| Remember Georges!!!
[Re: scooby_simon]
#37515 09/01/04 09:13 AM 09/01/04 09:13 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 890 Dunedin Causeway, FL David Parker
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Posts: 890 Dunedin Causeway, FL | Wake up WEST Florida! As we found from Charley, hurricanes can change course suddenly and the smallest shift can change your life. Tampa dodged a HUGE bullet with Charley. Unpopulated Charlotte County took it for us. Don't trust predicted tracks!! Can WEST Florida or the Gulf Coast feel secure since this will hit EAST of us? No way!! Please look at the 1998 Hurricane Georges to see its nearly identical Carribean track. It NEVER turned north as predicted but passed under Florida, over the Keys and then turned north right up the west coast. Georges barely missed Tampa and went north to wreck the Gulf Coast. But don't forget, Tampa Bay Cat Sailors will be racing the Union Regatta on Sunday at Dunedin, FL. Big air!! | | | Re: Here comes another one
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#37519 09/02/04 09:13 AM 09/02/04 09:13 AM |
Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 277 Baton Rouge, LA Dean
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Posts: 277 Baton Rouge, LA | Since Hurricane Charley I've been buying my ice cream one pint at a time here in Orlando. No doubt Frances will put the electricity out for a week or more again. Charley blew through all the most charming older Orlando neighborhoods: those that gave the city an "old Florida" look and feel. "The City Beautiful" is less so, now. What oaks weren't blown down during Charley were removed by the panicked populace, mostly fraidy cat non-natives, during the last couple of weeks. All that debris is on the curbs waiting to be blown back into the houses by Frances (the trees' revenge).
I've bought more batteries in the last month than I've purchased during the last thirty years. The worst, though, is that I'm having to hold-off on mailing my registration for the R.T.I. race. If I have shingles on the roof and all windows and doors intact after Frances, I'll mail it in. Not that the post office may deliver it on time in the aftermath. I've had better Labor Day weekends. Even so, I've had time to formulate a strategy for the race: I plan to start at the back of the pack and to finish. That's my entire strategy; to finish. When the last guy leaves on Sunday, leave a beer on the beach for me. I will finish eventually. My boat has three hulls and two speeds: Wide Open and Asleep. The Sleep Mode seems to prevail at the R.T.I.
My boat is in the garage. My older Jaguar will weather the blast in the driveway. One has to set priorities. | | | Re: Remember Georges!!!
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#37522 09/03/04 10:17 AM 09/03/04 10:17 AM |
Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 591 Bradenton, FL Sycho15
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Posts: 591 Bradenton, FL | The lodestone in the mouth of Tampa Bay keeps hurricanes from coming in off the Gulf. Unfortunately it doesn't do anything about hurricanes coming in off the land.
So... what time is the racing going to be held on Sunday? What sort of turnout do you expect? I might just show up as an available crew.
G-Cat 5.7M #583 (sail # currently 100) in Bradenton, FL
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#37525 09/03/04 04:34 PM 09/03/04 04:34 PM | Anonymous
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Unregistered | Yes, IVAN. See the NHC site for the current track.
Bob | | | Re: Remember Georges!!!
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#37526 09/03/04 08:25 PM 09/03/04 08:25 PM |
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Posts: 591 Bradenton, FL | Mikemac- the whole lodestone thing was/is presumably a joke. If anyone here gets the St. Pete. Times and has that artical that came out in the last week or two about the Seminols migrating to Tampa Bay during hurricane season- I would appreciate a copy/scan/clipping/whatever. Apparently the indians believed there was some metal under the waters of the bay that kept away hurricanes.
This is extremely humorous, because a co-worker of mine has always joked about some lodestone dropped in the mouth of the bay to ward off hurricanes. He'd just made his story up to be funny.
G-Cat 5.7M #583 (sail # currently 100) in Bradenton, FL
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