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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I spoke to smith yesterday. He and his family have the option to remain, so they are taking that option. They have backup generators, plus a house full of refugees from the last one, and i thjink pretty much everyine is staying put.
smith intends to ride the storm out wiuth his animals in the barn. he expects power to go off sometime on Saturday morning, and then to be without contact for up to 3 weeks with more phone line chaos.
he's said he will get a snail mail out to one of us, probabaly ron, as soon as he can. I told him instead to worry about keeping safe from disasters, and to forget about us all until he is secure
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I'll be watching the weather reports and hoping it veers away from you.
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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People have ever built their homes in places prone to disasters..... Bases of volcanoes, low country near rivers that flood more than often, on tracks that tend to allow storms like hurricanes and tornadoes to inflict their wrath with greater frequency.
What I don't understand is why do people just rebuild in the same place?
You would think they would get sick of all the heartache.....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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People rebuild in unsuitable places, perhaps, because they love the 600 or so days between the catastrophes. The government helps, too. Say you have a farm on a river's flood plain. The Corps of Engineers builds levees that confine the flood waters, forcing the water away from its old expansion points. Then the levee breaks. And if one lives near water of any kind, banks won't finance a house purchase without flood insurance, available from the Government at incredibly low cost considering the level of risk. We used to own a house on a real flood plain, flood insurance for which ran $27.00 per year! Six months after we sold it, a winter storm broke through the levee and (among other things) left a four-foot-diameter piling in the living room. The flood insurance paid to rebuild the house, raising the foundation by some six feet. Cost more to pour the new footings (I'm told) than it did to build the entire house. And that's your tax dollars at work if you live in the U.S. d
"Remember what the Dormouse said:
"Feed your head; feed your head."
--Jefferson Airplane - WHITE RABBIT
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For regularly-updated reports, see http://www.weather.com
Latest reports are saying that Frances is now down to a category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph with higher gusts. Therefore less intense than Hurricane Charley, but unfortunately it is only moving very slowly across Florida and is accompanied by rain, so there are inland flood threats and also widespread power outages.
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TygerBoiSammy
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Toe is in the water |
Registered: January 1970
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OMG! Like Robby lives up in the northwest part of florida almost in Alabama, and that monster is heading right at him.....
I'm kinda glad I'm in Baltimore right now, even as boring as it is, but.....
smith, Robby, all you guys in Florida, keep your heads down. I'm scared for you and praying you'll be okay.
HUGS
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saben
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On fire! |
Registered: May 2003
Messages: 1537
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Looks like most of the damage is going to come from flooding now, rather than wind damage. Still going to cause a lot of problems for a lot of people, but at least the storm is less intense and less violent than some people were expecting. It was down to a Cat 2 by the time it hit the coast, by the time it hits Robby's place there is a chance it won't even be classed as a hurricane, anymore. Fingers crossed, for everyone...
In other natural disaster news, last night we had an earthquake here in Japan. I haven't read the reports yet so I don't know where the epicentre actually was, but we had two earthquakes, one lasting 10 seconds and the second lasting maybe 15-20 seconds. Where I live they weren't very intense, not even knocking anything over, but you could definitely feel them and quite possibly they caused more damage closer to the epicentre.
We also have Frances' oriental cousin Typhoon Songda forecast to head in this general direction in a few days' time. Initially it was predicted to head towards Taiwan, but now they are saying it is heading west, just below southern Japan, right before it decides to turn around boomerang north-east all the way up the Japan Sea, I'll be watching that one carefully...
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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