question about -removed-

[weatherwoman]

i dont think you quite understand where I live Carteret County North Carolina, yes we have had many hurricanes im 44 so yes i have lived through many of them

[jax]

Lived in Homestead Aug 23, 1992 was a wish-caster...Lived nowhere Aug 25 Whishcasting came to an end...

i lived on MS coast for Camille, Frederic, Elana, Ivan and on and on...
Bring it on...

[DESTRUCTION5]

Lived in Homestead Aug 23, 1992 was a wish-caster...Lived nowhere Aug 25 Whishcasting came to an end...

i lived on MS coast for Camille, Frederic, Elana, Ivan and on and on...
Bring it on...

Where is Pecan?

[storms in NC]

I guess till you have lived it there will be people I disagree with. My family mother dad brother aunts uncles ect.. we had nothing left Took 2 week to get back to our home to see what was left. I didn't even have any shoes to wear just what was on my back. And you know the worse part of the whole thing was? I didn't get to see my daughter get married nor did any of my family. Nothing to wear no cars and if we did have a car couldn't have got out cause of the water. No where to live had to stay with friends for a month or 2. You have no idea what you are asking for till you have lived it.

[Recurve]

Destruction5: Sorry to hear that, you had the worst of the worst. A lot of people who say they've been through a hurricane have not seen one-hundredth of what you have.

We can all be fooled. Even a NOAA met said he couldn't believe that Andrew blew his house apart.

[jasons2k]

Lived in Homestead Aug 23, 1992 was a wonderful forecaster...Lived nowhere Aug 25 Whishcasting came to an end...

That's also the great dileneator. If you live through it and lose everything you're never the same.

It's easy for people to say the house and material things aren't important and life is all that matters, etc. These people have *NO* clue. That may sound harsh or condescending or whatever but it's the darn truth. Unless you have experienced it you don't have a leg to stand on in this debate. I know people who have lost everything and after seeing what they went through I wouldn't wish it on another human being. Until you witness it firsthand you really have no idea whatsoever the horror it brings. The "day after" TV images in your still-AC climate controlled living room go away after a few days. People in Florida are STILL cleaning up after last year.

Try this, take all your personal belongings, wedding pictures included, dump them in the street, and douse them with a water hose. Bust out all of your windows and douse the house, inside and out, with a water hose too, and let it all sit for a few days to mildew and rot. Then cut off your power, your phone, and your water for at least 2 weeks. Oh and you can't buy gas or ice for a week. Call your boss and tell him you can't come to work for the foreseeable future b/c you just lost the house.

Then maybe you might have a small taste of reality.

6 hours of excitement isn't worth 6 months+ of hell.

[jax]

Quote from jscglitz " That's also the great dileneator. If you live through it and lose everything you're never the same."

I don't let the loss of my personal belongings "CHANGE MY LIFE"
yikes... it's life...

[jasons2k]

That's also the great dileneator. If you live through it and lose everything you're never the same.

I don't let the loss of my personal belongings "CHANGE MY LIFE"
yikes... it's life...

Then I challenge you to perform the exercise above THEN you can tell people how unimportant they are.

Oh, and yes I am a Christian, so material things don't rank very high on my list of what really matters in life...but try reasoning that with your kids standing in a FEMA line for bottled water and a cold meal.

[wxmann_91]

Where is Pecan?

In extreme southeastern Mississippi west of Mobile, just east of Pascagoula.

[jax]

That's also the great dileneator. If you live through it and lose everything you're never the same.

I don't let the loss of my personal belongings "CHANGE MY LIFE"
yikes... it's life...

Then I challenge you to perform the exercise above THEN you can tell people how unimportant they are.

Oh, and yes I am a Christian, so material things don't rank very high on my list of what really matters in life...but try reasoning that with your kids standing in a FEMA line for bottled water and a cold meal.

lost house in Elana.... bad damage in Camille, little dmage in Frederic
excercise completed... thank you. Bring on the next one!

[weatherwoman]

sorry to hear all this, i will keep my ideas to myself dont wish anyone no harm, need to close this topic i guess, didnt mean to start anything here, maybe you are right, i have lived in hurricane but never lost my home tried to lose a car once, but that didnt work, i mgith feel different if i had lost something but i cant help but to like the excitment of watching and tracking these things, ok if i say i like that part but do not want them to hit land will you still be mad at me, really sorry for your lose and tough times. i do feel your pain and will try hard to keep my big mouth shut

[DESTRUCTION5]

That's also the great dileneator. If you live through it and lose everything you're never the same.

I don't let the loss of my personal belongings "CHANGE MY LIFE"
yikes... it's life...

Then I challenge you to perform the exercise above THEN you can tell people how unimportant they are.

Oh, and yes I am a Christian, so material things don't rank very high on my list of what really matters in life...but try reasoning that with your kids standing in a FEMA line for bottled water and a cold meal.

lost house in Elana.... bad damage in Camille, little dmage in Frederic
excercise completed... thank you. Bring on the next one!

Jax your Nutz....

[storms in NC]

sorry to hear all this, i will keep my ideas to myself dont wish anyone no harm, need to close this topic i guess, didnt mean to start anything here, maybe you are right, i have lived in hurricane but never lost my home tried to lose a car once, but that didnt work, i mgith feel different if i had lost something but i cant help but to like the excitment of watching and tracking these things, ok if i say i like that part but do not want them to hit land will you still be mad at me, really sorry for your lose and tough times. i do feel your pain and will try hard to keep my big mouth shut

NP It was a bad time for Me and my family. Like I said I didn't even get to see my daughter get married. She got married Sept 18,99

[Sanibel]

It can be very difficult not to wishcast sometimes. I knew better, but with Irene I kept hearing about people swearing NHC was wrong and a High was setting in so when the convection pulled west I thought I was seeing a west tendency. There's a very strong psychological effect in thinking you have the track figured out. Two days before I called for recurve and should have stuck with it.

The same thing is setting up with TD10 and it is already pulling-up. The best way to avoid -removed- is to learn the NHC terms and study their synoptic reasoning.

Another thing that is hard to resist is sniping minor errors in other's posts. It should be avoided because it causes too much "noise" on the board...

[WeatherEmperor]

It can be very difficult not to wishcast sometimes. I knew better, but with Irene I kept hearing about people swearing NHC was wrong and a High was setting in so when the convection pulled west I thought I was seeing a west tendency. There's a very strong psychological effect in thinking you have the track figured out. Two days before I called for recurve and should have stuck with it.

The same thing is setting up with TD10 and it is already pulling-up. The best way to avoid -removed- is to learn the NHC terms and study their synoptic reasoning.

Another thing that is hard to resist is sniping minor errors in other's posts. It should be avoided because it causes too much "noise" on the board...

that is so very true. im surprised nobody could admit to this as well.

<RICKY>

[sma10]

This topic comes up every year.

I think the reason it becomes a little heated is because you get some people who say "Hey, I've been through 44 years of hurricanes here in such and such county and lived through 100 of these storms. Bring it on."

To those people I ask, "In any of those hurricanes, did you have several hours where you and your family were all crowded in a bathtub holding each others hands and loudly praying while the rest of your house collapsed all around you? In any of those hurricanes did you emerge from your completely destroyed house the next day to see complete devastation to your entire neighborhood? In any of those hurricanes did you have to attend a funeral a week later for a dead neighbor? In any of those hurricanes were you completely homeless for six months while waiting for your home to be rebuilt?"

This is my life from Andrew. You want it? You can have it.

[WeatherEmperor]

This topic comes up every year.

I think the reason it becomes a little heated is because you get some people who say "Hey, I've been through 44 years of hurricanes here in such and such county and lived through 100 of these storms. Bring it on."

To those people I ask, "In any of those hurricanes, did you have several hours where you and your family were all crowded in a bathtub holding each others hands and loudly praying while the rest of your house collapsed all around you? In any of those hurricanes did you emerge from your completely destroyed house the next day to see complete devastation to your entire neighborhood? In any of those hurricanes did you have to attend a funeral a week later for a dead neighbor? In any of those hurricanes were you completely homeless for six months while waiting for your home to be rebuilt?"

This is my life from Andrew. You want it? You can have it.

exactly. If they want the hurricanes and all the devestation associated with them fine let them have it. better them then us. Andrew tought me that lesson the hard way.

<RICKY>

[jasons2k]

This topic comes up every year.

I think the reason it becomes a little heated is because you get some people who say "Hey, I've been through 44 years of hurricanes here in such and such county and lived through 100 of these storms. Bring it on."

To those people I ask, "In any of those hurricanes, did you have several hours where you and your family were all crowded in a bathtub holding each others hands and loudly praying while the rest of your house collapsed all around you? In any of those hurricanes did you emerge from your completely destroyed house the next day to see complete devastation to your entire neighborhood? In any of those hurricanes did you have to attend a funeral a week later for a dead neighbor? In any of those hurricanes were you completely homeless for six months while waiting for your home to be rebuilt?"

This is my life from Andrew. You want it? You can have it.

I think that sums it up better than I did. Anyone wishing for that IMO is indeed looney.

[wxmann_91]

I get scared in 40 mph gusts during the Santa Ana wind events. I couldn't stand 6 hours of hurricane force winds. -removed- IMO is one of the biggest issues in the field of meteorology. (not just for hurricanes, but for blizzards and tornadoes too)

[sma10]

Well, I can understand some of the responses, though. There are a lot of "thrill seekers" in the world, and there's nothing wrong with that.

But, if you're waiting for a category 5 to hit your house it's like trying to win the lottery! It's too rare. After all, even if a category 5 is heading in the general direction of your hometown, what are the actual odds of the EYEWALL hitting your home? Can you imagine if a cat 5 hits this year and it misses you by like 30 miles?? A person can get really upset if that happens.

There are a lot more SURER ways of experiencing a thrill....like maybe you can jump out of a plane without a parachute? or perhaps you can set yourself on fire? After all....it's only life. No sense making a big deal out of it....