Hurricane Busting

I lived through Hurricane Fran while residing in North Carolina in 1996. While my immediate vicinity escaped serious harm, the place was a mess within a few miles. They cancelled schools for like a week.

Originally posted by jadetree:
I am having a hard time understanding the freaking out as well, but there may be a lot of flooded basement apartments in the city and a lot of trees down.

but you're from missour-a. . .they don't have hurricanes there. . .i would imagine that in addition to trees down, power lines would go down as well.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
aside from seaman mankie, who else has been through a hurricane? the best i can say is that i once drank alot of hurricanes in new orleans.

Plenty of them! The weather that is, not the drinks. :D

It really depends on lots of variables, where you are, conditions, etc.. I get a kick out of them when I'm at the beach. They are horrible to drive through though as they sway your car all over the place, downed trees and branches everywhere, and flooded roads. Sometimes electricity is lost but I haven't personally had that problem from them. The winds seem to do the most wide-spread damage but the waters are very bad if you are in a low lying area. Glad I'm on a top floor but I'll have to watch out for my roof.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
missour-a

we do have tornados in missour-ee

and I didn't always live there, I spent a lot of summers in South Carolina in the 80s

Originally posted by Jaguär:
Glad I'm on a top floor but I'll have to watch out for my roof.

are you like Samnatha? Do you have some instability up top?

The problem is deciding to come into work, then getting stranded there because all metro (above and below ground and buses) will be shut down. It *is* a worry.

It's rumored that touching downed power lines is not very healthy. Could be downright shocking.

Originally posted by bags:
The problem is deciding to come into work, then getting stranded there because all metro (above and below ground and buses) will be shut down. It *is* a worry.

in case you haven't seen it yet, ferc is shutting down tomorrow at 2 pm, with no access to ferris.

for everyone else, weather.com says that winds should be above 40 mph by 5 pm

Thanks, Venerable! I'm trying to convince our bosses that we need to telecommute.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by bags:
The problem is deciding to come into work, then getting stranded there because all metro (above and below ground and buses) will be shut down. It *is* a worry.

in case you haven't seen it yet, ferc is shutting down tomorrow at 2 pm, with no access to ferris.

for everyone else, weather.com says that winds should be above 40 mph by 5 pm

I certainly hope that everyone's employers are decent about all of this. Some can be real hold out assholes. Hope none of you get stranded anywhere you don't want to be.

The timing really sucks!

Most of the school systems in Maryland are already closed tomorrow. Even Baltimore Shitty, and they are infamous for never closing! Damn. I'm getting a bit more worried now.

40+ MPH winds by 8PM and sliding right over DC. Crap.

Originally posted by Jaguär:
Most of the school systems in Maryland are already closed tomorrow. Even Baltimore Shitty, and they are infamous for never closing! Damn. I'm getting a bit more worried now.

40+ MPH winds by 8PM and sliding right over DC. Crap.

We've already cancelled classes for tomorrow and Friday here,and we're about 150 miles inland from DC.It could get ugly.Hope Bobby and the guys leave NC tonight or they may not make it.Enjoy the show if they make it,i'm with you in spirit,but I won't be driving 3 hours in that mess.