As if it's not bad enough we have a hurricane coming our way, they had to give it a name nobody seems to agree on how to pronounce

[dishstaller]

So we've got tropical storm Isaias bearing down on us....soon to become a hurricane. What a strange name. Should have just called it Isaiah and been done with it.

 

[Ronnie-]

Lmao, everyone here is butchering it.

 

[telstar_1]

Well, what is it? Is it also unprintable?

 

[dishstaller]

Well, what is it? Is it also unprintable?

6th word in on my original post. Isaias.

 

[TRG]

My friends son works on an oil rig in the Gulf of America south of Mobile, AL. He is in the process of stopping production and sealing the well. He seems to think this won't be a major hurricane. The National Hurricane Center seems to think it will be pretty significant. He rode out Hurricane Ivan in 2004 (on land). That was a monster.

 

[dishstaller]

He rode out Hurricane Ivan

Ivan was unreal in our area. Conditions were just right and it spun off MANY tornadoes, some of which stayed on the ground for many miles. I stayed up pretty much all night that night watching live weather reports. All night long there were multiple tornadoes on the ground in our area. As the sun was coming up we had one go right down our road, fortunately it was not on the ground. About a month later I noticed as I drove down our road that the tops of all of the pine trees were brown (dead). The tornado had twisted the tops out but didn't throw them off to the side, it just dropped them back down on the top of the remaining part of the tree.
One tornado that hit a few miles north of us was 3/4 of a mile wide. Wild night that I do NOT care to relive.

 

[Ronnie-]

Yeah Ivan was terrible. Then followed up a year later with Katrina.

That was a rough stretch for hurricanes here.

 

[dishdude]

My friends son works on an oil rig in the Gulf of America south of Mobile, AL. He is in the process of stopping production and sealing the well. He seems to think this won't be a major hurricane. The National Hurricane Center seems to think it will be pretty significant. He rode out Hurricane Ivan in 2004 (on land). That was a monster.

Great, just what we need are the refineries offline.

 

[dishstaller]

Then followed up a year later with Katrina.

Took my family down to Panama City when Katrina was nearing landfall. Took them to the pier. Pretty wild stuff, the waves were breaking over parts of the pier. It definitely left an impression on them about the power of nature.

 

[navychop]

Yeah Ivan the Terrible.

FIFY!



I've heard three pronunciations on TV. I gave up and say "Izzy." NBD. Not gonna be around long or powerful much.

 

[Ronnie-]

Took my family down to Panama City when Katrina was nearing landfall. Took them to the pier. Pretty wild stuff, the waves were breaking over parts of the pier. It definitely left an impression on them about the power of nature.

People from Biloxi kept sending me pics while it was happening.

Then when I saw it the next day it was utter shock.


Same for Ivan and the gulf shores area.

For us about a hour north it wasn't much better. Trees and lines down everywhere. Roads impassable.


I had gone home to stay with my parents as they had a generator.

Finally took a saw to my place. Cut a way in. Wired a genny to my home, went back to their house to get some gas for it, and as I was crossing highway 45 to get back to my place the lights came on.

 

[b4pjoe]

My only hurricane experience was on September 25, 1975 when I was on a temporary duty exercise from Michigan to Tyndall Air Force base at Panama City, Florida. It was Hurricane Eloise and I believe it was a category 3 storm. In the middle of the night they put us on buses and transported us to Fort Rucker, Alabama and we bedded down inside of a gym which after we got there the water was pouring in on the gym floor from underneath the walls and the roof was soon ripped off of it. That was enough hurricane experience I needed.

 

[dishstaller]

My only hurricane experience was on September 25, 1975 when I was on a temporary duty exercise from Michigan to Tyndall Air Force base at Panama City, Florida. It was Hurricane Eloise and I believe it was a category 3 storm. In the middle of the night they put us on buses and transported us to Fort Rucker, Alabama and we bedded down inside of a gym which after we got there the water was pouring in on the gym floor from underneath the walls and the roof was soon ripped off of it. That was enough hurricane experience I needed.

They would have been WAY better off leaving you at Tyndall.
Believe it or not, they sent us to school that day. That was in Marianna and I was in middle school. Quite the experience. We were in the Library when the worst winds came through and at that time, the Library was basically a large portable building. The shingles would come flying off the roof of the main building and slap against the walls of the building we were in. Our teacher, Ms White, started freaking out and did about the best impersonation of Aunt Esther from Sanford and Son I've ever heard. Actually it cracked all of us up so much that it kept our minds off of the storm. It seems like that was on a Thursday and I honestly can't remember if we went to school the next day or not. Reason being, most of the roads back then were dirt roads and all of that rain would wash a lot of them out. We just had a paved road get washed out not far from here just the other day.

Back then they didn't close the schools for ANYTHING around these parts. Now they'll CLOSE them for anything.

 

[Jimbo]

Great, just what we need are the refineries offline.

Just another reason for them to think they need to RAISE Gas prices back up ... alot of places have dropped 20-30 cents around here, for the moment.

I was seeing $3.55/$3.65 in some places on the way home today, but others were still up $4.00

 

[meStevo]

Just another reason for them to think they need to RAISE Gas prices back up ... alot of places have dropped 20-30 cents around here, for the moment.

I was seeing $3.55/$3.65 in some places on the way home today, but others were still up $4.00

lol, it's not really a thought process, it's a reflection of costs

 

[dishstaller]

You can flat sure tell there is a hurricane brewing out there. All the gas stations have long lines...probably will see a lot of pumps bagged tomorrow morning. That is why I have a gas tank out by the barn.
All I need to do now is to fill up the LP 30 lb bottles I've got.
Lots of things you have to prep for when a hurricane is coming. Lots of things you either have prepped for or you are SOL. If I were a betting man, I'd bet there isn't a loaf of bread within 30 miles of me on a grocery store shelf.

 

[Jimbo]

You can flat sure tell there is a hurricane brewing out there. All the gas stations have long lines...probably will see a lot of pumps bagged tomorrow morning. That is why I have a gas tank out by the barn.
All I need to do now is to fill up the LP 30 lb bottles I've got.
Lots of things you have to prep for when a hurricane is coming. Lots of things you either have prepped for or you are SOL. If I were a betting man, I'd bet there isn't a loaf of bread within 30 miles of me on a grocery store shelf.

Good Luck ...
Stay Safe

 

[Foxbat]

If I were a betting man, I'd bet there isn't a loaf of bread within 30 miles of me on a grocery store shelf.

Around here, Winter Storm Warnings have the same effect. Bread, Milk, and Eggs cleared out. The first time we were affected by this, Papa Foxbat made the observation that people were preparing to make batches of French Toast to live off of during the blizzard. That stuck with me.

 

[Jimbo]

My Neighbors Son lives down in LA somewhere ... i'll have to check with her and see how he doing so far.

 

[Ronnie-]

If I were a betting man, I'd bet there isn't a loaf of bread within 30 miles of me on a grocery store shelf.

Or milk.

We do love our "milk sandwiches" around these parts. lol