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Walrus
10-22-2005, 11:51 AM
Does anyone have any friends or family in the Yucatan Peninsula right now?
My parents are in Playa del Carmen and i am so worried right now. They said they were being brought food and water by the resort staff but they haven't left there suite since late Thursday. They said they are safe and that i shouldn't worry but there's no way that i'm not going to worry about them. If anyone has friends or family in the path of Wilma i hope they're safe.
125gJoe
10-22-2005, 1:51 PM
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Holly9937
10-22-2005, 2:42 PM
My husbands grandparents are headed back to their home in the keys as we speak :eek: !! She is just hoping that by the time they get there it will have passed/weakened and won't be too much of a problem. They had the roof ripped off by a hurricane a while back so it will be interesting to hear how things are down there. Hope your parents are hanging in there :hang: I'm sure they'll be fine!
My sister lives just north of Tampa....one of the tracts takes it up that way....but I'm figuring it'll be more to the south of that. Most likely they'll just a get alot of rain and some wind.
I have a childhood friend who lives in Tampa. I sent her an e-mail on Friday to tell her that I'll be thinking about her and asked her if she "had a plan for the weekend..." She writes me back: "No, we don't have any plans this weekend, most likely it's going to be raining...."
She's not the brightest star in the sky! :laugh:
125gJoe
10-22-2005, 7:17 PM
I have a childhood friend who lives in Tampa. I sent her an e-mail on Friday to tell her that I'll be thinking about her and asked her if she "had a plan for the weekend..." She writes me back: "No, we don't have any plans this weekend, most likely it's going to be raining...."
She's not the brightest star in the sky! :laugh:
Well, normally I don't quote someone's whole post, but... ..at this point, what do you expect her to do? (..it's 7:15PM Saturday now...) I'm in Orlando..
Does she even know there's a hurricane out in the Gulf??! ! :confused:
(I may have missed something..)
aknif
10-22-2005, 10:14 PM
Um, well, if I lived in Tampa and a cat 4 hurricane had even the SLIGHTEST possibility of hitting MY area on Monday.... I'd be having a busy weekend! At the very least I'd be gassing up my cars, stocking up on food and water, removing any valuables from my basement or other flood-prone areas and making some just-in-case arrangements... Or, most likely, after seeing all the footage from Katrina, I'd just be heading out of town for an unscheduled mini-vacation.
flyingfish
10-23-2005, 7:02 PM
Aknife, if you lived in Tampa you'd probably already have a hurricane box with water etc. bought months ago. ;) Hurricane shutters don't take that long(30 min -1hr) to put up unless they are new or hard to access. Ours are hard to access because they are stored in my brother-in-law's attic, so hubby decided to pass on the shutters(they're out of town). After all, we're on the other side of Florida so hopefully it will hit as a 2 and become a 1 for us. Ft.Lauderdale and south is supposed to be higher winds, so we will probably be out of the danger zone . . . wasn't that a song?? :D
Okey dokey...Apparently a quick joke just doesn't work in this format. :rolleyes: I guess the humor of my original comment isn't as apparent to y'all with no knowledge of the ditzy-ness level of my friend, the fact that she hasn't lived in Tampa that long and has never experienced a hurricane, and without your reading her complete e-mail to me.
Suffice it to say that she's completely unprepared for a hurricane and is hoping it heads elsewhere.... And for her sake, I'll be praying for the same.
Raskolnikov
10-23-2005, 11:52 PM
I got it when you first posted it, aknif. Don't worry. ;)
Xielos
10-24-2005, 12:00 AM
I'm honestly not worried at all about Wilma, living in Orlando here. Last year was pretty bad, but we just lost a huge tree in my backyard, and 3 shingles, nothing TOO majorWhen you live in Orlando for 15 years out of your 18, you get used to tourist drivers, sonic booms, and hurricanes :soda:
Katrina was an exceptional circumstance, not something that happens every year, and it took several things combined to do what happened, not just the hurricane. Although, this has been the bussiest season since 1933, we ran out of friggin names!
telecubby
10-24-2005, 2:37 AM
we have a place ,liek a mobile home you can't move & we just fixxed it from last years hurricane. reminds me of little red rideing hood & ile huff & puff so we went to the wooden house & huff n puff so we went to the stone house and the wolf couldnt get in
Walrus
10-24-2005, 10:47 AM
Well i just talked to my parents and they are doing ok. They said their hotel doesn't have too much damage but everything else in town looks like a bomb went off. They said they finally got out of there room and were able to walk on the beach but the Mexican army made them turn around and go back. They also told me that food and water was scarce and they were hoping to get out by Thursday at the earliest. I was just glad to hear from them because i hadn't talked to them since early Friday.
Matt
Xielos
10-24-2005, 11:01 AM
Glad to hear they're alright!
I'm just here at home, watching movies. Nothing else to do. My sisters boyfriend is coming over with some DVD's later as well. Like I said, we're not worried :cool2:
125gJoe
10-24-2005, 2:07 PM
I watched some of the News video (Monday, early morning) and it was funny watching one guy with a microphone and baggy rain-gear, 'acting' like the wind was about to knock him over, and a 'local' walked by - very normally as if nothing was going on... Great fun..
Another reporter shined a spotlight toward the Gulf as if to show how bad it was... It wasn't very effective. :thud:
telecubby
10-24-2005, 2:59 PM
lol Joe thats good news.
Walrus
10-25-2005, 11:02 PM
Well i got a suprising phone call from my parents today after they had just landed in St. Louis. It seems they were able to get on the only commercial plane that landed at the Cancun airport today. It seems the CEO of US Airways pulled some of his connections in the mexican gov't and got a plane in there to get some Americans out. So a big thank you to all the US Airways employees who volunteered their time to fly down and get people out. As of right now the Cancun airport is still closed to commerical flights.
Matt