If it happens again this year what will you do?

[max2]

If another huge major hurricane hits LA, MS, and AL again this year on the same path Hurricane Katrina did or almost the same path what will you do ? This hurricane could of course be larger and stronger than Hurricane Katrina or the same strength. Either way it would be bad.

Don't say it can't happen either.

Look at Hurricane Ivan and Hurricane Dennis.

I know all hurricanes have their own personality. You don't know how bad it will be till it hits and after it hits to see how much damage it has caused. Sure you can predict beforehand but sometimes its not as bad as thought. Though sometimes its a lot worst than thought sense all Hurricanes are different.


(Not saying it will be as big as Typhoon Tip but could be)

 

[bobbybe01]

Probably just turn off the news. I mean, there's really nothing that can be done...except evacuating, preparation, etc.

 

[Viper GTS]

Hey there lottery boy!

And I will do absolutely nothing, by the time anything gets to me it's just a little rain.

Viper GTS

 

[JulesMaximus]

Nothing.

I live in San Diego.

 

[Rubycon]

We can avoid (outrun) them so no worries here.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Be glad I moved to someplace where I don't have to ever worry about a Hurricane.

 

[leftyman]

i want chocolate

 

[FallenHero]

Keep working. Maybe be ordered down there depending on what the sheriff wants.

 

[Zaitsevs]

yeah in IL we don't get hurricanes

 

[Syrch]

You leave out Florida like they weren't hit? I know that they didn't not get the global coverage that new orleans did nor the damage but Florida (broward county mainly, 595) got hit pretty damn hard We were just lucky that we weren't 20ft below sealevel.

Now to answer your question if something like that comes im paying to have my family flown to my place in Chicago until all is calm.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Shake my head in wonder at the people who live there who make no attempt to prepare.

 

[shimsham]

same thing i do every year, and did for ivan and dennis.

low cat 3, batton down and ride it out. anything stronger, evacuate; leave town or go to a friends house that live about 20 miles inland with a new steel home all up to latest codes.

i dont live in a flood zone, btw, so wind is all we have to worry about. made it through ivan losing only 1 shingle and the gate on the wooden fence. we lost the top of an oak during dennis and it split a pine that we had to have taken down later.

live in pensacola, fl.

 

[George P Burdell]

I would blame the OP

 

[shimsham]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Shake my head in wonder at the people who live there who make no attempt to prepare.

90% of people do prepare. its usually old, poor, or retarded people that get stuck after the fact scrambling for supplies.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: shimsham
same thing i do every year, and did for ivan and dennis.

low cat 3, batton down and ride it out. anything stronger, evacuate; leave town or go to a friends house that live about 20 miles inland with a new steel home all up to latest codes.

i dont live in a flood zone, btw, so wind is all we have to worry about. made it through ivan losing only 1 shingle and the gate on the wooden fence. we lost the top of an oak during dennis and it split a pine that we had to have taken down later.

live in pensacola, fl.

Can you be more specific when you say "I don't live in a flood zone"? Do you mean you don't live in a 100 year flood zone? 250? Or really not in a flood zone?

 

[Captante]

Feel a bit sorry for the folks that is hits & then continue with my life.... although I live in New England & thus can be pretty sure a bad storm will hit us sooner or later, it won't be anything like it was in LA.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: shimsham

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Shake my head in wonder at the people who live there who make no attempt to prepare.

90% of people do prepare. its usually old, poor, or retarded people that get stuck after the fact scrambling for supplies.

Then the old, poor, and retarded make up >10% of the population.

 

[max2]

Originally posted by: shimsham
same thing i do every year, and did for ivan and dennis.

low cat 3, batton down and ride it out. anything stronger, evacuate; leave town or go to a friends house that live about 20 miles inland with a new steel home all up to latest codes.

i dont live in a flood zone, btw, so wind is all we have to worry about. made it through ivan losing only 1 shingle and the gate on the wooden fence. we lost the top of an oak during dennis and it split a pine that we had to have taken down later.

live in pensacola, fl.

A lot of people in MS didn't live in a flood zone and they had a lot of water in their houses and businesses.

The water that Hurricane Katrina brought in was like nothing anyone could ever imagine.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: max2
If another huge major hurricane hits LA, MS, and AL again this year on the same path Hurricane Katrina did or almost the same path what will you do ? This hurricane could of course be larger and stronger than Hurricane Katrina or the same strength. Either way it would be bad.

Don't say it can't happen either.

Look at Hurricane Ivan and Hurricane Dennis.

I know all hurricanes have their own personality. You don't know how bad it will be till it hits and after it hits to see how much damage it has caused. Sure you can predict beforehand but sometimes its not as bad as thought. Though sometimes its a lot worst than thought sense all Hurricanes are different.

Topic Title: If it happens again this year what will you do?
Topic Summary:
Created On: 02/20/2006 02:45 PM

Pray, and Thank God, I don't live near the Gulf Of Mexico,
or the Atlantic Ocean.

I may mumble about the heat costs, in Albany NY USA, but, floods from a Hurricane
are rare.
Fall of 1999 we had remnants of a Hurricane bother us some.

 

[shimsham]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: shimsham
same thing i do every year, and did for ivan and dennis.

low cat 3, batton down and ride it out. anything stronger, evacuate; leave town or go to a friends house that live about 20 miles inland with a new steel home all up to latest codes.

i dont live in a flood zone, btw, so wind is all we have to worry about. made it through ivan losing only 1 shingle and the gate on the wooden fence. we lost the top of an oak during dennis and it split a pine that we had to have taken down later.

live in pensacola, fl.

Can you be more specific when you say "I don't live in a flood zone"? Do you mean you don't live in a 100 year flood zone? 250? Or really not in a flood zone?

uh...really not in a flood zone? speaking specifically of my house saying that.

lived here 30yrs and our town (pace, actually, across escambia bay from pensacola about 1.5 miles from the bay) has never flooded due to rain or hurricanes. houses built on the bay and beaches were leveled from storm surge of course, but most of this area is high enough above sea level. id estimate ~50ft. so while not impossible, it would have to be a gargantuan surge to take out my home.

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: shimsham

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Shake my head in wonder at the people who live there who make no attempt to prepare.

90% of people do prepare. its usually old, poor, or retarded people that get stuck after the fact scrambling for supplies.

Then the old, poor, and retarded make up >10% of the population.

maybe in other areas, but not around here. of course, thats just an estimation of what i saw and experienced living here.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: shimsham

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: shimsham
same thing i do every year, and did for ivan and dennis.

low cat 3, batton down and ride it out. anything stronger, evacuate; leave town or go to a friends house that live about 20 miles inland with a new steel home all up to latest codes.

i dont live in a flood zone, btw, so wind is all we have to worry about. made it through ivan losing only 1 shingle and the gate on the wooden fence. we lost the top of an oak during dennis and it split a pine that we had to have taken down later.

live in pensacola, fl.

Can you be more specific when you say "I don't live in a flood zone"? Do you mean you don't live in a 100 year flood zone? 250? Or really not in a flood zone?

uh...really not in a flood zone? speaking specifically of my house saying that.

lived here 30yrs and our town (pace, actually, across escambia bay from pensacola about 1.5 miles from the bay) has never flooded due to rain or hurricanes. houses built on the bay and beaches were leveled from storm surge of course, but most of this area is high enough above sea level. id estimate ~50ft. so while not impossible, it would have to be a gargantuan surge to take out my home.

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: shimsham

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Shake my head in wonder at the people who live there who make no attempt to prepare.

90% of people do prepare. its usually old, poor, or retarded people that get stuck after the fact scrambling for supplies.

Then the old, poor, and retarded make up >10% of the population.

maybe in other areas, but not around here. of course, thats just an estimation of what i saw and experienced living here.

Ah, ok. Just so you are aware, the flood maps are usually near useless (taken at face value) in highly developed areas as they can only take into account historic information, which does not include the time of human habitation.

 

[vi edit]

Probably piss and moan about $3.50 a gallon gas prices. And then be thankful for one of the few small bonuses about living in the midwest.

 

[max2]

Originally posted by: shimsham

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: shimsham
same thing i do every year, and did for ivan and dennis.

low cat 3, batton down and ride it out. anything stronger, evacuate; leave town or go to a friends house that live about 20 miles inland with a new steel home all up to latest codes.

i dont live in a flood zone, btw, so wind is all we have to worry about. made it through ivan losing only 1 shingle and the gate on the wooden fence. we lost the top of an oak during dennis and it split a pine that we had to have taken down later.

live in pensacola, fl.

Can you be more specific when you say "I don't live in a flood zone"? Do you mean you don't live in a 100 year flood zone? 250? Or really not in a flood zone?

uh...really not in a flood zone? speaking specifically of my house saying that.

lived here 30yrs and our town (pace, actually, across escambia bay from pensacola about 1.5 miles from the bay) has never flooded due to rain or hurricanes. houses built on the bay and beaches were leveled from storm surge of course, but most of this area is high enough above sea level. id estimate ~50ft. so while not impossible, it would have to be a gargantuan surge to take out my home.

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: shimsham

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Shake my head in wonder at the people who live there who make no attempt to prepare.

90% of people do prepare. its usually old, poor, or retarded people that get stuck after the fact scrambling for supplies.

Then the old, poor, and retarded make up >10% of the population.

maybe in other areas, but not around here. of course, thats just an estimation of what i saw and experienced living here.

52 years our house has never been flooded in the inside like Hurricane Katrina did to it.

Sure we had floods in the streets pretty bad but never in the house like this till Hurricane Katrina.

A good 2 1/2 feet of water in the house.

It has never flooded in this house ever till Hurricane Katrina.

 

[squirrel dog]

Gas up the chain saw.

 

[shimsham]

Originally posted by: max2

52 years our house has never been flooded in the inside like Hurricane Katrina did to it.

Sure we had floods in the streets pretty bad but never in the house like this till Hurricane Katrina.

A good 2 1/2 feet of water in the house.

It has never flooded in this house ever till Hurricane Katrina.

how close to the coast or a river?