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Wow....we are still cleaning up from hurricane Charley....and now here comes Frances with 140MPH winds.

They are advising everyone to leave and head north, but I will be hunkering down and staying at home.

You got a camera?

my girlfriend is supposed to fly to orlando saturday to visit a friend of hers. im guessing that probably wont happen now.

You got a camera?

I do...I took some good pics of the damage from Charley as well. Some really huge billboards that were just bent over like they were made of rubber.

Roofing companies are working hard to replace the damage from 2 weeks ago. Now their work may be in vain.

my girlfriend is supposed to fly to orlando saturday to visit a friend of hers. im guessing that probably wont happen now.

I would advise against that. It is supposed to hit here sometime Sat morning early and take 24 hours to pass. This is a very scary storm.

Please, take a crazy badass picture on something hurricanish for me, will ya?

I need it for..stuff.

Wow....we are still cleaning up from hurricane Charley....and now here comes Frances with 140MPH winds.

They are advising everyone to leave and head north, but I will be hunkering down and staying at home.
That was a mess in Orlando after Charley...

Please, take a crazy badass picture on something hurricanish for me, will ya?

I need it for..stuff.

Sure...i have about a dozen from Charley....Frances is 6 times the size of Andrew in 1992 and we remember that one don't we?

That was a mess in Orlando after Charley...

Yes, and the surrounding area. I live 23 miles from downtown Orlando and we got a LOT of damage in our area. The pine forest by UCF was snapped in half like matchsticks.

Wow....we are still cleaning up from hurricane Charley....and now here comes Frances with 140MPH winds.

They are advising everyone to leave and head north, but I will be hunkering down and staying at home.


Hey there.. remind me where you live again? I am here in Lakeland, Florida. My friend went today to buy some wood to board up her moms house down in Vero Beach and everyone in Lakeland is already sold out!!!

The kids missed 6 days of school already this school year because of Charlie. Please everyone cross your fingers for all of Florida again. Some people haven't gotten their lives back in order from Charlie yet!

Hey there.. remind me where you live again? I am here in Lakeland, Florida. My friend went today to buy some wood to board up her moms house down in Vero Beach and everyone in Lakeland is already sold out!!!

The kids missed 6 days of school already this school year because of Charlie. Please everyone cross your fingers for all of Florida again. Some people haven't gotten their lives back in order from Charlie yet!

I live in Oviedo, about a mile from the UCF campus. Things are crazy here now too. A lot of panic. The gas stations are all running out of gas and the grocery stores are running out of goods too. I was in a Publix store last night at 9PM with my girlfriend and it was chaos! This is going to be a very bad situation very fast I think.

This could be the worst hurricane in a long time, even worse than Charley. Florida gets all the hurricanes.

This could be the worst hurricane in a long time, even worse than Charley. Florida gets all the hurricanes.

No, we don't get ALL of them...remember Hugo? never touched Florida. ;)

O yeah...

Poor guys!

Frances is as big and bad as Hugo....I am expecting a frightening and exciting weekend. The panic is already in the streets. The stores are a mad house right now and the interstates are parking lots with so many people trying to leave.

God is trying to level Florida before the elections because he knows the Republicans are up to fishy practices again. :p

But seriously... good luck with Hurricane France. I hope there isnt too much damage and everyone is safe.

God is trying to level Florida before the elections because he knows the Republicans are up to fishy practices again. :p

But seriously... good luck with Hurricane France. I hope there isnt too much damage and everyone is safe.

I think we will be ok....electricity might be out for a month or more...but i think we will be ok. I will be hunkered down at home just like I was with Charley. Doubtful that I will be outside this time though. ;) I will get some good pictures with my digital camera though. It might be awhile before I can download them if the power is out as long as Ithink it will be.

God is trying to level Florida before the elections because he knows the Republicans are up to fishy practices again. :p

But seriously... good luck with Hurricane France. I hope there isnt too much damage and everyone is safe.


What? Take it your a democrat...

What? Take it your a democrat...

Nope Snake Venom. I was just having some fun. see: "But seriously..."

Although, regarding your comment assuming I am a democrat - I take it you are a Republican because you refuse to believe the facts. This isn't the thread for that though.

Bill... electricity out for a month!!! :o how can one live like that? Have you gone that long without it before in Florida? Blessings to you all my friend.

Bill... electricity out for a month!!! :o how can one live like that? Have you gone that long without it before in Florida? Blessings to you all my friend.

No, I have not...we were without it for a few days after Charley. When Hugo hit South Carolina in 1989 Columbia was without electricity for 3 weeks...and they are 120 miles from the coast.

Frances is as big and bad as Hugo was. We are 50 miles from the coast. I anticipate power being out for a long time.....:(

Ok w/e...

No, I have not...we were without it for a few days after Charley. When Hugo hit South Carolina in 1989 Columbia was without electricity for 3 weeks...and they are 120 miles from the coast.

Frances is as big and bad as Hugo was. We are 50 miles from the coast. I anticipate power being out for a long time.....:(

My area took the brunt of Charley our power was out for 2-3 weeks

My area took the brunt of Charley our power was out for 2-3 weeks


My power was out for a few days...my parents for 8 days. Frances is going to hit us from the opposite direction so i expect it will straighten out all these trees that are leaning to the right. ;)

And who said global warming isn't happening???

In the past month there were at least 5 full-blown typhoons ravaging places like the United States, Taiwan, China and Japan. More heat, more and stronger typhoons.

And who said global warming isn't happening???

In the past month there were at least 5 full-blown typhoons ravaging places like the United States, Taiwan, China and Japan. More heat, more and stronger typhoons.


Please!!! Hurricanes are a normal part of the weather. Anyone who tries to blame them on "global warming" is just wrong. This was predicted to be a busy season and it is.

And who said global warming isn't happening???

In the past month there were at least 5 full-blown typhoons ravaging places like the United States, Taiwan, China and Japan. More heat, more and stronger typhoons.

This is the same flawed logic and junk science as those who point out that Algore gave a speech on global warming on a day that set a record cold temperature.

Hurricanes Frances and Charley are the biggest one-two punch in a hundred years, but that is the blink of an eye in geological/climatic time. Simply a yearly variation.

This is the same flawed logic and junk science as those who point out that Algore gave a speech on global warming on a day that set a record cold temperature.

Hurricanes Frances and Charley are the biggest one-two punch in a hundred years, but that is the blink of an eye in geological/climatic time. Simply a yearly variation.

It's not just the hurricanes in the Atlantic. Over in the Pacific we've been hit by three abnormally strong typhoons three times a row, see? Plus this year's typhoon season began exceptionally early. There must be some starting point to Global Warming. Just waving off this year as an abnormal year, you may be waving away warnings to greater, more devastating events.

It's not just the hurricanes in the Atlantic. Over in the Pacific we've been hit by three abnormally strong typhoons three times a row, see? Plus this year's typhoon season began exceptionally early. There must be some starting point to Global Warming. Just waving off this year as an abnormal year, you may be waving away warnings to greater, more devastating events.

Global Warming is a farce. We have NO way to know what the weather patterns are over a longer period than what....150 years or so? How could we POSSIBLY know what the weather will do over a 10,000 period?

It's not just the hurricanes in the Atlantic. Over in the Pacific we've been hit by three abnormally strong typhoons three times a row, see? Plus this year's typhoon season began exceptionally early. There must be some starting point to Global Warming. Just waving off this year as an abnormal year, you may be waving away warnings to greater, more devastating events.

And if there are fewer hurricanes than normal next year, will that "wave away" global warming? What about the fact that, where I live, we have had an unusually cool summer?

You can't make long-term climatological predictions based on one year's occurences. If you do, you are not doing science.

God is trying to level Florida before the elections because he knows the Republicans are up to fishy practices again. :p

But seriously... good luck with Hurricane France. I hope there isnt too much damage and everyone is safe.
I knew it!

These damn things just keep coming and coming. I hope St. Augustine makes it.

This has been fun, but it is time for me to leave work (some job huh) and head home to prepare for the coming storm.

See ya when we get electricity back......

Hey everyone checking in from Lakeland,

Things are crazy here just like in your area Biff. I had to go to Walmart today to get my daughter some cold medicine and the lines were crazy!!! The hospital has asked for staff to volunteer over the weekend and if I didn't have my daughter I would be there to help out but she was terrified last time with me being with her can't imagine how she would be without me here with her.

Good luck to everyone that gets in the path of Frances.

They are advising everyone to leave and head north, but I will be hunkering down and staying at home.
Well I hope you have a hurricane proofed house. You know hurricane straps on the roof as well as shutters. I have family in Fla in Broward and Dade and they're not moving as they built concrete houses and applied Caribbean hurricane standards (which are higher than S. Fla).

Good luck

Let us cross our fingers and hope it makes a steep curve north and annihilates New York City. That would be a very good thing.

Well....it has slowed down and won't get here until Sunday. I was watching the news at 2 AM and they were showing I-95 and the turnpike.....both were parking lots. They have updated the power of this thing and say we won't get any more wind than we did with Charley. So I expect the same amount of damage to my house that Charley did....none.

However, my business partner spent 8 hours in line yesterday to get some plywood. The panic is amazing.

I live in part of Australia where you get cyclones/hurricanes frequently as well. In fact, I live in a city called Darwin that got flattened by Cyclone Tracy. Now most buildings are built to a cyclone code, none of those trailer parks to shred like in Florida.

Yeah. Why won't Americans build in concrete?

hurricanes are just another way the terrorists are attacking us. fucking al-qaeda and their weather machines.

Yeah. Why won't Americans build in concrete?
Money, not to mention stability (Florida is a big swamp)

Money, not to mention stability (Florida is a big swamp)

BAH! HUMBUG! The richest country in the world not being able to protect its borders is one thing - CAN IT NOT EVEN PROVIDE STURDY HOUSING FOR HER PEOPLE AGAINST HURRICANSE??

The effect of Global Warming pounding on the largest polluter in the world. How fitting.

Well....it has slowed down and won't get here until Sunday. I was watching the news at 2 AM and they were showing I-95 and the turnpike.....both were parking lots. They have updated the power of this thing and say we won't get any more wind than we did with Charley. So I expect the same amount of damage to my house that Charley did....none.

However, my business partner spent 8 hours in line yesterday to get some plywood. The panic is amazing.
Good luck--last I saw the winds had slowed and it was a category 2, so maybe you'll get lucky again. My girlfriend's family is in Fort Lauderdale, so they're hunkered down just in case it decides to pull an Andrew and head due west at the last second.

hurricanes are just another way the terrorists are attacking us. fucking al-qaeda and their weather machines.
:D I don't know if yopu intended to be amusing or not, but that is funny...

Let us cross our fingers and hope it makes a steep curve north and annihilates New York City. That would be a very good thing.


Everyone please note it appears there is a new nation with almost the same spelling as mine..... so please don't confuse our statements and views.....

thank you

Cetaceas

Checking in from Lakeland this is going to be the longest weekend of my life!!! I swear this is the hardest part of a hurricane the waiting.... what is concerning me is the fact of how slow it is moving and that it will take about 24 hours to move over the state. For now it appears to have decreased in strength not size but it has yet to hit the warm water.....

Good luck to all it touches.....

They kicked us off the beach for no reason. We could of surfed alot longer. People just freak out too much. The reporters are like, "Holy nightmare! There is wind and now it's raining. Let me measure. Ok folks it's a total of 23 mph, do not go outside and watch the news as long as you can!"