| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 6/18/2008 9:11:43 AM | Or are you going to be a moron like those in New Orleans before Katrina and NOT PREPARE??
there are simple and effective rules for Hurricane preparedness in areas affected by hurricanes...the biggest of which is...IF YOU LIVE BELOW SEA LEVEL, FREEKIN RUN!!
Other than that, all standard hurricane checklists apply...
the Extra Preparedness lists are placed on SHTF sites all over the Web. If you do not know what SHTF is...the Squishy Hit The Fan!
If Katrina taught anyone anything it should be to "Be Prepared!" Yeah, it's the Boy Scout Motto...and it's a dang good one. of course, if one truly wishes to be prepared, they will NOT build a woodframe house in a hurricane zone. For that matter, in a tornado alley either. Concrete & Steel are KEY. The houses least affected by hurricanes and tornados and Fires are Concrete & Steel DOMES. Why anyone living on a coastline would even bother to build with anything other than concrete & steel is beyond me, frankly.
for those of you living on Flood Plains...WHY do you build single story homes??? Have you Lost Your Minds?? Trusting a Mississippi (or whatever river) leevee to safeguard your home is like trusting one to keep out a Cat-4 Hurricane!! Not too smart!! Build on top of pilings sufficient to keep your home out of the highest flood ever recorded or imagined (12-14' should work in most places) and if there is potential for higher than 14' floods...DON'T LIVE THERE! Or at least use a dang houseboat...DUH!
Insurance agents UNITE and just flat don't sell new insurance policies to woodframe homes. It's the dumbest bet you've ever made. Sooner or later they're going to get zapped and then your company ends up paying out the wazoo. Us firefighters are too busy with car crashes these days to worry about home fires...force a change to Concrete! or at least Brick. | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 6/18/2008 12:34:54 PM | I've got all the survivalist/emergency/camping gear I can afford; in addition, a 3-10 week supply of non-perishable food at all times, 10-20 gallons of purified water in jugs, a good supply of fresh batteries (I buy them in quantity on sale and store them in the refrigerator, vacuum sealed in bags), extra flashlights and radios, appropriate clean, dry clothing stored in vacuum bags, and I never have less than half a tank of gas in the cars.
It also helps that there aren't many hurricanes in Indiana. | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 6/18/2008 12:58:59 PM | | Yea what really got me about idoits in New Orleans I'm talking about the ones in nursing homes that drown because the staff of those horrible hell holes left them there to die! But your right they are idoits for not planning ahead they should have known when they got old and grey not only their loved ones but everyone else was going to shit on them from the President of the United States of Bushville on down..They should have killed themselves years ago, if they were smart they would have...And the others poor, you know if they can't afford to survive they need to die friggen idoits! Your right.... | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 6/18/2008 9:03:06 PM | That's why it's called Survival Of the Fittest. If ya ain't Fit, you don't Survive. When I get ancient I'm gonna hire a couple of 18 yr old hookers and cardiac out. Might as well go with a smile on my face!!  Viagra, the death pill that even Kevorkian overlooked!!
When the body quits, it's time for me to quit too. Old age is nature's way of telling you to Slow Down...to mulch. 
Err...as one of the Florida volunteer firefighters that tried to make it to New Orleans...I can safely say that getting to New Orleans was the problem. We started the day after Kat hit and couldn't go farther than Bay St. Louis...took us a week to get to Biloxi...cutting a path as we went. With all those bridges out getting to NO was an air-only run from the East. Everyone forgets that Mississippi was a BIGGER mess than New Orleans. While people are still whining for funds in NO even today, folks in MS have picked themselves up by their bootstraps and gotten on with life. Of course the people of MS never got the attention/assistance/funds they deserved, but they aren't as whiney, either.
If you build/move to a one-story home in a flood plain that's only protected by levees, you got insanity problems in the first place...that's what flood plains DO...they FLOOD. I don't care HOW you build a levee, it'll eventually get jacked by Momma Nature. She always finds a way.
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/10/2008 7:18:24 PM | Ah, here comes another one...Hurricane Ike...
It's kind of funny but that Warped Earth angle shots they give of the Gulf Hurricanes on some websites just do not do them justice. I can see clearly on the NOAA.com site that Tropical Storm speed winds will affect NW Fla, Southern Alabama & Mississipi, and definitely Southern Louisianna (New Orleans Included)...but on the Weather .com site it's showing the Curved Earth angle which makes it difficult to track and definitely puts a little westward lean on the projections...but they don't show any other place than Texas being affected...and currently a reather NASTY bit of the storm is hitting Jacksonville, FL with HEAVY RAIN!
New Orleans, if the storm stays on it's current track...WILL be greatly affected by heavy rain & winds...yet there are NO warnings out at all yet. Maybe that'll change by midnight. Heck, the size of the thing will change as it gains strength...and it will affect far more than just Texas & Louisianna.
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/10/2008 7:51:03 PM | I"m sitting here just north of Houston, Tx. waiting for someone to decide we have a problem. I've done all I can to secure my home, but if we get 75 to 80 mile an hour winds, all the old growth oaks will uproot and the pines will snap like toothpicks.
The powers that be tell us there is no need to evacuate but I guess they've never lived through a storm in this area. Bayous will overrun their banks flooding the roads, trees will bring down power lines, and life will come to a miserable, complete stop.
My car is loaded and by tomorrow afternoon, I'll make a decision whether or not to leave. | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/11/2008 6:23:22 AM | | We just caught the tail end of Hurricane Hanna....That's about as good as it gets here in the Maritimes...East Coast Canada. | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/11/2008 4:06:53 PM | | I'm in East Texas on Hwy 59,ok not right on 59 that would be above and beyond crazy. Anyway I just gave a neighbor a ride to work. It took nearly 20 minutes to cross the highway. Traffic is streaming in and many of the crossing areas have already been blocked off. We are on what is known as the dirty side of Ike. I keep thinking about this pair of pants I had way too many years ago. Bell bottoms that had I like Ike all over them. I'm not liking Ike so much right now. | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/11/2008 4:27:30 PM | W-D: Yerp, looked huge on radar but ended up being nothing much...go figure.
If you live in Houston and have boarded up your windows, & trimmed back the overhanging branches & trees around your home, you should be pretty well off...of course it depends on what category it is when it hits. If in a wood-frame house or Trailer...find better shelter.
Old Growth Oaks should stand tall in up to a Cat 2...they just won't have many branches on them afterwards...the Water Oaks around Pensacola lost the majority of their branches, but most of them stayed up unless they stood completely alone in a yard.
Once a storm hits Cat 3...it's going to mess up a LOT of stuff...that's just the way they are. | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/11/2008 4:50:08 PM | | Hi all, I have pretty an almost empty 3-BR house in SA. I will be in this weekend and can host a couple of people or small family from Evacuees. My ad is on craiglist (SA)and I thought I would offer it up too. It wouldn't be free, but very clean home, very resonalbly priced and full house priviledges. Just e-mail me here. Thanks! Dave | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/12/2008 6:03:06 PM | | I will be leaving for work about 9.30pm. I was called this morning and told to bring extra clothes. They aren't sure when we will be able to leave. All nursing staff has been called in to work Saturday. My sons g/f and my grandson have already left to go to her grandmothers house. Her house is brick. The one they live in is wood. I covered my windows and left plenty of food and water for my dog Kane. I know it's silly of me but I hate that I can't be with him during all this. He is terrified of storms. I also had a long talk with this huge oak tree by the house. I said if you won't fall on my house I promise I won't let Kane pee on you ever again. My prayers and good wishes to all in the path of Ike. | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/12/2008 6:17:22 PM | Amen to that. Galveston is getting POUNDED...of course, and Geraldo Rivera...is On The Island to report...go figure. The man must have a death wish. Even a Cat-2 is dangerous to low-lying areas.
Cat 2 means that flood plains WILL BE. Galveston is basically an island that if you fart hard on one side of it, they'll feel it on the other...no hills, no protection...just Flat Sand. Dunes don't really count for much...sand really doesn't anchor well.
But it's when a storm hits Cat-3 that they REALLY get nasty. A solid brick home will tend to last easily thru a Cat 2...but with a Cat 3...pretty much anything & everything is gonna get messed up to some extent. Except for hardened Concrete & steel rebar buildings built with hurrcanes in mind... | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/12/2008 6:28:53 PM | anybody that is from texas or in the path of this ....
I be keeping you in my prayers .......
It will be a rough ride and I sure hope you all make it thru all right ....
If I can help anybody in any wich way , please let me know ...
I dont have much , but where there is nothing there is a lot to go arround . I dont have a huge house but we will make room .
god bless all of you
kathy | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/12/2008 7:22:18 PM | | I don't get it ..... having to leave your home year after year .... not knowing, whether or not your home will still be there when you return ???? ........... I think I would move ......... | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/12/2008 8:31:17 PM | "I don't get it ..... having to leave your home year after year .... not knowing, whether or not your home will still be there when you return ???? ........... I think I would move "
The first thing I thought when I read this was the people who live in California and have no notice when an earthquake occurs, at least we have notice about hurricanes.
Then I looked at the poster's profile and low and behold she lives in LA. Too funny!
BTW I'm just hours away from the eye of this storm coming right over my house.
Wish me luck.
Fore!
7iron | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/12/2008 8:44:31 PM | Yea, i got smart last year and moved from between houston and galveston , up close to austin, so when the evacuation came this time i was already here | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/12/2008 9:07:31 PM | well we had this conversation when gustav came thru ,
" how can people live ther "???
pretty easy .. its their home as simple as that , is it suck for them , yes it is I hate it for them , but its home for them . dont point fingers at them .
no matter where you move in the US you will have mother natur , in so form to deal with .
disaster can hit you anywhere .
them people on the coast lines are tough, they will get thru this too.... may take some time .
but they make it ....
anywhere on the planet youwill have to deal with bad weather situations ... so its the roll of the dice or where the winds blow .....
instead of critizicing them , pray that no lifes will be lost .... house and all else can be replaced ..... | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/12/2008 9:08:47 PM |
Yea, i got smart last year and moved from between houston and galveston , up close to austin, so when the evacuation came this time i was already here ... good for you wingsonmyfeet , im glad you are out of harms way  | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/12/2008 9:28:05 PM | 7iron ........ The last "Earthquake "..... That even shook me "a little" .... was 14 years ago ...................
My question to you is ..... Do you have flood Insurance.....????? ....................................................... | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/13/2008 1:48:03 AM | This Cat2 is different than any Cat2 I have ever been through or heard of. But then, it is 110 mph, and Cat 3 is 111 mph. But, this hurricane is as big as the state of Texas. And it is moving slow. I live outside Austin, and it should be here in about 45 minutes. That is the outer western edge, not the eye, That just passed over Galveston,. We are over 100 miles inland and the storm is only half way through Galveston and is here at the same time.
Galveston is under water. 20 foot storm surge, 17 foot seawall, that tells the story.
We live in a mobile out in the country, so lots of prayers, and an escape plan, if things get bad. Wind has picked up and gusting to about 35 or so.
The storm has now been coming in for about 10 hours (I think), is more than halfway on land, and is still a Cat2. Sheesh! Carla again! And Carla was a 4.
Anyway, I am ready for the rain. Love rain! The wind, well, guess I will have to take that, too. Will report in tomorrow! Prayers for all. Be safe!
Whitefeather | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/13/2008 1:59:37 AM | I'm also near Austin, to the northwest,, still no bad weather here. Some rain would be good,, hoping to miss any high wind or tornadoes.
tb | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/13/2008 9:52:21 AM | How you build on the Gulf Coast is as important as Where you build. How is with minimum of concrete & steel rebar...Where is at least 30 feet above sea level.
The question you have to ask yourself before building on the Gulf Coast is: Do I want to rebuild my home in my lifetime or not? If no, you do the above.
Latest reports out of Galveston show 11-13 feet of surge, I wonder if Geraldo Rivera did alright? | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/13/2008 1:42:06 PM | I did leave Katy outside of Houston. Even though I am safe. I am still very depressed and hurting for the people that have been left behind. If you remember the levee's broke in New Orleans after the hurricane. So, we will not know what is really going to happen until after this is over. Please keep us in your prayers. Only two people I know have lights. Millions do not have lights and have already started stealing gas and Lord knows what else. If the lights come back on in my area, I am going back tomorrow. | |
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| Are YOU ready for Hurricane 2008??
Posted: 9/13/2008 6:15:38 PM | | Saturday night and i haven't been able to reach any of my friends or family in Houston, all of which said "Ohhh, it's not going to come in here, we're staying" | |
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