Fuck you Biatch. My windows are protected, I have three cases of beer and 50 cigars. Bring it on motherfucker.
You’re going to smoke 50 cigars between now and when Ivan passes? Dude, it ain’t gonna be the hurricane that kills you.
You guys shouldn’t make your houses out of cardboard. :rolleyes:
I must agree on the “Fuck you, Ivan,” but I’ll pass on the sitting here and waiting it out. Nope, I’m outta here today. That’s not a hard decision when the first floor of the house is several inches below sea level.
My boyfriend is right. My geology prof was right. New Orleans shouldn’t fucking be here. It makes no sense.
We’ll probably be fine, but that motherfucker’s aiming straight at us right now. And a bunch of other people, because the forecasters have been blowing smoke out of their asses for days about where the fucker’s going. I don’t believe them anymore. They’ve been wrong for about a week now. I’m not going to sit here and let a Cat 4 or 5 slam into me because they THINK it’s going to go east.
So, fuck. Fuckity fuck fucking fuck.
If the path in your link turns out to be right, Ivan might well do to Atlanta what Hugo did to Charlotte. Lots of destruction, a huge mess, two-week-long power outages. If you’re on the coast with this thing, it can kill you. It ain’t just the winds; it’s the storm surge, the lightning, and the flooding. Plus, hurricanes of this strength and size typically spawn dozens of tornadoes. Get. The hell. Outta there.
Yeah, sorry about that The Long Road. I was just so sick and tired of the storms that I asked whatever deity that was listening to divert it somewhere else. My fault. Just send me the bills for those cigars and we’ll call it even.
Rabbit, don’t get the wrong idea and think it’s a macho thing or I don’t respect the storm’s power. My fear is that after evacuating, my house get’s no damage but gets looted, much like what happened to many people after Charley. Another concern is a minor puncture in the window protection which would be fixable but with no one here causes the roof to fail.
Liberal, the storm would be down to tropical storm strength by the time it reached Atlanta so the Hugo comparison would not be correct. Hugo was a cat 4 when it made landfall. Evacuating is a hard decision beyond wanting to protect my home. I have family in areas of town who can’t leave for various reasons. If I leave, I can’t get back in so if they need me…
Amp, my Uncle lives in Palm Springs and has been living on canned food for awhile now so I’m not wishing anything on you guys.
Finagle, the 50 cigars are mostly for the aftermath. If we get hit, there won’t be much to do but ward off looters like this guy and smoke cigars
Actually, the worst storm Atlanta has had in a long time was tropical storm Opal. It parked itself over middle and north Georgia for a solid week and rained steadily. Result: massive flooding in a lot of Georgia rivers whose headwaters arise in middle and south Georgia, particularly the Flint and Oconee. The victims – cities in middle and south Georgia. Albany and Macon were hard hit, the city of Newton (a tiny city) more or less vanished, downtown Montezuma was pretty much underwater for a day or two but survived, and Bainbridge had a close call as the levee almost got topped over. It was a matter of a couple of feet.
Doesn’t have to be a Category 5 hurricane to thoroughly fuck you over, as we discovered.
11:41pm and we are expecting the storm in less than 24 hours so it’s time for an updated bitch session related to Ivan.
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To the fucking idiot down the street: Hurricanes produce high winds. I know that may come as a shock but it’s going to be windy. If you did know this already, then why in the fuck did you use duct tape to put up plywood over your windows?? What in the fuck was that all about? That plywood will rip loose and go flying down the street. You evacuated before I saw this but expect negative comments next time I see you.
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To the city officials: Great job asking people to evacuate. Everyone took your advice at the same time while you didn’t put forth even a pathetic effort at traffic control. 5 hours to make a 15 minute drive. The favorite term on the local news for the traffic right now is “parking lot”. That’s about the perfect description for it. The plan we were hearing about, Contraflow(both sides of the highway used for outbound traffic) was not put into place until 4 hours after the time the State Troopers claimed it was in place. The news has been ripping the local officials a new one over this so maybe it will be fixed.
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Madam Blanco, being the governor of the state means you need to take care of your state. Refusing to talk to the local news while going on Fox nation news is not a good thing. We voted you into office and probably will vote you out.
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To every stupid fuck at Lowes and Home Depot today: Either you badly wanted to be on the news or you have two brain cells. We live in a hurricane prone area. Buy the goddamn plywood during the winter and cut it for your windows, then store it in a dry place and you will have it each hurricane season. Are you people that fucking pathetically unprepared and stupid? Every year there are lines of you idiots at the store buying things one day before the storm hits that you should already have.
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To the stupid fucks who managed to get the last minute plywood: A few nails won’t do shit. Go read some websites about how to make real hurricane boards. Your crap is going to fly off about 15 minutes after duct tape guy’s garbage.
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For the people at the grocery store yesterday: It’s a hurricane, not the apocalypse. Going down the aisle using your arm to mass dump canned goods into your basket is just fucking bonkers. Calm the fuck down people, it’s a storm, not a nuclear war. When the missiles are coming in 30 minutes, the go apeshit over the canned goods.
Well fuck, time for another beer.
It looks like it could do the same thing for Chattanooga and Birmingham this time. The updated predicted track has it parked over north Alabama and south Tennessee as a tropical depression at least until Monday night.
Guess where I am. In my rental house on a floodplain. With all my shit up on pink styrofoam.
I think we’re F.U.C.K.E.D.
The Long Road, do you have the firepower needed if looters come a knocking at your door? Also, what are your plans if your roof does come off?
Good luck to all New Orleans dopers. Here’s hoping that Ivan turns into a pussycat overnight.
Hehe, I like that guy.
Hang in there long road, good luck.
P.S. Why don’t you film the whole thing Blair Witch style and sell it as some indie film?
My brother and his family live in Robertsdale, AL which is across the bay from Mobile. He has been in France working for the past 2 months. He comes home on Monday. I hope he has a home left when he returns. At least his wife had the good sense (for a fucking change) to take the kids to my parents house in Birmingham until this whole thing is over.
I talked to my brother about a hour ago and he is, understandably, going ape shit. I told him that his wife and kids were at our folks’ house. He seemed a bit relieved. I know for a fact that she did NO preperation to the house before she left. They have pine trees all around thier house. A pine cone or tree branch getting blown around at 140 MPH can do quite a bit of damage (not to mention all the other normal things people leave in thier yards on a regular basis).
I imagine that I will be taking next week off of work and heading down to L.A. to help him and all the rest of my family living down there clean up and repair what we can. I really miss living there, but I sure as hell don’t miss the hurricanes.
Jeanne’s coming next. Almost strengthening to hurricane strength already.
I’ve a Remington 12 gauge shotgun and a Colt .40 Cal pistol with plenty of ammo. Usually they are locked away but happen to be out and about right now. Looks like the storm is trying to turn into Miss. and Alabama but the forcasters are not sure if it will.
Anyone else now think those climate-change pussies might just have a point?
Anyway, my parents, sister, brother-in-law and nephew live in Chattanooga, so they might be in for a soaking. Luckily the parents live on a hill, so hopefully my sister’s family will decamp there.
Oh, lord yes. I liked things a lot better back when we had no hurricanes.
Don’t we have El Nino this year? Couldn’t that be responsible for the wacky weather?
Yeah, I remember hearing somehting about indicators of a new El Niño starting up.
I was referring to quantity, not ‘quality’.