Just wondering if anyone has done any preparation for this years 279 predicted tropical storms?

I really believe that I will start investing in Home Depot stock in late spring and dump it in the fall.

I procrastinated again on my friggin' shutters but found an outfit thru a friend that can do my whole house for 2388.00 including installation. Not accordion shutters as they are pricey and take too long. the hurrincane panels that sit between an upper and lower rack. Pretty easy to set up.

Anyway, I jumped on that deal like a fat rat. Should be done within 2 weeks.

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Yeah, I heard it's supposed to be a bad one this year for you guys. With any luck at all, at least it'll blow all the flies away.

HAHA!

Every year is suposed to be a bad one. I never really worry about it. Worst case scenario, I put up my new shutters and drive out 3 days before.

Flies seem to have subsided though!

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Don't you have #1 and #2 headed directly at you, as we speak??

Those are tropical storms as far as I know. Not too worried. august and September are the fun times.

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Look like this one might miss us here in South Florida. Lokks like LA or TX or panhandle. This time of the year, they don't seem to be as unpredictable.

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http://www.crownweather.com/tropical.html

Current conditions and advisories. Also a bunch of maps.

Note the one depicting the model output from a variety of models. Two of them go right up the chute into NOLA, like we discussed on another thread.

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Yep, plus they just got hit with a bunch of rain from that tropical depression.

I wonder if NOLA is as prepared as SFLA is for a hurricane.

I can't remember if they have ever been hit by one. If I recall correctly, some of it is really low and it wouldn't take much to stick half hte quarter underwater.

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Time to google.

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Prepared? Oh yeah, the got bodybags and rum out the wazoo.

They don't call it The Big Easy for nuttin'.

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Yes, it's low. Some spots of the city are several feet below sea level.

We had a direct hit from Hurricane Betsy in 1965. I recall it well as it was the first day of school. It started raining like the hammers of hell about noon, and the school board *didn't close the schools early*. By 3:15 that afternoon, you expected to see animals going up two by two into a big ark. After it all blew away, the whole city was closed for about two weeks. (Exaggeration? Only a little.)

Oddly, the French Quarter (where I grew up -- 'struth) was pretty dry. It's close to the river, which is fairly high ground. That might not be true anymore, though.

The current plan here in what someone has called a "high-crime drainage ditch" isn't shelters. It's evacuation. Yeah, right. I saw how well that worked last year, with Ivan. Some people sat on the roads in their cars, exposed to whatever might come, for 10 and 12 hours just to get to Baton Rouge, 90 miles away. Kind of reminds you of the jammed roads full of dead victims of the superflu in Stephen King's "The Stand."

I've lived here most of my life, and I'm more than ready to go somewhere else.

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While I'm not familiar with the evacuation procedures in NOLA, I know that stating the evac, days ahead of the expected hit is of paramount importance.

Shoot, this one is supposed to miss the upper keys and they've been evacuating since the day before yesterday.

One place you don't want thousands of people is stuck in the hwy in their car. Better safe than sorry.

So the city shuts down for a week, beats the hell out of mass casualties.

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All of the respected tracking charts have it going right through the Florida Panhandle and more specifically Pensacola. I have still not made all the repairs from Ivan yet. We lost over 20 huge trees and it did around $35,000 worth of damage to my house and $10,000 damage to our cars. More than half of the homes on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key in Pensacola had to be torn down. This one looks to be a little worse than Ivan....but not by much.

I'm getting a bit sick of all these storms. We have had three direct hits from three hurricanes and countless tropical storms in the last ten years and it looks like we are going to have another. This sucks!

I feel for you buddy!

I told my wife if we ever got hit directly 2-3 years in a row, it's time to move. My business woul dbe severely handicapped if all the nurseries blew away. After Andrew in 92, it took me almost 2 years to get back on track.

It all depends on the scope of the damage I guess, but it won't take much for me to pack up and leave.

There sure is a lot of money to be made after hurricanes though, so maybe I'll stay after all.

I can become a private contractor, who hires himself out for sex.

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I really love the area and intend to live here for many years to come. Since Ivan blew just about all the trees down that could have hit my house, I may stay unless it reaches a catagory 5. Even at a 4 it is still a very dangerous storm.