either. He carries and I made him promise he wouldn't draw on anyone trying to take the last jug of water from him - lol. The TV just showed a big warehouse store in Jacksonville with lines from the back of the store to the cash registers and they're not letting people in until a lot of people leave. Yesterday we passed a line of cars at least three blocks long waiting to get into a Costco.
It's always a crap shoot on whether to prepare like hell, prepare like heck or prepare very little. If you prepare like hell and nothing happens, you're stuck with 20 cans of Spam you'll never eat and ten years worth of candles. We're not boarding the windows. I will fill up my huge municipal wheeled garbage can with water to use for flushing the toilet. At the last minute, I'll fill up every container in the house with drinking water. My walk-in closet is the safest place in the house with no exterior walls, so I'll clear the floor and throw some pillows in there in case we have to hunker down. We have a small grill and some charcoal. Having just come back from North Carolina, there's not much in the refrigerator and freezer to spoil, so that's good.
And then there's always the "moral dilemma". Dear Lord, don't let it hit us.....but if it doesn't hit us, it'll hit someone else. Should I pray for that? I have no animosity toward the Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, New York, Massachusetts coasts or Texas, Louisiana, Alabama. I wouldn't want it to hit them, either. I guess the only thing I can pray for is that Irma decides for some reason to make a U-turn and head back out to sea but that's not likely. We could use some help on that.....any who pray out there, get to work please.
Update: S.E. just called from Wally Mart. Snagged a couple of tarps but still no water. Tuna has been wiped out, Chunky Soup has been decimated, no canned meats left. Said there was a woman sobbing in the aisle. I think Harvey has scared a bunch of people very badly. This is also a somewhat low-income Wally Mart, also, so that may have a lot to do with it.....people who don't think they have the money to get prepared.
Trade
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The latest forecast track is farther to the east. If that holds we won't see much of anything from the storm here in Mobile. If it tracks farther east Florida might be spared the worst of it too as that would put the strong side of the storm (east) offshore in the Atlantic. We have an early cold front moving through here today. Tomorrow morning the low is expected to be around 60 which is fairly cool for this early in the year in these parts. Hopefully that's going to keep the Hurricane out of the Gulf and maybe even push it off the coast of Florida into the Atlantic. All this of course is speculation as it's still early.
Don M.
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We woke up this morning to a temperature of 46 degrees...there is a strong Canadian cold front passing through the midwest, and it may be strong enough to deflect this Hurricane slightly, and push the worst of it away from the Gulf coast, and even much of Florida. By this coming weekend, the folks in Florida should either be in crisis mode, or counting their lucky stars.
Trade
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I'm praying for all of our Florida members here and wherever it goes from there. Everyone be safe...evacuate when it's mandatory. I hear there's a big party over at jujube's
If this latest eastward trend holds Florida might catch a break. It will still be bad, but not as bad as it might have been. However that will put the Carolinas in the line of fire.
But I wouldn't bet money on anything yet. I've lived in Hurricane country all my life and I have seen these things do some crazy things.
helenbacque
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I saw Homestead FL after Andrew and Charleston SC after Hugo. Not pretty sights. I believe in being prepared but don't go into panic mode.
Mrs. Robinson
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My son in law is a lineman here in California. Got a call today asking if he`s available to go to Florida and he said yes. So I guess they will leave soon. Haven`t heard yet if my grandson will be going too-he`s a lineman as well.
Florida promotes Hurricane preperation in like in June. How can people not have at least one extra unopened case of water or few jugs laying around all summer. For 10 bucks people could buy a case of water, a flash light, some batteries and start accumulating dry or canned foods. No reason for the lines or bare shelves almost a week before landfall. They also should have had a go bag with some extra clothing, toiletries and/or supplies. Hello, Florida, storms and HURRICANES. Yes it can happen to you where you live.
One thing many over look when buying candles for an emergency is the hurricane/glass cover so a gust of wind doesn't turn a candle flame into a fire. And tie back the curtains if you are using candles.
Then you have the amateur preppers with 10 filled gas containers in their garage for their generators all summer which not only could turn into a combustion or flame problem but gas can go bad, especially in heat and humidity. And that's another thing. During hurricane season one should always keep at least a half of tank of gas in the car which means start thinking about topping off the tank every time they approach half full.
One thing many over look when buying candles for an emergency is the hurricane/glass cover so a gust of wind doesn't turn a candle flame into a fire. And tie back the curtains if you are using candles.
Then you have the amateur preppers with 10 filled gas containers in their garage for their generators all summer which not only could turn into a combustion or flame problem but gas can go bad, especially in heat and humidity. And that's another thing. During hurricane season one should always keep at least a half of tank of gas in the car which means start thinking about topping off the tank every time they approach half full.
hangover
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Weather Channel says that a cat 5 is 500 times stronger than a cat 1....they think it will be a cat four when it hit Florida, which is 250 times stronger than a cat 1. I don't think it's going to die out when it gets done with Florida. Karma, karma, karma.
I used to live in Enterprise Alabama, when JFK was assassinated. Are you a boiled goober eater? I had a big can last night. I used to sell them on the street when I was a kid.
hangover
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Just think of all the stuff Trump has blamed on Obama, and all the stuff Trump has blamed on Mexicans and Muslims. Think of all the stuff Trump has blamed on congress....Then tell me his Karma isn't causing this.
Trade
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Wrong a category 5 is 500 million times as strong as a category 1. It has enough energy in it to light up the entire Milkyway galaxy for 10,000 years.
I mean if we're going to go for hyperbole let's go big.
Trade
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My younger son has a good friend who is from Enterprise. The way things are in small town Alabama, he's probably one of your cousins.
Trade
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When I eat peanuts it's usually in the form of Peanut butter. I like the Smuckers all natural. And I usually mix some honey in with it. But I don't eat a whole lot of peanuts. I have an allergy to them. Not the kind that sends you into anaphylactic shock and kills you. Just the kind that gives you a stuffy nose.
Happyflowerlady
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Again, hangover, this is NOT supposed to be a political thread, and ALL political discussions are to be kept strictly in the political section of this forum.
We have a lot of nice people in this forum, and mixed political viewpoints, but you are the only one that I see here throwing in Trump-bashing where it has no business being, and even your own friends here are trying to tell you that this is NOT appropriate. Get a Clue, buddy !
Also, I do not understand why you are bringing karma into the discussion at all. Karma is basically the retribution that comes back to a person from committing evil deeds.
You are strongly implying that this hurricane will continue to devastate the people living on the Atlantic coastline, and that they are having the hurricane because of karma.
Surely you are NOT suggesting that all of these people who suffered through hurricane Harvey, and will soon be being overwhelmed with hurricane Irma, are DESERVING this hurricane ?
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mimento mori
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I am sorry @hangover but you seem to have missed the entire point of Karma. If I punched someone for no reason then I would be setting up a negative situation whereby I and ONLY I will suffer from it. If Trump's negative karma has ANYTHING to do with natural disasters then your own negative vibrations in the ethereal dimensions is going to cause a collapse in the time space continuum! Karma can be a real b****h sometimes especially when you apply it to everyone else and take no note of it as it might apply to yourself.
That one is Jose, and it is tracking along behind Irma.
We went to the store this afternoon. They were doing a booming business in bottled water, bread, peanut butter and jelly. We stopped at the gas station on the way home. Gas has jumped to $2.65, it had been $2.18 before the Houston storm. No lines, but every pump was going and a few cars waiting.
Butterfly
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Oh, God!! Anything but SPAM!!! When I was a kid, Spam was a "we're really short of money this week" food, and for a while when I was a little bitty kid we got Spam a LOT. I loathe Spam, and though I voiced my opinion of Spam, nobody cared -- around my house you ate what was put in front of you or you didn't eat at all. I got really good at eating around the Spam and at surreptitiously sneaking the stuff to the dog. I got a lot of lectures of how children starving in Japan were somehow harmed by my refusal to eat Spam. Nobody could ever really explain to me how that worked, but I got told "don't talk back to your mother" when I asked how that worked. I'm still trying to figure out how my hatred of Spam hurt children starving in Japan.
Pappy
Living the Dream
Had trouble sleeping last night. Kept thinking if we are going to have anything left when we go back in October. We can't stay here, in NY, as the Campgrounds close on the 15th Oct. Our only hope is that it turns off shore a few miles. We are about 5-8 miles inland from the Ocean. I just realized......we could very well be homeless.
Happyflowerlady
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Had trouble sleeping last night. Kept thinking if we are going to have anything left when we go back in October. We can't stay here, in NY, as the Campgrounds close on the 15th Oct. Our only hope is that it turns off shore a few miles. We are about 5-8 miles inland from the Ocean. I just realized......we could very well be homeless.
That is a horrible thought, Pappy, and I am still hoping and praying that (somehow), it will go further east into the Atlantic and not devastate Florida.
Maybe the trailer park can stay open this winter ? Surely, you aren't the only folks there with a winter home in Florida, and everyone would be in about the same position as you are, with no winter home to go back to.
helenbacque
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How interesting. At my dinner table, it was children in China who were starving. I never heard of the ones in Japan. I also wondered how me not cleaning my plate would affect them but didn't dare ask. You were brave.