Hurricane Charlie

[Parkbandit]

Is coming for a visit.

Bastard.

[Ravenstorm]

And after all the rain left by Bonnie, flooding might be a huge problem. I don't recall two such storm systems happening so close together before.

Raven

[Edited on 8-12-2004 by Ravenstorm]

[Artha]

Proof that God/Mother Nature does not like Florida.

[killjoymp]

Not many people do.

j/k

[Stunseed]

Won't worry PB, it's coming to Jacksonville on Saturday..It's really going to suck...

Except I'll be on vacation 1500 miles away.

[xtc]

If you live in Fla or the east coast you know August is hurricane season. Just be glad you don't live in Bangladesh, have you seen the flooding there this summer?

[Parkbandit]

Tampa didn't get anything from Bonnie, but we are already 15" ahead of our normal rainfall for the summer season. The way Charlie is going, it looks like it will skirt the western side of St. Petersburg/Clearwater.. which means the counter-clockwise rotation of the storm will push all the water into the bay.

Eek.

[Wezas]

I'm glad I took my Carolina vacation in July this year. Being evacuated from vacation sucks ass.

[Snapp]

Well I guess the end of Bonnie is hitting here now. I never saw so many cars stuck on the roads before... and somehow my little Neon made it through all the places where there was 6" of water on the roads. Delaware's not supposed to have flooding like this!

[Myshel]

Our restaurant sits about 2 blocks from the bay, so we spent the afternoon boarding up and sandbagging. Now I'm going to sink the patio furniture in the pool, board our sliding glass doors and give thanks for the ONLY good thing about flat roofs, they don't blow off easily. Even though we are only a block from the bay our house sits really high so we are riding it out. This is first storm to hit the Tampa Bay area head on since the 20's, I"ve been though many near misses, but I'm scared on this one.

[HarmNone]

Ish. Good luck, Myshel. Let's hope Charlie leaves you high and dry.

HarmNone will light a candle for ya

[The Korean]

shit, i'm supposed to fly out of DC on saturday...that bastard better not delay/cancel my flight.

[smarty pants]

how do you spell "charley" wrong when it's like, in size 15 font on that picture?

[Artha]

How do you not know that Angelfire doesn't let you direct link images?

[HarmNone]

Originally posted by smarty pants
how do you spell "charley" wrong when it's like, in size 15 font on that picture?

Hee! It's easy. My mother has a cat named "Charlie"! :P

HarmNone, she who misspells Charley

[Zentoph]

Heh. Pinellas Park here. I really hope the eye will define itself and pass over St. Pete/Pinellas Park, it'd be amazing to see.

I live on the coast. I'm not worried about this one at all. Just a bit of rain and wind. *YAWN*

- Arkans

[Souzy]

Originally posted by Zentoph
Heh. Pinellas Park here. I really hope the eye will define itself and pass over St. Pete/Pinellas Park, it'd be amazing to see.

So now I gotta call my cousin to see if she's ok. My family lives in that area. :(

[Zentoph]

That sucks.. Know what part specifically? If she's not in a 'high risk zone' area, which is high flooding, then she'll probably be fine unless a tornado hits or lives in a wooden house.

[DeV]

So glad I'm not on the coast.

I just got to Boca Raton today, isn't it supposed to hit the real, west westly west-like coast of Florida, please?

[Makkah]

I heard on the radio that no two storms have hit so close to each other since 1908 or some shit.

Anyways... Bonnie left us some pretty good storms that left like 2 feet of water in our IT building's basement. This one looks like it might affect our weather here also.

rht

[Ravenstorm]

So how are people doing down there? I see from the radar that south Florida is covered by some heavy storms even if not yet by the actual hurricane. Keep us updated (assuming you have power and aren't evacuated, of course).

Raven

[Zentoph]

Just really cloudy skies and the feeling that you're in a ghost town if you drive by where businesses are. Although you can't see it, I'm in Pinellas County, which is covered by the third forecast location of Charley. I also believe it's a category four now.. It's expected to hit sometime this evening.

Also, you can't really tell right now if it just wobbled or not, but it looks to be turning slightly east so it will likely push the water away from Tampa Bay, contrary to what was forecasted before.

[Edited on 8-13-04 by Zentoph]

[DeV]

Hurricane Charley now a Category 4 storm off Florida, with 145 mph winds.

[Parkbandit]

It's going to completely miss the Tampabay area.

[Jenisi]

Hope no one is in Fort. Myers... Look's like Florida is getting the axe.

[killjoymp]

Virginia will be getting its fair share of the storms in a couple days, more then we are getting now.

[Artha]

Yeah, it's supposed to rain really hard tomorrow.

[killjoymp]

It was supposed to rain bad today

[Zentoph]

It's not going to miss it at all. All of the counties in the Tampa Bay area will feel everything from a hurricane, excluding storm surge. This includes hurricane force winds and flooding. Just because the eye and the strongest winds of the hurricane won't directly hit tampa, doesn't mean it's okay to stop being safe about it.

I was in Del Ray during Andrew, and now I'm on the east coast of FL (just got back from some tanning) in Boca Raton. Winds here are mild and there are peeks of sunshine.

Last I heard on the news is the last time Tampa got hit by a hurricane was a really, really long time ago.

I hope my anol friends are okay :grouphug:

[Zentoph]

We've been effected by them, just not directly hit by them. Nothing ever as close as this since 1920.

I hate how CNN plays this evil chord of music when they advertise the hurricane.

[Zentoph]

I'm convinced that someone placed a tropcial storm/hurricane ward over Pinellas County. Every year these things are forecasted right through us but swerve off completely. Worse I got was sprinkling, not even rain.

[HarmNone]

Seems like someone who posts here is from Fort Myers, but I can't for the life of me remember who it is! Hope they're okay. :(

HarmNone is gonna worry......again

[Stunseed]

I'm here in Jacksonville, it's sposed to hit here soon. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Myshel might live there?

[Wezas]

Originally posted by HarmNone
Seems like someone who posts here is from Fort Myers, but I can't for the life of me remember who it is! Hope they're okay. :(

HarmNone is gonna worry......again

I remember Dave mentioning that he lived there for several years. But he obviously isn't there now.

[CrystalTears]

Jessie/Caels is down in Florida too. I hope he's safe. :(

[HarmNone]

Ish. I know both Dave and Myshel are down there somewhere! Now, I'm gonna be in worry mode until we hear from both of them! :(

HarmNone, Bailey's equipped

[Betheny]

Virginia is going to get hit?

Boo.

I've never experienced a hurricane, and I'm deathly afraid of storms. This will be amusing. So much for getting shit done tomorrow... Good thing I saved my laundry to do.

[HarmNone]

Ish, yes! Caels! :moan:

HarmNone hopes Caels is well, too.

[Artha]

Virginia is going to get hit?

It'll probably be a lot of rain and maybe some wind.

[Edited on 8-14-2004 by Artha]

[Wezas]

Glad I got my sump pump fixed last snowstorm - I'm sure we're going to get a shitload of rain here in NoVa

[Souzy]

Originally posted by Zentoph
That sucks.. Know what part specifically? If she's not in a 'high risk zone' area, which is high flooding, then she'll probably be fine unless a tornado hits or lives in a wooden house.

Oh, she lives in St. Pete's. The rest of my family is around Clearwater and Penninsula Park. Still haven't gotten hold of them yet. :(

[Betheny]

great, I have a fucking basement apartment, and dude's out of town for 3 weeks.

If my shit gets flooded, someone is gonna DIE.

[Souzy]

woooooo! I just talked to my cousin who lives in St. Pete's. She's fine, thank God! She said it just passed by. But, I guess there's still another warning?

[Zentoph]

Bonnie effected us more then Charley did.. yesterday we actually got rained on. The only warning I can think of for Pinellas County was the curfew they had out to prevent looting but that's been lifted.

[Myshel]

I'm fine, no worries until the next one due next week.. :S The south of us got it really really bad. The damage and loss of life is terrible. It was suppose to go right over the top of us, and I'm thanking God it didn't, jogged to the south of us. We lost electricity for 10 hours but no damage. Thanks for all the prayers sent our way.:grouphug:

[HarmNone]

Whew! Glad to hear you're okay and suffered no ill effects, Myshel. Let's hope that's true for the others, as well. :)

HarmNone

[Disrupture]

So I'm in Orlando and my power just came on earlier today, and this was the first time I could make it to post. The storm overturned a 20 foot tree in my front yard, but other than that did no real damage to my house. I did go driving after the storm passed to visit some friends and such. Street lights were out everywhere and I had to take different paths a few times to get around downed trees. It was crazy, but we had a hurricane party at my house and it was fun times too.

[HarmNone]

Glad you and your family are well, Disrupture. Sorry about the tree, but very happy that nobody was hurt. :)

HarmNone