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sgraber - 4/9/04 at 10:24 PM

Have you guys been keeping tabs on that massive hurricane (Framces) that is pounding Florida? The damn thing has stopped moving!

They are predicting over 40cm of rain!

Alan B. (Meerkat) lives perilously close to this one! I hope all is well with my bud!

Nature shows us once again who's boss!

JoelP - 4/9/04 at 10:35 PM

so soon after the last one too. not a good place to live in my books! sure he'll be fine, he lives a bit inland doesnt he? charlie did $10 BILLION damage, apparently. crazy stuff.

fingers crossed.

zilspeed - 4/9/04 at 10:39 PM

I was meant to be going over there last month - when Charley was in full force and would have been coming back on thursday there.

I guess someone looks over us sometimes...

This storm is the size of Texas - truly huge - and it's slow speed is going to cause untold havoc.

Hope I'm wrong.

Jon Ison - 5/9/04 at 08:09 AM

Yes, Alan prob cant read this at mo but lets hope all is ok for him and everyone else for that matter.

My son should be flying to Florida early next week, isn't there a tropical storm called Ivan lurking around too?

mangogrooveworkshop - 5/9/04 at 08:17 AM

quote:
Originally posted by JoelP
so soon after the last one too. not a good place to live in my books!



think it may be the place to live if you are a tradesman as they rebuild the contry every season. Almost every thing is pole mounted leccy telecom and power so that lot would need replaced everytime these storms visit. Unlike blighty that stopped building telcos seven years ago.!

[Edited on 5-9-04 by mangogrooveworkshop]

mangogrooveworkshop - 5/9/04 at 10:37 AM

Fozzie - 5/9/04 at 11:35 AM

quote:
Originally posted by sgraber
Have you guys been keeping tabs on that massive hurricane (Framces) that is pounding Florida? The damn thing has stopped moving!

They are predicting over 40cm of rain!

Alan B. (Meerkat) lives perilously close to this one! I hope all is well with my bud!

Nature shows us once again who's boss!


As some of you know, I was over touring Florida in May. I met and became firm friends with Al and his family.

I was lucky enough to have IM contact with Mrs. B at 01:00am Saturday morning (our time).

Alans family live 20 miles inland from Vero Beach directly north of Lake Okeechobee, and about 60 miles north of where the eye of 'Frances' hit, West Palm Beach.

He is up there with his family (his father, mother, sister and bro-in-law too).

His lovely family house seems more substantially built than the norm of Floridian homes, but there are a number of large trees on their property.

Mrs B tells me that they have well boarded up their respective homes, have plenty of supplies in, and have a designated 'safe' room.

She has promised me to contact me as soon as power is restored, and I will duly keep you all posted as soon as I hear anything.

If any of Als friends want to U2U me 'off' forum, I will fill you in if you found my remarks (re his location) on the other thread (Mangogrooveworkshop), confusing.

The hurricane is currently moving at snails pace, and with Florida being so flat, flooding is an added worry.

fozzie

[Edited on 6/9/04 by Fozzie]

Northy - 5/9/04 at 11:42 AM

I hope everything works out for Alan. He is one of the people who post on here who's advice you know is always correct.

Keep safe Alan.

white130d - 5/9/04 at 01:15 PM

I am sitting here watching the Sunday Am news, Frances came ashore with 95 mph winds and lots of rain. News people are out in it reporting the damages. 2.5 million with out power, trees down, typical stuff. However it doen't have the devistation that Charley had. Still half the storm has to pass so the rain and flooding is the big issue. Sustained winds are now 50-70mph at the coast (9 am)...


David

sgraber - 5/9/04 at 04:26 PM

It's so amazinly sloooow. and biiiiig.

Most hurricanes spin through quicker than this, so this one is going to be devastating because of the 40+cm of rain. Florida is a low lying state with tens of thousands of lakes. In fact half the entire state is a watershed for a gaint swamp. The damage will be massive.

Now there are reports of ANOTHER hurricane forming to the south east of the Lesser Antilles, heading up directly towards Puerto Rico (where my parents own a house on the edge of a mountaing facing the south coast...) and then with a projected path directly up to Florida again.

A good season for Hurricanes, a bad season for the people living in that area.

stephen_gusterson - 5/9/04 at 10:54 PM

bu&&er the posessions - whats he done with the car!

atb

steve

Viper - 5/9/04 at 11:00 PM

It goes without saying that all of the regulars on here are thinking of alan at this time.
It's been a bad season over there so far.

thekafer - 6/9/04 at 03:00 AM

Fairly warned, be thee, says I.

Good luck Alan! Keep safe! post some pix.