I thought at first the thread title was a South Park reference:
Jimbo: “My God, it’s coming right for us!!!”
<shoots hurricane with a bazooka>
Gyrate - as it happens, I’m a big South Park fan. As it further happens, that episode was on last night - after I started this thread. Am I psychic or what?!? 
FCM (and any others that might be impacted), have you had a chance to check out your emergency stores and rations yet? They’re will like be a run on such items over the course of this next week.
Where’s my coffee?
“There will likely be…”
Well, from the tracking maps it looks like FL can calm down. That thing’s heading towards SC.
YES! Hurricane party at SpazCat’s place!
At least they have a great caption:
“World-eating Category 5 storm headed for U.S. coast. Your dog wants inside”
Yep, Ocala - hurricane shelter for Florida.
There’s certainly no other reason to come here!
Where do you get this? Everything I read indicates there’s still no way to predict where it’ll end up. Of course, as soon as I move all my outside stuff inside, that guarantees she’ll come nowhere near NE FL.
First of all, how did I miss this thread?
Second of all, do I dare look at the four people who already posted in mine?
Let me just concede up front, before I look over there, humans raised by canines have enough trouble typing. It took me 10 years just to straighten out my fingers.
:smack:
I have been through so many near misses and unnecessary panic about hurricanes that I pay little attention until a few days before landfall. Of course, being a life-long Floridian, I have the “stash” of batteries, boards, sandbags , etc, all ready to go! The last time we had a hurricane panic I ran to my parent’s house about 40 miles inland and I can say for sure that I would rather stay home or go to a shelter if it happens again.
Beagle, I think it’s kinda funny that your thread title evoked yet another South Park reference to me - I’ve now got Kyle’s Mom is a Bitch running thru my head!
Great image of it here (warning: high resolution. Takes time to load.):
The eye on this thing is spectacular.
Watching these hurricanes come in is like watching God bowling.
I, unlike Kristi, panic each time a hurricane starts to come this way. I am a control freak and know that there is absolutely nothing I can do to stop it or protect what I have. So I will stress for the next week until we know where it is going and when it will hit. At least I don’t live on beachside here in Daytona but still only 10 minutes away from the beach so it is still pretty freaky
Amazingly enough, not everything is on the Internet yet. Chances are this is one of those things.
I was living in Columbia, SC in 1989. I was keeping track of Hugo’s progress through the news at the time. We knew several days ahead of time that SC was in the dead center of its projected track. That didn’t change as it approached, and it did, in fact, go through Charleston and Columbia, which is about as direct a hit on SC as could be managed.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
Yikes, you guys! If you’re going to get out, don’t wait till the last minute! There was a huge amount of traffic on I-16 a couple of years ago when they thought they needed to evacuate some of the Georgia coastal cities.
I think it would not be good to be caught on the expressway in traffic 5 miles out of town when the hurricane struck.
I’ll be thinking of y’all and wishing you well…
I live a few blocks from the beach just south of Myrtle Beach, SC. I also just got back from the insurance office where I signed us up for $20,000 worth of renter’s insurance. With a 6 week old baby, we’re getting the hell out of dodge if this thing comes here.
My parents are in Melbourne, FL and my brother’s in Virginia Beach. Someone’s gonna get wet in my family! We’re all hoping for a Wilmington landfall (sorry, Wilmingtonites).
RTFirefly, I tried to find one and couldn’t, that was the only reason for asking. The only point I was trying to make was that this far away from landfall, forecasting is a crapshoot at best and a source of mass hysteria at worst.
My gut feeling is that Isabel is hitting South Carolina as a Cat. 3. I’m puttin’ up ten bucks. If I’m wrong, I’ll send ten dollars to the American Red Cross. Anyone else wanna play?
Isabel blows.
I can disprove that. In the 60’s the eye of Hurricane Dora came right over our house (in the San Jose section of Jax). We lost electricity for about two weeks because of downed lines. Luckily we had a gas stove, so were very popular in the neighborhood.
Oh, and by the way, Jacksonville is the CAPITAL of South Georgia.
5que, a Cracker now north of the Mason-Dixon Line
My realtor called a bit ago. His wife was supposed to be going on a cruise next week. He’s pretty sure that isn’t going to happen now.
How high do hurricanes extend? Can an airliner fly over one safely? I’m thinking if it goes ashore north of me, I may not be able to fly out anyway because the flight path pretty much parallels I-95. I’m tellin’ ya, I don’t need this kind of aggravation!