GraveDiggingADitch
09-01-2004, 07:41 AM
Ok, so this hurricane Frances is on its way to Florida....possibly Miami. Im leaving on Thursday (tomorrow) morning and I have so much crap to do to get ready for the possibility of this hurricane hitting while Im away at the Gorge. They say it could be a Category 5 by the time it hits land....what does this mean ??? Well, for those of you that don't know, its basically means Hurricane Andrew all over again (Im sure youve all seen pictures). For those of you that have never had to go thru a Hurricane, or a Hurricane such as Andrew (which I imagine many of you have not), you are all very lucky. Being in a house, building...it doesn't matter.... the pressure that builds (you can feel it), you hear the sound of glass windows crashing, the roof getting ripped off of the house, trees falling, tornados whistling by at a train-like sounding pitch, water pouring thru the roof into the house like waterfalls, staying up all night long hoping that the house is going to be ok..walking outside the next morning and seeing every great tree around knocked onto the street and ground.... I'll never forget it (Andrew) and everytime I hear a train roar by, or by some fluke a gust of wind blows by a window replicating that same horrid sound, I get serious chills. Man, it aint easy. It's funny how when you live in South Florida and experience something like that almost once a year, almost everybody becomes a weather expert due to the non-stop watching of the weather channel. So right now, while im preparing to have a great weekend at the beautiful Gorge, I can't help but wonder.... whats gonna be left of Miami when I come back. Some say its going north, others are hoping south..... me.... I just hope it disappears in some sort of Bermuda Triangle Magic.
Charlie just came, missed Miami, and went North. The devestation that it caused in the middle of Florida is insane. I was driving to Gainesville this past week and the road signs that alert you to what the next exit is were ripped off, broken in half, and thrown onto the sides of the roads into the trees (well, what trees were left).
So lets have everybody keep their fingers crossed and hope that this hurricane skirts off back into the Atlantic (which is damn near impossible) or at least doesn't wipe parts of Florida off the map. Good luck Miami, and good luck Florida.
So who else has had the luck of running into a storm, tornado, avalanche, earthquake that has scared the shizzle out of you??
Charlie just came, missed Miami, and went North. The devestation that it caused in the middle of Florida is insane. I was driving to Gainesville this past week and the road signs that alert you to what the next exit is were ripped off, broken in half, and thrown onto the sides of the roads into the trees (well, what trees were left).
So lets have everybody keep their fingers crossed and hope that this hurricane skirts off back into the Atlantic (which is damn near impossible) or at least doesn't wipe parts of Florida off the map. Good luck Miami, and good luck Florida.
So who else has had the luck of running into a storm, tornado, avalanche, earthquake that has scared the shizzle out of you??