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- dablammit
I know, I really didn't need to start a new post to talk about another FL hurricane, but if it does hit FL, it will hit Tampa Bay on Tuesday. I have always wanted to see Atlanta.
- ********0
it's a deathdealer
- toastie0
i feel famous.
- tymeframe0
this weather is insane. Day After Tomorrow shit going on in the Atlantic. WTF???
- k0na_an0k0
yeah but if you think about it it's way better than a tornado and an earthquake. reason being you know it's coming and you can prepare. if the residents of florida and other hurricane prone areas were thinking ahead they would have built their homes to help withstand high winds and water.
like me out in the country of the midwest growing up. there weren't many places that didn't have a storm cellar. when building or buying a home that was just a given.
- toastie0
i should figure out a way to add hurricanes to my earthquake map.
- -leah-0
i was in an earthquake when i was 16, i was in my bedroom and all of a sudden my bookshelf and everything else started shaking but i didnt feel anything....so naturally i thought my room was possesed...lol
anyways i went screaming and running out of my room to the outdoors and by the time i got outside it was all over with. took my mom and my brother and hour to calm me down and convince me it was an earthquake, not satan or worse
- k0na_an0k0
about 6 years ago i had my first scary tornado experience. i woke up late night to the windows screaming from the wind. i opened my drapes to see all the pine trees in the backyard parallel to the ground. i knew what it was. i ran out of my room to find my dog. as i ran past the picture window it was ratteling and shanking like it was going to burst. i grabbed my dog and high tailed it to the basement. before ducking under the heavy wood bar i looked outside for one more peak as a grain bin blew by about 70 yards away in between my house and the next.
the next morning while surveying the damage i guess the tornado touched down a few miles away and got about a half mile from the house when it hit a big hill and propelled itself back up to the clouds and quit. it took a bar from the neighbors just before the hill and pieces of it were in my yard a half mile away. his barn and a bit of his house was destroyed. the lumber from the bar was shot into the sides of his home like they were shot from a cannon, some still sticking out the side.
the good part of the story was that this guy was a member of a local motorcycle group and a month later about a hundred bikers showed up, lumber trucks and all... all paid for by the bikers themselves and rebuilt a new barn. totally awesome to see. the beer trucks and resulting bonfire were awesome!
- toastie0
man... nothing like that ever happens around here, cept the occasional 9/11
- randomBboy0
people are flipping out here in tampa..
i think everyone has hurricane anxiety. rumors of gas rationing had people lining up at gas stations. crazyand k0na
there are tornados inside of hurricanesb~
- k0na_an0k0
dude i know. that's what the eye is but i'm saying they aren't as bad cause you know it's coming day before. an earthquake and tornado just happen with little or no warning.
- ********0
and it's also better than a nuclear disaster, asteroid, direct hit tsunami and a famine or plague.
*hums 'always look at the bright side of life'
- randomBboy0
k0na i hear ya..
not just the eye but it spawns out tornados all throughout the rain bands..
one of the reason's charley had a lot of devastation south of us
- ********0
it's always odd to me to hear people that live in a 'could-be-disaster' area to want a pity party. Not saying that about anyone here, but, hell, don't live in that state or area if you can help it. Sh*t.
- ebon0
- dablammit0
Yeah its insane here, I was at Home Depot last night and people were yelling and fighting over plywood and generators.
People are cuckoo here anyway, but now its totally insane.
- ********0
it's interesting to see that any organism, when faced with the danger of death, will fights its ass off to survive.
- randomBboy0
hey jazX
i do not think a hurricane has ever hit tampa directly.. they have come close but none directly that i know of.. unless it was like in 1900 or something..
so having 3 come close to here in a month is very rare..
not really a disaster area and i am not really asking for pity.. i just think everyone in tampa has lost their minds.. :)