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Rechargable spotlight, they actually come in really handy. I keep one handy cause I used to live in an area with no streetlights or nothing for miles. In a storm it's nice to see what is hitting the house and such. But thru a window you would wind up blind inside off the glare.

I always want to tell Rosie to stfu on 9/11 rememberance day. I worked a refinery fire in the aftermath. A 20"+ pipeline of gas came out of the ground after leaving the cat cracker. It made a turn and the elbow there blew out and caught fire. The platform was probably 100 ft. away. Steel colums...

The part where the fireman are standing in the tower lobby as the first ones on scene. All you hear is sudden booms and glass falling for several minutes, people hitting the ground jumping and landing few feet away but they can't see them. Sticks with you.

Was hoping it was a bunch of people in the morgue.

Street cred

FL needs front license plates or whoever was taking the video needed to move.

Never seen someone sign and clasp their hands together after each word.

Not missing much. The reporter just said "The wind sort of weaponizes the water", no shit sherlock. All those people taking selfies and stuff out in the wind I keep waiting to see a lawn chair from 50 miles away land on their face.

They're saying whatever they can that they can fall back on as "pushing the release back" cause we gotta finish this and that. It's like a Ponzi scheme and the guy saying all he needs to do is move the money from X to Y and it will take two weeks to do so be patient, while he is loading cash in...

Miss the days of listening to get lat and long and plot it on my hurricane map everyone had.

The people overlooking large amounts of money are officially concerned now. Starting the process of taking crews off rigs in the eastern edge by helicopter to the heliport at Lafayette, LA.

Projection as of last Tuesday.

Just finished talking to my mom. She's old...She said during Betsy they went to bed thinking/being told it wasn't going to hit LA. Got woke up at daylight with my grandparents calling asking if they were OK. Mom said she looked outside and wasn't even raining. Eye of the storm went right over...

Key West webcames.

Every time they mention the cone I think of this because I'm old.

I don't know but I rarely if ever park next to someone, anywhere. Several people have mentioned it to me over the years.

Considering I can't drive now, walk further than the bathroom without losing my breath, and multiple times a day my heart rate spikes over 150. The get out and live is kind of on hold.

When I looked up Katrina, 4000 people went without power in Buffalo, New York due to Katrina. Not down the street lol.

Saw a blurb that the shoulders were open to driving on, but no mention of contra flow. At this point you would assume all lanes open north bound only. No south bound at all. Maybe I just missed it.

That was the thing when I looked up Katrina deaths. Large majority were age 75+. Those less than 40 were really small.

Little too old, too bad a health currently to find a new girlfriend. After 20+ years of being friends, damn near married, live ins and what not, it's over. "Life has gotten a lot more complicated lately" "Well maybe it's payback for life being so easy for you" That was pretty much the end of...

That NE side tho. If the hurricane don't get you watch for the tornados.

Don Williams, died today at 78. From Rolling Stone today "Williams' songs have been recorded by country superstars Alan Jackson and Lee Ann Womack, as well as rock legends Pete Townshend and Eric Clapton."

Too late to prep apparently.

Listening to people give traffic updates on their mobile ham and one guy keeps giving an update on the hour, "still the same on my porch, same squirrel out that was there an hour ago".

That includes people from as far away as Kentucky "attributed" to Katrina. Not just LA and MS. At least that's what wiki said. I read once before that included people killed post Katrina that were killed from touching downed electrical, falling while doing construction and such. I don't know...

This was from Katrina, I assume south Florida has a lot more boats/ships per area than the gulf coast had. I'd be very concerned about somsone elses stuff come wrecking my stuff. Have a large boat float into your house would put a dent in your day I'm guessing.

During Katrina the biggest storm surge was in MS and there were areas where houses, casinos, buildings, etc...were just washed away including the slab for several blocks in. At that point I'm guessing doesn't matter how well your house is built when the entire slab is lifted and washed away with...

Anyone in FL having phone issues already? Got a message via ham from someone with a callsign registered to FL where they pass a message to call someone eventually on the other end. I passed it along. "OK, phone busy" and their name and callsign was in Miami. No idea if they meant all phones busy...

Just find it odd in that pic it almost looks like the hurrican would rach from the keys to El Paso.

That map makes it look like she's actually bigger than Fl, AL, MS, LA, and TX combined. Not sure on that.

Small town in East, TX got a group of people with special permits from Burma I think it was. The state department (Hillary) brought them over to work at Tyson chicken plants. Article I read on them said it was a tribe of very isolated people. Short time later article in the paper said school was...

Does Florida not have contraflow on the interstates? At least here every so often they have barricades that can go out to push contraflow into one direction ready to go.

Fired up the ham radio this afternoon, hurricane watch is in full effect. The local club takes over a full convention center (OK it's a small town) to work it as they practice it every year since Katrina.

Someone I know had a trip booked to the Bahamas. They called and cancelled and called their travel insurance, lady told them they needed proof before they could cancel the trip lol.

Thought it would start pushing east. It's really cool along the gulf coast for this time of year. Mid 70s for a high and low last night into the low to mid 50s.

The Florida attorney general said gas stations running out of gas, because stations holding out to artificially inflate the price even tho Florida has a no gouging law. Not because the 1st and 2nd largest refinery in the country shut down and in the process of restarting, and the 3rd running at...