Crazy Hurricane Information Girl
September 3rd, 2004
I am crazy hurricane information girl! If there’s a site about Hurricane Frances, I want to read it. If there’s a message board, I want to know what the people think!
That’s how I came across the Florida Today Forums, and they are cracking me up. The topics of the latest posts:
Prayers from Utah
Prayers
Pray for me
Need someone to be with? (photo requested)
Prayer from Colorado
Pray for my family
Prayers from New Mexico
NO BEER SALES?
I guess some people are looking for a hurricane party.
Categories: random
Get out of there! Been through three of them. One was at a beach where we had rented a summer cottage for a week. Knock on the door about 3AM. We left. Went back two days later. There was NO sign the cottage existed. Gone.
Camille in New Orleans center hit about 35 miles away. About 45 people in a brick building near the beach and center of the storm decided to have a hurricane party. Only thing that remained was the foundation.
It’s not the wind. It’s the water. Storm surges can come way, way inland. An 8 foot storm surge with 10 foot waves can reek havok. Hope you’ll be OK.
I hope I’ll be ok, too. Especially since I’m in Dallas. I’m a hurricane geek any day of the week, but I’m especially interested in this storm because my parents have just bought a house on the Atlantic coast of Florida and my sister will be staying in it during the storm, then doing news reports from Brevard county.
Be safe, Leia! Watch out for rogue waves from … the gulf?
But seriously, I hope your family is ok. I hear the Atlantic can be pretty messy during storms.
Well we lived through the big bad hurricane, again. I went to Tallahassee from Panama City, because inland is safer er, when the hurricane is the size of TEXAS! It never did much, but we still consumed a large amount of adult beverages and participated in the perpetual search for ice. I don’t know but that stuff is like gold during a hurricane.
Leia should tell the story about when our family evacuated Panama City for Tallahassee during Hurricane Opal! Her dad had one car, Leia drove her Probe, and I had a mini-van. I had Carolyn, our bird and two dogs with me. It took all of us 7 hours to drive 100 miles, we lucked out on the last room in town and finally found food at Po Folks around 10 at night. The next day we hd to wait on the road going into Panama Cit y about 2 hours before they let anyone back into town.