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Just for laughs...

#1 Postby millibar » Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:30 pm

You know you're living on the Gulf Coast when
You have more than 20 C and D batteries in your kitchen drawer.

The freezer in your garage is full of homemade ice.

You flinch when you are introduced to a person named Charley, Frances or Ivan.

You find yourself dropping words like "millibar" and "convection"into everyday conversation.

Your pantry contains more than 10 cans of Spaghetti Os.

Making coffee on your propane grill does not seem like an odd thing to do.

You are thinking of repainting your house to match the plywood covering your windows.

When describing your house to a prospective buyer, you say it has
three bedrooms, two baths and one safe place.

You are on a first-name basis with the cashier at Home Depot.

You are delighted to pay $2 for a gallon of unleaded.

The road leading to your house has been declared a No-Wake Zone.

You decide that your patio furniture looks better on the bottom of the pool.

You have the number for FEMA on your speed dialer.

You own more than three large coolers.

You can wish that other people get hit by a hurricane and not feel the least bit guilty about it.

Three months ago you couldn't hang a shower curtain; today you can assemble a portable generator by candlelight.

You catch a 5-pound catfish. In your driveway.

You can recite from memory whole portions of your homeowner's insurance policy.

At cocktail parties, women are attracted to the guy with the biggest chain saw.

You have had tuna fish more than 5 days in a row.

There is a roll of tar paper in your garage.

You can rattle off the names of three or more meteorologists who work at the Weather Channel.

Someone comes to your door to tell you they found your roof.

Ice is a valid topic of conversation.

Relocating to North Dakota does not seem like such a crazy idea.

This is how we felt in Downeast NC in the late '90's!! :lol:

Millibar
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#2 Postby cmdebbie » Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:35 pm

This is how we felt in Downeast NC in the late '90's!!


Ditto for Florida in 2004!!!
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#3 Postby Jim Cantore » Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:09 pm

:roflmao: That might be the funniest hurricane joke I've ever heard
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#4 Postby wxmann_91 » Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:53 pm

That is even more true today then when it was posted in July.


You are delighted to pay $2 for a gallon of unleaded.


How true.


You flinch when you are introduced to a person named Charley, Frances or Ivan.


Or a person named Katrina, Rita, or Wilma.
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#5 Postby Forecaster Colby » Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:58 pm

Or Dennis...he hit pretty dang hard too.
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#6 Postby MiamiensisWx » Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:59 pm

millibar wrote:You decide that your patio furniture looks better on the bottom of the pool.


:lol:

...or on your driveway... if your driveway is underwater, that is!

Very funny and true at the same time!
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#7 Postby wxmann_91 » Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:01 pm

Forecaster Colby wrote:Or Dennis...he hit pretty dang hard too.


Oops, sorry, forgot about Dennis. Yeah, seriously, some of these names, the other day when I was reading a novel and I saw the name Katrina come up, I flinched. It's weird, the name Katrina will never be the same to me ever again. And I think many here would agree.
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