This storm is gonna be some scattered showers. I don't know why everyone is getting all scared. i live here in Tampa and when Frances came through it rained pretty good and that's about it, oh yeah it was windy too.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF FLORIDA NOW

Baghdad Bob retired to Florida?

Latest from the NOAA

A
FLIGHT-LEVEL WIND OF 154 KT IN THE NORTHEAST QUADRANT. THEY ALSO
REPORTED A LOWER CENTRAL PRESSURE OF 920 MB...SUGGESTING THAT IVAN
MAY CONTAIN SURFACE WINDS A LITTLE STRONGER THAN THE 160 MPH
INDICATED IN THE 5 AM AST ADVISORY. DROPSONDE WIND REPORTS ALSO
INDICATED WINDS OF NEAR 210 MPH AT AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 350 FEET
ABOVE THE OCEAN SURFACE.


And this track puts Miami in the north-east quadrant. 35 story high-rise buildings are going to get 200 MPH winds!

Frances was a pain in the ass, but this one is making me queasy....I may just get in my car and drive to DC or NY.:(

I was watching channel 8 in Tampa this morning. They had a clip from the hurricane hunter plane that flies into the eye of the storm. They dropped some tube down into it, and it recorded gusts of up to 210 mph.

Now, our house is new, and built to the new hurricane standards of 2001... but 210 mph? I don't think it'll stand up to that.

We've fared well through the last two, but this one looks really bad. Here's hoping for the best!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh


yeah.....in Greneda 95% of all structures were damaged or destroyed last night......:helpme

hahaha .. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I feel bad for the FL peeps and it will surely suck when this thing hits hard.

The upside to this is I'm moving to Ft. Lauderdale in about 3 months so maybe property values won't keep going up so fast. :Graucho

Lex Luther bought up land in Nevada and tried to make California slide into the sea so he will end up with beachfront property. Maybe Tennesee et al are up to something.

Yo, I told you guys days ago this storm was gonna be a Godzilla.

A very famous man I know told me on the phone last week that Hurricane Ivan was the weirdest hurricane on record. It started in the south Atlantic farther south than any storm on record and he said then that it would stomp Grenada flat. Everything he predicted this storm would do has happened to a 'T'. He lived through Hurricane Frances but his ass is headed out of Florida NOW.

If that fucking storm hits Jamaica at a Category 5 only God can help the Jamaicans.

It's predicted to head straight up through Florida but although the forecasters are saying once it passes Cuba it will strengthen, we're hoping it will do something to diminish itself.

It's a scary, fucked up scenario no matter what.

If you're in S. Florida just fucking split. 200mph winds are tornado winds. There are also gusts higher than that PLUS it's gonna spawn tornados too.

Just fucking leave. Don't take a chance.

Once you see what it's gonna do to Jamaica I'm sure you'll be on the first thing moving to get out of it's way.

Just think, we have 3 months more of Hurricane season to go...

50 storms

cat 50 :warning

It's not looking good for us, KRL! 3 times in one year is unprecidented! I'm just going to keep the plywood up all year like I do my Christmas lights.

*edit: 52 Blown away Floridians.

sad...i miss the 50

Ivan looks pissed.

Im staying...

Think im going to go to Wal-Mart for supplies ...lol I have no power anyway...

--=Chipmunk=--

God hates Florida this year for some reason.

You know it will come back on a few minutes before Ivan hits. :thumbsup

Peaches darling you are so right... That would be so typical of my luck...lol!:winkwink:

Looks like you can kiss Cuba goodbye. Those poor buildings in centro Havana are holding on by a thread anyways... 200 a year just fall down.

Run Forest run...

To not evacuate is just plain suidide :2 cents:

I feel so sad for you all Floridian! :(

Crazy shit man!

sucks

damn what a storm! i hope everyone fairs this one ok

maybe castro can call bush and ask for some aid :winkwink:

One look at this storm and I think any sane person would spontaneously evacuate.
(as in empty their bladder)
(as in piss their pants)

For Gods sake, I'm thinking about going to Monday Night Football in Charlotte.

If they evacuate Florida again I won't be able to get a flight.

Enough with these natural disasasters ;)

buckle up dorothys cause florida is going bye bye

WTF will be left to FL?! hope people up there are already stacked their supplies.