Friday, September 10, 2004
AOL got it exactly the way most of us here in Florida are feeling...
It must be a new weekend because there's a new hurricane coming...
right? right!
I'm sure that as tired as others are from heaing about Florida's run of bad weather luck, we are tired of going thru it. It is surreal to go to the grocery, and have all the bread gone, to have bottled water and flashlights to be in the center isles as the impulse items to purchase. To wait 15 or 20 minutes in line waiting to top your gas off for fear you wont find any if you don't. To see grown men and women scrambling to grab the last 5 pieces of plywood because you are only allowed 5 at a time, and you might need them. Besides, if you don't get them when you can, you may miss out on the opportunity.
The waiting is intolerable. When you turn on local TV or radio all you see and hear are coordinates of latitudes and longitudes. We are learning more geography and meteorology than any normal person should ever be required to know. I can tell you what a cold front can do to a tropical depression, and how a high pressure area can drive a weather system. How millibars (mb) of minimal central depression mean a storm is gaining or losing strength, and how wind shears can weaken the formation and the eye. This is all stuff that I don't want to know, but the fact that we have had two major storms in 3 weeks, and by week 4 another hurricane will be at our back door, makes all this knowledge possible. I am beginning to know the Windward Islands by name and coordinates. I can even tell you which land mass will depreciate the storms magnitude, and which will have no effect.
I am sick and tired of my week being disrupted by weather! I am ready for a break from the drama and fears!
We started this all out with hurricane Charley on Friday, August the 13th, and now they are predicting that our third hurricane will begin to impact us around Monday, September the 13th. Here's the latest projection from the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
lab2401 at 9:02:00 AM EDT Link to this entry
bracing again
Frustrated
AOL got it exactly the way most of us here in Florida are feeling...
It must be a new weekend because there's a new hurricane coming...
right? right!
I'm sure that as tired as others are from heaing about Florida's run of bad weather luck, we are tired of going thru it. It is surreal to go to the grocery, and have all the bread gone, to have bottled water and flashlights to be in the center isles as the impulse items to purchase. To wait 15 or 20 minutes in line waiting to top your gas off for fear you wont find any if you don't. To see grown men and women scrambling to grab the last 5 pieces of plywood because you are only allowed 5 at a time, and you might need them. Besides, if you don't get them when you can, you may miss out on the opportunity.
The waiting is intolerable. When you turn on local TV or radio all you see and hear are coordinates of latitudes and longitudes. We are learning more geography and meteorology than any normal person should ever be required to know. I can tell you what a cold front can do to a tropical depression, and how a high pressure area can drive a weather system. How millibars (mb) of minimal central depression mean a storm is gaining or losing strength, and how wind shears can weaken the formation and the eye. This is all stuff that I don't want to know, but the fact that we have had two major storms in 3 weeks, and by week 4 another hurricane will be at our back door, makes all this knowledge possible. I am beginning to know the Windward Islands by name and coordinates. I can even tell you which land mass will depreciate the storms magnitude, and which will have no effect.
I am sick and tired of my week being disrupted by weather! I am ready for a break from the drama and fears!
We started this all out with hurricane Charley on Friday, August the 13th, and now they are predicting that our third hurricane will begin to impact us around Monday, September the 13th. Here's the latest projection from the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
lab2401 at 9:02:00 AM EDT Link to this entry
I hope Florida will be okay. It really is getting to be such a stressful thing for all of you. You guys haven't had a chance to just exhale.
Comment from readmereadyou - 9/10/04 3:17 PM
Comment from readmereadyou - 9/10/04 3:17 PM
OMG, Lyn, it is monsterously unfair! Where are you? I mean, what general area? I've forgotten. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers-again-and am so sorry you have to be under this kind of stress for so ling. Please take care of yourself and Walter(did I get the dog's name right?) Blessings, Margo
Comment from magogos - 9/10/04 2:01 PM
Comment from magogos - 9/10/04 2:01 PM
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