We're Gonna Die!

[majorloser]

Well, not really unless you listen to the weather reporters in Florida.
Hurricane season hasn't even officially started yet and we already have a "Tropical Storm." Actually it's a "Subtropical Storm" but who cares. It's just kind of funny that Florida is experiencing a pretty severe drought this year and we get this storm that sits off shore and barely gives a drop.

I hope this isn't a sign of how this years hurricane season will be.

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

As someone who lives in tornado alley, I cant imagine what it might feel like to live in a hurricane zone during an especially active hurricane cycle. At least with our tornado's, the damage is contained to extremely tight areas. Heck, I've never even seen a tornado with my own eyes.... Whereas, when a hurricane hits.........

I've spent many a sleepless night staying up to the wee hours watching tornado updates detailing tornado movement in the area, but I've been lucky because they've never been close enough to cause us to dive below ground level. The nighttime ones are the scariest, because those that catch people sleeping are certain to be killers. I couldnt imagine what it must be like to be awakened by an F-5 like the residents that small town in Kansas learned first hand last week.


PS.... I'll be in FLA for 10 days in June, so those hurricanes better stay the hell away!!

 

[Tomorrow]

Majorloser, you need a good storm just to put out those hundreds of wildfires in Floriduh.

 

[majorloser]

Majorloser, you need a good storm just to put out those hundreds of wildfires in Floriduh.

That's the problem. This storm is just staying off the coast kicking the winds up. It's just fanning the fires making the situation worse. My county has been under a blanket of smoke that at times is like a thick fog. Makes it tough for somebody like me with asthma.

 

[MUDSHARK]

The smoke has been really thick this morning. Some say fires in the melbourne area and the Sanford area are the main cause. Strong breezes are making it all that much worse here in Cocoa. June should be fine if the rain season hits early. I do not recall a serious hurricane before August at least on the central east coast.

 

[Tomorrow]

That's the problem. This storm is just staying off the coast kicking the winds up. It's just fanning the fires making the situation worse. My county has been under a blanket of smoke that at times is like a thick fog. Makes it tough for somebody like me with asthma.

There is a solution. The air in western Oregon is almost ALWAYS clean. (Not a lot of fires or industrial pollutants coming from the Pacific Ocean. ) You better hurry and move out here. I hear they're gonna close the borders pretty soon.

 

[jonnythan]

As someone who lives in tornado alley, I cant imagine what it might feel like to live in a hurricane zone during an especially active hurricane cycle. At least with our tornado's, the damage is contained to extremely tight areas. Heck, I've never even seen a tornado with my own eyes.... Whereas, when a hurricane hits.........

I can't imagine that it's anything like living in tornado alley.

Hurricanes don't suddenly appear in the sky and attack you. You see hurricanes coming. They take days and days and days to form and slowly lumber towards land.

Your post goes on to detail sleepless nights you've stayed up watching tornado updates. Nothing like that happens with hurricanes. You know where they're going (roughly) and you have a good idea of when it's going to show and exactly what is going to happen once it does.

 

[MUDSHARK]

Hurricanes can spawn hundreds of tornadoes (ala Francis) albeit at a fraction of the size and power of the northern fearsome twisters. Just ask mazer Steven what a hurricane Tornado can do to one's home. While nothing on the scale of the mile wide destruction that Hit kansas the Tornados spawned by hurricanes are very difficult to take prudent precautions against as many of these tornados hit many miles inland in areas that those of us on the coast have chosen to seek refuge in.

Which is the more dangerous area to live in? I have no idea. The insurance companies have sure socked it to us.

 

[Tomorrow]

The Cat 5 twister that ravaged that little Kansas town was clocked at 205 mph!! Small but mighty.

 

[lcdguy]

i'm just glad i live in ottawa the worse we get is -45c winters and ice storms

 

[GTF]

We had some rain in Deltone this afternoon.
Right when I was tring to get some edging done.
10 minutes after I give up and put the wires away it stops raining.

GTF

 

[mike c]

wow, Florida's location on the map is really asking for typhoons

at least you get the good with the bad ...
you're close to both Cuba and the Bahamas

 

[mouettus]

Hey guys... move to Canada. There aren't many tornadoes up here

 

[no. 5]

Hey guys... move to Canada. There aren't many tornadoes up here

I'm so there! I have been to Toronto a few times and really enjoyed it..... plus I like the cold.

Hurricanes don't suddenly appear in the sky and attack you. You see hurricanes coming. They take days and days and days to form and slowly lumber towards land.

Your post goes on to detail sleepless nights you've stayed up watching tornado updates. Nothing like that happens with hurricanes. You know where they're going (roughly) and you have a good idea of when it's going to show and exactly what is going to happen once it does.

Yeah, and sometimes weather forecasters completely ignore a storm that produce tornados!

A few years agao, a F3 hit ten minutes north of my house, and not one of the local weathermen even acknowledged that there was a storm up there untill after it hit.

 

[Geno]

After reading this, those earthquakes we get out here every 20 years don't seem so bad. Actually kinda tickle (unless you're inside a brick building)

 

[stratman]

Like usual they're making something out of nothing. If you guys lived down here you'll realize how "bad" the storms are, at least according to the weather reporters. They make a sub-tropical depression sound like a cat 5 hurricane. I've lived here all my life and the only 'cane that I really kept an eye on was Andrew. The last two, cat 1s, I didn't put up shutters. The last one's eye passed right over my house, 90 mph winds. Zero damage.

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

I'm just curious....

Since when are "sub" tropical storms newsworthy except for local channel forecasts? You'd never hear talk about these little storms on national 'drive by' newscasts until the past couple of years.

What's next??

Are they going to start naming and making national hoopla out of localized thunderstorms and cold fronts too? I listened to a very interesting discussion concerning this phenomenon on the radio today.

 

[jonnythan]

The first named storm of the season is always a news item.

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

The first named storm of the season is always a news item.

That's my point...

Until a few years ago, subtropical storms were non-news items (certainly not national news)......nor were they named.

At the rate the national media is growing their 'storm hype'............ Pretty soon the LIB-casters will stoop even lower so they can name local thunderstorms and cold fronts too. That way, they'll always have plenty of named storms to "fret" on national news.






"Oh no... there is a hailstorm in orlando.... We'll name it storm Ice-is. We're Scared stiff & you should be too"

Sincerely,
The national media

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

Like usual they're making something out of nothing. If you guys lived down here you'll realize how "bad" the storms are, at least according to the weather reporters. They make a sub-tropical depression sound like a cat 5 hurricane.

BINGO!!


And the ignorant 'hype' will only continue to grow in future years.