FYOU Florida!! Hurricane 2!!

God Damnit all to hell. There's another hurricane that has a good chance of hitting my home town head-on. This hurricane is called Hurricane Frances. FL is still recovering from Charley, which hit us Friday 13th. This one is more powerful.

So basically, when it comes, my power will be knocked out as well as Internet and I don't know how long it will be out, etc. I can't take this anymore.

 

I guess this time your collection may get destroyed - for real :angry

That may teach you for crying wolf though after last time! :smt082

Good luck though, hope there arn't any fatalaties etc. and you get through it safely :smt023

 

There's dumpsites for trees and the state might issue evacuation for the neighborhoods around those dumpsites because there will be 3 foot wide logs flying around in 140mph winds.

 

all i can say you is good luck, i hope anything sad will happen to you. hope to see you here again soon. good luck man.


;-)

 

Good luck man!

 

At least your hurricane's have names. We're stuck with Typhoon #16 and shit. We had one the other night... I thought my glass door was going to be crushed. Of course, it was really nothing.... I think maybe a few stray cats got hurt, and that's it. On the bright side - you dont' have earthquakes.

 

Or tornadoes. Trust me when I say, tornadoes of scary, and I happen to live in a part of Tornado Alley :smt009

 

i think im very lucky to live in a place where there's no earthquakes, hurycanes and tornadoes...

 

You were lucky up in Tokyo. My wife said that it came straight for Shimonoseki. She ended up staying the night in her parents home because they have stronger windows than our place. I was praying that our house wasn't wrecked rayer: Otherwise my collection would have been destroyed. Luckily the typhoon swerved at the last moment meaning the brunt of it missed the city. My wife got the day off work though :-D Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said that it was to dangerous for the employees to come to work.

3 years ago Shimonoseki was hit by a typhoon that caused a tsunami. It destroyed many peoples homes as well as taking out power and phones. The Japanese are fast workers though and had everything up and running by the end of the day.

Yakumo

 

But us Americans are fat and lazy and we still have tree debri on the side of the road WAITING to be picked up.

 

That reminds me of the black out

That reminds me of blackout 2003 when most of the eastern Canada and US had no power for several days during a heat wave. Took them forever to find out where the problem was and they still didn't want to turn it back on when they isolated it...

 

Re: That reminds me of the black out

Speaking of blackouts, this reminds me of the Ice Storm we had in I think 2001. I remeber, the power went out on Christmas. I had gotten all kinds of cool video games and stuff, but I didn't have time to play them because we were visiting with family. Then the power went out. It sounded like a freakin warzone outside. Huge branches litterally exploding, and then smashing against the ground. Trees falling left and right. Our power was out for a little over two weeks.

- Note to Mr. Casual -

The Ice Storm was in 2001 wasn't it?

 

nah, they get payed by hour , so they dont care, the more time the better

 

I'm from Texas... I know Tornadoes. I go from one natural disaster to the next. At least w/ the Hurricane, you've got like a week's notice to pack up and leave.

Yakumo:
That whole soutern part of Japan seems to get raped by Typhoons. The worst one I've been in hasn't been near as rememberable as my scariest tornado. The good thing about Tornadoes is they're often gone within minutes.

 

Man am i ever glad i live in boring holland.

The only natural disasters we have here are floods, the last big one was in 1953, and we've learned to build the best dams there are so we haven't had any since then appart from a few rain related floods in the south of holland.

 

Yep glad i live in London!

 

Re: That reminds me of the black out

We had one in 2001 in Missouri and the power was out for a week in most of the area.. all but where I lived at the time. :-D But yeah, the trees were so heavy with ice after freezing rain all day they would just give under the weight and snap. I could here them in the house since my neighborhoods streets are lined with 30 + year old trees. Here is what it looked like after half a day of freezing rain. I had to clean it off twice during the day or it would have been over 3/4" thick when I went home instead of 1/4".



Then there was the tornado that passed within 3 miles of me and 1 mile from my folks house and tore the shit out of a lot of homes. It took for ever to get rid of the piles of trees in one part of town. Hell, every time a big thunder storm comes through I loose a few more big branches out of my tree in the back. I'll take my chances with tornadoes, not hurricanes!

I lived in a state that had earthquakes too, but never had any property ruined by them just stuff knocked over.

 

Re: That reminds me of the black out

So, you had an ice storm in Missouri as well. Sucks doesn't it :smt042

I know what you mean. Every time a big storm comes around, and there is a lot of wind, big branches that didn't fall durning the Ice Storm fall. We lost quite a few trees to the Ice Storm, but our property didn't take too much damage.

I used to live in Key West Florida, and I still have a lot of family still living there. Personally, I have never been through a hurricane. The closest experience I have had to being in one was when Hurricane Andrew hit. It was heading right for the Keys, then it swerved and hit Homestead.

 

Shit, as far as natural distasters go earthquakes suck ass.

You can see a tornado or hurricane comming and get out of the way. An earthquake is like this: Everything's cool and you're in your room reading a book and half a second later utter fucking chaos breaks loose. Crap goes flying around, big heavy pieces of furniture falls right where you were standing five seconds ago, all the windows shatter, your goddamn house catches on fire, and for a week week afterwards the whole city looks like Beruit or somthing.

The only good thing is that they happen so little. Thank god. Fuck earthquakes.

I live in Los Angeles btw, so I've got other things that can kill me besides natural disasters- gang members, crack addicts, drive by shootings, toxic waste in the water, etc.

 

LA is the worst place to live, even if you're rich.

Anyway, for precautionary methods. I'm going to box up all of my games, put my PC and other PCs in plastic garbage bags and put them in the closet come friday evening. THis is just in case windows break, roof rips off, etc, collection will be "ok" but at least my PCs will be dry.