# MADs: batten down the hatches! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-batten-down-the-hatches/199199 "2003-09-02T19:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-batten-down-the-hatches/199199/21 "2003-09-05T04:35:10Z")
I hope everyone is doing good and riding out the storm well. But what I really want to know is my vacation starts next Friday and we are due in Myrtle Beach, SC. Will the storm be over by then or do I need to cancel our reservations now?😕 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-batten-down-the-hatches/199199/22 "2003-09-05T11:37:20Z")
We’re supposed to get soaked by Henri starting this afternoon. My yard could use the rain. And it appears Bermuda is gonna get hit hard by Fabian. **Ashkicker** , I would think you’d be fine next week. Bear in mind, tho, I only took one meteorology class 25 years ago and I only got a B. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-batten-down-the-hatches/199199/23 "2003-09-05T13:02:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ashkicker \* > \*\*I hope everyone is doing good and riding out the storm well. But what I really want to know is my vacation starts next Friday and we are due in Myrtle Beach, SC. Will the storm be over by then or do I need to cancel our reservations now?😕 \*\* You should be fine, Henri is expected to have moved past here by then. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-batten-down-the-hatches/199199/24 "2003-09-05T15:41:20Z")
Hurricane Gloria, 1985. Wellesley College, Massachusetts. Everyone’s boyfriends came out from Cambridge bearing alcohol; we taped up the windows and partied in the hallways, but not so hard that we wouldn’t be able to listen for something that sounded like a train, a sign that the Texans and Kansans among us informed us was a tornado that would send us to the cellar. Earliest hurricane I saw as a baby: Camille. New Englanders still talk about the nameless storm of '36. ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-batten-down-the-hatches/199199/25 "2003-09-05T18:23:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*You should be fine, Henri is expected to have moved past here by then. \*\* Oh shit. Who’s Henri? Or do I really want to know? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-batten-down-the-hatches/199199/26 "2003-09-05T18:34:58Z")
[Tropical Storm Henri](http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_astorm12+shtml/051738.shtml?), mentioned by **FCM** earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-batten-down-the-hatches/199199/27 "2003-09-06T04:00:12Z")
Eee-Gads. Well I guess that explains why the rates are so cheap for hotels right now and I thought it was because it was after Labor Day.:rolleyes: I guess that’s what I get for being cheap and going during hurricane season instead of just paying the higher rates in the summer and fighting the college crowd. My apology to **FCM** I somehow missed your message. I won’t hold it against you if you are wrong about the weather forecast. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-batten-down-the-hatches/199199/28 "2003-09-15T01:14:55Z")
Looks like **Ginger** is going to see a hurricane after all, Isabelle is predicted to [head right up the Chesapeake](http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/images/isabeltracking091403-11am.jpg). Oy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-batten-down-the-hatches/199199.md?page=1)