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20040903 Friday September 03, 2004

Frances Julie's Mom lives in West Palm Beach, which is directly in the path of Frances. She's decided to weather it out in Miami. I don't know if Miami is in the path of the hurricane or not, but I'd love to find some blogs from that area. Blogs seem to provide much timelier news than traditional media - and they're usually more pleasant to read.

Michael Levin (of Gainesville I believe) points to buzzmodo, who seems to live in Central Florida and gives a chilling perspective of what's going on there right now.

The streets are empty, stores are boarded up, many gas stations are without gas, having sold out yesterday. Most business are closed including all of the banks.
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I heard friends today sharing tips about where to get battery powered radios, then where to get batteries, and where to get water.

It's almost as if people are preparing for the end times.

Posted in General at Sep 03 2004, 05:03:36 PM MDT 5 Comments

Comments:

Hurricanes are bad, bad stuff. You have the drowning rains, then the storm hits. Right before things get their worst most people/ businesses loose power. So you're in the dark. Then the serious winds hit. This isn't quick like a severe Thunderstorm. It lasts for hours and hours. Then as you think you're in the clear the tornadoes hit.

I grew up in Houston, TX. When I was 9 we got hit head-on by Hurrican Alicia. It was scary stuff. I remember we didn't have power for a number of days.

I hope your mother-in-law stays safe.

Posted by Erik Weibust on September 03, 2004 at 08:20 PM MDT #

Lets put it this way...I was at Home Depot yesterday from 11:30am till 10:00pm at which time I walked out the door with 10 sheets of ply wood. They had the doors locked from when I arrived, and one line that snaked through the whole lenght of the store, all people waiting for plywood. They had employees escort family members in to deliver food or other items. The line would move for about 30 mins when a truck came in with ply, then we would wait for another few hours. I got my ply when a truck came in around 9:45 or so. I was also lucky to be one of 30 people to pick up a generator at BJs that morning at 8am. I had been next door at Lowes since 5am and my friend went over to BJs and got a ticket for himself and I to buy a generator. Today I got up at 8am to go to the gas station to get gas for my generator and to fill the cars up. Then my and my neighbors spend all day putting up plywood on three houses (1st and 2nd story for some) and I just got back inside from sandbagging my sliding door out back by digging up a hole in the back yard and filling garbage bags. It is definitely a different world when a hurricane comes through. Hopefully once the hurricane passes and if I have power or the generator is running I will post more since I can power a good few things since it is a 5250 watt beast...

Posted by dsuspense on September 03, 2004 at 09:40 PM MDT #

Matt, I found your post via Dominic's blog dsuspense. It's funny how one pays attention to subtle things like how Dom fills his sandbags with soil from the backyard. I made a mental note of that. In our neighborhod, here in Winter Park, we used sand from the streets where uprooted trees left piles of yellow sand from Hurricane Charley, just a few weeks ago.

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Posted by Michael Levin on September 04, 2004 at 01:52 PM MDT #

I live in Melbourne, which got a near-direct hit with 90 mph winds. I just know from the guy on the weather channel that we have substantial damage in our area, particularly to mobile homes and traffic lights and the like. We had to evacuate to Tampa (been here since Thursday.) :-( Power is off there now as are the cell-towers as unfortunately I can't reach my neighbor to check on my house. Oh well! Good news is it weakened considerably... we were much more worried when it was 140 mph!

Posted by Keith Donald on September 05, 2004 at 10:22 AM MDT #

I started posting before Frances hit here in Delray (about 15miles south of palm beach). I finally got some power back today. What a mess! Before my weather station flew away I was seeing 90mph winds.

Posted by rich! on September 07, 2004 at 07:03 AM MDT #

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