Hurricane

[mlefev]

I just thought i'd say that my heart goes out to all those in the southern USA. My prayers are with you.

[unthinkable90]

lol...i live in florida..but the hurricane wasnt as big as it is now..it was a 1 ..CHARLIE and ivan hit us Right on ..i live right on the ocean..My ranmas houe was smashed by tornados ..it was soo scary..All our electricity went out 2 weeeks! and no gas around ! i know what all those people in the upper part of florida and lousiana are oing thru..it is the worst experience ever!

[sisofafishlover]

We live in Florida, near the ocean. Its really freaky, I mean, I know people who have lost their house. Its realy freaky. We've always been spared, thank God!

[fishfreaks]

Originally Posted by mlefev

I just thought i'd say that my heart goes out to all those in the southern USA. My prayers are with you.

Yes same here. I heard that 1 million people are expected to loose their homes. I hope for their sake it's not going to be as bad as weather personalities are saying.

[unthinkable90]

usually we goto to port charlotte and stay in the home my grandma owns the cuz it is really strong ..we were just about to leave 2 go to that house but we never did cuz of the traffic..But anyways that house had a tornado go thru it ..it was the only house on the blok that looked as if a blew up in it ..im so glad i didnt go there..it was sposed to hit fortmyers(wherei live) hard not port charlotte..but we live 40 minutes away from port charlotte..

[fish_doc]

And we are still in drought levels in this area. We have finally got enough rain though where a few of the cities have eliminated their water restrictions.

[mlefev]

Yeah, from what I can tell this thing is a nightmare hovering off the coast. The storm itself is bad enough, but the after-effects could last weeks. Geesh, and they talk about us here in California with our piddly little earthquakes. I've finally come to the conclusion that those who live in hurricane or tornado areas of the US are either crazy or love their homes so much they're willing to take any risk. I pray the storm isn't as bad as the reporters say, but it looks really bad.

All of you who do live in the area, please check in and tell us how you're doing. I'm sure everyone here is as concerned as I am.

[Pac-Man]

I used to live in Fla; I rode out Andrew when I was really young. It was supposed to hit us directly, but it swerved at the last minute so it didn't hit us head on. Wasn't katrina a tropical storm when it passed through Fla? I know the keys got a tropical storm warning. I feel bad for the people on the gulf now; Its hitting them really bad.

[mlefev]

Yes it was a tropical storm. It peaked to a Category 1 for a short time, and then was downgraded. Then, out of the blue it decided to become the biggest, baddest hurricane it possibly could.

[Osiris]

What i find funny is how the weather service never predicted it could reach cat. 5 before hitting it land, i think it dropped right as it hit land or something but come on if we can't predict it that's a huge difference from what predictions were at what? cat. 2 or 3?

[Fishboy93]

I live in Ft.Myers(close to Port Charlotte) and Charlie nearly hit us head on we lost power for a week and a half. Its not fun at all. I heard at landfall it was a cat 4?

[Imbrium]

I feel really lucky living here near Charleston. The hurricanes always seem to head north or south of us. The last bad one here was Hugo in 89. I was pretty young then but I remember a big tree falling on our house, and the way everything smelled like pine trees for weeks afterwards.

Back to New Orleans though, I heard that old coffins were floating to the surface again, like they did in Camille before they started putting all the bodies in mausoleums. And I feel bad for all those people stuck in the superdome with no air conditioning.

[maxpayne_lhp]

Well sounds really bad through the news... Lucky I won't be in FL ow well My prayers are with those who're in FL too (Who knows what's coming next.

[mlefev]

I just can't imagine a storm like that. I'm a wimp, I would be on the first plane out if there was even one getting near the gulf. Up in northern california we got flooded frequently, but it was a slow and steady thing (lol kinda like 40 days and 40 nights of solid rain) We never had big bad storms like the ones down south. Power rarely went off, and if it did, it was just an excuse to build a fire in the fireplace.

I'm amazed that people are actually somewhat used to the idea of this happening to them. I hope that most everyone got out ok. I know people in the shelters have to be pretty uncomfortable, but at least they're safe in there. That kind of devistation just isn't something any of us out west are accustomed to seeing, let alone imgaining what it would be like to really be there. Poor people.

[TheOldSalt]

This storm was still a full category 3 when it hit Hattiesburg.

New Orleans is devastated. Half the city is underwater rooftop high, and that water isn't just going to go away on it's own since it's trapped within the levee. It's going to need to be pumped out, but there's no power to run the pumps, and the pumphouses are underwater.

That water, by the way..is turning fast into a big bowl of gumbo. The ingredients?
Seawater from the surge, Lake water from the lake, rainwater, oil from the refineries, toxic chemicals aplenty from the local factories & processing plants, dead bodies of the freshly dead along with the long dead, rotting plants, rotting food from the flooded grocery stores, gasoline from the gas stations & refineries, rotting grain from the plantations and port warehouses, swamp mud, dead deer, live snakes, fish & alligators.
I don't know how the zoo animals fared. Oh, and let's not forget the sewers and wastewater treatment plants, and the hospital waste, and the garbage.

Anyway, it's going to be quite some time before they can get this mess pumped out, and before then it will be one vile, stinking, toxic, infectious, mosquito-infested stew indeed. They'll probably never be able to decontaminate the place. There's not much point in even going back again in my opinion.

I keep hearing conflicting reports on whether it had dropped to category 4 before or after hitting land, but it hardly seems to matter. This storm has already broken a few records, and is sure to go down in history as one of the worst ever known.

As bad as Louisiana got hit, Mississippi got hit even worse.

[unthinkable90]

i live in fla..the only good thing about it is when hurricanes hit we get out of school! we were out 2 weeks for charlie///woot woot

[Baby_Baby]

All my prayers are with yall in florida! actually because of the hurricane we've had great cool weather, but I'd much more rather have hot weather instead of thousands losing their homes, and some people dying

[mlefev]

Yeah, I've been watching the reports about the aftermath, and it's still not over...9 more feet of water expected to drain into louisiana. It's sad

[Baby_Baby]

yes it is. I hate hurricanes! they suck monkeys!

[lwstinkinsweet]

it is amazing how something that happens way on the other side of the country can effect the weather and gas prices everywhere else. our gas in michigan has skyrocketed by like fifty cents since yesterday morning. i wish i would have gotten some then. my boyfriend called me from a gas station and said it was a mad house. everyone was getting gas as it is supposed to reach the mid three dollar range by the end of the week. my prayers are with everyone suffering from this disaster. i know there are many worse things going on than paying a lot for gas. i would rather be stuck with my gas prices than lose a loved one, my home, my pictures