This is why I hate living in Florida.

[Elmer the Pointy]

Hurricanes are fun as hell

http://www.cactusleaf.org/pics/hurricane 033.jpg

until they go away

http://www.cactusleaf.org/pics/hurricane09.jpg

[Askari0]

Gets me out of school so I'm fine with it

[Kobb]

Florida's been pretty lucky for storms in the last few years. Think the last time we actually got hit by -anything- was 2005? And this is only going to be a Tropical Storm... pfft. Not even worth putting up shutters unless it's a Cat 2 +

[Hitoru]

Florida:

Where people try to make their own state by breaking up anything that includes Miami/Dade county and below. I'm so glad I live in Northern Florida now...south is freakin' retarded.

[Remyo]

can't wait for Katrina Part Deux. Get rid of the ones the first missed.

[Kobb]

Tropical Storm isn't going to do shit to anything. Maybe knock out power but no real damage. Like people said earlier, at least it gets us out of work/school.

[Korietsu]

Greetings from Tornado Alley! Enjoy your tropical storms, and your hurricanes of doom. Shame they don't make the houses down there like when they made them when my mom was living there as a child. Only thing they had destroyed out of a category 4 that hit them were some shingles.

http://www.met.utah.edu/jimsteen/ams...uizpics/q2.jpg

97' Jarrell, Texas, F5, one mile wide. Approximately 20 miles from my house. It actually spawned tornadoes almost 30 miles away from it, destroying a small shopping center in Leander. Tornado leveled the whole town in probably 30 min. flat. Don't you just love living in an area where you have shit weather all the time?

[Correction]

I'm always telling my friends from places not on the west coast: I prefer earthquakes 100% of the time to any other natural disaster that hits America. God bless California.

[buttson]

I'm always telling my friends from places not on the west coast: I prefer earthquakes 100% of the time to any other natural disaster that hits America. God bless California.

i've spent most of my time on the west coast on fault lines, and a few years in hurricane country. I'd take hurricanes over earthquakes any day of the week.

With hurricanes you have 1-2 weeks or at the very least a few days notice (if the storm changes course unexpectedly.) You have time to evacuate. Earthquakes just strike with no warning. Both are killers - I'd rather have the advance notice.

That being said, earthquake country is one hundred times more pleasant to live in than hurricane country. Seems fitting.

[Correction]

I'd imagine the advance warning makes it much much worse. There is no 'earthquake' season and I don't worry about an earthquake picking up speed and power as it approaches the shoreline. In addition, really really bad earthquakes do feel like they hit us much further apart than really really bad hurricanes.

[Scythiroth]

All we have here is.....the sun. Seriously, this city has to have the most boring weather ever. If you want no weather problems ever, besides minor flooding, move to Las Vegas.

[Plow]

I live in Goessel now, lived in Hillsboro at the time.

Oh lawd, I'm sorry.


I live by Wichita, I remember going on vacation to Colorado one time, and coming back to find our barn turned at a 90 degree angle from where it was when we left. This was a bigass barn with a full wooden floor and quite literally several tons of stuff in it.

[Remyo]

Lived in Wilmington NC for 4 years, went on wrightsville beach for Isobel. I've got 15 rolls of film somewhere that were taken, along with my 100 or so digitals. We also went on the beach for.. uh. I forget. (2002-2006)

lived in kansas most of my life, so i'll see your f5 tornado with one of my own:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...Tornado_Family - look! we have our own wikipedia entry! I live in Goessel now, lived in Hillsboro at the time.

http://www.newtonarc.net/weather/hesston.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgbzKF_pSXo

i was 9 years old, living in Hillsboro KS, it passed 1/4 mile down the road from us. Fortunately, i was sitting in the middle of the road with a 5 gallon bucket over me, watching the clouds spin above me, until a hailstone as big as my head fell about 5' away. Then I went back inside.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/prepared...rge/slide3.gif

ohi.

never say i'm not crazy. And I've chased quite a few tornadoes in my time too. It's a LOT scary, but a bit fun. And very much crazy. I respect Mother Nature.

YOU HAVE SUCH AMAZING STORIES FOR EVERYTHING.

[Bingbong]

You think it's bad now, wait until someone dies from the hurricane and televangelists blame it on gays and liberals.

Only to be embraced at the next Republican National Convention.

Edit: The televangelists will be embraced, not the homos and libs.

Is this before or after the liberals blame the hurricane on George Bush... again.

[Tonka]

This TS is being a severe panzy. Regardless, I haven't been called in for work yet...so that's cool!

[aznmajiktaru]

man net's going on and off DO NOT WANT GDI

[Nymphadora]

I'd imagine the advance warning makes it much much worse. There is no 'earthquake' season and I don't worry about an earthquake picking up speed and power as it approaches the shoreline. In addition, really really bad earthquakes do feel like they hit us much further apart than really really bad hurricanes.

That's pretty true. Most of the storms that hit here tend to weaken just before they hit shore, so they're not bad enough to do much more than blow some trash and dead branches around. And this is even if it makes landfall at all. They usually just turn and wander back out into the ocean, no major damage. At least in SC, lol.

[guartz]

Teh Fay is coming. I'm sure it will be lame...but yeah. Being a homeowner in FL is skery.

Hurricanes made it possible for scrupulous home owners to make quick bucks.

[Acturus]

Greetings from Tornado Alley! Enjoy your tropical storms, and your hurricanes of doom. Shame they don't make the houses down there like when they made them when my mom was living there as a child. Only thing they had destroyed out of a category 4 that hit them were some shingles.

http://www.met.utah.edu/jimsteen/ams...uizpics/q2.jpg

97' Jarrell, Texas, F5, one mile wide. Approximately 20 miles from my house. It actually spawned tornadoes almost 30 miles away from it, destroying a small shopping center in Leander. Tornado leveled the whole town in probably 30 min. flat. Don't you just love living in an area where you have shit weather all the time?

In a related story, West Palm Beach, Florida had tornados ripping through here and there this morning.

Why you ask? Tropical Storm Fay.

Ah, Tornado Alley, enjoy those winds, we get all of that and floodwater.

[Korietsu]

Lived in Wilmington NC for 4 years, went on wrightsville beach for Isobel. I've got 15 rolls of film somewhere that were taken, along with my 100 or so digitals. We also went on the beach for.. uh. I forget. (2002-2006)

lived in kansas most of my life, so i'll see your f5 tornado with one of my own:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...Tornado_Family - look! we have our own wikipedia entry! I live in Goessel now, lived in Hillsboro at the time.

http://www.newtonarc.net/weather/hesston.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgbzKF_pSXo

i was 9 years old, living in Hillsboro KS, it passed 1/4 mile down the road from us. Fortunately, i was sitting in the middle of the road with a 5 gallon bucket over me, watching the clouds spin above me, until a hailstone as big as my head fell about 5' away. Then I went back inside.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/prepared...rge/slide3.gif

ohi.

never say i'm not crazy. And I've chased quite a few tornadoes in my time too. It's a LOT scary, but a bit fun. And very much crazy. I respect Mother Nature.

Well, I do remember that outbreak. I was little and I was watching the weather channel. However, I'll raise your wiki article for my own =p. I read the article and I don't remember there being that many tornadoes, especially out on Lake Travis, that's almost downtown austin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrell_Tornado