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Atlantic Hurricane Season 2005/2006

 
  

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electric monk
18:44 / 07.11.05
Glad to see your back, Alex. Especially after seeing your front.

*waggles eyebrows a la Groucho Marx*

Seriously, if you need anything, send a PM.

grant - Hope that electrician's right. Crossing all my fingers and most of my toes for you.
 
 
Tamayyurt
02:28 / 08.11.05
You still don't have power, grant? That sucks... and you've got kids in the house! My house is pretty much okay. My roof sprung a few leaks but we're taking care of that and our aluminum porch is just gone. We don't even know where it landed. Also it's been two weeks of chainsawing though. Two large trees in our back yard fell over. If you need anything let me know, things have normalized (more or less) here in Miami.
 
 
grant
14:19 / 10.11.05
I'm at work now, but I'm told those nice men from Kentucky who were at my house as I was leaving this morning have restored electricity.

No more frozen milk slush on my morning oats. I can cook on a stove again. No more tepid showers and spilled gasoline.

I'm totally getting a solar panel to run a couple appliances for next year.
 
 
Sekhmet
14:25 / 10.11.05
Yay for electricity!

Yay also for solar panels!


You're not moving, then? I think I'd be considering moving.
 
 
electric monk
20:05 / 18.11.05
We're definitely considering moving.
 
 
grant
00:27 / 19.11.05
Hellllllooooo, GAMMA! Come on DOWN!
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
08:56 / 12.06.06
Alberto is the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.

Hey grant and other Gulf Coasters.
Thinking of you.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
15:20 / 12.06.06
To be honest, at this point they may as well cut to the chase and call them all "grant".

Seriously, though, stay safe. And that goes for any other weather-threatened 'lithers too.
 
 
grant
19:11 / 12.06.06
Actually, the rain's quite a relief. A tropical storm isn't nothing, but really, it's just sort of wet and windy even if it is right over you, which Alberto isn't. I think it's going north of subcultureofone, even.

I wonder if we should have another thread for 2006. Eh.
 
 
*
19:50 / 12.06.06
Slightly off topic, but it's freaking me out to now live in a place where it rains all winter and there's never a cloudy day during summer. What's up with that? Is that normal everywhere but Florida?
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
20:40 / 12.06.06
I don't know about that. I know that where I live it was 80 degrees for weeks, then on Saturday it suddenly dropped to below 50, and now it's at 80 again. But I live over a portal to Hell, so I'm used to messed up weather nonsense.
 
 
subcultureofone
23:42 / 13.06.06
it sort of missed us. we got 4 inches of rain between about midnight and 4am, which is more than we've had each month for the last six months. our power was out but only for a couple of hours. one 6" diameter tree broke about 4 feet off the ground; the wind gusts were 45mph. the tornado warning expired this afternoon.

a sinkhole opened up in haile plantation, a tree fell on a home in alachua, and 2,500 clay electric customers lost power from some time last night until this afternoon. so we're pretty fortunate.
 
 
lekvar
23:52 / 13.06.06
Id, to answer your question, California weather is pretty much unique in the world, at least acording to my Physical Geography teacher.
 
 
grant
03:51 / 14.06.06
At least they weren't real electric customers.
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
11:31 / 29.06.06
So has the Gulf coast completely recovered from the devastation of last year?
Are the State and Federal governments more prepared in your opinion?
Does New Orleans still get press coverage in the USA?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:56 / 29.06.06
Coincidentally, there's a Metafilter link collection about New Orleans.

Anyone affected by the East Coast flooding?
 
 
MintyFresh
12:44 / 29.06.06
Okay, thought I'd jump in. I live in south Mississippi, and anybody who managed to see news coverage of anything other than New Orleans knows we got a TON of damage. I went down to the coast over the weekend, and there is NOTHING there. Katrina was last August, and our coast is still a flat wasteland of rubble. A couple of the major hotels that only got a little water damage(and by little I mean flooded up to the seventh floor)have opened back up, but that's it. There's no houses, restaurants, shops, nothing. It's nothing but flat sand and rubble for miles. Funnily enough New Orleans, who recieved maximum news coverage and minimal damage, is doing just fine. I went down about a month ago and you can't even tell that anything happened. When we got electricity back after the storm we started watching the news to see how the rest of the state was doing, but Mississippi was hardly even mentioned amid all the New Orleans telethons and fundraisers, and all they got was a little flooding.
/rant
 
 
grant
14:17 / 28.08.06
Ernesto is heading across Cuba now, and looks like it'll hit Dade/Broward/Palm Beach County by Wednesday (Miami & points north, like my house). Or, it could swing a little west and then cross over by subcultureofone and the rest of the G-ville posse.

There *is* a posse, isn't there?

So pretty much everyone in Florida is sort of watching and waiting.

Tomorrow will be a fun day.
 
 
electric monk
17:36 / 28.08.06
Today's already been a barrel of laughs, what with the stomach churning and the nail biting and such. I'm mentally preparing to put up plywood tomorrow.
 
 
subcultureofone
23:15 / 28.08.06
they’re saying ernesto will arrive wednesday evening. the noaa map has it heading straight through g’ville.

was i supposed to form a posse? i’m taking care of my neighbor’s five cats; i could probably get them to form a posse. one of them is a rather feral kitten who’d make a great posse leader. are cats acceptable or was i supposed to kidnap denfeld?

i dream about the long, long hallway.
 
 
grant
14:36 / 29.08.06
There is room for all of us in the hallway.

I'm wondering if I want to put shutter up. It looks like flooding is the main problem.

And of course, I don't have that solar panel yet.
 
 
grant
14:44 / 29.08.06
Oh, and yes on the kidnapping. He's new to the state; he'll have no idea how to behave when things get crazy.
 
 
grant
23:49 / 29.08.06
Statement as of 8:00 PM EDT on August 29, 2006

...Ernesto not strengthening as it nears South Florida...hurricane
watches in Florida discontinued...
at 8 PM EDT...0000z...all hurricane watches for Florida are
discontinued.
At 9 PM EDT...the government of the Bahamas will discontinue all
hurricane watches in the northwestern Bahamas.
A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect from Englewood on the
Florida West Coast southward...around the Florida Peninsula...and
northward to Altamaha Sound Georgia...including all the Florida
Keys and Lake Okeechobee.


eh. Wet.
 
 
electric monk
00:12 / 30.08.06
I sneered at the wind a little bit ago. Sneered I tells ya. 'S true.

But subcultureofone, you still have to kidnap Jack. Don't think for a second that you're off the hook.
 
 
subcultureofone
13:23 / 30.08.06
i'm going to need more duct tape



i was considering shuttering as i have two windows that desperately need to be replaced. but that won't help with flooding. maybe we should stock up on snorkels? in this area, the flooding usually happens a day after the heavy rain.
 
 
Triplets
15:56 / 30.08.06
But subcultureofone, you still have to kidnap Jack.

"I'm going to need... a hacksaw"

Bring us the head of Denfold!

It's two Two TWO references in one!
 
  

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