One Lucky Mofo

[Megashrap]

Well my days of riding out most storms and passing hurricanes are over.

I got my first hand experience of what a category 4 is capable of, and it

is some scary shit.  now the wife and kids went to a shelter and I stayed to board up some windows, around 8pm I was just tired and thought ah hell ill just stay here and deal with it will probably just miss us anyway.  I also live in a mobile home too, which is mistake #1  around 9:45pm i got the last report that said it would likely pass north of us, well around 10;45 it went from calm n cloudy to just sudden massive strong winds.

Now the power was out, so i stopped getting any reports and assumed it was just near but not directly coming, now after 11pm or so i think i honestly can't remember now, i took the large cushions off the sofa went to our back b-room got in the bath tub, however now that i think about it

really, what is a tub in a mobile home gonna do now. After that for about 2hrs straight all I think I did was just wait for this place to suddenly explode or something.  The sound was so loud and constant i actually put tissue in each ear to try to stop the noise. i heard metal buckling sounds from the roof, a few people scream from time to time and finally 2 windows blow out but i was not leaving my tub to go see. I think it was around 3 or 4 am it finally calmed down.  When i finally found my radio I found out it came directly in my direction, and the winds were like 80 to 100 mph, sustained winds. Whew,I've never been that scared in my life. Next time I will leave the damn state of Florida.

[bryorama]

Good job buddy. You must have payed attention is pre-school!

(Bath-Tup maneuver.  :P Or you learned it from Doom 3 (Tehe)) Anyways, good job.  :)

Glad you survived!

[Megashrap]

  Heres some info I just now was able to access. And I am located right between cocoa beach and Daytona but more towards Daytona. Just wish I coulda got this notice when it came out.  Notice column A when ya read below.  :O

ZCZC MIASPFAT3 ALL

TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM

HURRICANE CHARLEY PROBABILITIES NUMBER  20

NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL

11 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004

PROBABILITIES FOR GUIDANCE IN HURRICANE PROTECTION

PLANNING BY GOVERNMENT AND DISASTER OFFICIALS

COLUMN DEFINITION  PROBABILITIES IN PERCENT

A IS PROBABILITY FROM NOW TO  8PM SAT

FOLLOWING ARE ADDITIONAL PROBABILITIES

B FROM  8PM SAT TO  8AM SUN

C FROM  8AM SUN TO  8PM SUN

D FROM  8PM SUN TO  8PM MON

E IS TOTAL PROBABILITY FROM NOW TO  8PM MON

X MEANS LESS THAN ONE PERCENT

AT 11 PM EDT...0300Z...THE CENTER OF CHARLEY WAS LOCATED NEAR

LATITUDE 29.1 NORTH...LONGITUDE  81.1 WEST

CHANCES OF CENTER OF THE HURRICANE PASSING WITHIN 65 NAUTICAL MILES

OF LISTED LOCATIONS THROUGH  8PM EDT MON AUG 16 2004

LOCATION          A  B  C  D  E  LOCATION          A  B  C  D  E

36.3N  77.6W      29  6  X  X 35  HYANNIS MA        X  2  8  2 12

41.1N  74.1W      X 14  3  X 17  BOSTON MA          X  3  8  2 13

44.6N  70.7W      X  1  9  2 12  PORTLAND ME        X  1  9  2 12

FT PIERCE FL      33  X  X  X 33  BAR HARBOR ME      X  X  6  5 11

COCOA BEACH FL    99  X  X  X 99  EASTPORT ME        X  X  3  7 10

DAYTONA BEACH FL  99  X  X  X 99  ST JOHN NB        X  X  2  7  9

JACKSONVILLE FL  68  X  X  X 68  MONCTON NB        X  X  1  8  9

SAVANNAH GA      54  X  X  X 54  YARMOUTH NS        X  X  2  7  9

CHARLESTON SC    59  X  X  X 59  HALIFAX NS        X  X  X  7  7

MYRTLE BEACH SC  51  X  X  X 51  SABLE ISLAND NS    X  X  X  5  5

WILMINGTON NC    43  X  X  X 43  SYDNEY NS          X  X  X  6  6

MOREHEAD CITY NC  31  2  1  X 34  EDDY POINT NS      X  X  X  6  6

CAPE HATTERAS NC  18  8  X  X 26  PTX BASQUES NFLD  X  X  X  5  5

NORFOLK VA        16 13  X  X 29  BURGEO NFLD        X  X  X  4  4

OCEAN CITY MD      3 20  X  X 23  ILE ST PIERRE      X  X  X  3  3

ATLANTIC CITY NJ  1 18  1  X 20  FT MYERS FL        7  X  X  X  7

NEW YORK CITY NY  X 14  3  1 18  VENICE FL        18  X  X  X 18

MONTAUK POINT NY  X  7  6  1 14  TAMPA FL          99  X  X  X 99

PROVIDENCE RI      X  5  7  1 13  CEDAR KEY FL      10  X  X  X 10

NANTUCKET MA      X  2  8  1 11

FORECASTER BEVEN

Source info http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2004/prb/al032004.prblty.020.shtml?

[leo]

omg, glad u made it buddy.

[bryorama]

When I scrolled down with out anything I thought.

"Cool! A Leet weather forcast."  ;D

then I read it.

[Andrew]

We are going to get hit with it on the island. But only rain and some wind.

We need the rain. Lots of rain...

[exatreide]

Yea hurricans are scarry, glad you made it.

But 80-100 mph wind? Thats nothing try living in Tornadno ally. Where 200-300 are real possilbilites  ;)

[Dunenewt]

My brother has wind worse than any of this.

[Andrew]

A hurricane hit Atlantic Canada last September. School was cancelled for a day.

Power lines were almost touching my bedroom window. No power. It was quite the night.

http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/juan/photos_e.html

For pics of destruction

[Megashrap]

aww........dont worry about it, 80 to 100 mph is not a lot, thats VERY low wind speed. i could go outside and stand in 80 to 100 mph winds, thats easy.

Well I can assure you with 100% accuracy you would worry, and then some.

[ordos45]

Actually Rookie, tornadoes can occur within hurricane systems as they hit.  *smacks self* Too much CNN and Discovery Channel...

Anyhow, glad you made it through alright.  :)

[exatreide]

They can, but i doubt anything stronger then a f2

[Megashrap]

Actually Rookie, tornadoes can occur within hurricane systems as they hit.

[Apollyon]

But 80-100 mph wind? Thats nothing try living in Tornadno ally. Where 200-300 are real possilbilites

[Andrew]

200-300? That's nothing!

You should try living in the 9th layer of hell where it's frigging cold and the icy blizzard is oftimes at 1000000000mph.

You mean Canada?

[Apollyon]

9th layer of hell. Yeah, Canada.

They begin with the same first letter at any rate.  ;D

[Kiyouta]

omg, glad u made it buddy.

yeh same. As a random thought, do you think there are any Dune2k forum members that are actually dead :O (not active of course...)

[Acriku]

Yeah I live in Orlando, but the worst that I received was power outage for ~12 hours. The real trouble was working at the only grocery open before and after the hurricane. I work at Publix over in the Metro West area, and we had full power and the ATM machines were up and running. So basically, every person who could drive there went there for ice, water, and other essentials. On Friday I cashiered like there was no tomorrow for 6 hours straight without having a break in customers. They just kept on coming.. And then Saturday and Sunday were no better, although a tad bit slower. The second ice was put back on the shelf, customers grabbed it. There were customers fighting for carts (buggies for some people) and most of them were pissed as hell when they came through my line. That's what sucked the most about this damned hurricane.