"Tropical Storm" Ernesto

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If you're from Cuba or Florida, feel free to use this handy checklist. If not, you're either safe from Tropical Storm/Hurricane Ernesto, or if you live in the above areas...you're a big stupid-head.

__ Dry Food
__ Gasoline
__ Flashlight and batteries
__ Power generator
__ Storm shutters in place
__ Car safely put away

Anyhow, Hurricane Wilma could beat Ernesto and take its luch money. Shouldn't be too bad, because even the worst predictions don't have increasing past a Category One storm.

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I heard they're considering scrubbing the Shuttle launch, pending updates on the storm track. Must be a bear to put that thing back in the garage.
 
Duke
Must be a bear to put that thing back in the garage.
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I've heard NASA's just leaving the shuttle out; since the shuttle hauler moves at arthritic 0.7-1.0 miles per hour, on a bed of crushed talc...moving it might take a 4-5 days. It wasn't meant to handle hurricanes, but considering it routinely leaves and re-enters our atmosphere at tremendous speeds, I think it will be all right, minus a few thermal tiles.

If not, they'd better call Geico.
 
Duke
I heard they're considering scrubbing the Shuttle launch, pending updates on the storm track. Must be a bear to put that thing back in the garage.
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It's pretty much an all-day event, but I figure it is better than having it blown over and going boom.

I guess it all depends on how fast Ernesto moves north.

This morning they had a tourist from the keys being interviewed and he was complainng about how it isn't even a hurricane and they are telling him to evacuate. That kind of mentality gets you stuck on a roof begging for help, or dead. If it were me I wouldn't even question the order. I mean, worst case scenario is you spend a couple of days not in Florida.
 
It's going to be so small that you can leave your underwear up on the clothesline and it won't budge.

No need to worry people, trust me. By the time it reaches the Cuban mountains it'll die down to 15MPH winds.
 
The poor news media...they want this to be another "big one" so badly they can't hardly stand it. :(
 
Jordan
The poor news media...they want this to be another "big one" so badly they can't hardly stand it. :(
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It isn't a Big One. It's a nuisance, though...Not to mention, Wednesday's my day off, so I don't get hurricane pay.

In any case, Hurricane Katrina was a Category 1 hurricane when it hit South Florida approximately one year ago today. When it crossed the warm Gulf of Mexico waters, and then hit in one of the worst-prepared areas, then it was a disaster.

Jordan, you should have seen and heard the local media frenzy over Tropical Storm Alberto...it wasn't close to South Florida, but the media jumped on it as if it were the Beginning of The End.
 
If the diagram makes them Stupid-Heads, Then the state of Florida is overrun with them! :lol:
 
So this is nothing more than an irratation then?

My cousin hjas just gone out to Tampa for College and he's abit unsettled having never been in the path of a hurricane before, and quite frankly my auntie is going nuts.
 
If anything the news media get way to excited about hurricanes or any kind of storms, I mean yeah it is important but you don't need to have a update every 5 seconds. For the weather I watch the Weather Channel, sometimes they have so many commercials or other news to talk about that you might be blown away by the time that they show you the forcast. There has been a few times that things like that happen.

I really think it would kill me if I had a 60,000 dollar car that was flooded down there, or all the cars in a dealership.
 
I called Ernesto a Poop-face and he changed track and is now heading straight for my house. According to Pupik's chart of death, my house should be getting the eye wall the entire time. Is it the east or the west wall that's the worst one? I hope it's the west so all the damage goes over the everglades.

Here we go, Pupik. Good luck, dude. The gas lines here in plantation are easily 1000 meters long, with police at every pump.
 
Good luck to pupik, Omnis, and other people in South Florida. This is the first I've heard of this storm. I havn't watched the news in ages. Hopefully it'll just weaken.
 
Poor Cuba. One of the poorest countries, which stayed and continued to exist under a 40-year US embargo, is hit again and again by hurricanes... Weird, that they call a storm about to sweep across Cuba "Ernesto"... In timing with those health-problems Fidel has...
 
By the way, we have no gas left in our car, and all the gas stations are now out of gasoline. Great. Way to go, Mom!
 
Omnis
By the way, we have no gas left in our car, and all the gas stations are now out of gasoline. Great. Way to go, Mom!
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Try the Turnpike rest stations, it worked for me during Wilma. Plus, they have Burger King while you wait...in case you need a side order of coronary thrombosis to go with your stress.

Pick up one of those funky toll operator shirts, while you're at it.
 
I didn't see bottled water on that list! :nervous: You need that more than anything.

You need one gallon, per person, per day of water.
 
Pupik
It isn't a Big One. It's a nuisance, though...Not to mention, Wednesday's my day off, so I don't get hurricane pay.

In any case, Hurricane Katrina was a Category 1 hurricane when it hit South Florida approximately one year ago today. When it crossed the warm Gulf of Mexico waters, and then hit in one of the worst-prepared areas, then it was a disaster.

Jordan, you should have seen and heard the local media frenzy over Tropical Storm Alberto...it wasn't close to South Florida, but the media jumped on it as if it were the Beginning of The End.
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You're blaming the media for all the confusion????
Bush declares state of emergency in Florida
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060827/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather_florida_17
 
State of emergency? HAHAHAHA! By the way, Duck, it's Jeb not G-dub.

We waited at a chevron and filled our tank after like 25 minutes of waiting. It was a wait, but it's no big deal as long as you have patience. Everyone was more or less calm besides the random (young) women in the street shouting an occasional profanity.

We have plenty of water... (30 gallons in 6 jugs... cough.)

I think the problem is that people are still afraid of last season... People concentrate too hard on what the storm is doing right at that very instant, instead of making inferences based on where it's going and what it's going to run into and etc. I wish more people would look at pressure patterns when the meteorologists do their thing. Perhaps we need weather people with less tits and more brains...



Nah.
 
TigJackson
You're blaming the media for all the confusion????
Bush declares state of emergency in Florida
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060827/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather_florida_17
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You do know what a State of Emergency declaration is right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency
Here, I'll save you the click:
A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend certain normal functions of government, may work to alert citizens to alter their normal behaviors, or may order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. It can also be used as a rationale for suspending civil liberties. Such declarations usually come during a time of natural disaster, during periods of civil unrest, or following a declaration of war (therefore, in democratic countries many call this martial law, most with non-critical intent). Justitium is its equivalent in Roman law.
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In other words, declaring a state of emergency is how Governor Bush activates the National Guard and suspends non-essential government activities during a natural disaster, such as say a hurricane.

It is not Jeb running around in front of the capital building screaming, "We're all gonna die!!! Run for your lives!!! We didn't listen!!!"

Instead it is the official way to say, "Y'all be careful now, ya hear?"
 
FoolKiller
It is not Jeb running around in front of the capital building screaming, "We're all gonna die!!! Run for your lives!!! We didn't listen!!!"

Instead it is the official way to say, "Y'all be careful now, ya hear?"
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:lol:

It's also a good way to get proper mobilization before a problem occurs; although in many cases, you can't predict an emergency. At least hurricanes/cyclones are somewhat predicatble, compared to an earthquake or a tornado.
 

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