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Josh... you lucky SOB. You got off work for your tropical storm.

I still have to go to work tomorrow.

What's a tropical storm?

Ours was just a little rain & wind. I've had storms up in the PNW that were much worse then that.

That's your answer Steve. A little wind and rain. That's what I expect to get.

I'm seriously thinking about attempting to ride my bike in it, just for the hell of it.

Maybe the power will get knocked out at one point, but I have my generator gassed up and ready to go.

Even worse, now I can't get excited about getting a day off from school.

my favorite thing about tropical storms is when they pick up micro-organisms from tropical waters and drop them into swimming pools around here turning them yellow or green or some other tropical color

I'm going to stay in California...

Imprezive wrote:I'm going to stay in California...

With those earthquakes.....at least we can run away from the TS's & hurricanes

No disasters here bar the very occasional small twister, reduced-power hurricane, and barely perceptible tremors.

But it did rain frogs when my grandmother was a kid.

We get hail and tornados up here. There's nothing quite like golf balls raining down on your car.

golf balls? hah...
(see my location)

no matter where you live you are in danger of something from mother nature.

corsair wrote:golf balls? hah...
(see my location)

Yeah, you're in the "alley" too. For some reason we got pounded with hail every other day for about a month. Needless to say I was nervous a lot. It doesn't matter now

Well, suffice it to say that I have never seen a storm like this before.

If you haven't been following... it's still here. 3 days later. Dumping monsoon quantities of rain on us. The meteorologists are dumbfounded.

And as far as Orlando is concerned, it's doing its worst right now (we've been getting a heavy feeder band for the past couple hours... knocked my power out for an hour and a half).

Let me demonstrate with a picture. I had to drive through this to get to one of my deliveries today. The scary part is... this isn't NEARLY as bad as the east coast is getting (Cape Canaveral/Melbourne area):

the price you pay to live in "paradise".

be careful of the alligators in the water.

hope you make it through this ok.

Thanks. I hope so too.

Latest development: I'm writing off my house's plumbing for a couple days. Completely.

As in, I went to my friend's house to take a shower earlier this evening, and I just finished doing all my laundry at the local laundromat. And I'm gonna go to the bathroom at gas stations or whereever it's convenient.

My house is on a !@#$%^&*())(*&^%$#@! septic tank, and the drain fields are eff you ell ell FULL. I went to the bathroom when I got home from work, and that one toilet flush caused water to start backing up in my bathtub. It wasn't raw sewage, thank God, but I literally cannot use any running water in my house because there's nowhere for it to go.

So I'm gonna hafta let it sit without using it for a few days after this storm is gone so the drain fields have a chance to dissipate all this water.

Mark my words, I will NEVER live in another house with a septic tank. Ever again.

I've been watching this and have been amazed that it stalled out this badly. I grew up in VA and have always lived with hurricanes (admittably not like you have but have been stuck on mountains for the night on account of flash flooding).

But man, this is nuts. My best wishes for you and your belongings. The damage flooding creates is astounding. Definately keep us posted.

Yeah....this is turning out to be like Alison was for Houston.

it is hard to believe it is the same storm for this long.

again, i hope you and everyone else in florida makes it thru this ok.

I guess the need to get out of my house had a silver lining...

... I spent the weekend at my friend's house and got to ride around in his new car Saturday night.

Oh... this is his new car by the way:




Unfortunately, we may not be out of the woods yet...

DerFahrer wrote:
Oh... this is his new car by the way:

You'll be alright......Gustav is going to fuck over New Orleans again....