xobehs - Hanna

[JudyJudyJudy]

It looks like you might be getting Hanna after all. Stay safe.

[Crabbie]

indeed, stay safe!

[Ilovemonkeys]

Oh Good ***** my nerves still aren't over Fay. We only got the outer bands of it here and i've never in my life heard the tornado sirens go off so many times, let alone in one day.
Hopefully it stays weak.

[SuperMeredith]

Oh crap. If she is, then I probably will, too.

[Ilovemonkeys]

Wth? why is my fuck ***'d?

[SuperMeredith]

Yeah, Fay was pretty rough around the upstate. We managed to stay out of the worst of it here, but we were under tornado warnings all day.

[SuperMeredith]

I think it has something to do with punctuation, ILM. If you use a comma, it stars it, I think.

[SuperMeredith]

Fuck

*****

The second one has a comma.

[JudyJudyJudy]

I think it will stay weak, but I don't know if it still might cause flooding and such. We got some pretty high winds and a lot of rain from Fay.

[JudyJudyJudy]

Jacob and I love this website:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

There's another "high potential for tropical cyclone formation" behind Hanna.

[SuperMeredith]

Am I the only one that's bugged by the missing "H" at the end of "Hanna"? It looks strange to me, and it's not a palindrome anymore.

[JudyJudyJudy]

LOL, Meredith. I always think of Hanna-Barbera cartoons when I see it.

[SuperMeredith]

Now I'm thinking of Yogi Bear and the Jetsons. :p They were both Hanna-Barbera, right?

[firewife]

Hanna is taking a simular path that Hugo took in 1989. I'm a bit nervous of Hanna. But with Gustav in the Gulf, Hanna is lacking getting up to speed. I hope it stays that way.

[JudyJudyJudy]

Meredith, yep, both of those were Hanna-Barbera. :D

firewife, I don't think you'll see anything like Hugo with Hanna, but flooding and such could still be an issue.

There is a lot of activity going on in the Atlantic right now:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

[JudyJudyJudy]

Damn it! Hanna is gaining strength. She is heading toward hurricane strength.

[firewife]

Oh Carp!

[SuperMeredith]

Arg. Darn hurricanes.

[xobehs]

We are watching it. Ugh. On Wednesday we will make the call as to whether the kids and I go inland. If it is cat 1 we should be fine here= we were here through Bonnie and Charlie only 5 miles inland it wasn't that bad... now we are a bit farther inland...

darned, my business didn't need this.

[xobehs]

If this were anything like Hugo we would be going a LOT farther than Charlotte- my aunt and uncle in Charlotte lost their house to Hugo!

[Ilovemonkeys]

The last I heard it's only projected to be a 1, it will be downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it gets here. But we will be getting hit whether it hits in Florida or SC.
The Jacksonville track shows it coming straight through where I live.

The tornado sirens were going off all day long when Fay come through and the tornados were just popping up left and right out of nowhere. It still hasn't dried out and right now we've got clouds and rain bands from the outer edges of Gustav.

[Ilovemonkeys]

If this were anything like Hugo we would be going a LOT farther than Charlotte- my aunt and uncle in Charlotte lost their house to Hugo!


When Hugo hit here and then turned up towards Charlotte it actually gained strength and Charlotte was hit harder than the midlands were.

It hit in the middle of the night too, so people were less prepared.

The one that came through in 05ish was pretty bad too. I've never been so scared. I had the kids in the closet and the baby in the sling and you could heard the tornadoes going over, 1 after the other. They never touched down, but God that was a scary ass night.

[xobehs]

The last I heard it's only projected to be a 1, it will be downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it gets here. But we will be getting hit whether it hits in Florida or SC.
The Jacksonville track shows it coming straight through where I live.
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I haven't seen anything suggesting it will downgrade, but I have heard it will increase in speed so the duration should be shorter, that helps a bit.

[Ilovemonkeys]

What I meant to say is that it will be downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it gets up here, they are usually down graded to TS after it's out of the water.

I think that was the thing with Hugo, it had been downgraded to a TS, then downgraded to thunderstorm then upgraded back to TS after it turned towards Charlotte.

[xobehs]

The one that came through in 05ish was pretty bad too. I've never been so scared. I had the kids in the closet and the baby in the sling and you could heard the tornadoes going over, 1 after the other. They never touched down, but God that was a scary ass night.
Was that Bonnie or CHarlie? WE stayed on the Isle Of Palms for that one, a little flooding but all else was not too bad there. I have been in the lowcountry since 04 and they are the only hits I remember. Ophelia scared me for DAYS hovering off the coast swirling around but never hit. WE could go to the beach and SEE the clouds coming at us then spin out to see again. eerie

[xobehs]

What I meant to say is that it will be downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it gets up here, they are usually down graded to TS after it's out of the water.

I think that was the thing with Hugo, it had been downgraded to a TS, then downgraded to thunderstorm then upgraded back to TS after it turned towards Charlotte.

I should have realized that is what you meant- wow, that's funky about Hugo! I lived up in MA in those days.

[xobehs]

Hannah's latest.
Landing as a Cat2 but a much larger possible area...
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200808_5day.html#a_topad

[Ilovemonkeys]

Was that Bonnie or CHarlie? WE stayed on the Isle Of Palms for that one, a little flooding but all else was not too bad there. I have been in the lowcountry since 04 and they are the only hits I remember. Ophelia scared me for DAYS hovering off the coast swirling around but never hit. WE could go to the beach and SEE the clouds coming at us then spin out to see again. eerie

I can't remember, but both names sound familiar.
We are a good 4 hours inland and when it hit it was like a wall of black clouds and wind and rain just pounded down. The trees in our front yard were lying flat on the ground with the wind, street signs were flying around.

Ds was born in Jan. 04 and I had him in the sling and he was still nursing, so it was either fall 04 or 05-

[xobehs]

We hadn't bought our house yet during Bonnie and Charlie, we spent the weekend looking at places between deluges from the sky. We bought 3 weeks later and DH moved down- there were no more storms that fall. The only other near hit was Ophelia in 05 so must have been.

I am SO glad we moved inland a bit. Where we were the first couple years here we had water ALL around us. I would still get the flock outta here if greater than a 2 was coming in.

[Ilovemonkeys]

After that last one I told dh that I would evacuate if another one hit.
I can't imagine what an actual hurricane at the coast is like, the storm surge plus the intensity- when a tropical storm is so strong.

At least we have a week to prepare and the rain will help with the drought.

[xobehs]

I have SO much to do before hand, here and at the restaurant :( I am waiting for a tree guy to come this evening and take the dead old tree right on top of us down.

I have to tie down our walk in at the restaurant, essentially it is a trailer.
I have to get prepping to board the windows at the shop bc our neighbors have lots of loose signage out there that I KNOW they can't be bothered to take in- I see them as projectiles.

[MiMi_of_4]

(((((xobehs)))))

[SuperMeredith]

When Hugo hit here and then turned up towards Charlotte it actually gained strength and Charlotte was hit harder than the midlands were.

It hit in the middle of the night too, so people were less prepared.

The one that came through in 05ish was pretty bad too. I've never been so scared. I had the kids in the closet and the baby in the sling and you could heard the tornadoes going over, 1 after the other. They never touched down, but God that was a scary ass night.

That was a scary one - Rita, was it? I can't remember. A friend of mine had a very close call during that one (at least I think it was that one). Her car was carried away by the floods. She managed to get out and hang onto a tree for dear life, until a passerby saw her and threw a line to her.

[Indigo]

Wow Xobehs it looks like it's headed right this way. Hopefully just a lot of rain again. Otherwise maybe Market will put us all up in NC.

[firewife]

What I meant to say is that it will be downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it gets up here, they are usually down graded to TS after it's out of the water.

I think that was the thing with Hugo, it had been downgraded to a TS, then downgraded to thunderstorm then upgraded back to TS after it turned towards Charlotte.


If I remember correctly, (I was 8yo) Hugo was still Cat1 when it hit Charlotte.

[pawprint]

Wow Xobehs it looks like it's headed right this way. Hopefully just a lot of rain again. Otherwise maybe Market will put us all up in NC.


Well it's a little longer drive but you do have family a little further north. ;)