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Hurricane Matthew

Paa Langfart

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jasonluckydog Veteran

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1 hour ago, Paa Langfart said:

I can understand your frustration with people and businesses being silly, but  I remember a storm called Hugo passing through your way about 27 years ago and it caused some MAJOR damage. Of course you may be too young to remember such ancient history.

I remember Hugo well , I was 15 when it hit . I lived in goose creek we lost our house and lived 2 months without water and power. Most of our meals came from the Red Cross. However any storm since people freak out and nothing happens.  I just saw the track and I'm still doubting we get blown away like Hugo

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15 hours ago, Paa Langfart said:

I lived about 1 mile from the ocean front and a stones throw from one of the major tidal creeks when I was in Wilmington.  Me and the old woman rode out Floyd in my shop with 3 sedated dogs - .  The storm was huge and seemed to go on forever.  As the eye passed over us we woke the dogs up and took them out into about 4 inches of water to use the bathroom while we had the chance.  When we got back inside I remember George Elliot one of the local weather guys telling some very frightened college girls not to worry because the backside of the storm was weaker.    About that time the wind picked back up 180 degrees different direction from where it had been and branches and pinecones starting pelting my shop - the wind was stronger and it was some scary poo after an already long night  - every couple minutes you could hear a huge CRACK as a pine broke in two and you would hear a loud thud and the floor under our feet would literally shake as it hit the ground. For us the backside of that storm was worse than the front side.

 

Moral of my long winded story - don't believe a damn thing the forcaster " experts " tell you.  Prepare for the worst and dont get lulled into thinking the worst is over.

I think the back side is always stronger, isn't it?

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Darth Biscuit Mentor

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15 hours ago, PhillyB said:

get inland people. wind frightens, storm surge kills.

F you Philly, I'm going swimming... ;)

 

The forecast is progressively turning it out over the ocean off the coast of SC which I'm TOTALLY FINE with... I've been thru too many of these things and this one could be a strong one.

 

Of course, in 1984 Diana did this crazy poo to us...

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So you never know.

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Mike Shula is obviously controlling this hurricane.

It's looks like it is going to be a beast and rip the coasts apart, then it takes a turn out of nowhere in the complete wrong direction.

...and none of the people watching have a clue wtf is going on...

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FWIW You can all thank me that Matthew backed the fug down...

I got in the garage on Tuesday and was gonna tidy up the generator in the event we lost power for a few days. I drained the old fuel out and treated it with some treatment and some new gas mixed in. Sprayed some carb cleaner into the air intake. Then I tried and tried to fire it up. No success. I figured I'd go ahead and pull the carb and clean it thoroughly.

The damn studs that hold it on were stripped on the heads. I had to drill that sumbitch off, ruining the studs and the carb in the process.

I go inside and order replacement parts (damned $50+) and find out they can't get here until next week. I was pretty pissed, facing the threat of what the hurricane was supposed to do at the time.

So I think ol' Matthew caught wind, and figured it'd be best to steer clear of this dude this time... He didn't want to piss me off any more.

 

*/end Sam Elliot narration

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