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abc40kids wrote:I would still go and just keep an eye on the weather,you should have a pretty good idea of where it's gonna hit before you get too far down the road.If it's gonna hit where you planned to go I'm sure everyone here will give you all kinds of ideas where you can still go and have a great vacation.Hit the road and have fun!!
That's pretty much how we handled hurricane threats in the past when leaving for vacation down south this time of year.
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Stay! Florida is not in the clear at all.
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pocono
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gonna make final decision tomorrow but we're looking for alternate places just in case.
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pocono wrote:gonna make final decision tomorrow but we're looking for alternate places just in case.
STAY AWAY !
First of all I am not a panic type person BUT
I live in the Birmingham area and I am not even going to the lake (lake martin, alex city) because with my luck the storm will turn and come a shore quicker and early that expected.
Now the main reasons for YOU to stay clear
1) about the time you get here will be when the State begins to consider an evacuation order. You would really hate to get caught in that traffic. (think of 100,000 (or more) people on the intersate heading north.)
2) Even if you stopped early and stayed in the Birmingham area you would be taking up a badly needed site that someone from the coast would need to LIVE at untl it was clear to go home.
(this is the main reason I will not go anywhere this weekend.)
3) No one really know where this storm will go.
Remember in 1985 ELANE visited the Gulf Coast tha the same time. She went up and down the coast for a few days before finely making landfall in Miss. (my ex's family spent the WEEK with us until it cleared)
Be safe and stay above the Alabama, Miss, La area.
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There is NOW another TS aiming for the East Coast of Fl.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/144513.shtml?5day#contents
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Looking at the westward change in the storm track over the past 12 hours, go and enjoy yourself in Florida. IMHO, this storm is going to end up somewhere in Texas or Mexico and the track says it won't be there until Tuesday or later, so why give up your vacation. Just keep an eye on the forecast and if there is a change to the east, head out 12 hours before the hour, they mention for an evacuation to start, but I would not worry about that myself. I have lived along the Gulf Coast from Tampa to the Rio Grande Valley for years, so do have a little knowledge of storms in that region.
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MY advice is GO.. WIth hurricans there are only three kinds of people (Well 4)
1: Those who get out of the way
2: Those who wish they had
3: Those who receive their eternal reward for not getting out of the way (Dead)
4: Idiot television reporters who actually go TO the storm area
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business
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My advice would be to make plans for somewhere else unless you don't mind getting wet. I doubt that the storm itself will come close but the thunderstorm bands will reach out several hundred miles and even if the storm hits Texas, the panhandle of Florida will get lots of rain.
It looks like it will be at least the end of the week before Hanna will affect north Florida, if at all. It's still way to early to tell.
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I would remind folks that Dennis didn't hit the panhandle that hard, and Katrina was just another rainy day. BUT! Dennis had a storm surge that started in south Florida and it rode all the way up the west coast of Florida, crashed into St Marks (inundating it) and then the surge headed west. Here in Carrabelle (where Fay made her 4th landfall) the storm surge of Dennis washed 12 feet of water over the park I'm in at the moment. Thank goodness the authorities had issued mandatory evacuations! There's always that possibility occuring again. I may leave on my own, especially since Hanna is out there now, I certainly wouldn't drive down. Carrabelle is just outside the cone, but we have lots of flooded roads around us now,and even if Gustav goes to Nola, we will still get lots more rain, and some storm surge. JMHO
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Okay, we cancelled. Did not want TD #8 cutting off our return trip. Sooo, any suggestions??? Maryland, Virginia? We were wanting to be on water.
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