Posted on 08/24/2005 6:20:56 AM PDT by NautiNurse
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
My husband will be 62 when our daughter turns 19.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Hurricane Katrina felled trees, peeled off roofs and left more than 1.3 million customers without power as it slammed into Florida's densely populated southeastern coast Thursday with driving rains and sustained winds of 80 mph. Four people were killed, three by falling trees.
Rain fell in horizontal sheets, seas were estimated at 15 feet and wind gusted to 92 mph, toppling trees and street signs. Florida Power & Light said the vast majority of people without electricity were in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
The storm made landfall along the Miami-Dade and Broward line between Hallandale Beach and North Miami Beach. Weather officials said flooding was the main concern as the storm dropped up to 15 inches in parts of Miami-Dade County.
Early Friday, Katrina had weakened into a tropical storm with top sustained winds of 70 mph. It was about 40 miles southeast of Marco Island near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, heading southwest at 8 mph.
The storm proved fatal for three people who ignored warnings to stay inside until the worst was over. A man in his 20s in Fort Lauderdale was crushed by a falling tree as he sat alone in his car, while a 54-year-old man was killed by a falling tree in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Plantation. A woman who was struck by a tree died at a hospital in Hollywood, hospital officials said.
A 79-year-old man in Cooper City also died when his car struck a tree, Broward County officials said. No other details were immediately available.
"The message needs to be very clear. It's not a good night to be out driving around," National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield. "The back side of the core of the hurricane has yet to come. It's not over yet."
Three storm-related trauma victims were being treated at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, including a driver in critical condition after a tree fell on a car, a spokesman said.
An overpass under construction in Miami-Dade County collapsed onto a highway, authorities said. No injuries were immediately reported, but the freeway — a main east-west thoroughfare — was closed for 20 blocks.
The usually bustling streets of Miami Beach, a tourist haven, were largely deserted as the storm pounded the area. The city is hosting celebrities and partygoers in town for the MTV Video Music Awards. MTV called off its pre-awards festivities Thursday and Friday.
"It's like a ghost town out here," said Mark Darress, concierge at The Astor Hotel in Miami Beach. "I see the random, not so smart people, riding scooters every now and then."
Tourists and others hoping to get out of town before the storm were stranded as airlines canceled flights at Miami and Fort Lauderdale airports, which both closed Thursday night.
Three mobile home parks in Davie sustained considerable damage, according to the Broward Emergency Management Agency. "A lot of roofs are off," said Dennis Myers, a spokesman for the agency.
When the eye of the hurricane passed over the National Hurricane Center in west Miami-Dade County, forecasters ran outside to experience the calm at the center of the storm.
In an oceanfront condominium in Hallandale, Carolyne and Carter McHyman said heavy downpours once again pelted their windows after the eye passed.
"It's been horrible," Carolyne McHyman said. "Basically all our windows are leaking. We just keep mopping up and taping the windows, mopping up and taping again."
I'm going to worry till you get home.
OH MY OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!
As my husband always says - we were slow learners and late starters :)
we have only the one 7yo........with any luck I will be your age, at least, before she makes me grandma!!!!
You are amazing!!!!!!!!
I don't think I will be making the begining of the Gulf thread.......well, if I were smart I won't make the start of it - but who ever said I was smart?????????
Gabz,Fall in love at 13-marry at 16- everytime you get bored have a child.I am wondering what is in the pot for my son's wife.We don't know yet.She will have 2 in 18 months.
lol--I am home...just have to return the rental car tomorrow.
Oh I thought they said you weren't coming back until tomorrow.
Well, you should have known we would never "hold" a hurricane without you.
How's the weather there?
That makes sense :)
2, in 18 months? God bless her.
We had no interest in knowing whether boy or girl.....my OB was so thrilled about that, she really disliked knowing ahead of time :)
Or you, either :)
Well, you have to stay up......I'm getting antsy now..she's never gone more than 3 hours
And it's 2 and a half now.
Calm down, darling, calm down.............
I'm up for another bit.....but I've got PT in the morning, so I really do need to get some sleep :)
Determined this morning that if I didn't get home Thurs. night, I would be stranded until Monday. My dear clients were very understanding, they worked like mad to get me home. No small feat with three of five major Florida airports out of service. Tampa was not an option either--still don't know why. My flight from DFW into Orlando was terribly oversold, with the vast majority of pax being business travelers trying to beat the storm, rent a car, and drive home.
OUCH - you really did have a rough time of it - no wonder you are wide awake.
Won't be long now...........husband just called..........she's pushing!
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The two men met in 1950, shortly after Nixon, then a Republican representative from California, won election to the Senate.
Their friendship from the beginning was quite real and warm.
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In December, 1951, George Smathers arranged for Rebozo to meet Richard Nixon. Rebozo took Nixon on a boat trip but the relationship got off to a bad start. Rebozo told Smathers that Nixon's "a guy who doesn't know how to talk, doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't chase women, doesn't know how to play golf, doesn't know how to play tennis... he can't even fish." However, the two men eventually became close friends.
The men spent so much time together that rumours circulated that the men were having a homosexual relationship. Bobby Baker claimed that Rebozo and Nixon were "close like lovers". According to one interview carried out by Anthony Summers in his book The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon, Rebozo was a member of Miami's homosexual community.
Oh well........
Don’t ask how I came to be reading a thread that was 2-1/2 years old, but I think we know the answer to the question you asked as Katrina approached Miami before it even thought about going to New Orleans: “How many “artists” will blame GWBush for not signing kyoto?”
The answer, of course, is “all of them.” But even thinking to ask at that time was rather prescient.
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