Hurricane Ike
 

Starting to get a bit of rain, we've had heavy wind all day. The power will probably go out on this one, since we're on the "bad" side of it. Isn't this time of year great?

www.stormpulse.com

Was it Ike or some other storm that they said it was gonna break some records?

Anyway be safe, dont be a hero!!!!!!We want you back when the power come back on.

There are a lot of people who just totally lose their minds when a hurricane gets close. Watching news reports makes you think Neptune himself is sending Krakens in to rape puppies or something. They're hysterical. Granted, those directly in the path should be concerned, but people overreact. Our local parish council didn't issue even a voluntary evacuation for this one, even though this is is just about as close and we're on the strong side this time, as opposed to Gustav, where they issued a "mandatory" evac order. Its very frustrating.

Yeah its just like the Fires here in So Cali...Every year the news makes it seem like Hades arose to punish us with his fire( and rape puppies >.>). Still, have fun at home ^^

I heard on the news that people in Texas are ordered to evacuate. Are you in Texas? Or just near the storm?

What category is the storm anyways?

I'm on the border of Louisiana and Texas on I-10. That link in my first post gives a good amount of information about current conditions. Its currently a Cat. 2. Galveston is going to get smacked around like a red-headed stepchild, but I'll be about 100ish miles from where it comes ashore if the current models hold true.

I remember when Simi had a fire... and I got a Fire Day off of school because my house was right next to the freeway where it happened. 8D

Scared me so bad though ._.

Most of my family lives in Houston ._.

Your family is going to get wet. Well, getting wet. Just like here. Pretty decent little storm we've got going on. We're not quite to the "We have cows!" level, but we still might lose power.

Gas prices have gone up already by 60 cents here. Yay!

I heard Virginia was the first state to get to $5.00?

hey H, i kno what u mean about people freakin the hell out. im in jerz, an u kno how we got that tropical storm bs blah blah, well the whoooooolle week proir i was hearin people trip on it, "o its gunna get bigger before it hit" "are u buying extrA supplies preparing for the storm" GAH! i mean i can get its jerz an all, they dont get hit by much of nuthin, but still. for a tropical storm. i jus laughed at them an was like watch, were gunna get rain, lotsa rain and thats all thatll come of it. then it hit, and thats exactly what happen. i dont even kno if we got hit xD, i really dun worry bout that stuff, but if we did get hit, i lol at the people who were panicing

OK, not much damage, a few boards here and there. Lots of tree limbs. We still haven't got power (yay generator). All and all, not so bad.

Most generators are for powering lamps or refridgerators ._.

Now its coming for my state!

I heard Arkansas had something like $8.00 a gallon ._.
That almost makes me thankful for me $5 a gallon >.<

Yeah, our generator is hooked up to a window AC unit and the refrigerator. I briefly ran the computer earlier in the day to get news and such (and of course to post a few things). I'm currently at my grandmother's house washing some clothes (she has power, obviously.)

:zomg:

What?!!!?!??!?

You're telling me you don't use a washboard and soap??????????

:zomg: :gasp: :zomg:

I had to take a bath out of a bucket last night, don't start with me, LOL

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Tmi

Cold shower FTW.

The one time we went through a hurricane, we went to stay at a hotel while we waited for the people to turn on the power in our side of the city. We had a tree in our kitchen. My sister was supposed to take my school supply shopping, but took me to the house and left me there all day in the heat ._. hurricanes aren't fun.

Hurricane Ike just hit us in Ohio.

For the last 2 days we had no internet, cable, tv, and other things.

Trees are broken down smashing cars, someone's house got hit...

The hospital I work in was out of power for over 12 hours completely.

The backup generators only held the life essential equipment online, other than that, we moved everything from the fridges, into the freezers.

If this was only half the windspeed and hardly any rain... I think I'll avoid any hurricanes in the future.

Still without power at the homestead and camped out at my grandmother's. At least now I have my own PC rig set up. Power should be restored by Thursday. I'll take a hurricane every blue moon vs. iced over roads. I was in the Cinci area one time when it iced over. Driving was insane. I also understand its a regular occurance. Count me out. I guess my point is...mother nature is a right royal pain in the ass no matter where you live.

Hahaha yeah every winter "black ice" is all over the roads... just walking some days like I did once from school was fun. I didn't see the patch of ice, walked right over it, and almost knocked myself out.

At least during the snow storms I'm not afraid of power outages, my house being ripped apart like some of these are, etc. x.x

Weather's pretty weak down in Australia. Most dangerous thing we have to face at the moment is probably the threat of a drought.

But you guys have marsupials...