New Hurricane Thread

Are you saying SpicyFiles isn’t a legitimate news gathering and fact checking organization?

 

Unless you live in the Azores, there's no need to worry about Helene, or Joyce for that matter.

Isaac, for now, appears to be more of a threat to eastern Mexico than anywhere.

I swear, there are people in Richmond who are disappointed that Florence is going to nearly miss us entirely. I'll be happy to not deal with an extended power outage, thank you. Idiots.

 

Boo. I take offense. Charlottesville is worse than Lynchburg.

 

That was just an exploited opportunity to say “gaping” and “gaping eye”, which makes me wonder about the author’s viewing habits.

 

Actually, that Windy map has Isaac shooting the gap and hitting south Louisiana by next weekend. But that's a long ways away to believe that's going to be accurate.

 

Agreed. But you know this area, too. Not terribly surprised.

 

Worked auto rental at Raleigh-Durham when Fran hit. Lived 70 miles east, so I stayed at the building, rode out the storm, ate at Waffle House and got that part of the experience.

Worked about 30 hours in a 36-hour window - handwriting contracts which later had to be processed into the database when power was restored - then somehow picked around downed telephone poles and trees to go home and fell out kinda tired.

 

My easiest one to ride out was Alicia, in Houston. It also had the most unpleasant aftermath. We lived in a 1970's vintage apartment and our apartment faced out into a courtyard and the swimming pool. Winds are blowing stuff like patio furniture and trash cans straight sideways at eighty mph (because there are always people who don't listen). Our apartment was sheltered from the wind and rain by the angle of the wall. I could stand right outside the front door and be completely dry and sheltered, watching, so long as I didn't step more than three feet from the door. One wall of the living room was floor to ceiling glass, with a sliding glass front door (and a curtain). We were on the second floor facing west, with a west facing glass wall - in August, in Houston. Once the a/c went down it became indescribably hot. Our son was about two weeks old.

So my wife takes the baby and goes to stay with her parents in another state, while I stay and work once work got power back, which was about six days before I got it back at home. Wasn't pretty.

OTOH, sitting there watching the storm through a glass wall was cool as hell.

 

My only hurricane experience was Felix in Bermuda, which the Interwebs tells me was in 1995. We were staying in a house, and we had to take shelter in a great big hotel up the hill. Before Felix's arrival, I had a great time beach surfing, which is a rare in Bermuda because of the reef. But because of the storm there were huge waves coming all the way to shore. Anyway, we finally get told to go to the hotel, where we ride it out in the hotel cinema. Come outside, blue skies, and... no beach anymore. It had taken every grain of sand away, leaving behind rocky shore.

Went back recently and the beach was back, of course. The migration of sand is a pretty interesting global phenomenon to me.

Also, Bermuda is like a Pyramid scheme wherein visitors get hosed from the moment they arrive until the moment they leave. Don't go there.

 

Has Ollie Williams checked in yet?

 

Not in the way he was talking about.