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Hurricane Ike

Rich Z

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For those of you who may not been following this....

It looks like southeast Florida needs to make preparations NOW for a category 3 hurricane making landfall around Tuesday afternoon. The track can change, of course, but I certainly wouldn't wait till the last minute to make preparations.
 

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Rich, what would happen if you had to evacuate? I guess there's no way you could possibly take all your snakes with you-- but would you try to take favorites? Good breeders? The more valuable morphs?

Here's hoping everyone in South Florida weathers things okay.
 
Good luck Rich!

Is there something you can do with your snakes to secure them? Or some of them....

Like maybe put the tubs in a basement or something?
 
Fortunately for us, we are FAR from where the hurricane is expected to make landfall. Of course, if it maintains it's present course, it may very well cross completely over the peninsula, get out into the Gulf of Mexico, and strengthen even further. THEN we may have a problem.

As for what we would do. Category 1 or 2, we would stay and tough it out. Category 3 and above, we pack light and travel fast to get out of here. There is no way to pack the snakes and take any of them with us. We would be looking for temporary lodging out of the path of the storm, and showing up with bags full of snakes just wouldn't go over very well at all. All we can hope for is that things are OK when we can get back home. The generator SHOULD be providing power to the animal buildings, at least....
 
I've been in touch with Rob and Louise Stevens. Rob stayed with the snakes but sent Louise with the dogs to Destin. Except for some roof damage they fared well. The problem now is no power and no gas for generators. And something else, NO INTERNET! Could any of us survive if Rich left town due to an impending hit by a hurricane? Ahhh, no CS.com; is there no God? Ah, sorry Rich we'd miss you too.:D Having been in a hurricane, I'm hoping it just peters out completely and you guys remain safe and sound. Fingers crossed...
Terri
 
Did anyone else notice that it's taking a very similar path to hurricane Andrew? THAT was a fun storm... j/k. But seriously, if it makes any plans to head my way, I've got the snake tubs ready, and I'm heading to my parents house.
 
crackerhead said:
I've been in touch with Rob and Louise Stevens. Rob stayed with the snakes but sent Louise with the dogs to Destin. Except for some roof damage they fared well. The problem now is no power and no gas for generators. And something else, NO INTERNET! Could any of us survive if Rich left town due to an impending hit by a hurricane? Ahhh, no CS.com; is there no God? Ah, sorry Rich we'd miss you too.:D Having been in a hurricane, I'm hoping it just peters out completely and you guys remain safe and sound. Fingers crossed...
Terri
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Nah, a hurricane hitting here would not affect CS.com at all. The server is (I think..) out on the west coast somewhere in some data center, probably with full protection against power outages of any sort. My server guy has moved it so many times I've lost track of exactly where it is located. Maybe I would need to worry more about an earthquake in CA than a hurricane in FL as far as the server is concerned. :shrugs:
 
RobbiesCornField said:
Did anyone else notice that it's taking a very similar path to hurricane Andrew? THAT was a fun storm... j/k. But seriously, if it makes any plans to head my way, I've got the snake tubs ready, and I'm heading to my parents house.
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If I remember correctly, Andrew had a sudden and very LARGE increase in strength right before it made landfall. Apparently from the gulf stream right off the east coast of Florida.

Anyway, here's the path of Andrew. From what things look like in the projections for Ike, it looks like Ike will be making a sharper turn north then Andrew did.
 

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Thank god that I moved.
We stayed at home when Charley hit us.
We were only 20 miles away from the eye, where it hit in Punta Gorda.
I wish you guys in Florida, a luck!
I hope everything will go okay after Ike.
There's a hurricane in our path right now, Hannah...
I doubt it would do any damage at all.
 
Yeah, we're got our eye's out for Hannah.
The rain is supposed to start tonight, and thankfully I'll be home from work tomorrow afternoon before it's expected to get really nasty here in Jersey.

Good luck Rich and everyone else in Florida.
 
Ike is the one I'm worried about. The projected track has changed and it looks like it will be coming INTO the Gulf of Mexico as a Cat 4 hurricane... :awcrap:
 

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Hopefully it won't make a right hook...Just keep on going, Ike, we don't want you here.
 
Nanci said:
Hopefully it won't make a right hook...Just keep on going, Ike, we don't want you here.
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I'm not even going to say anything, because I know if I do, the storms gonna try and hit wherever I'm at, and stick around for about a week, and you're gonna blame me for taunting it.
 
Geez....

Rich Z said:
Ike is the one I'm worried about. The projected track has changed and it looks like it will be coming INTO the Gulf of Mexico as a Cat 4 hurricane... :awcrap:
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That's my TV station here in Lakeland (from Tampa) and I haven't seen that track yet. My wife will be headed to Orlando soon.
 
Wow... I feel SO bad for you guys! l hope everyone is going to be safe. And I hope it doesn't reach Category 5 right before it hits land.

Here were "worried" about Hanna, but I reckon it won't be a big deal. We're not even getting heavy rain yet and it's still stuck in NC or VA or something.
 
Ouch. We live a couple miles from the Delaware, so that's the only thing we're worried about.

The heavy rain kicked in 2 seconds ago when I wrote "Ouch".
 
We live back on a 1/2 mile dirt road / driveway that is just beginning to dry up from the tropical storm a week or two ago. We are still flooded in places, but getting better. The last thing we need in a few days is more flooding from another storm. But the good news is that the rainy season usually peters out towards the middle or end of Sept, and Oct is not usually very rainy, unless there is a tropical storm or hurricane. So it shouldn't be TOO much longer before everyone is complaining about drought again!
 
Well i hope everyone is ok with this hurricane, we don't get them here in the UK, but i was on holiday in the Dominican Republic last year & we had an earthquake, 5.3, frightened me half to death, it came at 5.40 am & woke everyone up, this year we were in Mexico & had a tropical storm, the wind was horrible, i hated it.
Marg.
 
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