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« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2011, 03:38:05 PM » |
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Good luck guys! We're always taking one for the team down here in FL. If you live in an area thats going to be hit I'll give you a few pieces of advice. Get Katrina/New Orleans out of your head shoddy levees caused the destruction, the hurricane was just the catalyst.
First priority should be to fill up your car(s) with gas. This is even more important than food. Most gas stations dont operate with the pumps on generator back-up, so if there is an extended loss of power there will be few if any functioning gas stations and lines of cars waiting upwards of 10 hours to get gas at the few that are.
Candles=cheaper and way more sustainable source of light than flashlights and lanterns. You'd be surprised how much light a candle seems to give off when your eyes are adjusted to the darkness. I'm able to read just fine.
Keep your cellphone off whenever possible. It drains the battery in a big way when a phone is continuously searching for a signal. You want to save it in case of emergency.
Dont bother doing that masking/duct tape criss cross on your windows. It doesnt do anything, and still I always see people doing it. All you're doing is wasting time you could be spending on doing things that matter. Nail plywood over them if you can.
Make sure there's nothing laying around in your yard that can be picked up and thrown around by the wind. Truth be told, its only a cat 2 storm so there shouldnt be much property damage other than smashed windows, etc. Be more worried about downed powerlines and flooding if your area is prone to do so.
Last but not least, buy a couple of bags of Ice to stick in your fridge and freezer to keep everything cold for a few days should the power go out. It sucks having to buy everything in your fridge over again after the storm. Try to eat only non-perishable food during the power outtage for as long as possbile. You dont want to open the fridge or freezer for any reason if you can. Take out any non-perishable drinks and keep them out. I know it sucks having warm drinks but it sucks more having a fridge full of spoiled food because you kept opening the fridge and letting out the cold air to grab a gatorade.
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JCEFalconi
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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2011, 03:43:46 PM » |
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Also,and this is VERY IMPORTANT, it's "Viene UNA Tormenta". Keep that in mind please. I've gone through a few big Hurricanes living by the southpacific coast, yet I don't have much to add, look on the brightside, hurricanes end. Best of Luck.
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Dalton
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« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2011, 05:02:52 PM » |
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Prediction: This thing is the biggest hype since Carmageddon. I heard a newscaster say by the time it gets to New York is may be just a tropical storm- and she actually sounded disappointed by this.
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« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2011, 06:11:43 PM » |
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Didn't a similar thing happen a few years ago in New York? With it weakening to the point of just being light rain. Hope that happens again. Probably better to hype than downplay though.
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Dalton
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« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2011, 06:34:14 PM » |
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Didn't a similar thing happen a few years ago in New York? With it weakening to the point of just being light rain. Hope that happens again. Probably better to hype than downplay though.
I'm not saying we shouldn't be ready. I filled my tank up and went hurricane shopping. But I think some of the breathless, overhead reporting on it is kind of unseemly. Plus I haven't been through a hurricane in at least 19 years. But as I recall they're almost always not that big a deal (in Jersey anyway) |
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« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2011, 08:08:41 PM » |
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Didn't a similar thing happen a few years ago in New York?
If it was more than a year ago, then I've really lost all track of time. EDIT: Actually, that might've been a would-be tornado. Either way, there wasn't even any rain that day. |
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« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2011, 08:10:01 AM » |
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Our offices closed at about 2pm yesterday, and we had to unplug everything, and cover all computers/printers /electronics. As an added safeguard, I removed my degrees and framed art from my walls. The building where I work is a stone's throw away from the ocean, and already we've ben informed by the local news that the town is already flooding.
I had a glass door outside of the front door of my home, which was blown off by a gust of wind. Said gust also took out a part of the door frame...and the electricity just went out as I'm typing... which is solid wood. Good thing I have homeowners insurance.
My backyard is already littered with some pretty large branches (well over 20' in length), and apparently the worst is yet to come in the next few hours. The trees are swaying at a very alarming rate, and for some reason the neighbors to the left of me parked under two large trees. Perhaps they'd like to collect on their insurance policy.
A lot of my friends headed to Raleigh last night, but we're sticking through this one. I'm not sure which towns/cities ...power back on... have been evacuated, but I do know we've got at least 200,000 people with out power in nearby towns, and it looks like we've got a few more hours of hurricane force winds.
On a more lighthearted note, the school year recently started and one of my wife's Hispanic second grade students asked her, "Mrs.Limbrunner, what is the difference between a hurricane and a tomato?".
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Tarrik Dane
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« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2011, 02:10:29 PM » |
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Hasnt it dropped to CAT 1 today? You guys need to brace yourselves for nothing but some inconveniences
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Dalton
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« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2011, 02:18:18 PM » |
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Hasnt it dropped to CAT 1 today? You guys need to brace yourselves for nothing but some inconveniences
Exactly. Everyones runnin around clutching their pearls. So silly. |
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« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2011, 02:41:32 PM » |
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Good luck to everybody going through this, hopefully it won't be too bad. Much like Tarrik Dane I've been through a few hurricanes and tropical storms and everything he said was spot on. I've actually never evacuated during a hurricane and other than a bunch of branches coming down, power outages and some cosmetic damage to the house nothing that bad has happened. It's kind of funny seeing some of the reporters going crazy over this hyping it up like it's going to be the destruction of the east coast. I even saw one news channel that showed some stupid CGI graphic of all the streets in NYC getting flooded all around the buildings. Like Dalton said it'll probably be a tropical storm by the time it hits New York.
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« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2011, 03:40:34 PM » |
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This thing is the biggest hype since Beebe's Bathysphere.
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« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2011, 03:43:20 PM » |
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I guess it's better to be over-prepared for a hurricane than the alternative, no?
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