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Post by misterdark on Jun 6, 2016 16:52:18 GMT
Thought it would be fun to have an omnibus thread for this years' hurricane threats. I mean really, we are only a week into official hurricane season, and the 3rd named storm of the year (don't forget Hurricane Alex, back in FREAKIN JANUARY) is bringing heavy rain to south florida as we speak. Colin is expected to work its way up the SE seaboard over the next few days. Fun times.
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Post by rickoshea on Jun 6, 2016 19:33:14 GMT
It's been a good 10 years since we've had one in my area, and it's been so quiet in general the last few years.....starting to get that spooky feeling.
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Post by misterdark on Jun 6, 2016 19:55:57 GMT
It's been a good 10 years since we've had one in my area, and it's been so quiet in general the last few years.....starting to get that spooky feeling. You are near Mobile, yes? I was driving a Semi from NOLA to Georgia when Hurricane Dennis made landfall. Lotsa fun, that was. I think they hung the "ROAD CLOSED" sign off the back of my rig. |
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Post by rickoshea on Jun 6, 2016 20:11:37 GMT
It's been a good 10 years since we've had one in my area, and it's been so quiet in general the last few years.....starting to get that spooky feeling. You are near Mobile, yes? I was driving a Semi from NOLA to Georgia when Hurricane Dennis made landfall. Lotsa fun, that was. I think they hung the "ROAD CLOSED" sign off the back of my rig. Yeah, in between Mobile and Pensacola. After me and a couple buddies finished boarding up our houses the Saturday before Katrina hit (it was pointing right at us at that time), we went on one last pre-disaster ATV ride on Sunday. One of our favorite ride spots is right along I-10 (and the big spillway tunnels running underneath it), and by Sunday they moved the landfall cone further to the west of us....so we would stop riding every once in a while and just watch the bumper-to-bumper sea of humanity from Louisiana & Mississippi creeping along the interstate, trying to get into the Florida panhandle. ETA: The state DOT just had a practice reverse flow exercise on I-65 a couple weeks ago. But they usually have one every 3 or 4 years. The biggest bottle neck is the Wallace tunnel on I-10 in Mobile. They've been trying to wrangle-up the money to replace the tunnel with a 6 lane bridge.....but even if they started construction today, it would probably take 8 - 10 years to build the dang thang. |
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Post by rickoshea on Sept 12, 2016 17:20:33 GMT
Just realized that today is the 37th anniversary of Hurricane Fredrick. I was just a wee child, but I can still remember the "Gettin' Ready For Freddie" song they played on the local radio stations a couple days before it hit.
We got hammered pretty hard by that one. Our power was out for three weeks. But my Grandfather had one of his tractors hooked-up to a big PTO generator (hurricane or not, them cows still had to be milked, and the milk refridgerators still had to run), so we stayed up at the farm house until the power was restored.
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Post by as556 on Sept 13, 2016 9:17:44 GMT
Move to the PNW  |
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Post by rickoshea on Sept 13, 2016 13:50:26 GMT
LOL. No, I just accept that the price for living in paradise is getting kicked in the nuts by a bad storm every 25 years or so.
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Post by NamelessStain on Sept 14, 2016 11:54:30 GMT
More rain coming our way in SC with TS Julia. Keep an eye out for flooding fellas.
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Post by omegaman on Sept 15, 2016 2:37:36 GMT
More rain coming our way in SC with TS Julia. Keep an eye out for flooding fellas. East winds and a full moon. Tides will be high, homies. |
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Post by rickoshea on Sept 16, 2016 14:02:17 GMT
12 years ago today Hurricane Ivan ran over us. Worst storm since Frederick, except this time we had 500+ Co-Op Linemen from 14 states already prepositioned at hotels in Montgomery, AL and Jackson, MS when Ivan made landfall....so as soon as it passed, they came arunnin'.
ETA. We also had 200 Right-Of-Way/tree trimmers help out also. Don't want to leave those guys out. My first couple years at the power company were on the ROW crew, and those guys kick ass and have a fairly thankless job.
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Post by rickoshea on Oct 3, 2016 21:58:51 GMT
Ruh Roh....the "cone of uncertainty" of Hurricane Matthew has shifted further to the west in the latest update.
Yous guyz in the Carolinas may need to batten down the hatches.
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Post by omegaman on Oct 3, 2016 23:57:10 GMT
Ruh Roh....the "cone of uncertainty" of Hurricane Matthew has shifted further to the west in the latest update. Yous guyz in the Carolinas may need to batten down the hatches. Going thru the preps and planning now. Don't have time for this shit. |
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Post by rickoshea on Oct 4, 2016 0:07:35 GMT
***Redacted***....I do believe in jinxes. |
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Post by NamelessStain on Oct 4, 2016 11:17:10 GMT
Already plans are in action. My new minion at work is heeding my warnings and grabbing supplies.
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Post by rickoshea on Oct 5, 2016 15:05:41 GMT
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