Making a beer run tonight.

 

WUSA TV (Channel 9) is a local station in Washington DC. They have a free application to track hurricanes that can be down loaded from their web site by clicking HERE

 

Sounds pretty scary to me, this hurricane coming business.

 

Best of luck Bill. Mother Nature is a formidable adversary.

If you are going to try to board your windows up. Remember that the boards need to be on the outside of the glass. Don't take the queue from some of the Katrina victims that boarded up from the inside.

 

Buy a couple of 5 gallon buckets and put a couple of bricks in them. Set them under the roof line of your house and fill them up. Pour a slug of it in the toilet bowl and it will flush, and then fill it back up.

 

I believe that I may have posted this comment a few years ago. My brother, who lives in Southern California, was visiting my mother who lives on Eastern Long Island when a hurricane moved up the coast. I forgot which one .

I was surprised to discover that even though he has experienced several severe earth quakes, one of which was centered less than four miles from his former house, he was terrified by the hurricane. When I questioned him about it. I was a bit taken back by his response. An earth quake last for seconds or at worst minutes. A hurricane last for hours. I guess that coincides with Einstein's theory of relativity as he explained it in lay mans terms. "Two minutes of kissing your best girl friend seemingly passes faster than two minutes of sitting on a hot stove"

Until then I had never thought of earth quake and hurricanes in those terms of time.

 

Don't forget anticipation. We don't know when an earthquake is coming so we don't worry about it until after the fact and then just deal with what's been done.

 

Huh?

 

^I think what he means is to make sure you take advantage of rain water as well as have some water in buckets in case you have to flush the toilet. That is a very sound advice.

 

Most of the time no one is concerned about a hurricane unless you're in the "watch" zone. When we moved close to the coast, we knew hurricanes could cause havoc, so we tried to just make a plan in our minds and keep important papers, medication, etc. in a place that we could just pick them up and leave if necessary. Hurricanes are not something that we worry about daily and you just take the bad along with the good. Like the west coast, on the east coast houses are built to withstand a certain amount of wind/water, etc. and sometimes failure occurs, but that is out of our hands. We learned the evacuation routes and decided if a storm is a certain magnitude, we'd just leave. We took photographs of all our household belongings and put them on photobucket so they could be retrieved from anyplace whenever we'd need them in case we had to file an insurance claim. We knew an occasional hurricane was just something that is out of our control and decided the risk was worth taking to live where we wanted to be. We'll just pack up a few things, put BB and ourselves in the car and head to a safer place. Nothing is certain no matter where you live. We're glad we'll probably get a warning and we can make a decision to stay or go. A big factor in our decision is all the trees around our house that could fall along with the fact that snakes and other critters may decide our house is a great refuge if the water rises.
Right now, I'm more concerned about my daughter's safety since she's pretty much in the path of the storm. We talked yesterday and I believe she and her husband will make a decision today about whether they'll stay or go.