Tropical Storm Chris

[dengood1]

I think I would have to rig up some sort of "Survivor" shower system with a bucket. Heck, that Optimum No Rinse wash would start to look good!

haha.....baby wipes man, LOTS of baby wipes!

 

[dengood1]

Two weeks without a hot shower.... do you really think someone wants to come up and visit, even if it to steal your flat screen!

of course they will.... friggin scumbags

.25 cal
.38 cal
.40 cal
.45 cal
20 guage
12 guage
(3) .22 rifles

.....and lots of ammo for each

not advisable.........better leave my flat screen right where it is

haha....

 

[FloridaNative]

Being a NJ boy for almost my entire life (except for my brief stint in California as a Vietnamese refugee), how often do you really endure the lossed power and stuff each year? Is it just a normal part of life during hurricane season?

If so, it must be quite a shocker for all the old retirees moving to Florida.

I live in downtown Hollywood and with Wilma we got hit by the eye two times. Once from west to east and then from south to north as she moved across diagonally. Most people in my area of the city were without power for a solid month, many of them for as long as 6 weeks! I am really fortunate though because I am on the same grid as the Hollywood library so I got my power back really fast. Only 2 weeks. I just hope they put the court files in some kind of a vault or something this time. The Fort Lauderdale courthouse where my husband works still is missing like 200 windows or something like that. After Wilma, there were all these papers from court cases blowing down the streets! CRAZY!!

 

[FloridaNative]

of course they will.... friggin scumbags

.25 cal
.38 cal
.40 cal
.45 cal
20 guage
12 guage
(3) .22 rifles

.....and lots of ammo for each

not advisable.........better leave my flat screen right where it is

haha....

Ay this reminds me that I need to stock up on my hurricane supplies. 2 bottles of rum and 4 cases of coca cola.

 

[Surfer]

I live in downtown Hollywood and with Wilma we got hit by the eye two times. Once from west to east and then from south to north as she moved across diagonally. Most people in my city were without power for a solid month, many of them for as long as 6 weeks! I am really fortunate though because I am on the same grid as the Hollywood library so I got my power back really fast. Only 2 weeks. I just hope they put the court files in some kind of a vault or something this time. The Fort Lauderdale courthouse where my husband works still is missing like 200 windows or something like that. After Wilma, there were all these papers from court cases blowing down the streets! CRAZY!!

Live in Hollywood? Mesa livsa insa Boca

We have crazy pics, we're borderline east Delray/Boca. We were caught along the whole edge of the eye, Boca got fawked last time around. The firm that does our families taxes was in that one large all glass building in Ft Laudedale, the one that had like every single window busted.

Friend of ours and I were outside durring it messing around, till big debris and coconuts started flying around . We lost our solar panels, again, and one panel caught neighbors SL55 and got wedged on it, and the wind caused it to beat the snot out of the right side. Went straight for the SL, totally missed his work truck in the driveway lol.

 

[FloridaNative]

Live in Hollywood? Mesa livsa insa Boca

We have crazy pics, we're borderline east Delray/Boca. We were caught along the whole edge of the eye, Boca got fawked last time around. The firm that does our families taxes was in that one large all glass building in Ft Laudedale, the one that had like every single window busted.

Friend of ours and I were outside durring it messing around, till big debris and coconuts started flying around . We lost our solar panels, again, and one panel caught neighbors SL55 and got wedged on it, and the wind caused it to beat the snot out of the right side. Went straight for the SL, totally missed his work truck in the driveway lol.

Oh man!!! That sucks!! I had a royal palm break in half and land right on my car! It smashed it all to hell and totalled it. But at least I got a new car!

 

[ScottB]

you guys/gals are so weak .... its a tropical storm. I wouldnt get worried until the storm at least hits a 2 on the scale. Wilma .. was great for the economy, forced spending. Drive my stock up , give me a week off paid, and I'll even do the cold showers again. A true vacation !!!

 

[dengood1]

you guys/gals are so weak .... its a tropical storm. I wouldnt get worried until the storm at least hits a 2 on the scale. Wilma .. was great for the economy, forced spending. Drive my stock up , give me a week off paid, and I'll even do the cold showers again. A true vacation !!!

coming from the guy with the fastest ride out of Dodge haha

actually, he is right. I'm in the grocery biz and people spend money on the dumbest things during these storms......trust me, I've seen it. 15lb frozen turkeys, frozen food out the arse, steaks, gallon milk.....basically everything that is perishable! That was pre-generator boom! It cost my company millions of $$ in spoiled product, but that was quadrupled in sales. Good for my biz

 

[FloridaNative]

you guys/gals are so weak .... its a tropical storm. I wouldnt get worried until the storm at least hits a 2 on the scale. Wilma .. was great for the economy, forced spending. Drive my stock up , give me a week off paid, and I'll even do the cold showers again. A true vacation !!!

I'm not scared of a tropical storm. I was talking about Wilma. Anyway, I don't get scared unless it's a 3 or up and I know I'm going to get the eye. That's when I start breaking out the rum. lol

 

[dengood1]

I'm not scared of a tropical storm. I was talking about Wilma. Anyway, I don't get scared unless it's a 3 or up and I know I'm going to get the eye. That's when I start breaking out the rum. lol

:iagree: Unless it's a 3 or higher it's not too much of a problem.

 

[belcherm58]

I'm not scared of a tropical storm. I was talking about Wilma. Anyway, I don't get scared unless it's a 3 or up and I know I'm going to get the eye. That's when I start breaking out the rum. lol

I went through 1 hurricane. 1985 in SC. Bob I think was it's name. I will
never do that again. I had a beach front room. The sea grew very angry.
I did not think we would live through it. They came on the TV with it off
at 3AM and said to evacuate to a school in town by name. Yea right. I am
going out in 100 to 130 mph wind and look for a school that I do not even
know where it is. My honeymoon actually. We were to busy for days before
the wedding to watch the weather. When we arrived that was when we
heard about it. We had already checked in the room and paid for it for two
weeks at check in. They said they could not refund our money unless they
declared a state of emergency. They did that at 3 AM. The locals said
" Don't Worry, Party on! " Never again. It took several hours for it to move
through.

 

[Meghan]

I went through 1 hurricane. 1985 in SC. Bob I think was it's name. I will
never do that again. I had a beach front room. The sea grew very angry.
I did not think we would live through it. They came on the TV with it off
at 3AM and said to evacuate to a school in town by name. Yea right. I am
going out in 100 to 130 mph wind and look for a school that I do not even
know where it is. My honeymoon actually. We were to busy for days before
the wedding to watch the weather. When we arrived that was when we
heard about it. We had already checked in the room and paid for it for two
weeks at check in. They said they could not refund our money unless they
declared a state of emergency. They did that at 3 AM. The locals said
" Don't Worry, Party on! " Never again. It took several hours for it to move
through.

Where's the sense of adventure??? Hurricanes aren't that bad, or is it after getting hit about 5 times in two years we are numb to it?

 

[belcherm58]

Where's the sense of adventure??? Hurricanes aren't that bad, or is it after getting hit about 5 times in two years we are numb to it?

Well, It was my honeymoon. Guess what my now x-wifes last boyfriends
name was. Bob. We still kid about that. Actually, it was an experience I
will never forget. Kind of hard to honeymoon with the sea hitting the sliding
doors to the balcony. A friend of mine tried to get me to take his 6 month
old Vette on the trip. I turned it down. Boy was he glad...LOL

 

[ScottB]

I went through 1 hurricane. 1985 in SC. Bob I think was it's name. I will
never do that again. I had a beach front room. The sea grew very angry.
I did not think we would live through it. They came on the TV with it off
at 3AM and said to evacuate to a school in town by name. Yea right. I am
going out in 100 to 130 mph wind and look for a school that I do not even
know where it is. My honeymoon actually. We were to busy for days before the wedding to watch the weather. When we arrived that was when we heard about it. We had already checked in the room and paid for it for two weeks at check in. They said they could not refund our money unless they declared a state of emergency. They did that at 3 AM. The locals said
" Don't Worry, Party on! " Never again. It took several hours for it to move
through.

You sure it was Bob shaking the hotel, cause it should have been you.

Seriously though on our honeymoon we were forced from Sanibel to Fort Meyers for TS. Then onto Orlando .... that damn Tropical Storm followed us everywhere we went. All I remember is pitch black , no lights, raining pouring down, and driving over bridges that you could NOT see but hearing them as the cars tires hit the metal padding versus concrete. You had a very uncomfortable feeling that one "could" be open or you would drive off the side into the gulf.

 

[FloridaNative]

I just came from the gas station after the first one I went to had the white bags on all of the pump handles! There was a lady there with a big hacking white van filling up 10 of those red 5 gallon gas canisters! She was on her cell phone outside freaking out to whomever she was talking to on the phone going, "I"m so scared. I just don' t know what I'm going to do." And it's still just a tropical storm!! It's people like that that mess it up for everybody else. They freak out and hoard all the supplies so that nobody else can get any! I thought to myself, maybe she's the one that cleaned out the first gas station I went to! lol Fortunately I had enough fumes in my gas tank to get me around until I could find a gas station that still had supply! Really annoying! My only consolation is, that if that woman is that freaked out over nothing, then she probably will move out of state at some point soon. One can hope!

I'm so naughty! Bad girl! Bad girl!

 

[Surfer]

I just came from the gas station after the first one I went to had the white bags on all of the pump handles! There was a lady there with a big hacking white van filling up 10 of those red 5 gallon gas canisters! She was on her cell phone outside freaking out to whomever she was talking to on the phone going, "I"m so scared. I just don' t know what I'm going to do." And it's still just a tropical storm!! It's people like that that mess it up for everybody else. They freak out and hoard all the supplies so that nobody else can get any! I thought to myself, maybe she's the one that cleaned out the first gas station I went to! lol Fortunately I had enough fumes in my gas tank to get me around until I could find a gas station that still had supply! Really annoying! My only consolation is, that if that woman is that freaked out over nothing, then she probably will move out of state at some point soon. One can hope!

I'm so naughty! Bad girl! Bad girl!

Just punch her in the head ---> 40 year old virgin

 

[wytstang]

Where's the sense of adventure??? Hurricanes aren't that bad, or is it after getting hit about 5 times in two years we are numb to it?

Numb cause they don't even worry me any more, unless it's a cat 4 or more then I head for the hills lol.

 

[emaxxman]

There was a lady there with a big hacking white van filling up 10 of those red 5 gallon gas canisters! She was on her cell phone outside freaking out to whomever she was talking to on the phone going, "I"m so scared. I just don' t know what I'm going to do." And it's still just a tropical storm!! It's people like that that mess it up for everybody else. They freak out and hoard all the supplies so that nobody else can get any!

Up here in NJ, right before each snowstorm (no matter how big or small), all the supermarkets are packed tight with people. Some of these people have 2 full shopping carts full of food and supplies. Sometimes I wonder what it is that they think will happen...will we get 16 ft of snow and no one can get out of their house for weeks?

Only once in my life were the roads closed; that was in 1995 (if I remember correctly) when the governor declared a state of emergency for the entire state to make sure people didn't go out in the blizzard unnecessarily. Even then, it was only 3 ft of snow.

The only reason why I was at the stores was because, at that time, I did my grocery shopping during the week to avoid all the moms at the stores on the weekends (I hate crowded shops.) Even then, my cart would only be half full. Even with 2 kids now, I can't imagine having a single cart piled full let alone two full carts.

 

[Meghan]

Up here in NJ, right before each snowstorm (no matter how big or small), all the supermarkets are packed tight with people. Some of these people have 2 full shopping carts full of food and supplies. Sometimes I wonder what it is that they think will happen...will we get 16 ft of snow and no one can get out of their house for weeks?

Only once in my life were the roads closed; that was in 1995 (if I remember correctly) when the governor declared a state of emergency for the entire state to make sure people didn't go out in the blizzard unnecessarily. Even then, it was only 3 ft of snow.

The only reason why I was at the stores was because, at that time, I did my grocery shopping during the week to avoid all the moms at the stores on the weekends (I hate crowded shops.) Even then, my cart would only be half full. Even with 2 kids now, I can't imagine having a single cart piled full let alone two full carts.

I must be a pig, I am a good full cart per week kind of girl!

 

[FloridaNative]

I must be a pig, I am a good full cart per week kind of girl!

I don't think it's the food that's the problem, maybe just all the beer! lol J/K