I am waiting for the hurricane to come

[Christobal]

The "cone of death" says I might get hit. I actually live northeast of Orlando in a town no one has heard of. We being given all kinds of warnings. Do this or die. Write your social security number on your arm so we can identify your body. They do this every time.

The thunder and winds are ripping up right now. Yet I have been through this for forty years and nothing has happened. Of course I know something could happen but I've been studying those weather maps as long as the guys on TV.

Part of TV weather is to genuinely inform you and the other part is to scare the shit out of you so you keep watching their channel.

The worst hurricane I went through was Opal when I lived in Georgia. Since hurricanes don't normally come through inland Georgia I suffered over $10,000 in damages. In Florida I have suffered no damages.

I guess my point to this thing is for the most point hurricanes are an inconvenience

And before someone brings up the devastating hurricanes, yes I know. My point is they are few and far between.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I'm waiting on an earthquake to hit....they say everything west of I-5 is going to get leveled and the cascades are gonna esplode and kill us all.

Oh and then fire season is soon....that's always intense.

Hope you survive your natural disaster!

 

[Christobal]

I'm waiting on an earthquake to hit....they say everything west of I-5 is going to get leveled and the cascades are gonna esplode and kill us all.

Oh and then fire season is soon....that's always intense.

Hope you survive your natural disaster!

You know the one thing I don't like about earthquakes. On the east coast I have always been able to count on the ground for refuge no matter what is going on about me.

 

[Bert Notorius]

is belle glade
still the u.s. capitol
of aids?

 

[neci]

my first memory is of a hurricane. later memories jumble into the first over the years.

 

[Bert Notorius]

elena.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

I get what you're saying but this was never a hurricane.

 

[Christobal]

Andrew which wiped out Miami. There are still mountainous land fills from the garbage that created. Charle which came ashore in Tampa. They all evacuated to Orlando and Charlie followed them there. That was a unique hurricane because it came up the middle of the state. Lot of places that hadn't been hit in decades and caused great damage

 

[Rachel_X]

Andrew which wiped out Miami. There are still mountainous land fills from the garbage that created. Charle which came ashore in Tampa. They all evacuated to Orlando and Charlie followed them there. That was a unique hurricane because it came up the middle of the state. Lot of places that hadn't been hit in decades and caused great damage

You can thank the jet stream for that one. It pulled Charlie in exactly the direction they said it wouldn't go.

 

[Christobal]

You can thank the jet stream for that one. It pulled Charlie in exactly the direction they said it wouldn't go.

You know of what you speak. Are you a Floridian too?

 

[Christobal]

No hurricane now. I am out of the cone of death.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny---<-----that's me! The male half

No hurricane now. I am out of the cone of death.

Missed this post. I'd bet we've been where you live.

As the tropical storm changed it's course Tampa and up the coast got hit hard in places. Cedar Key supposedly got the center as it shifted east. We are in the path it later changed to.
At the last minute the storm split and went around us. At 9:30PM we got a 30 minute hard rain and wind. That's all. Didn't bother the vinyl carport.

We need to stop watching the weather channels. I'd guess even where they talked about cities under water it may have been a few square blocks.
I'll admit when your roof blows off it was a bad storm.
In the past, we've seen the neighbor's roofs' and neigbors' trees toppled when all we got were tree tops knocked off.

We were in New Orleans just before and not long after Katrina. Not a pretty site later. We saw what hurricane Dennis and others left.
It's all part of living near a coast.

 

[bronzeage]

No hurricane now. I am out of the cone of death.

Hurricanes are easy if you are above the storm surge. It's the tornadoes that kill you.

 

[Christobal]

Hurricanes are easy if you are above the storm surge. It's the tornadoes that kill you.

You couldn't give me a moment of peace. Bastid.

 

[someoneyouknow]

That's all right. I was hoping to encounter a tornado or two coming back from Colorado last month.

Tornadoes in front of me, tornadoes behind me, but none where I was. Biggest let down of the whole trip.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny---<-----that's me! The male half

We are originally from Illinois and near a known tornado "alley" as they call them.
Also I was a trucker mostly in Illinois. I've driven down the highways and watched smaller tornadoes beside me. No not those little dust devil things or water spouts.
I also was just behind a large tornado that hit the Plainfield, Ill area one year. Had to make lots of detours and didn't know what was up till I got to my destination. It wasn't a pretty site.

Also this tropical storm this week had tornado off shoots predicted as most hurricanes do.
All this was was a smaller less windy hurricane.

Better than living in earthquake land.

 

[jomar]

Nice, well done! Personally though, I'd prefer Waiting for the Miracle.

 

[Hard_Rom]

I think I live in the safest part of the earth, at times. No freakish weather. No literal earth-shaking episodes. No floods. No raging wildfires. Hurricanes and tornadoes, tail end of storm at worst. No real droughts. Never rains that bad. Worst that happens is it gets a bit cold for a month. No nasty bitey, crawlie things. Low human population keeps crime down. Really good hospitals here in town.

It's going to take a big asteroid to ruin our tranquility.

 

[Christobal]

I think I live in the safest part of the earth, at times. No freakish weather. No literal earth-shaking episodes. No floods. No raging wildfires. Hurricanes and tornadoes, tail end of storm at worst. No real droughts. Never rains that bad. Worst that happens is it gets a bit cold for a month. No nasty bitey, crawlie things. Low human population keeps crime down. Really good hospitals here in town.

It's going to take a big asteroid to ruin our tranquility.

Yeah but what about those damn hippies.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Yeah but what about those damn hippies.

Hippies are harmless. They all sell out in the end.

 

[Christobal]

Hippies are harmless. They all sell out in the end.

snickers

 

[bronzeage]

That's all right. I was hoping to encounter a tornado or two coming back from Colorado last month.

Tornadoes in front of me, tornadoes behind me, but none where I was. Biggest let down of the whole trip.

I know the feeling. I spent a week in Los Angeles. Not one earthquake, not even a fucking tremor.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

I think I live in the safest part of the earth, at times. No freakish weather. No literal earth-shaking episodes. No floods. No raging wildfires. Hurricanes and tornadoes, tail end of storm at worst. No real droughts. Never rains that bad. Worst that happens is it gets a bit cold for a month. No nasty bitey, crawlie things. Low human population keeps crime down. Really good hospitals here in town.

It's going to take a big asteroid to ruin our tranquility.

I'm saying this with a huge smile but only a Canadian would describe their winters as "a bit cold". I live in Orlando, May in Toronto would be death for me.

 

[pink]

I'm waiting on an earthquake to hit....they say everything west of I-5 is going to get leveled and the cascades are gonna esplode and kill us all.

Oh and then fire season is soon....that's always intense.

Hope you survive your natural disaster!

The Cascades are so beautiful. I used to go camping there.

 

[Disgustipated]

Cristobal,
Which of Ishtard's children are you? One of the surviving children?