Hurricane Jeanne Updates

125gJoe

125gJoe

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I never thought this one would loop back towards Florida! :eek:
The meterologists didn't thinks so either....


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GREAT.. It's going to come right over us again!
It's bigger and stronger than Frances -- just heard this at 9am Saturday.
I won't be around for awhile..... Keep your fishes happy..... cya...

The roof won't withstand this ................. :rant: :mad2

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Edit update:
Amazingly enough - our tarps stayed in place!!!
 
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Sorry folks. If you want to get an idea how bad it COULD get, try reading this. The author sat down with metorologists and earth-science professors, and kept writing until they said, "Y'know, your math and science are strong. This could actually happen if X and X and X happened in real life."
 
Yeah, I think that we, as "water keepers," have a little more understanding of how powerful water and water movement can be. I've always been impressed by the destructive power of saltwater, and when you throw in enough power to equal a 15MT nuke going off every second, or millions of tons of earth pushing a wave forward.. well, the results shouldn't surprise anyone.

70% of this planet is covered in water. It wouldn't take too much more "freed" water to do vast amounts of damage to the costal areas worldwide. Hell, look was a 15-foot tall wave of water did to parts of Florida and Haiti (especially Haiti).

Over the last few years, I've come to appreciate the fact that I live several hundred miles inland and 500 ft above sea level. Hurricanes will still affect me, but no waves.
 
;) Try being at 6,000 feet. No worries of hurricanes, though we do get hurricane force winds. I recall my last trip out to New York was when a hurricane was sweeping inland. We stopped for the night, and the clerk at the RV park warned us about a high wind warning--winds up to 40 MPH were expected. I had to giggle--the winds here average only around 20, but we frequently see winds above 70 mph.
 
I can't wait until the Missus and I can "retire" (a concept quickly being destroyed by our government, they sent me a piece of paper that says I can't retire with benefits until *67*, if then). We're thinking of somewhere in the high deserts... I kinda like Arizona myself. Anywhere we can go where the altitude is over 6000 feet. Or really far inland... like Calgary.
 
:) Come check out the Wyoming deserts sometime. Beautiful, peaceful, remote...And not meltingly hot, most of the time. The area between Thermopolis and Worland, or Greybull and Meeteetse is gorgeous, though around 3,500 feet. Or, check out La Barge, off the Green River--that is some amazing county. Thick with moose, mountains on one side and desert steppes on the other. Awesome!
 
OG, I was amazed when I drove through Wyoming. I am completely in love with the state now and probably will be vacationing there again in the next few years. It was the first time I had ever seen desert mountains ... very cool.

I'm a little dismayed about Florida's weather. For years I've been thinking I would like to move there (many jobs have shown up in my field in the state.) If it's really supposed to be like this for the next 10 - 40 years, I may have to wait until I retire!
 
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