You've GOT To Be Kidding! (Ivan)

“

surely this won't really follow in Frances' footsteps? Will it?”

“Holy cow - it's like bowling.

I didn't realize they had a map already - now I know what I'm doing next week.”

“The dude at the insurance company that recommended a separate deductible for each even rather than an annual one is probably gonna get an "atta boy" after this season.

(I know it doesn't work that way - but there are some folks who are gonna end up paying two deductibles after frances - and these are not regular deductibles - these are 2% of the value of your home (pre-storm). If Ivan hits then that will be crazy.”

“That process would make it almost like not even having insurance for some folks.”

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WTNT34 KNHC 050837
TCPAT4
BULLETIN
HURRICANE IVAN ADVISORY NUMBER 11
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 AM AST SUN SEP 05 2004

...IVAN BECOMES THE FIFTH HURRICANE OF THE 2004 SEASON...

INTERESTS IN THE LESSER ANTILLES SHOULD MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF
IVAN.

AT 5 AM AST...0900Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE IVAN WAS LOCATED NEAR
LATITUDE 9.7 NORTH...LONGITUDE 44.3 WEST OR ABOUT 1210 MILES...
1950 KM...EAST-SOUTHEAST OF THE LESSER ANTILLES.

IVAN IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 21 MPH...33 KM/HR. A GRADUAL
TURN TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST IS EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 24
HOURS.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR 75 MPH...120
KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST
DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 25 MILES... 35 KM...
FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP
TO 105 MILES...165 KM.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 987 MB...29.15 INCHES.

REPEATING THE 5 AM AST POSITION... 9.7 N... 44.3 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD...WEST NEAR 21 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WINDS... 75 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 987 MB.

FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA...PLEASE MONITOR
PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE.

THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT
11 AM AST.

FORECASTER BEVEN”

“So much for the Everglades getting too salty.”

“Man, Ivan is now 125 mph! If it also hits Florida.... whoa.”

“earlir Jeb Bush looked kinda beat when he was asked about Ivan.”

“It's a sinister plot to get Roam to move to the NE, ENS and I cooked it up and built a weather machine, we need more hikers who are as enthusiastic as Roam Around around here.”

“It's a shame when the "everything comes in threes" philosophy applies to hurricanes.”

“its working, buuuuuut, not the NE - I interviewed in Greenville, SC Friday.”

“You better watch out Roam, we can send hurricanes there too :)”

“lol, yeah but thats far enough inland that they just dump lots a rain and make the rivers SWEET for kayaking!”

“During one briefing the head of the EOC said don't take your plywood down for a couple of days until they can figure where he's going!”

“geez - this is gonna suck if Ivan takes a similar path to Frances, which is VERY possible.”

“the hurricane guy just told us that Ivan is headed in the general direction of the US and he's a Category 3 now.

should hit Barbados in about 30 hours.”

“As someone said in the Frances thread...Moab's looking mighty good right now! LOL”

“friend of yours?

LMAO!”

“Nah, on a local tv website. Thought it was cute, and oh so appropriate!”

“very appropriate!

You guys should rate the storms on a 10 point scale or something.

You gotta have a sense of humor about this stuff.”

“Much more rain and Florida is going to dissolve.”

“well, you do have to sorta wonder where all that water is gonna go -the lakes were already pretty much full.”

“Do they run "Come to Michigan" ads in Florida during hurricane season the same way they run "Come to Florida" ads here when it's ten below zero?

Just curious.

:)”

“lol, they should be! actually - they probably realize they don't have to.

THere was one woman interviewed on CNN last night saying she now realizes how stupid it was to move to Florida and buy a mobile home. Said she was going back to Massachusettes.”

“Jeez, it's like this is the first time this has happened...”

“its the first time in a couple of years that we've had big storms come onshore in FL and the first time in about 30 years that the treasure coast area has been hit.

Jeb said we were having "storm amnesia" prior to Charley, but that he thinks we're over that now.”

“God takes his revenge for the 2000 election!”

“The 5:00 update shifted the 5 day track a little south, its now pointed at the Gulf, but the cone still covers all of S. Florida.”

“Cape Verde-type hurricanes are those Atlantic basin tropical cyclones that develop into tropical storms fairly close (<1000 km [600 mi] or so) of the Cape Verde Islands and then become hurricanes before reaching the Caribbean. (That would be my definition, there may be others.) Typically, this may occur in August and September, but in rare years (like 1995) there may be some in late July and/or early October. The numbers range from none up to around five per year - with an average of around 2.


thats from a google search - I guess this is an above average year, huh.”

“So, did all the TTers make out okay? I saw footage of the flooding and damage this morning. Everyone alright? Treebait, HPM, Nowslimmer, Tango? Roam I assume you're alright since you're posting. OM?

I was in the woods for the past four days, have no idea how hard you guys got hit.”

“roam, you just need to move to pa.”

“365 days out of the year there is sun!!!

and like 345 days of the year it is like CLOUDY but not cokmpletely overcast”

“I think everyone needs to move to new mexico
"365 days out of the year there is sun!!!

and like 345 days of the year it is like CLOUDY but not cokmpletely overcast"
br0k3n l1z4rd
11:22:54 AM
09/07/04
ignore this user

Just don't drink the water.


Mexico is way to hot for me. I like the temps here in the North East.”

“yea, i like the cold weather much, much better”

“BRING ON THE SNOW!”

“word!”

“We still don't have power at our house. My in laws at the end of the block do, though. My parents live 3 miles away and they have power. Guess where I'm doing my laundry.”

“ NOAA 11PM has it touching Florida in their 5 day. At this point they've got it heading into Sarasota. Yeah, yeah - it can change over the next few days - but nobody around here is taking their shutters down.

We are heading to GA to stay at a cabin near the AT if it heads this way. Sticking around through a hell storm and then no power is no fun.

Poor Punta Gorda and Ft. Meyers.”