Re: all eyez on bonnie and charley

From: Chuck Lysaght (chucklysaght_at_mail.com)
Date: 08/13/04 

Date: 13 Aug 2004 06:21:52 -0700

island <island_in_the_stream@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<411C9B9C.6A43F24B@earthlink.net>...
> Dennis M. Hammes wrote:
>
> > island wrote:
> > > I agree that people in storm surge areas should be evacuated. But that
> > > isn't what I'm talking about... if you've never seen an all out
> > > hurricane evacuation from South Fla... I think that it was Bob Sheets
> > > who first pointed out the potential for a major-league evacuation
> > > disaster brought on by the gridlock of thousands of semi-mobile elderly
> > > people stuck in their cars in the path of a recurving hurricane.
>
>
> > Yes, but where else are you going to see 500,000 left-turn signals
> > all flashing at the same time? Entertainment isn't free just
> > because it's on TV, ya know.
>
>
> Good point!... I hadn' thought of that, and it looks like I might even
> get a bird's eye view, too... cause its heading right at me now. I
> should have known better than to second guess the push behind the front,
> the predictions are rarely wrong anymore.
>
> I guess that I'd better batten down the hatches, cause it looks like
> we're in for a real blow.

Roger that!
>
>
> ~
>
> "When that cloud begins to move apace, you may expect the Wind
> presently. It comes on fierce, and blows very violently at N.E. 12
> hours more or less..... When the wind beginds to abate it dyes away
> suddenly, and falling flat calm, it continues for an hour, more or
> less: then the wind comes about to the S.W. and it blows and rains as
> fierce from thence, as it did before at N.E. and as long."
>
> -As quoted by Chris Landsea from the log of William Dampier on 4 July
> 1687, in the South China Sea, the first such record of a tropical
> cyclone.

It's been a while since I've seen a local weather forecast like this.

http://www.jacksonville.com/weather/

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