Hurricane Floyd

[SteveC]

Hurricane Floyd

Hi Guys,
Time again for us all to spare a thought today for the inhabitants of Florida and the Bahamas.

Latest reports show gusts of 180mph and sustained winds of 140mph!!

If you want to keep up with what's going on, there's HAM radio operators posting messages in the following forums:

The island of Abaco: <A HREF="http://www.oii.net/Forum/abacoboard.shtml">http://www.oii.net/Forum/abacoboard.shtml</A>

Disaster Message board: <A HREF="http://www.viexpo.com/dmstest/hurricane.html"> http://www.viexpo.com/dmstest/hurricane.html</A>

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Cheers,
Steve


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[DuRaNgO]

Up here in New Hampshire, we usually only get the messy remnants (hopefully this time also) good luck down south !
jim

[DK]

oh well... they just closed everything down in Southern MD, guess we're gonna catch some of it.


Derek

[art]

lucky me, here in orlando. It was touch and go for a while, waiting for Floyd to make that northern turn.

Gert not supposed to be a threat, but Floyd was *supposed* to come closer too.

[RanDob]

Floyd scared us enough at Matrox Boca Raton, FL to give us a day and a half off. Sorry, but your next driver release is delayed :-)

[paul]

thanks for the images, guys

[Agent31]

This is a good site for checking out this sorta info...
http://152.80.56.202/index_pub.html

I don't envy anyone near that coast at the moment... even us surfers don't really go wow on the thought of 45' swells...

[Mark F]

Down Here in South Florida we were very lucky. A couple of windy days, no more than 5 minutes of rain at any one time, and didn't even need my UPS to power my G400. Had wearse after noon T-Storms come in from the Everglades. Much less other storms and Hurricanes. My thoughts go out to those in the northern areas who will be hit tonight and tommorrow. I know what it's like, was down here for Hurricane Andrew. Best of Luck to you.

Mark F.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a CD

[Scytale]

RanDob, you know we don't accept natural disasters for an excuse...

[dalford]

We had Cyclone "Thelma" here in the Northern Territory of Australia last year which narrowly missed Darwin (by about 80 miles). It was a category 5 cyclone (our name for hurricanes) with winds In EXCESS of 320 km/h or 200 mp/h in your speak ;-).

On Xmas Day 1974, Darwin was annihilated by Cyclone Tracy which completely flattened the city.

We usually average 2 or 3 cyclones in the region every "Wet Season" (Oct - March) and an annual rainfall of around 80 - 100 inches.

The "Dry" is just that, Dry :-)

[Jorden]

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/tropic.html

is a good page to keep track of all storms on all sides of the world... Remember that Hong Kong (and Tylau ) is being bashed by a typhoon now as well...

Jorden, wishing all of you in Floyd's and probably Gert's path much luck!!

[SteveC]

Gert's just as big and mean, and look where it's heading:



That looks to me as if it's following Floyd... As Floyd prepares to hit NYC, but it's getting boring now - down to cat1 soon.

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Cheers,
Steve

PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)



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[art]

Orlando hasnt been hit by a major hurricane is decades. This is such a boring town, so fighting at the supermarket for water and batteries was quite entertaining.

It's the Carolinas that are in the path of many more storms. I believe Floyd was the 6th in 5 years.

But every locale has it's own disasters. What I can't grasp is living in "tornado alley" in the Midwest US. That scares me to death. Last year we had tornadoes spawn, and a major hit was taken less than 5 miles from here. YIKES!

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[Guyver]

Tornadoes, Cyclones, Tropical Storms, Hurricanes... All names for massive spinning air-masses. I live not too far from the touted "Tornado Alley" and we get our share of near misses. Had one jump over our building this spring - literally. We were ducking for cover - (one story prefab metal building with 50+ employees scampering around in the utility room). I jumped into the computer room (innermost room) with the wiring rack bolted to the concrete and running overhead with the steel rack. We heard it howling and yowling, felt a little shudder in the building due to wind gusts, and then silence, and then it kicked up again for a little bit, and then gone. About 1 mile down the highway, it knocked several train cars off the track - just tipped 'em over like dominoes or something.

It was exciting and scary all at the same time.

Makes you want to be nice to others and get in God's good graces..

Guyv

[DuRaNgO]

Typhoon hitting tylau? way to go Austin!
jim