C Craft
Well-Known Member
I have got to finish getting ready here today to make last minute preparations for hurricane Ida, a (category 2 hurricane) expected to make landfall here in N.W. Florida. She appears to be headed right down our throats this morning. It is predicted to make landfall late tonight or early this morning. Somewhere close to Pensacola, Fl., as a category 1 or possibly a very strong tropical storm. The one thing that I have learned about these storms is that they are very unpredictable. A week ago our local weather station predicted that this storm would never develop. Wrong! So I never put too much stock in the predicted path, especially if it is anywhere close. I have been listening to the weather channel and it was saying it was coming ashore a 100 miles from here, when we were actually getting punched head on. A fact they admitted much later, (not that helped any)!
Really sucks though, as I thought we might escape any such storms this year. It’s too late in the year but then, that is just an opinion, not a fact. The bad part is everyone needs to get ready to pay more for a gallon of gas at the very least for a while. They have already shut down the rigs in the Gulf and even if they are not damaged the shut down time will cause an increase.
Well got to go start tying things down and make a run to grocery store, the pharmacy, and cover a few more essentials before tonight. I made a trip to the gas station last night and filled several gas cans for the generator if the power goes out and it most likely will.
If you have never been through one you don’t now how much of a pain in the backside it can be. It’s a storm that can tear apart and destroy everything you have worked for in a short amount of time. If you are lucky enough to miss that part. You still have to deal with the aftermath! No power and or water for several days at the least. No gas, no food or ice to keep anything cold. The yards will be litter with broken and downed trees and a foot deep in debris that looks like someone turned a whisper chopper lose in the yard!
Oh, enough of this whining and complaining. Everyone cross their fingers and say a prayer for all those that are about to get the brunt of this storm, because no one will escape it totally unscathed!
Really sucks though, as I thought we might escape any such storms this year. It’s too late in the year but then, that is just an opinion, not a fact. The bad part is everyone needs to get ready to pay more for a gallon of gas at the very least for a while. They have already shut down the rigs in the Gulf and even if they are not damaged the shut down time will cause an increase.
Well got to go start tying things down and make a run to grocery store, the pharmacy, and cover a few more essentials before tonight. I made a trip to the gas station last night and filled several gas cans for the generator if the power goes out and it most likely will.
If you have never been through one you don’t now how much of a pain in the backside it can be. It’s a storm that can tear apart and destroy everything you have worked for in a short amount of time. If you are lucky enough to miss that part. You still have to deal with the aftermath! No power and or water for several days at the least. No gas, no food or ice to keep anything cold. The yards will be litter with broken and downed trees and a foot deep in debris that looks like someone turned a whisper chopper lose in the yard!
Oh, enough of this whining and complaining. Everyone cross their fingers and say a prayer for all those that are about to get the brunt of this storm, because no one will escape it totally unscathed!