Hurricane Isaac...pisses me off

[northsiderbearcub]

God damnnit I should've evac'd out of NOLA, instead I got conned to come to work and sleep at the hotel and back to work again throughout the storm. Since this is my first hurricane since I've been here (moved here a year ago), I didn't use it to my advantage for a vacation like most other New Orleanians. This, coupled with the fact that my apt is on ground level, hoping that shit doesn't flood. Ahhhh I'd rather deal with a blizzard back home...:angryfinger:

 

[nvanprooyen]

Hurricanes suck, hope it all works out up there. As slow as that seems to be moving it could dump a shit ton of rain.

 

[WCL]

Stay safe.

 

[X]

Stay safe.

This. above all else, make sure you and yours are safe bro. ray:

 

[Sunbiz1]

I went through Jeanne, Frances, Charlie, Katrina in S. Florida, Wilma, and a few minor ones. Charlie was by far the worst, when this footage was shot I was hiding about 25 miles to the south in a parking garage. Although obviously not designed for it, those concrete multi-level garages disperse wind...good protection 4/tornadoes as well. The storms themselves were not all that inconvenient, but the power outages afterwards suck. Getting up for work with no A/C, shaving by candlelight, and having to grill everything gets real old real fast.

Isaac is but a mere nuisance compared to what we went through in Ft. Myers:

[video=youtube;unV5KcSrY-I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unV5KcSrY-I[/video]

To OP: Sorry to hear you're stuck in this, hope you have plenty of charcoal etc.

 

[nvanprooyen]

When Charlie went through, I lost power for almost 2 weeks in Central FL. It messed this area up bad, thing came through super quick though. Think it was done and over with in about an hour. Frances and Jeanne weren't too bad though.

 

[Warrior Spirit]

I don't like hurricanes but they don't bother me cause unlike the morons who whine about them right after they move to an area know to have them, I just avoid them altogether.

 

[EL ROCKSTEADY]

I went through Jeanne, Frances, Charlie, Katrina in S. Florida, Wilma, and a few minor ones. Charlie was by far the worst, when this footage was shot I was hiding about 25 miles to the south in a parking garage. Although obviously not designed for it, those concrete multi-level garages disperse wind...good protection 4/tornadoes as well. The storms themselves were not all that inconvenient, but the power outages afterwards suck. Getting up for work with no A/C, shaving by candlelight, and having to grill everything gets real old real fast.

Isaac is but a mere nuisance compared to what we went through in Ft. Myers:

[video=youtube;unV5KcSrY-I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unV5KcSrY-I[/video]

To OP: Sorry to hear you're stuck in this, hope you have plenty of charcoal etc.

Jesus, what catagory storm was this? I still want to be in a Hurricane, just to be in one, though this is way too much lol. To the OP, I think thats messed up that a job would put there workers in danger by staying. What exactly do you do thats important enough to stay during the storm?

 

[nvanprooyen]

I think Charley was a cat 4 when it made landfall. Maybe a 5. Can't remember. It weakened as it passed over the state. I think it might have been a 2 when it passed over us. But that was still more than enough to seriously **** some stuff up.

 

[Sunbiz1]

Jesus, what catagory storm was this? I still want to be in a Hurricane, just to be in one, though this is way too much lol. To the OP, I think thats messed up that a job would put there workers in danger by staying. What exactly do you do thats important enough to stay during the storm?

Was classified as a 4, and officially went into the books as such. Fortunately, it was a very compact system. Down in Naples, which is about 70 miles south of that vid there was almost no damage. Even in Ft. Myers, it wasn't nearly as fierce as that Racetrack gas station in Charlotte county. The extreme wind gust was probably a tornado embedded within the eye wall.

 

[Stapler]

Isaac was supposed to hit us when it originally entered the gulf a week ago. My old lady worked out the date of the landfall and said it would hit New Orleansl; I think she might be a witch.

 

[nvanprooyen]

Actually I just looked it up. It was "only" a 1 when it came through here, but I think there were a lot of tornadoes that came along with it. Hard to believe that thing was a 1. Here's a look at what a 1 can do:

Thing looked wicked on its way in too...

 

[Stapler]

Hurricane spawned tornadoes, thankfully, are pretty weak as that picture shows. Those midwest monsters would have stripped that whole area bare and deposited everything miles away. I sure don't miss those things.

 

[zack54attack]

Stay safe man.

It's touching down in NOLA right now I believe.

 

[inactiveuser1]

Stay safe

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Isaac was supposed to hit us when it originally entered the gulf a week ago. My old lady worked out the date of the landfall and said it would hit New Orleansl; I think she might be a witch.

A stake and fire, man. What are you waiting for?

 

[Stapler]

A stake and fire, man. What are you waiting for?

Why would I burn a chick that can tell me when and where storms are going to hit? To say nothing of her nice ass and propensity to put up with my shit?

Drowning would be the way to go.

 

[MSOADE54]

 

[1COBearsfan]

I went through Jeanne, Frances, Charlie, Katrina in S. Florida, Wilma, and a few minor ones. Charlie was by far the worst, when this footage was shot I was hiding about 25 miles to the south in a parking garage. Although obviously not designed for it, those concrete multi-level garages disperse wind...good protection 4/tornadoes as well. The storms themselves were not all that inconvenient, but the power outages afterwards suck. Getting up for work with no A/C, shaving by candlelight, and having to grill everything gets real old real fast.

Isaac is but a mere nuisance compared to what we went through in Ft. Myers:

[video=youtube;unV5KcSrY-I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unV5KcSrY-I[/video]

To OP: Sorry to hear you're stuck in this, hope you have plenty of charcoal etc.

God, I remember Charley. I had moved to Ft. Myers 3 months before & that was the first hurricane I ever experienced.

You're right about the storms not bein so bad. Anything above a 4 is pretty serious but the worst is definitely being without power for what feels like eternity.