Don’t look now but another storm is sneaking up onFlorida (or possibly Georgia and/or South Carolina?). I guess all the fun couldn’t be left to Louisiana and Texas.
As of right now, the forecast I read says Hanna should remain a tropical storm as it passes through the Keys. Let’s hope so!
Never mind.
My coworkers and I were talking about T.S. Hanna this afternoon. Based on the current five-day projection, it could be heading to our area as a hurricane by the end of next week.
I have two deadlines at the end of next week. If the forecasts show Hanna headed our way, I’ll have to get both publications finished well before the deadline. There goes my carefree Labor Day weekend. 
I hope not. I love this afternoon rain, but we really don’t need a hurricane.
Blast those wily transsexuals! Will NOTHING stop them??
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Hanna is predicted to make landfall in the Southeastern U.S. as a Category 1 storm later this week. Five-day cone.
There are two more storms behind her.
Yep, we’re in hurricane mode at work. I’ve already had to bitch-slap other departments for not following our deadlines.
Like I said during the Fay thread…How are we supposed to meet our deadlines if we have to wait on other people!!!
Yeah, dammit, it’s supposed to be passing through central NC Friday night/Saturday morning. Just in time to probably screw up my flight to Chicago.
Oh noes, it’s the 3 headed monster, a trifecta of storms… It looks likes Hanna will be knocking on my doorstep Thurs/Fri. I really don’t mind these smaller storms, which I’ll gladly take over a Cat3/4 hurricane.
It’s times like these I don’t miss my old job, trying to coordinate field techs to assist with VSAT realignment after the storms blow through.
I count four.
Floridopers, get those hurricane shutters out!
No need – my new apartment has hurricane windows. 
I’m not too worried about Hanna at the moment. Unless the projected path jogs back toward the west, it shouldn’t be that bad for South Florida. Josephine, on the other hand, looks like she could be heading toward Palm Beach County. I’m working ahead on all of my publications just in case.
Let’s hope that Hanna is only a “minor” hurricane, wherever it makes landfall.
You’re either not in Florida or a recent transplant.
Based on these things, hurricane shutters get put up at the last minute. If you don’t get wet putting up the hurricane shutters, you jumped the gun.
(As a footnote to point #1, built-in shutters are easy not a royal pain in the ass. However, their ease of use means you can wait even longer before bothering to close them up.)
Humor aside, except for college and a brief internship right after, I’ve lived in Florida all my life. During that entire time, only 3 hurricanes were memorable enough for me to even remember their names. Of those 3, one is Katrina, which I only remember because of the news coverage of New Orleans – for us, it just meant a few days without power. The other two are Andrew (1992) and Wilma (2005).
For the most part, hurricanes are non-events. Tropical storms are definitely non-events. Anything from between a tropical storm and a weak category 3 hurricane is equivalent to a snow day up North – you can probably use it to get out of work for a day and occasionally lose power for a day or three, but it’s not even something you remember two months down the road.
I’m not in Florida.
Excuse the hell out of me for being sympathetic to my neighbors.
Interesting that you’ve lived in Florida all your life yet haven’t seen anything but ‘non-event’ hurricanes. Eleven have adversely impacted Florida at Cat 3 or 4 in my lifetime.
I took your comment and used it to segue into a somewhat tongue-in-cheek but somewhat serious presentation on the Floridian view on hurricanes. If my inference that you aren’t a Floridian based on your storm shutter comment offended you, I apologize.
I never said I hadn’t seen anything but non-event hurricanes. I even listed a couple that stuck in my mind (and reviewing the hurricane lists on Wikipedia, you can add Ivan as being somewhat memorable).
However, I did say that for the most part, hurricanes are non-events, and I stand by that. Eleven adverse impacts is a drop in the bucket compared to all the complete misses, near misses, and minor drizzles. We’d go crazy if we started seriously worrying about every named storm that wandered out of the Atlantic.
Parts of the Florida coastline have the highest frequency of experiencing intense hurricanes in the U.S.
The strongest hurricane on record to strike the U.S. made landfall in the Keys. Four of the ten most intense hurricanes on record struck Florida.
I don’t want to get wrapped up in a bunch of quibbling over things, but I just really can’t look at Florida’s situation and say “hurricanes are a non-event”.
Y’know, I know what hurricane shutters are, how they are put up, and how they function. I’ve heard of folks putting up the ones on the ‘hardest’ windows at the beginning of season and leaving the rest until last. My remark about getting them out didn’t mean “OMG PUT SHUTTERS UP NOW !!11!!”.
Erasmus, sorry the hamsters ate my last post.
I think I was projecting there - I hear people all the time with “It’s never flooded here” and then wanting to build a house in the river or something. I apologize for projecting that kind of thinking onto your post.
Here’s hoping that this season is non-eventful. For everyone in hurricane territory. 
I’m actually hoping it will hit here so I can have a day off. I just want to sleep a little more. No major damage, just some rain, wind, and quality time at home with Flanderchick.
I think I see the problem here. You’re dropping the “for the most part” from what I said, which is understandable since it’s often used as verbal filler. However, I meant it in a meaningful sense, and I was also using a broader definition of hurricane to include the hype and reporting on potential hurricanes and such.
I suppose my position could be restated as:
While there are some major hurricanes that come through and really tear shit up, the majority of them don’t. So while there are serious hurricanes, just the fact that something is a hurricane isn’t sufficient in and of itself for it to be considered serious.
Yeah, I think I ended up misreading it that way. Sorry about that.
Heh. No problem. It does take a bit of a cavalier attitude towards hurricanes to live down here and stay sane, but at the same time, we do take the serious ones seriously. We know that it can and has “flooded here”, so to speak.
Hear, hear.