Atlantic Hurricane Season 2005/2006

18:14 / 23.09.04

02:45 / 24.09.04

Gods. What, is Jeanne coming back to get those directions to Greenland again?

"Now was it a left or a right at the -55 degree longitude line? I could hardly understand those nice islanders. I know, I'll go ask grant! I hear he lives in Florida. All my friends say he's a swell guy..."

11:09 / 24.09.04

"IT'S THAT WAY!! THAT WAY!!!"

sleazenation

11:26 / 24.09.04

Worrying news that this hurricane season might be God punishing Floridians for their voting record in 2000...

Vote Kerry to avoid God's wrath.

14:04 / 24.09.04

I was just about to post a link with the same graphic.

1. Compare against the the latest computer models, and it looks like Jeanne might take care of the remaining pink counties on the east coast.

2. Voting records? No, election supervisors! I blame the recounters!

14:46 / 25.09.04

So, it looks like Jeanne will come ashore very near here as a Category 3 storm sometime this evening. I'd like to make a statement that is uncharacteristically dogmatic for me, but one that I've come to believe as absolutely true over the past few hours.

This is that statement:

Hurricanes are beastly business.

Really, someone should make some sort of law....

15:13 / 25.09.04

yes, i am getting fed up with this, too, and we don't even get the full effect here. the cutesy names are not helping. they should start using demonic names. hurricane beelzebub. i am tired of 'activating my hurricane preparedness plan' or whatever it is i'm doing. there was some sort of announcement on tv that stores will not be allowed to sell alcohol after the curfew goes into effect, which should make all the gator fans in town for the game really happy. good luck, grant! stay safe!

22:29 / 25.09.04

I've been utterly unable to find this sound archive I last saw during the anthrax (2001/2) -- it was all British pop songs from WWII. It was how I first heard Noel Coward's "Let's Not Be Beastly to the Germans."

Been looking for that song on and off all day, between shuttering and playing with electrical appliances in the growing wind and rain.

Sporadic power outages in my county now.

Any advice on finding that song much appreciated.

over

00:18 / 26.09.04

Power has flickered off twice so far. Curfew is officially in place until 1 pm tomorrow. Eye expected to make landfall at midnight. Am currently eating what perishables I can from the freezer, anticipating full outage before long. Smaller than Frances, faster, but stronger and following exact same track. May affect me less as a result. More later.

over

Bed Head

00:28 / 26.09.04

Cripes. Huggles, for all the good they do in the face of Fearsome Nature Power, huggles to you all.

03:19 / 26.09.04

Best wishes, grant. Stay safe. Let me know if there is anything at all I can help out with.

10:49 / 27.09.04

again no power
sitting in the dark waiting
rain rain go away

13:51 / 27.09.04

I'm back at work. Power came back for me this morning at 4:30. Bright lights!

Only damage: a fallen mahogany tree blocked neighbor's drive, so we attacked it with saw and machete. My hand still aches. Oh, and some propping up of wooden fences, but that's minor.

Debris from Frances surprisingly didn't move much -- I think we should start building houses out of debris piles.

Curfew is on again 10pm to 6am. And, apparently, they've banned alcohol sales in restaurants. Cops have actually ordered waiters to take beers out of peoples' hands (according to a co-worker who tried to eat out last night).

All in all, Jeanne did less here than Frances, but I understand things are worse up the coast a few miles.

Power back on in G'ville yet?

14:14 / 27.09.04

Mmm. Mahogany. At least you and your neighbor can replace any expensive furniture which might have been damaged.

Glad to hear you're all right. The worst we got is a few downed lines and my car is sort of snowed in under thousands of twigs, fortunately none big enough to actually prevent me moving it. Er, if I take a snowshovel out there with me.

The Sarasota area has been very fortunate. I, however, am getting out of this state as soon as I graduate. Not that that really has anything to do with hurricanes, but I can use that as an excuse when my parents try to convince me to find a grad school closer to home.

17:07 / 27.09.04

yay electricity!

now you won't have to read any more hurricane haiku!

most of the branches scattered in our yard broke in the last hurricane but didn't fall; at least they are not hovering overhead anymore. none of our trees broke this time but one of our neighbor's did and is partly in our yard. which is kind of funny because she's been harrassing us about one of our trees, claiming was going to drop branches onto her house, which it didn't. i wonder if i can get groceries or gas now without a police presence.

last night i went outside to investigate strange noises and lights in the sky that started right as the wind picked up. the radiotronics and whirlwinds seemed more like an alien space ship landing than a hurricane. an alien space hurricane!! but it was just the kids across the street shining spotlights into the trees to watch the wind and trying to tune in the weather frequency on more than one radio.

19:20 / 27.09.04

Yeah, when the storm got really bad by me (like, don't open the front door bad), we sat inside in the dark and watched the blue-green flashes from popping power transformers. Through the mail slot in the front door, and the sliding door in the carport.

Very alien, yeah.

15:10 / 09.07.05

grant, how is it going?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:16 / 09.07.05

July 9, 2005 The Guardian.

Coastal residents packed up and evacuated or hunkered down Saturday as Hurricane Dennis lashed the Florida Keys with wind and sheets of rain and churned along a path toward areas still rebuilding from last year's storms.

More than 1 million people from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana were under evacuation orders. Landfall was expected Sunday afternoon anywhere from the Florida Panhandle to southeast Louisiana.

15:27 / 09.07.05

grant's posted in another thread that it missed his house, which is good.

Benny the Ball

16:34 / 09.07.05

Good stuff, Grant - hope it keeps missing. Is it that time of year again already?

paranoidwriter waves hello

16:47 / 09.07.05

Wo! Just hearing about the scale of Dennis on Channel 4 News. My prayers are with you. One love.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:53 / 09.07.05

who about sentimentity, subcultureofone and Impulsivelad?

...

Usatoday 3/29/2004
First South Atlantic hurricane hits Brazil

Climate change anyone?

17:09 / 09.07.05

I can't remember- do they usually post much at weekends anyway?

If you're there, kids, let us know!

17:11 / 09.07.05

I'm here. It's raining. I'm grouchy and sleepy and I missed something I wanted to do today because it was cloudy and I didn't wake up in time. This is the extent of my misfortune thus far.

My thoughts are with people more severely affected, but here-- well, the plants seem happy.

02:00 / 10.07.05

yeah, it's been sort of windy all day, but it's nothing. We woke up at around 6 am and it was a Pretty Big Storm, but the hurricane stuff is really about a four hours' drive to the west at its closest. Some patio furniture got shifted, and that's it.

What's weird is that we're up to the D storm and it's barely the second week in July.

Anyway, to answer a question in another thread, I've thought about living in places that don't get hurricanes, but they're all terribly BORING.

I just hope Louisiana's doing OK -- Dennis was heading straight for some major refineries, and petroleum prices have been getting wacky as a result (on the stock market, not at the pumps...yet).

02:04 / 10.07.05

Oh, and impulsivelad should be fine -- he's in Miami, which is just south of me.

My dad got sent down into the Keys yesterday to do some reporting for ABC on the hurricane, the evacuation and so on.

Today, I get this call from his cell phone: "Hello. I'm still in the Keys. I can't talk for long -- there's no power to recharge this phone, and the water's off. But I need you to look up what you can about Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys.

"I have to interview him in 15 minutes."

Oh, the news never sleeps. Why Carter's in the Keys -and why he never evacuated - is anyone's guess.

02:17 / 10.07.05

i'm ok. thanks for thinking of me. it’s usually not bad here and we should only get rain and wind gusts as the outer bands of the storm move through, though there is a tornado warning. we’ve been having thunderstorms since noon and around 5pm i discovered my roof has a leak. we just finished crawling around in the attic with a bucket. as soon as we got up there, the power went out, but it was only off about half an hour (it’s around 11:20pm now).

15:06 / 26.08.05

Hurricane number eleven?!?? Jesus...

Smoothly

15:13 / 26.08.05

18:25 / 26.08.05

I wonder how the former Impulsivelad is doing.... I'm the only person in the office right now.

About to leave.

Walking on sunshine. Yeah, yeah.

Cherielabombe

16:40 / 28.08.05

Hey New Orleans folk: please keep us posted on your safety, when you can..

Mon Oncle Ignatius

20:40 / 28.08.05

Shit. New Orleans is one of my favourite cities anywhere, and we have family there. I hope the city, its inhabitants and everyone in the path of Katrina make it safely though the storm. Be safe over there.