Ivan...here we go again?

[Chuck]

This can't be for real? :smiley_ac
http://images.ibsys.com/sh/images/weather/auto/at200409_5day.gif
Ivan strengthened to Category 5 overnight and took a turn to the right, keeping Florida well within the cone of possibility. Maximum sustained winds are now at 160 mph.

[04GTboySC]

Good luck guys i heard somthin about it being a catagory 5 right now

[kylemorg]

That will teach you to live in Florida! ;)

But seriously, a friend of mine lives in Avon Park, FL, so I hope it's not bad or that it misses.

[XTRAWLD]

I know, pelted with 3 hurricanes in a row.......I feel bad for you guys....Florida isn't the place to be these days now is it. Hang in there.

[hyunelan2]

Catagory 5... you guys might want to thing about moving to the midwest.

[felixr]

*sigh* . . . honestly . . . i dont know what to say . . .they have just evacuated Key West today and will evacuate the rest of the keys tomorrow. . . . EVACUATE . . . .as in ghost town as in if you stay you will die, as in this is serious . . . . i am honestly just before the point of tears. i am frustrated, a bit because this is the third now in a month i think . . but mostly because we have no where to go. we miamians and south floridians cant just ruun to the other edge of the state to get away from this thing. . maybe people up north MIGHT be able to if it were something like frances or charley where it only affects one side of the state mostly . . but this thing is coming right at us. . . .hurricane andrew literally destroyed the city it went through . . . beyond words . . . destroyed is too pretty a word for what it did. charley destroyed, frances destroyed . . . andrew demolished, ground down, dissasembled, crushed, squashed. . . it crumbled solid concrete buildings into piles of rubble and sand. . . it made 60 thousand dollar roofs toothpicks it took paint off of walls, it peeled back siding to expose the bare concrete , it plucked houses from their foundations. . .hurricane andrew was a category 5 . . .so is ivan. new york had its towers fall and lives lost. . . miami . . . south florida . . . we will have the same terror rip our lives to shreds if not end them and i dont even mean death, i mean losing everything we know, everything we are. . . all our memories, all our emotional attachment, all our quiet spots to sit and watch the sun set, all our cozy beds where we could throw ourselves on after a long day to hold our loved ones close, to watch our little ones climb on to greet us in the morning-gone with no one to blame or seek out to make pay for our loss. this horrid beast of twisting wind and saturating rain that will forever leave our hearts heavy from the hurt of unadulterated loss will just vanish and leave its cold relentless reminder that what we once had and held dear is gone. beyond the meaning of the word . . .non existent, unclaimable, non-logical . . . ridiculously unmerciful. this pain is unbearable and it hasnt even come to pass yet, once it does there will be no words to describe it. . . not strength to try, no patience for understanding, no reason to try. . . nothing left but ourselves trapped in a world of strange and foreign beds and cold showers when you can find them. and all you will do is stand there letting the icey strands sear through your skin without even noticing as you realize you are no longer who you once were. . . .
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sorry, went into a little poetic snap there i guess . . i just started thinking about this thing hitting us and what it would be like . . what it WAS like with andrew some of you guys have no idea what this could do to people. . . not just losing a window or a roof and it costing 50 grand . . . but what its like to be in the "safe room" of your house and realizing as the roof is ripped off above you how there is no such thing as a safe room in a major hurricane and how you feel the wind start to pick you up as you clutch to the wall, the carpet, the door frame ANYTHING to keep it from picking you up and throwing you into the next county . . . again, sorry for my stupid ranting/poetry crap. . . .but . . well i just dont know . . i honestly cant believe it . . gotta go into "brace yourself we're all gonna die but dont let anyone know how you are feeling/head of household dont worry everything will be fine i know what to do" mode . . so i guess im using you guys as a venting area cause i cant exactly display how im freaking out infront of my wife and kid cause i need to be their strong pillar of hope and sunnshine lol . . . so thanks for listening/reading and sorry again

[SuperGLS]

Catagory 5... you guys might want to thing about moving to the midwest.

Why, so you can have your house ripped outta the ground by a Tornado instead?

Northern Virginia is the best place to live in the U.S. - A little bit a snow, a couple days above 100 degrees, and that's about it. No floods, no hurricanes, no volcanos, no alien abductions, no fires... ahh, it's perfect.

Oh, and felix, that's way too long to read, haha.

[hyunelan2]

Look on the bright side... you know it's coming and can get away. Come try tornado alley in the springtime. Siren goes off, you have maybe 20 seconds on the short end to get to the 'safe room' as your house is ripped apart. I've been lucky and never had a home damaged by tornadoes, but I have seen nearby towns and citys hit by them. Joliet this summer (weak F1), Utica completely destroyed this summer (F4) or Plainfield (1990 F5). Plainfield looked like the pictures of Andrew, but had +300 mph winds. 16 miles long, 1 mile wide path of destruction, 29 dead. Just be thankful you have the warning to get out.

Plainfield, 1990 http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/features/specialsections/tornado/photoalbum/photo04.jpg

Possessions can be replaced. Leave with the lives of loved ones and go someplace safe.

IMO Hurricanes are natures unfair way of collecting payment from those who live in paradise.

[04GTboySC]

ya i'd have to agree with super, we dont get much crazy weather even central va its nice out that way nice mountains im thinkin bout movin to central va or centra north carolina not much bad weather in these parts

[felixr]

i miss n.e. georgia . . even though they had just discoevered a new fault line and we would get some left over tornadoes but the winters werent so bad . . i loved it. . . ahh the country

[Josh K]

Florida's being punished for the 2000 election.

[NorthernYankee]

Actually its God trying to destroy Florida so no one can vote in the 2004 election:D

--NY

[Jlivan]

The 2000 election was Jeb & George's fault - Don't take that out on all FLoridians.

We rarely have to worry about hurricanes every year, it's just this year happens to be the apocalypse.

http://www.alachua-em.org/stormwatch/track.png

[rckozma]

I know, pelted with 3 hurricanes in a row.......I feel bad for you guys....Florida isn't the place to be these days now is it. Hang in there.

Ivan will make it 4 in a row - don't forget Bonnie that hit the panhandle just before Charlie :)

I am starting to think someone really has pissed Mother Nature off in Florida, and if I find him I will personally tie him to a stake in the hurricane's path as a "sacrifice" - haha.

It is either that or Gude has paid Mother Nature off so that Labmixz can't complete his turbo project :(

[evil247]

I'll go with the GUDE bit or some Honda owner. They don't want a Hyundai to be faster than them. Maybe I should take my mom's advice and move to Oklahoma.

[gunwoo82]

Damn another one!

[Blackdiamond]

:fingers crossed: Hopefully it will be the last one for you guys....

[Jlivan]

I am kinda a little worried now. I will wait until this weekend to decide whether or not to evacuate.

Here at work we usually deliver to Tampa on Monday's but scheduling trucks to ship tomorrow just in case.

I am hoping this is the last one too - I am sick of this mess :mad:

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/strm9_strike_720x486.jpg

[04GTboySC]

i was in the lobby here at work and dwas listenin to cnn, there was a family of 5 that were bein interviewed and said they were fed up and instead of evacuating, they are going to move out of florida and not come back.

[Jlivan]

New hurricane tracking picture ;)

[dragonfighter60]

:abovelol: :abovelol:

[gunwoo82]

It just picked up more speed as up 8pm , now its 150 mph. I'm starting to worry.

[tniv1]

That was funny ish.
Ha ha. My name is Ivan by the way. I am telling all the ladies around my way that they can come and see me if they want to see a REAL hurricane. Umm, unfortunately, it hasn't worked yet.

[rckozma]

It just picked up more speed as up 8pm , now its 150 mph. I'm starting to worry.

11:45PM it is now up to 155 mph.

[XTRAWLD]

i was in the lobby here at work and dwas listenin to cnn, there was a family of 5 that were bein interviewed and said they were fed up and instead of evacuating, they are going to move out of florida and not come back.

That's one of the smartest things I've heard about these latest hurricanes running through Florida.

[Nyck]

i get to evacuate today with my family....all the way to georgia...What a pain in the ***. But better safe then sorry.

[GTblue1]

sending the family to Tenn. Unfortunately I have to stay because of work. At least the house is still boarded up from last weekend.

[Jlivan]

Hopefully it keeps moving west.

Check this out >>>>>>
This will update through out the day
http://www.alachua-em.org/stormwatch/track.png

This is what Frances did to Ocala>>>>
http://imgsrv.starbanner.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=OS&Date=20040908&Category=OCALACOM&ArtNo=40908011&Ref=AR&MaxW=580&title=1

[Blackknight04]

It looks like you guys in Florida may catch a break this time. The people in Alabama however are going to get screwed.

[Jlivan]

There is another TS out in the ocean, # 11. I do believe that this has been the worst year for hurricanes ever.

We are still going to probably get a lot of rain, which we don't need!:( Some one on my street has a problem w/their Septic tank, it reeks of holy hell. They better get that fixed b/c if they don't all this rain will just make it worse. Like it could make it any worse!

[GTblue1]

we missed Ivan. Hopefully Jeanne will miss us to and go out into the Atlantic.