Don't worry, if there is a hurricane threat, I'll be here at storm 2k to get the real scoop and let him know if it's the real deal or not
How many friends and family do you know that feel the same?
Are you going to "Fall for it?"
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Are you going to "Fall for it?"
At dinner tonite, I was talking "hurricane" to my wonderful family. Just basics like the path of least resisitance, troughs are good and Bermuda highs are bad etc... anyway, my husband announces this: "I'm not falling for it this year, every time I board everything up, buy alot of crap, and the news people scare the heck out of me, and nothing ever happens. I'm not gonna fall for that again this year." He he he....
Don't worry, if there is a hurricane threat, I'll be here at storm 2k to get the real scoop and let him know if it's the real deal or not
How many friends and family do you know that feel the same?
Don't worry, if there is a hurricane threat, I'll be here at storm 2k to get the real scoop and let him know if it's the real deal or not
How many friends and family do you know that feel the same?
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Most times...if people see all of their neighbors boarding up...they will too.
People are kind of funny that way. It's usually either or. People who have prepared in the past will...people who haven't won't. But anyone who has actually experienced a hurricane like Andrew won't play around. It's the people who have moved in since then...who have seen Floyd and Debbie and Michelle and other storms miss...who concern me.
They best you can do is to convince them to prepare and hope that they do. But have your own plan anyway...
MW
People are kind of funny that way. It's usually either or. People who have prepared in the past will...people who haven't won't. But anyone who has actually experienced a hurricane like Andrew won't play around. It's the people who have moved in since then...who have seen Floyd and Debbie and Michelle and other storms miss...who concern me.
They best you can do is to convince them to prepare and hope that they do. But have your own plan anyway...
MW
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The problem is, the media tend to overplay the worst case scenario. Halifax was warned over and over again that Juan was going to be a serious problem, even as a low grade Hurricane. Haligonians seemed to think that anything less than a Cat 3 was just a good gale, and they were quite shocked at how damaging Juan really was when he hit the shore.
Hurricanes are a serious business, and frnakly, if you're in a Hurricane area you should be prepared. Why these people don't have sheets of plywood in thier basement (or other storage area) already is beyond me. They wait until the last minute and pay inflated prices for supplies and fight the rush and run out of the stuff they need and so on. I tell you, If I lived on the coast, I'd have me some steel storm shutters.
Hurricanes are a serious business, and frnakly, if you're in a Hurricane area you should be prepared. Why these people don't have sheets of plywood in thier basement (or other storage area) already is beyond me. They wait until the last minute and pay inflated prices for supplies and fight the rush and run out of the stuff they need and so on. I tell you, If I lived on the coast, I'd have me some steel storm shutters.
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I can't tell you the number of times we have boarded up and nothing happened, but better safe than sorry.
Last year we had a few close calls, but nothing more than that. Finally my husband ,said..the heck with it and just left the darn shutters up. some of them are still on the house actually
Last year we had a few close calls, but nothing more than that. Finally my husband ,said..the heck with it and just left the darn shutters up. some of them are still on the house actually
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Well most in this area have the " It will never happen here" I guess that is what happens to people when a area such as this doesnt get hit to often or as in most cases here no hits for this area in most (If not all) of these peoples lifetime. Gonna be very bad here i think if one decides to come this way.
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The problem here is that the powers that be at UTMB tend to want to "wait and see" what path a storm is going to take before allowing faculty and staff to be dismissed.
IMO, they called it pretty close with Claudette last year and with Lili the year before. Far too many people need time to get off this island and many of those who work at UTMB actually live OFF the island so they need to get away sooner so they can get home to the mainland and get their own situations in order so they can hit the road. Furthermore, the west end access towards Freeport gets flooded early on before a landfall as does the Bolivar Peninsula on the east end. So that leaves one way off the island -- the causeway.
If something threatens Galveston this year, I hope TPTB do fall for it...and let us go 36 hours or sooner before possible landfall.
IMO, they called it pretty close with Claudette last year and with Lili the year before. Far too many people need time to get off this island and many of those who work at UTMB actually live OFF the island so they need to get away sooner so they can get home to the mainland and get their own situations in order so they can hit the road. Furthermore, the west end access towards Freeport gets flooded early on before a landfall as does the Bolivar Peninsula on the east end. So that leaves one way off the island -- the causeway.
If something threatens Galveston this year, I hope TPTB do fall for it...and let us go 36 hours or sooner before possible landfall.
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Duck, shall we start now??hehehehe 
The problem you describe unfortunately exists along almost ALL of the coasts that are vulnerable. In Galveston it is particularly bad though because ALL of the escape routes you described(which is all of them)DO flood at about 6msl which with a CAT3 storm could start to happen up to 36 hrs before landfall depending on it's direction into the Galveston/Houston Metroplex. Most coastal areas that may need to evacuate need to be starting their evacuations as much as 48 hours before landfall in order to get everyone out. It is darn near impossible to get a lot of people to move until they think they are definitely going to be hit.
The problem you describe unfortunately exists along almost ALL of the coasts that are vulnerable. In Galveston it is particularly bad though because ALL of the escape routes you described(which is all of them)DO flood at about 6msl which with a CAT3 storm could start to happen up to 36 hrs before landfall depending on it's direction into the Galveston/Houston Metroplex. Most coastal areas that may need to evacuate need to be starting their evacuations as much as 48 hours before landfall in order to get everyone out. It is darn near impossible to get a lot of people to move until they think they are definitely going to be hit.
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I've started the boarding up twice in the last 10 years.... neither time actully hit.
But I'll keep on boarding up if something wicked this way comes... especially since this is the first hurricane season where I'll (hopefully) be living in my own home.
My parents and friends though? They've decided pretty much as a group that they'd ride out a hurricane and that boarding up is over rated when they're soooooo far from the gulf with galveston "in the way"
That's what years and years and years of no hurricanes will do to a population's readiness...
But I'll keep on boarding up if something wicked this way comes... especially since this is the first hurricane season where I'll (hopefully) be living in my own home.
My parents and friends though? They've decided pretty much as a group that they'd ride out a hurricane and that boarding up is over rated when they're soooooo far from the gulf with galveston "in the way"
That's what years and years and years of no hurricanes will do to a population's readiness...
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Being new to Charleston (and hurricanes, I'm ex-Kansas-tornados I know about...) I had and interesting reaction last year...
I work for a major retail chain that just put up a new store about a mile or so from the beach. When the threat came last year, we were immediately cleaned out of all batteries, water, radios, propane, camping supplies, walkie-talkies, etc. a week before any potential landfall. In conference-calling with our headquarters, interestingly enough, they don't overship more product in once we're out. I was surprised to note that the DC's will only make minimal shipments before the hurricane's landfall. Instead, emergency supplies are pre-loaded onto trucks at our distribution centers and HELD, until after landfall. Then the trucks are sent to the neares surrounding stores of the landfall area.
I was surprised at first and when I questioned it, I found that our company (like many other big chains) are self-insured. When a hurricane is immenent, the company's goal is to sell through the inventory of the stores in the area that could potentially be damaged or destroyed by a landfall hurricane, thus reducing potential "losses". Also, by holding on to emergency supplies at the DC's, they can direct them to the areas that will truely need them instead of randomly shipping stores based on customer "scare-buying" depleation of inventory. Since the exact location of the landfall isn't known until usually 24-48 hours out, which then is too late to ship, unload, and sell, since the employees will be evacuating too, the supplies are directed to the effected area afterwards.
Point is, after all that rambling, is that if you aren't prepared now, don't expect to be buying your supplies even a week before the storm. We aren't the ony retail chain that does this, and if you're caught unprepared, you truely will be taking your chances before a hurricane hits.
I work for a major retail chain that just put up a new store about a mile or so from the beach. When the threat came last year, we were immediately cleaned out of all batteries, water, radios, propane, camping supplies, walkie-talkies, etc. a week before any potential landfall. In conference-calling with our headquarters, interestingly enough, they don't overship more product in once we're out. I was surprised to note that the DC's will only make minimal shipments before the hurricane's landfall. Instead, emergency supplies are pre-loaded onto trucks at our distribution centers and HELD, until after landfall. Then the trucks are sent to the neares surrounding stores of the landfall area.
I was surprised at first and when I questioned it, I found that our company (like many other big chains) are self-insured. When a hurricane is immenent, the company's goal is to sell through the inventory of the stores in the area that could potentially be damaged or destroyed by a landfall hurricane, thus reducing potential "losses". Also, by holding on to emergency supplies at the DC's, they can direct them to the areas that will truely need them instead of randomly shipping stores based on customer "scare-buying" depleation of inventory. Since the exact location of the landfall isn't known until usually 24-48 hours out, which then is too late to ship, unload, and sell, since the employees will be evacuating too, the supplies are directed to the effected area afterwards.
Point is, after all that rambling, is that if you aren't prepared now, don't expect to be buying your supplies even a week before the storm. We aren't the ony retail chain that does this, and if you're caught unprepared, you truely will be taking your chances before a hurricane hits.
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