Cindy, big deal, I'm watching Dennis!

“cindy's gonna give me a wet weekend and next week on the AT.”

“I hear ya SS.”

“Well, we had Ivan the Terrible and now we have Dennis the Menace.”

“You poor people in the East, rain sucks. Here it rains for about five minutes a day, then it's over and everythings dry again in another ten minutes! :)”

“so stovey you don't want me to pay you a visit?”

“I with you Stovie. I'm going to be pulling the boats out of the water tommrow during Cindy to get ready for Dennis. I'm leaving for Colorado on thursday. Gotta be ready now in case the northern gulf takes a hit from a potential big one.”

“I am headed for the Florida coast on Friday and staying till Monday. Maybe it will slow down some????”

“Prediction is most of the rain will be on the south side of the mountains.

If we get much more rain in Knoxville, or north of Knoxville, we will be back to flood conditions.”

“I'm watching both storms. I have to drive through Cindy today to get to Destin and then drive back on Sunday afternoon along with the other 3,000,000 evacuees.
last edited: 7/06/05 8:30:26 AM”

“My brother will be driving home to Michigan from Florida through the Dennis mess on tuesday.”

“Yikes! This model had better not be true. I'll be in Colorado and would definitly take a direct hit. Still a lot of water between him and me.

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/namer/gfs/12/index_500_mu_loop.shtml”

“Man, that map makes the storm look like a migrating zit!”

“i was hiking in zillion degree heat in virginia this weekend. would have liked some tropical depression”

“Very wet and windy last night and this morning. Lost power early this morning, soon back.
Lots and lots of loose limbs and leaves in my yard from Cindy.
Damn #&%!$ kept me up most of the night.”

“Get ready for Dennis Stovie. You or I will get some of him I feel. In my gut I feel it may go as far west as Texas. Still to far out but forcast models are currently shifting west. All the boats and jet ski are out of the water. I gonna pick-up and tie down some more then we are outta here for 10 days. Good luck with him. Cindy just cooled things off here and jingled the wind chimes. Highest winds maybe 25 mph at one point.”

“I won't start getting to concerned until friday. We can't guess were a hurricane is going worth a damn till about two days from landfall. I'll be boarding up Sat, got my plywood cut and ready from last season. I'm thinking of just leaving it up untill Nov or so, LOL.

Kinda neat the way the above graphs update themself.”

“http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200504_model.html

Yep, all the models are now tracking further west, not that we're supposed to use this map for planning or anything...”

“how is this going to effect west virginia? anyone know?”

“I'm hiking this weekend in the Sipsey. If Dennis hits like Ivan it may be the last decent hiking weekend for several months due to trail conditions. Lots of trail work to do...

I lived on the coast (Pensacola, Savannah, & Jacksonville) for almost 10 years and while I was in Erin & Opal and skirted by several others, I have not been in as many tropical systems as I have since I moved back to freakin' Birmingham! Unbelievable!”

“3/5 Latest computer models have Dennis steaming straight through the western side of Alabama. 1/5 has it going to New Orleans and 1/5 has it coming up east Alabama.

Damn...”

“BTW, Dennis is now forecasted to still be a hurricane through Alabama and a storm north of Alabama.

Big storm.”

“Sc, from the pics above, it doesn't look like Dennis will affect WV at all. But it's really too early to tell.

It looks like Cindy will dump some rain on the WV area this week.”

“Go East young man, go East.......
Sorry, anywhere but MY backyard! ;-)”

“so you didn't like me paying you a visit? waiting for the latest update, but on the news at lunch the high pressure system to the east of the storm had weakened and the storm had turned a little more northerly. south florida has some hurricane watches up. so i guess i may be starting to get things together at my house and prepare to evacuate mad beach!!!!
yes i am paranoid!!!!!!!!”

“According tho the radar I'm looking at, it's raining right now where we're gonna be next week in WV.”

“LOL
cyndeee
Of course I would love a visit from you.

Dennis seems to be posed to strike around Fort Walton, FL right this minute, but as we all know, they don't know crap about where it's really gonna hit.”

“it has rained pretty steadily all day today.... temps have dropped to a high of about 68* I think. Cool enough for me to run the heater this evening. (yeah, nearly mid JUNE and running a HEATER!!)
Temps for the West Virginia Cookoff should be back up to the 80s and 90s with pretty cool nights.
I wonder if hurricane Dennis will throw us another punch up here in W.V.”

“At 8 p.m. EDT Dennis' center was about 135 miles west-southwest of Guantanamo. Hurricane Dennis continues to strengthen and was moving at 15 mph with winds of up to 130 mph.

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“lets see...west virginia...should be fine weather by the time I get over there!

you guys in the path stay safe k?”

“Last Summer, Ivan almost tore the whole roof off my house in North Alabama...Dennis better STEP BACK !!”

“@Trekker John: It's only mid-JUNE in WV?

Cool. I'm coming up there to buy some stock...

j/k

;-)”

“HikerMike - Trekker John might want to sell you some waterfront property in a few days.”

“eheh... If Dennis keeps up his current projected path, I might have the waterfront property to sell.”

“I don't know about dayhiker, but we cancelled our trip to the Gulf Coast for this weekend. I may go to the mountians instead. I'll try to be back home before the remnants get this far north. Dennis sux! If it damages Sipsey any further we may have our work cut out for us this fall.”

“Dennis is a Cat 4 with gusts to 160 mph and headed for Pensacola, Tuscaloosa, & the Sipsey...”

“I need a J-O-B !! (with a calendar and clock) LOL I was thinking this is still JUNE and here we are in JULY !! Maybe I'm not quite ready for retirement.
Heeeyyyyyy what were all those firecrackers and fireworks for the other night?? LMBO
Well, Cindy's rain is passing through today and now we get ready for Dennis. I guess the hurricane season is off to a good start, huh.”

“...I was NW of Mobile for Cindy....50 MPH winds...lightning all around...struck a tree behind the house and splintered it.....hit the icemaker in fridge...water everywhere....and fried the modem on the computer....flash flooding.....
...I was going south this weekend...I may just stay home.......”

“Blah!

I need to cut my grass this weekend !!”

“its blooming already??”

“Stay Home...your new BF will need a place to evac to :-)”

“it is rainging so heavy right now. what a nasty day. So this is Cindy?

well go away!

Dennis is a lot bigger and badder, not looking forward to him!

be safe everyone!!


Go East young man, go East.......
Sorry, anywhere but MY backyard! ;-)”
StoveStomper
10:07:53 AM


well we dont want her either!!
:)”

“Getchyer kayak to higher ground, maple!!”

“My wife is fleeing North to B'ham to stay with here sis. I am gonna divide my time with the Fire Dept and the NG. It looks to be a busy time for all.”

“Eyewall is ashore in Cuba Libre”

“those people are in my thoughts :( I hope they were able to get to safer ground :(”

“Good Luck steppenwolf! Stay safe!
I know you wish me the same.”