Good news for Texas residents!!!

[Windfall]

Meteorologists have been discussing a blocking high over the wester gulf of mexico, excluding Texas from any possibility of a landfalling Ivan.

[LaBreeze]

Might want to include most of Louisiana along with Texas being protected by the "magical" high. Anyone agree/disagree?

[SwampDawg]

I had a magical high once.....but it was back in my college days . Yeah...i think we're pretty safe, but still watching.

[Windfall]

This is not a "magical high". I am not pulling this stuff out of thin air. When Ivan approached the GOM, local meteorologists and forecast models all sense the presence of a high pressure over the western gulf protecting Texas and possibly Louisianna. I don't understand why you and some other Texans keep trying to pull it your way without giving much proof. I am saying something I heard from knowledgeable meteorologists. Some of you people from Texas and Louisianna are very judgemental about the current satellite loop instead of looking at the big picture and impending weather patterns which will eventually influence Ivan's track. Stop only using "IMO" or any opinion for that matter. Try to support your opinions with meteorological facts.

[LaBreeze]

Lol - too funny SwampDawg. Good one though.

[Hurricane Derek]

Is Texas ever not out of the woods for an approaching hurricane to come to the coast? I know people along the Texas Coast will not know how to prepare for one if one sneaks by. I live just north of Galveston and a lot of new people have come to live in this area in the last 5 years and have no idea the power of a hurricane. Texas usually gets lucky in avoiding these hurricanes, with the exception of Claudette and the huge amount of rains from T.S. Allison. I guess it's all about the timing, the position of a high pressure system which is many times located over Texas, a cold front dropping down in the Gulf, weakness between ridges, etc.

[ColdFront77]

Florida has had high pressure blocking tropical cyclones the last several years... that versus being a "sitting duck" generally speaking.

[LaBreeze]

I am in no way trying to pull it towards Louisiana or Texas. I experienced Hurricane Audrey and lost family members in it and have experienced many other storms as well. I know what a storm like this can do. Please, make no mistake about it, I do not want this or any other storm again. I lost part of my home in 2002 with Lili - not something to experience. (Oh, Louisiana is spelled with only one "n").

[BayouVenteux]

Meteorologists have been discussing a blocking high over the wester gulf of mexico, excluding Texas from any possibility of a landfalling Ivan.

Oh...come...on!!! Let's not get all spiteful over Stormcenter's thread that was merely stating a fact regarding Ivan's current movement. As a Floridian, I would think that you would be grateful for any good news that might suggest a lesser chance of yet another landfalling hurricane.

And before you or anybody else launches into some misdirected tirade about my being another w---caster, you're exactly right...with two parents, their home, their belongings, and 50 years + of family memories located a half mile from the shoreline on an inlet in Ft.Myers Beach...FLORIDA, my reasons for wishing a hurricane away from Florida are purely selfish.

I've had it with these immature displays of petty "turf" attitudes and attacks on people when someone makes a statement that doesn't jibe with someones belief that it's "their storm". God, if you want to bear the cross, then by all means, suffer my child. It's your storm.

I can't help but notice that here has been a definite change in the overall atmosphere and tone of many posts around here since the rash of 'canes brought an influx of new posters to S2k, and unfortunately it hasn't been for the better.

I think I'm going to take an extended hiatus from any viewing or posting on this board. I'll miss MW's and Ortt's and the other ProMets takes and some of the older, pre-summer 2004 posters, but as for some of you...


Quietly, out.

[vbhoutex]

Windfall your comments about Texas and Louisiana residents are uncalled for and a generalization at best. I consider them rude and offensive personally. I have been on the Gulf Coast for 49 of my 53 years and have followed tropcial systems for most of those years. I have experienced everything from the tiniest mildest Ts to Hurricane Camille in my lifetime and have no desire to have to go through another one. I would not wish what I saw after Camille on my worst enemy, much less what I went through with Camille, Alicia, and Allison to name a few. If you had bothered to read any of my posts you would know that I am not predicting a Texas hit by Ivan so there goes your theory. If you had bothered to really read any of the posts in this thread befire your response to Labreeze you would find that not one person disagreed with your thoughts.