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Post by AngelZ on Sept 1, 2008 20:10:25 GMT -5
Good to hear that the worst of it has passed - although though pics still look pretty bad We don't get very many storms down here, we tend to specialize in drought! Earlier this year a large part of our State lost power and 1000's of homes were without power for 4 or 5 days. Every time I heard someone complain I kept reminding them that in the scheme of things we have it pretty good down here. It must be pretty hard living in the eye of the storm so to speak. Good luck
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Post by shywriter on Sept 1, 2008 21:43:49 GMT -5
(this is a novelty, to have internet & TV reports available as it happens -- because all power was out early in Katrina we had no news or photos of what was going on outside our windows...) How long were you cut off like that? Totally cut off from everything & everyone from its arrival until hour twelve or thirteen, when we ventured out to find neighbors venturing out... but had only neighbor contact (and no one had phones, internet, cable, etc) for maybe a day & a half. Our statewide NPR system went back on the air about then, and about the same time a handful of New Orleans radio people all cast in together to start broadcasting on one, shared channel-- only then did we get an idea how widespread & devastating the storm had been. (Chilling; the New Orleans station just opened the lines and people were calling from attics where they were trapped, begging for help, from the Superdome, describing conditions, from all the neighborhoods describing all that had happened ... I've always wondered if they managed to preserve that on tape, it was beyond belief.) No power here for a week (I think a few places in our town got it working 3-4 days in for emergency and high-need purposes); no cable (and here in quasi-rural small town Ms, therefore, no TV) for about 3-4 weeks, as I recall. The first pictures we saw were on internet, when I managed to get a phone line to connect to earthlink (yay for hanging onto a dial-up acct!), with my laptop recharged on my generous neighbor's generator... and that was probably about day 5 or 6. So I suspect damn near everyone saw what had happened to the Coast before we did!
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Post by shywriter on Sept 1, 2008 21:54:17 GMT -5
Good to hear that the worst of it has passed - although though pics still look pretty bad We don't get very many storms down here, we tend to specialize in drought! Earlier this year a large part of our State lost power and 1000's of homes were without power for 4 or 5 days. Every time I heard someone complain I kept reminding them that in the scheme of things we have it pretty good down here. It must be pretty hard living in the eye of the storm so to speak. Good luck Thank you! Where we are, it's still stormy/gusty but it just reminds me of an active spring night in Indiana during tornado season! Once in a while one touches down, but usually the storms are over with only minor debris in the streets, etc. Reading reports along the coast, there's been damage and flooding, and curfews are in effect for an undetermined period (reassessing in the morning) but all in all the Katrina-hit areas along the Mississippi coast and New Orleans seemed to have made it without major destruction... I saw there was a levee over-topped in New Orleans, but they were taking evasive action. I saw that Baton Rouge, home of LSU (Louisiana State University), had thousands of trees down as they were just a hair east of the eye as it passed though south Louisiana. Thanks for all the PMs and e-mails and notes here, everyone! Sorry to have hogged the front page with all the shots, but playing with photobucket & the computer and the hurricane on line kept my mind off the real storm outside!
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Post by mari on Sept 2, 2008 2:32:02 GMT -5
Thanks for all the PMs and e-mails and notes here, everyone! Sorry to have hogged the front page with all the shots, but playing with photobucket & the computer and the hurricane on line kept my mind off the real storm outside! Thanks for taking the time in the middle of the storm to let us know you’re okay, I was thinking you must get really tired of all those outsiders wanting to know what’s going on… The damage still looks bad from my middle-European point of view… More good luck
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Post by shywriter on Sept 13, 2008 1:26:35 GMT -5
Everyone keep Galveston and the rest of the coastal cities in Texas in your thoughts -- Ike was way off our coast, and "only" a Category 2 when it went past us on its way to Texas, but we had 18 hours of high winds, flooding, and a surge of our own --
this one is huge, and will impact a lot of people--
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Post by AngelZ on Sept 14, 2008 18:38:45 GMT -5
ONLY?
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Post by shywriter on Sept 15, 2008 1:53:52 GMT -5
ONLY? Yeah, kinda weird way to think of it, isn't it? I guess with up to Category 5 (a couple storms in the past few years got to that point during their lives) it's all relative... Even though Ike wasn't as devastating as they feared, Galveston & other areas took a big hit -- we can hope that FEMA & Tx are better prepared this time, but from personal experience I can assure you all that after Katrina, it was the individuals who volunteered their time and resources immediately afterward who saved lives -- literally. If you have given any thought at all to kicking in even a small bit of help, don't ever doubt the power of what a couple individuals, a small group, or a few bucks can do.
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Post by spikeloud on Sept 15, 2008 13:58:42 GMT -5
had a tornado up here in indiana yesterday...with all the rain...leftovers from the big storm down south
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Post by Michele on Oct 6, 2008 22:54:33 GMT -5
We are waiting out a storm, the joys of living on a island.
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Post by Michele on Nov 29, 2008 0:29:58 GMT -5
Its summer time here.
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Post by maria656 on Nov 29, 2008 23:55:40 GMT -5
It's 29 November and we are above 0F degrees and it hasn't snowed all week [though that is supposed to change soon].
I guess I'm used to it now - I saw a commercial on a station from the midwest for the World Series last month [we had a lot of snow in October] and my thought was 'what kind of fool is playing baseball in the snow?' ;D
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Post by spikeloud on Nov 30, 2008 13:14:54 GMT -5
why "baseball fools "...and still i say GO CUBS !! for 09 ;D now them football fools who sit outside in febuary sub zero snow storms with their shirts off and painted in team colors...derserve the pueumonia they get at least most of baseball season takes place during the summer
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Post by AngelZ on Nov 30, 2008 17:22:38 GMT -5
The weather is totally weird at the moment. I know that Melbourne is renowned for '4 seasons in one day', but 30C/86F and giant hailstones on one day (actually at the same time) is ridiculous!
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Post by dzero on Dec 14, 2008 17:46:34 GMT -5
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Post by AngelZ on Dec 14, 2008 18:20:29 GMT -5
Me too. It's supposed to be Summer and it's only 21C/70F and raining continuously. Ok I suppose one months worth of rain in one day is a good thing considering that we're in the middle of a horrendous drought...
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