Rita Goes Skiing

[billski]

Geeze, I truly feel sorry for those people down south.

Not to sound trite, but they should come up here and learn to ski. We pray for bad weather (in the winter.)

Kinda wierd isn't it? Are skiers the only group who likes bad weather? There must be others, no?

[Brettski]

Bad is a relative term...

I was in Keene valley, I think it was 92 when the "storm of the century" hit and we got nailed with 4 feet of snow, And I couldn't get to Whiteface....

We were housebound for 3 days....

Still, a hurricane is no joke. Got run over by Charly last year...never experienced a storm surge though...How deep was the deepest water in NO?

[ctenidae]

Hurricanes are no joke at all. Even if they're not terribly damaging, it's incredibly boring- no power, no cable, can't go outside. At least in snow, you can go outside, even if it's just to shovel. Not so much with hurricanes. I've been through plenty- no need to see another one.

[dmc]

Originally Posted by ctenidae

Hurricanes are no joke at all.

I was in Saint John's JUST before a Hurricane hit.. We were waiting for the ferry to take us to St Thomas so we could get the F out and met a few couples from Ohio.. They were staying - having drinks and watching everyone leave....

I asked them if they were afraid and if they knew what to expect... They said - "were from Ohio - we have tornados"... I told them -"Tornados don't last 5 hours"...

The hotel was ravaged... No water or electricity for days... Apparently they had to live on soda water and food that didn't spoil..

[loafer89]

The latest forecast models from NOAA have Rita as a hurricane in the Gulf Of Mexico, and tracking closer to the northern Gulf Coast.


It is forecast to strike near the Galveston area, oil rig smashup part II.

Hopefully this thing strikes a less populated area of Texas or Mexico.

[skijay]

Brettski...

You got run over by Charley last year? Where were you when it happened?

The reason I ask, is because I evacuated from its first projected path inland and evacuated into it!

before storm (Thursday):



On Friday, the sign no longer said the above as the path changed.

[Brettski]

I was in New Smyrna Beach, with my family at my Father's place.

It was going up the coast, my father said we had nothing to worry about.

Next time I fill up the car if there's even a hint.

Ever see a hurricane make a right turn before...

NSB is just South of Daytona Beach and is separated by the Ponce Inlet. Very pretty place.

I believe the eye went right over the inlet and out to sea.

My father's house came though it OK, but you could see were little micro burst tornandoes touched down, and reipped the sheet out of stuff...

Deltona is a poor city towards Orlando about 30 minutes inland. They got wiped.

Father's gfreind at the time has a place outside of Canaveral...more inland, but it's like a city/ town that was built from scrathc...everything new...everything is buried..power, cable, ect.

All the Homes are built like a fortress...hurricane shutters, backup generators in each unit.

That would be the ONLY way I'd live in Florida.

And everything looks so nice too.

I couldn't live in Florida...

I still want my "I survived Charley" Tee shirt.

[Brettski]

When it hit us it was only a category 1..I actually went outside...not very far...scariest thing I've ever seen...

It was a category 4 when it split captiva island in half

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/charley/

[Zand]

Rita is forecasted to track across the Keys as a Cat 2-4 and then make landfall anywhere in between Monterrey and New Orleans. I can't believe we're all the way up to R. Last year around now, Jeanne and Ivan were hitting Florida.

[loafer89]

There is a interesting article about hurricanes in the August 2005 National Geographic. It seems that hurricanes come in 10 year cycles. From 1985-1994 there were very few hurricanes, but that number exploded since 1995.

August and September 2004 were the most active Hurricane months ever for the Atlantic region. Global warming is not helping the matter either, as the ocean temperature in the Gulf/Atlantic are unusually mild. The water temps in the Gulf are 90F in some spots, that is miracle grow for a hurricane.

I just heard that NYC is on track for the warmest September since they started keeping records in 1869