26 August: Isaac Projected Straight into Pensacola
That red dot where Hurricane Isaac is projected to hit, right there on the Florida /Alabama border, that’s Pensacola.
We’ve checked with all the old timers in the area; they all say unless you are in a mandatory evacuation area – the beach – to stay. Pull in all the garden furniture, anything loose. Have a three to five day supply of food you don’t have to cook, medications, emergency funds, flashlights / candles, etc., water, lots of water, bottled for drinking and more for flushing, if the water mains become disrupted. The major factor at this time of year is losing electricity; if you lose electricity you lose air conditioning, and it is still hot and humid.
Our son and his wife have sturdy shutters they are closing over their windows; we will put up our coverings today.
The sky is blue and placid; still the calm before the storm. Who would know what chaos is coming, were it not for these forecasts?
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From the map its going to be catogry 3 when it hits the land , they say hurricanes lose 20 percent of their energy once they make land fall .Hope all goes well. Is it your first Hurricane in Folrida , or have you been through such storms before ???
Here is another question on Hurricanes that if you are not busy preparing for it , In which year the Us metrological services discontinued the practice of naming Hurricanes after female names and switched to alternating the names between male and female names due to pressure from the feminist groups ??
Take care and stay safe
I’ve been through major wind storms, Alaska, Seattle and . . . Kuwait! But never a hurricane. Fortunately, there are a lot of experienced survivors who have shared strategies. 🙂 How about you, Daggero?
I don’t know what year it was, but I know it was before 1992, because I remember Hurricane Andrew, and I believe it was one of the earliest mens’ named hurricanes. Yep – I think equal opportunity is a good thing. 🙂
Intlxpatr :
Here our globalization moment ;
while you reside in Florida and haven’t experienced a hurricane , and I reside in Kuwait but have experienced a hurricane , and where??? Where else !!! but in Florida .
It was hurricane Erin, 1995 , category 2 , it hit Florida twice , first it came across the state through Orlando , we were there for Disney land, and it crossed over to the gulf and again it hit the western side of Florida .
we had some tree branches fall ,no major damage ,no loss of electric power in the area where we stayed . There was noise and gusts of wind .
I went outside to experience the hurricane for few moments ,the only feeling i got was that of a really heavy air sensation , never experienced it before , maybe because of air pressure drop and the moisture , i tried to look up to the sky to see whether we were in the clear area of the eye of the hurricane where you are supposed to see the stars ,but we were not, and the sky was pitch dark .
we were safe ,alhamdo lelah ,and enjoyed the rest of our stay
.A good time was had by all 🙂
What a wonderful experience! And you are right, one of those global moments 🙂 I imagine that heavy air was a new sensation, although during a dust storm in Kuwait, the air gets very heavy in a different way. Do you think it was atmospheric pressure, or moisture, or a combination? Or something else?
I was near a hurricane once, not in it, and I remember I was alone, AdventureMan off on some official trip and our son off to a karate tournament. I was reading, and the light dimmed and turned green. I’ve never experienced it before or since, the light turning green, the sky green, not intense like emerald, but a spring yellow green. I prayed hard! It didn’t last long, and there was a high wind, but not a hurricane. Some people lost roofs, though, and there was that pink insulation everywhere.
We always loved the high wind storms when we lived in the Tampa area; we would go down to Venice/Englewood and find fossilized sharks teeth, and lots and lots of beautiful shells the storm brought to the beach. This panhandle area has been hit so hard and so often, that the hurricane is taken very seriously.