Regarding Gustav
 

For the record, I've decided not to leave. I'll probably be without power, so if I'm not heard from in about a month, think the worst. I say a month because with Rita we were without power for about 20 days after the storm hit. Just for reference, the closest town likely to be mentioned on a newscast is Lake Charles, LA.

Yeah, I have been watching it. Looks like you are gonna take another direct hit.

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What's Gustav? A tornado?

Kirby, meet Gustav.

Gustav, Kirby.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...av08onCuba.jpg

Lawl. o.o


That's BIIIIIIIIG.

Yeah... It's near Florida? Whoa...

Holy shit, they are saying it could be a 5 when it hits

I honestly wish you the best of luck. Stay safe.

^ What he said. Dam...

Eeks, good luck Hraes. D:

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...av08onCuba.jpg

:cries::cries::cries: Gustav..pl0x don't come north... I'm sick of hurricanes..=(

Edit: T_T It's Category 4 now goin' 15mph NW..It's expected to pass the loop current and rapidly increase in the gulf T_T

They're considering it the "Mother of all storms" right now =( Thats NEVER good.

this... this... :err:

It's pretty bad...I have a feeling it's going to be worse than Katrina =\
I really don't want to go through all this again...

Good luck. I have family in the path too. At least one I actually care about in Florida too, but it looks like he's just gonna get grazed. I have an Aunt in Corpus Christi TX as well, she might get slammed depending on how it goes, I don't really know her though.

Good luck to everyone in the area.

if I see that coming to my area i will srsly get my dog and computer and go to china >.>

Best of luck. Be safe.

you should leave your gonna get hit by a lvl 4 hurricane sry do u value ur life?

If it was level 4..it wouldn't kill us..However it's a Category 4
I feel pretty bad for New Orleans though. August 30th, 2005, Katrina devestated New Orleans and now September 2nd, 2008, Gustav hits...Ironic ey? (3 years and 3 days apart)

Super Typhoon Tip >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hurricane Gustav
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Tip

Good luck Hrae and hopefully We will all see you soon.

I'll be praying for you.

Be safe.

ull beee fiiiiine :D i lived thro 4 in a row xD i was even out walking with a video camera in a catagory 4. as long as ure home will stay intact u should be fine. if ure near a beach tho i wish u the best of luck. and watch out for flying toasters......wen i was walkin i was commin bak down my street an my eye was on the camera right, then i saw this thing commin towards me on the street, i couldnt hear anything over the wind an rain, so i was like wtf is that an as soon as i sed that (its even on camera) a toaster flew in teh air an hit my thigh haha. i also had a tree fall on me, twuz my fault tho. it was on our powerlines an i had to get it off so i went out with my U lookin saw an cut it down then ralized HOLY FK IM HOLDING A TREE INBETWEEN POWER LINES AHHH!!!! with the force of the wind it made it extremely hard to maintain an i managed to get it out of the powerlines, then the pressure was extreme an instead of throwin it down i tried to bak up som reason, forget as to y(possibly cuz im an idiot), but the wind blew me down, an so the tree jus completly rapes me an im stuk under a tree with no shirt, and rain feelin like 1,000,000 needles pokin me for a good 15 mins then my uncle sees i have a tree on me (lolz) an he runs out the house an goes WTF U DOIN MAN, an we push it off me and laugh then play poker on the porch.

good luck

its at level 88 give it time an itll be capped

but really think positive, the worst thing u could possibly do is worry honestly. jus take it as it goes. most likely ul be fine if ure not near the beach

Eh, I should be fine as I'm on the western side of it. Trust me, I've been through my fair share. I've lived on the Gulf coast for nearly 30 years. The only one I've ever left for was Rita (which everyone seems to forget due to Katrina) and she hit just west of here, putting me on the bad side of it. Minimal property damage, no flooding. This one should be a walk in the park.

The only problem I see is that I've miscounted how many caffienated drinks I should have had on hand. I don't think I'll make it through Thursday so I'll be even more on edge. No power and no caffiene will end up working on my nerves.

Leaving.. Smart move.

I was listening to the radio and some people that lived in the projected hit zone were staying because they had pets/farm animals that they wanted to keep there... Crazy, delusional people...

Protecting property that people have worked hard to gain is delusional? I think its more delusional to give in to the mass hysteria that some people are getting about this storm. Hurricanes have been hitting the coast for hundreds of years and they've been known to do all sorts of unpredictable things. To uproot and evacuate for every one that comes along would mean being out of the area for months at a time. That's just not tenable. They've had "mandatory" evacuations from Mississippi to Texas for Gustav. Its insane the amount of fear this thing is generating. People need to take a deep breath. If someone is directly on the coast and/or in a low-lying area, sure. They need to go. And those people know who they are. As for the rest of us? We should shutter the windows, get some canned food, and suck it up for a few days until power is restored.

Edit: At least I'm not doing what these crazy guys are doing:

http://thestormreport.com/livetrack.php/

I think they've been up for too long. Their commentary is getting really weird.

Looks like right before landfall it was downgraded to a Cat. 2, but the difference in wind spped is only 5 miles per hour, so no big change. I saw Lake Charles on the news and other than wind and rain, it looked like it was surviving. Hang in there and have fun JT. Hope you don't lose power. THey aresaying the biggest threat is going to be flooding and the storms created because of Gustav.

It is still serious and scary when you consider the distance between the ends of the red line (Galveston, Tx to Gulfport, Ms) by lat/long distance is approx 350 miles (+/- any small amount).

And the blue is a rough idea of where Hrae is at.

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...akeCharles.jpg

We still only have a light breeze going on. It'll be about five or six hours before it gets close enough to be felt here, and by then it'll be just a good, hard storm. We might not even lose power at this rate.

Well..After landfall gustav went back down to Cat.2, but I still got Hanna coming after me -pokes map a little bit in atlantic- theres huricane Hanna and some tropical despression out there coming for meee T_T

I feel like putting up a large sign on the Interstate that says "WELCOME BACK, SUCKERS!"

im glad nothing serious happened to you :laugh:

Do eeet.

I swear, watching the national news you'd think we were nearly wiped out again. I heard not 20 minutes ago a complete tool on Fox News (Shepard Smith, big surprise) that LC is supposed to get 24 inches of rain overnight. Er, hello...look at a radar map. The rain bands have passed. Some stations like that are scaremongering and then the others (like on the Weather Channel) are nearly orgasming over it. Weatherporn freaks.

and whoooos the one that sed itll be fine xD xD xD i was scared on my 1st hurricane then the 2nd one came, then the third then the forth, by the 2nd one were like wtf another one, this is stupid now, we went 2 months with no power. thats y i was walkin in em, they dun scare me in the least, unless i was near the coast.