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Posted on 10/18/2005 7:40:22 AM PDT by NautiNurse
I'm very sorry for your loss, Laz.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I have a friend who works on a cruise ship based out of Honolulu. His family lives in Miami, so he's home between assignments.
I knew that he has to be back at work on the ship by this weekend, so I called to wake him up when I saw Wilma's progress overnight. I figured he'd want to call his airline right away and switch to an earlier flight before everyone else got the same idea.
He didn't seem to take me seriously, though. He's one of those "manana" type men, and me, I'm the type of person who wants everything done yesterday. "Let's see what happens" is his mantra. I felt I was like Linda Greenlaw screaming at Billy Tyne in "The Perfect Storm."
Oh well, I hope he brings plenty of extra cartridges for his Nintendo system -- I have a feeling he's going to spend the weekend camped out in the airport, sigh...
WFLA ch8 in Tampa uses it; Steve Jerve and VIPIR called Charlie's jog into Punta Gorda last year. They haven't been nearly as close since.
According to this link, Wilma at 894 mb, has the 3rd lowest pressure on record.
http://www.hurricaneville.com/all_time_storms.php
Well, yeah. Besides this whatever it is we are hacking up... I have 4 kittens now. Never seen them before. We brought our cats with us... who are neutered. Come home, and here are these four half starved kittens. Not exactly coffee weed... what is coffee weed?
Happy for your niece. I've found unoccupied homemade rafts far out in the Gulf Stream at times, wondered if the crews made it OK or not.
Wilma was down to 882mb this morning, making her the lowest pressure on record for the Atlantic basin.
That's what I was watching. I didn't see them call Charley - I was all the way up in DeLand working then, and was still expecting it to pass west of Tampa. I was on my way back home (eastern Polk), somewhere up in Lake County (avoiding the I-4 parking lot), when it made that jog. I just barely made it home in time to throw a bunch of stuff into the back of my truck, gather up my critters (except for the cat - she went under the bed and I could not get her out) and bug out to my grandmother's house to ride it out.
I've often congectured that we will one day be hit by a storm that has not yet been on the books....who knows.
Just a weed that pops up everwhere around this area.
I did a search on 'coffee weed' and got a lot of Amsterdam coffee shops, lol.
That link is now outdated. Wilma ranks #1 with 882 mb earlier today.
882 is pretty amazing!
Thank you.
I could probably write a book about my family's adventures. Both my parents are from Cuba, and they fled to the US in '61. I was born in NYC in '62. My father was a radio announcer in Cuba and originally supported Castro and worked with him, then turned against him when he found out Castro was a communist. Castro's people almost killed him. My mother's family had to hide my father in their basement for weeks until he was able to sneak out and go to Jamaica. From Jamaica, he went to Miami, where he met with CIA and told them everything he knew about Castro. From Miami, he went to Boston, then finally to New York. My mother fled via Jamaica a few months later and met up with him in New York.
Over the past forty years, about half my family has made it to the US, including an aunt and uncle who came in '80 with the Marielitos. Thankfully, only one member has died making the attempt.
I'm at 43N 71W, and the 120 hour forecast is coming close. All our big hemlocks have saturated root systems after all the rain this month, if we get a big wind (OK, OK big FOR HERE), we'd better duck.
God only knows how many have drowned.
fyi - new thread coming up very shortly.
That does not sound encouraging. Good luck, and may that 120-hour forecast be off.
Thank you, I refrained earlier trying to catch up on the thread.
Whohoo Astros.......and now back to our regularly scheduled Hurricane........lol
I lady I work with escaped from Cuba in the early '60s. A few months ago I gave her a target that I used at the range. It was a picture of Fidel giving a speech.
She hung it up in her cube for the world to see. Funny thing is not a damn person in our very PC workplace has said a thing about it.
That said, I think if this storm doesn't pick up a little more forward movement soon it may just jink back over the Keys or Cuba.
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