Gulf coast surveyors

Y'all take care! 😐

Just looked at what I posted and Andy J is under a hurricane warning (almost), bummer...

My sister lives in Naples, Fl She moved to Naples from CT about 4 years ago, so this is her first potential Hurricane.

We'll see what happens!

It looks like it will be a low cat2 or cat 1. But the rwal huriicane season is just beginning for the gulf.
Isaac is not much of a storm.
Our friends/neigbors just rented a house at Fort Morgan, Al (just west of Gulf Shores) for a month.
They called and said that they will be under mandatory evacuation in a day or so .
So they will be evacuating home for a few days. We have a big party planned the following weekend there so hopefully all wil be ok.
They do the mandatory evacuation because they shut dowm all power.

Thanks!! Looks like we are out of the Cone, but will get a bunch of wind and rain. Just hope it doesn't build up quickly in the warm gulf waters.

oops ..looks like that we will have to get the emergency plan in effect here.
what a different a day makes.
Soon as it gets in the gulf, I think the models should come together. right now the spaghetti models have it coming pretty close to our door in SE La.
but I am not qualified to predict paths but one of the 'rules of thumb' in the gulf is that they hook to the rigth when appraoching land.

oh well, it may be time for amini vacation before labor Day weekend

Hurricane Isaac. Now that would be poetic. If you believe in prophesy, and coincidence, it just could mean that The sons of Isaac will control the outcome of the elections in November! (Don't think I'm trying to hi-jack and make this political, but to merely comment on the coincidence!)

Ok, how many of you have "rode out" a Hurricane?

N

I "rode out " one on a small caye off Belize in the late 70's. Caye Caulker. small island with no cars, tv, radio etc.
I was renting a shack on the beach. The owner came by and said the last boat was leaving for the mainland soon if I wanted to go. She said that most of the residents would seek shelter in the local school house that was built after another previous hurricane had hit and caused a lot of deaths. She also said the mainland would be more chaotic and probably have more damage.
I decided to stay. I asked "How will I know it is time to go to the shelter? " She said "When the reef that was offshore sounds like it is roaring like a lion, it is time to go" Sure enough, the next day it sounded like a lion was roaring loudly off the beach. I helped a lot of fishermen secure boats and belongings then went to the shelter. Fishing was great after the storm.
When it was time to return to Louisiana at the the end of my stay, the mainland was still a mess. On the ride to the airport, the driver broke the axle of his vehicle.

stayed for a lot of little storms here. But one has to think about what to do with family members both young and old now.
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It is odd but during Cat 1 or Cat 2 storms, I usually sleep through them. I don't know if it is the pressure change or just a reaction to some anxiety. But I have a pretty good sleep.

Wow. I've never "rode one out", but it is something I think I'd do. I wish I owned a pacific island, about a square mile worth, and could live happily ever after, eating mangoes, bananas, and pineapples! 🙂

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Camille, Elena, Katrina
I just count the ones that the eye passed over us and we lose electricity for days and weeks.

I dug out my gas cans and filled them. I had my generator serviced last week so I know it runs. I have batteries, water, food, spare gas... now I wait.

Irene was a nasty Hurricane/Tropical storm...hit at high tide too.

good for you alan.
gas stations are getting nasty here. all of the discount staions are out of gas.
long lines on the hwy gas stations with only a few options.

I filled up at the neighborhood station in town. Not that bad a wait but one jerk had to try to circumvent the line.

All of you on the coast, take care. It's strange, I know you're hoping it will go the other way. Those of us three hundred miles north are hoping it will come straight to us. We need the rain, and it won't be dangerous by the time it gets here. Hold on tight!

In my 50 plus years in Florida I have been through a bunch of these things. Donna, Andrew, Mitch, Charley, Frances, Jeanne and Wilma to name the hurricanes that I remember. Countless other tropical storms too. I was just a little rod man when Donna came through so I don't remember much. The others were just a bunch of wind and rain.

> In my 50 plus years in Florida I have been through a bunch of these things. Donna, Andrew, Mitch, Charley, Frances, Jeanne and Wilma to name the hurricanes that I remember. Countless other tropical storms too. I was just a little rod man when Donna came through so I don't remember much. The others were just a bunch of wind and rain.

Uh, I disagree.
As a native Floridian, I've also lived through hurricanes as far back as Donna.
Andrew made Homestead into a wasteland. Charley took 10 lives and cost well over $15B.

Most recently, we rode out the full force of Charley. Thankfully he moved through so fast and tight, our family didn't suffer any casualties.

Only a fool makes riding out a hurricane part of their bucket list.

Hold on tight NOLA. We'll be thinking of you.

Elana 1985

Anyone else remember the bizarre path of Elana, 1985?

I was a kid at the time, and even though it didn't come to Florida, it was by far the worst storm I can recall. It made an unexpected sharp turn, and approached Florida, stopped, and literally sat still off the coast two days strengthening, before unexpectedly reversing and heading off towards LA ... where it was heading in the first place.

It also shows why the path is pretty unpredictable.

Elana 1985

I sure do, I was sitting in my survey chariot at Indian Rocks Beach getting pounded by the wind and rain, waiting for my supervisor to get smart and call us in...no surveying that day.....

Elana 1985

She put trees on my mobile home.

Surveying Lab at LSU ...

will indeed go on for today on campus, but Labs for Wed, Thurs, & Friday will be cancelled.

The following Monday will be a holiday on campus, but will have class (and Labs) next week on Wed, Thurs, & Friday.

Interesting how that works out sometimes ...