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I really need to take some pics, but I deliberately let it get run-down to try and get my home assessed lower. Once the tax situation is decided I will fix up, either to stay or to move. I am so confident in the quality of my home that I no longer evacuate for anything under cat 3. If I lose my home and/or life in a hurricane it was just meant to be.
I see. Well, that's good, that you're confident about it that is, and what will be will be. Actually any time my brother's evacuated, his own home's been fine and wherever he went to evacuate got hit worse, so now he just stays.
I have lived in Miami my whole life 30 years (with the exception of 4 years for school) and have been through too many hurricance to list. But I do remember the Big One Andrew. After you go through something like Andrew (which wasn't forecast to hit where it hit, at the very last minute before landfall it turned) you listen to what the forecasters say (even if they are not sure) and you just prepare.
What other hurricanes besides Andrew? I don't remember any.
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Last year we had the luck of the jet stream. When the jet stream is low like it was last year its great news for us as far as storms. This year the jet stream will be high and thats not good news for us. Right now in Lee County we are at a 715 drought index and alot of wells are dry. My ponds are lower then I can remember but we were never this dry. Rain is needed bad!!!
A storm this year could be a good thing. I know it sounds bad but a cat-1 or 2 would be a blessing for the drought and to flush the rivers.
Didn't they take the jet stream theory into consideration last year or did they just rely on the temp theory? Do you know.
BTW how does Myrtle Beach fair on these hurricanes? I've done some research but didn't find that much...I'm moving there
Right, let's knock on wood. The height of hurricane season doesn't really get started until August; the peak is around 10th-11th of September.
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I think a few years back, we had a hurricane going on & they were moving the planes at Andrews Air base up in the panhandle. As it turned out, the hurricane didn't show up & low & behold, they crashed a plane into someone's home....which, just goes to show you, there's nowhere really safe...hide in your house, & a plane lands on it...
I'm sorry, but LOL - and ain't it the truth. There was an item on the news several months ago about a couple who fled the panhandle after Ivan and had a new home built up in TN. Just after the home was finished, it was wrecked by a tornado. We can run, but we can't hide
Right, let's knock on wood. The height of hurricane season doesn't really get started until August; the peak is around 10th-11th of September.
Quite a while back, LadyWithaFan said
I'm sorry, but LOL - and ain't it the truth. There was an item on the news several months ago about a couple who fled the panhandle after Ivan and had a new home built up in TN. Just after the home was finished, it was wrecked by a tornado. We can run, but we can't hide
To hurricane predictors...what a joke!!. Lets take a chart, throw it at a board full of numbers and see what it says. You can't predict more than 7 days in advance in regards to the weather yet we ACTUALLY listen to these guys like they know something. Comical.
To hurricane predictors...what a joke!!. Lets take a chart, throw it at a board full of numbers and see what it says. You can't predict more than 7 days in advance in regards to the weather yet we ACTUALLY listen to these guys like they know something. Comical.
I totally agree with you. Actually, they don't accurately report the weather in a seven day span
They did have a story about this very same thing on the weather channel and they said it was actually two totally different things. The short term predictions were done by meterologisits and the long term predictions have more to do with actual science so they're supposed to be more accurate.
Didn't they take the jet stream theory into consideration last year or did they just rely on the temp theory? Do you know.
BTW how does Myrtle Beach fair on these hurricanes? I've done some research but didn't find that much...I'm moving there
It's coastal...HELLO?
My family's house on Isle of Palms, They lost two corner glass windows & did not flood as they built up way above code on pilings...right on beach....the house next to them, was built to minimum code and is no longer standing...my xhusband's uncle acquired a nice staircase from next door....
Predicting hurricanes is a lot different than short term weather forecasting. The different patterns and signals that are watched for a long term forecast are much easier to note because they do not change instantly. Oscillations, El Ninos/La Ninas.. these are things that do not change over night and in many cases take well over a year to shift and their changes are well noted.
That being said.. as a weather buff.. I do not think this year will be AS bad as some as predicted, BUT the real season isn't going to begin for a few more weeks anyway. Not with the development of a La Nina underway.
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Actually, they don't accurately report the weather in a seven day span
