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]

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

 

[ctenidae]

Lest just hope that translates into the coldest January on record.

(And October, November, adn December. Hell, throw in February adn MArch, too.)

 

[awf170]

Lest just hope that translates into the coldest January on record.

(And October, November, adn December. Hell, throw in February adn MArch, too.)

dont forget that along with cold, we need lots of snow and consistant temps

 

[Paul]

Rode out a 4 (Michelle, in 2001) in Grand Cayman. Nope, no joke, and we didn't even have the eye pass over. Spent the last half of my vacation helping with the clean-up effort. The Cayman Turtle Farm,http://www.turtle.ky/was breached, which meant as many people as possible running around chasing sea turtles (yeah, laugh, its not as easy as it sounds... ) and loading them into trucks.

Fun!

 

[loafer89]

My only hurricane experience was with hurricane Gloria in 1985. I distinctly remember the eye passing right over our house, the brief period of calm weather was amazing.

 

[zowi420]

Are skiers the only group who likes bad weather? There must be others, no?

Surfers love to go out when a storm is approaching. That is, until it gets so bad that they post cops along the beaches to arrest you.

 

[zowi420]

Are skiers the only group who likes bad weather? There must be others, no?

Surfers love to go out when a storm is approaching. That is, until it gets so bad that they post cops along the beaches to arrest you.

 

[Greg]

Just a quick comment that there's some potential that Hurricane Rita could affect AlpineZone.com directly. You see, our Web host, JaguarPC is located in Houston. The risk apparently is small, but you never know. I received this Email from them today:

Tuesday 20th of September 2005
Jaguar Technologies LLC
Houston, TX
http://www.jaguarpc.com
============================

Hello Gregory Blasko,
Hello,

This is a special newsletter to address certain concerns
that many of you have regarding Hurricane Rita that may be
heading towards the Houston Greater Area. We would like to
address some of these concerns and go over what each client
can do to be prepared.

There was actually a thread in aftermath of the recent
Katrina hurricane in our forums that discusses this issue as
well.

http://jaguarpc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12784

Our preparedness/recovery plan includes instructions and
procedures for our people and internal systems. As we are
out of all flood plains and we are 60 miles north of a
direct hit, we have been advised that the reinforced roof
fasteners rated at 90 miles per hour would be sufficient.

We did a study and in the past 33 years (including a level 5
hurricane) the maximum wind speed in our zip code was
reported at 69 miles per hour. We feel that we have done a
good job at mitigating risk but that's not to say we don't
plan on just not ever experiencing a disaster.

Depending on the scenario we would take different measures,
at different locations. Should something unpredictable or
uncontrollable occur clients could find your sites served
out of Dallas rather quickly.

While we do maintain daily current backups we insist that
every client maintain their own copy of an updated version
of your sites, databases, and anything you deem as critical
to your site or business.

Some statistical information:
JaguarPC is over on the west side of town, near Bellaire.
That makes JaguarPC about an hour from Galveston.

In Houston, what we call a "direct hit" would be where it
makes land fall right on Galveston. JaguarPC is quite far
from that location so we wouldn't be affected too badly. In
June 2001 flooding from Tropical Storm Allison put every
major roadway in the city underwater. This data center was
used a refuge for other businesses to get back up and
running since it was not affected. JaguarPc is outside of
the 500yr flood plain here in Houston.

This is not say that nothing will happen, so it's best to be
prepared, but we do not expect much of a problem at this time.

JaguarPC has successfully implemented a full-scale emergency
management plan for hurricane Rita. The company is
monitoring all severe weather threats and taking the
potential storm very seriously. JaguarPC's Emergency
Management Team is ensuring all areas in the Emergency

Management Plan (DR/BC plan) are being addressed including,
but not limited to:

Facilities: The facility is outside evacuation areas. All
generator tanks have been "topped off" and additional fuel
will be delivered on Thursday and Friday to our location.
Contact with Centerpoint has been made to establish ongoing
communications with their staff. And overflow parking
requirements have also been established with neighboring
parking lots at 4151 and 4211 Southwest Freeway to address
any potential parking requirements for our data center
customers.

Remote Systems: JaguarPC is monitoring and managing the
center 24x7 and will continue to do so throughout the storm.
All DR/BC plans have been reviewed across our monitoring and
management platform. Both remote and onsite customer systems
will be actively monitored, on "high alert" and available.

Internet Network: The JaguarPC network is secure. Three of
the four JaguarPC redundant backbone providers are accessing
the data center underground.

Backup Customer Communications: JaguarPC is deploying an
emergency email communication platform and should not have
issues with our ability to communicate via email.

Supplies: Customers who send employees to the data center
are responsible for their own provisions.

JaguarPC and its data center are committed to ensuring the
availability, security and integrity of critical data and
applications 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This commitment
doesn't waiver in the event of hurricane or other natural
disaster.

============================

Regards,
sales@jaguarpc.com - Customer Service
Jaguar Techonologies, LLc - JaguarPC.com

I will pull down some backups of the databases locally as the storm gets closer....just in case. Kudos to JagPC for sending this.

 

[ALLSKIING]

I don't know if I posted this before but my wife and I lived and went through Andrew in 92 in South Fl. I went through a few Cat 1's before but this thing was a Cat 5 and it was the most scared I ever have been. Never seen or heard anything like that before and it lasted 5+ hrs.

 

[deadheadskier]

I was living a few miles north of Venice, Florida last summer. Me and some friends hunkered down and had a hurricane party when Charley came through. When it was over, I was like that's it? We didn't even lose power. Then I drove twenty miles south and saw Port Charlotte which appeared like a bomb went off in town. It was pretty amazing that the eye of the storm passed 20 miles away from where I was and it just seemed like a bad rain storm.

 

[ctenidae]

Rita hit Cat 4 this morning. Yikes.