Hurricane Isaias
12First of all… The name. Listening to everyone butcher it is amusing. Even Google calls it Isaiahs. (I say ahs)
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2nd. Can we catch a break? Please? Go back out to sea.
Who in Florida put their shutters up?
Edit, Here’s the updating cone map:
Wind map:
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I cleaned out my gutters since tracking shows I might get anywhere from 2-6" of rain.
@RiotDemon I guess I should do that tomorrow. Water, solar lights, bug spray- check.
@RiotDemon Oh, I’m sure it will clean out your gutters. (But probably a good thing you decided how they’d get cleaned out.)
TIL
That name is a train wreck, and I know something about train wrecks!
I’m up the coast a little, still in the path. We have had a couple that scoured the coast in recent memory.
Thoughts/prayers/hugs for all in the path.
My parents are still deciding if we are putting shutters up yet, we are a bit south and west of the current projection. They have A LOT of windows. Tried to go to Costco yesterday and it was nuts, turned right back around. This type of stress is just what we need right now. Everyone be safe!
@omegamonkey I had to go to Walmart yesterday around noon for some necessary clothing. I decided that since I’m in the cesspool I might as well see if I can pick up some water, etc. Big mistake. Thought I was going to have a panic attack with the amount of idiots in there. Customers and associates with masks half off and getting right up next to everyone. I couldn’t leave the food section fast enough and they didn’t have any gallons of water anyway.
@omegamonkey @RiotDemon
Depending on how nuts things are there: you might try buying your emergency gallons at a c-store?
@f00l @omegamonkey @RiotDemon Or go buy one of those 5 gallon empty containers (the ones you buy for car camping has spigots) and then fill it up with water from your house now.
@f00l I have water. I figured I’d get more. I’m on a well, and I have a generator so I can make water if I need it. It just doesn’t taste great.
@f00l @RiotDemon I remember working in FL (Yulee) and the water coming out of that well needed to sit for 24 hours to off gas the sulfur smell/taste. We ran it almost dry once and it was spitting bits of tarry stuff. First time I ever believed it might be worth actually buying water.
Some hurricane tips:
-Make as much ice as possible and load it into freezer bags. Fill as much of the empty freezer space with ice. It will help keep the refrigerator cold if the power goes out.
-Fill the bathtub with water before the storm hits. If you lose water, you can flush the toilet by pouring a bucket of water from the tub into the bowl.
-Everybody in the house bathe and shave before the storm. You’ll feel better not having to deal with that when you’re without water or power.
-Charge everything. Phones, tablets, laptops, batteries. Charge everything now before the power goes out.
-Pull all the loose stuff in your yard into your garage. Your trash cans will blow over or float away.
That’s all I can think of right now. Good luck. Be safe.
@BadTouchRobot I was looking for ice cube trays and found a set of these that I bought in 2016, still in the box. Maybe they’ll be good for hurricanes?
@sammydog01
I suddenly feel like making an old fashioned!
@BadTouchRobot take a thing of ice cream in your freezer and eat only from the right side of the pint. If post storm you open your ice cream and it is flat your frozen foods are bad if you can still see the fact that you only ate one side your freezer foods are good.
Looks like I’m hitting the grocery store tomorrow morning.
Not prepping for this one…Tampa’s too far west for anything major. Hopefully it keeps weakening so the rest of the state is spared. Stay safe
So far we got lucky. It’s stayed off the coast enough that it’s mostly just wind and rain. Basically like a terrible summer storm.
@RiotDemon Now if all the future ones could be like that.
Even though I had accordian shutters and motorized roll downs on my previous house, still some work to close the accordian shutters as the crud got in the tracts that had to be cleaned out. New house-put hurricane proof windows all the way around even though the house would have come with panels if I had’t order the hurricane protection-too old to deal with that shit. Windows and sliding glass doors are all double pane and cost about as much as the hurricane protection cost of my previous house.
@Felton10 Had talked to a couple of my neighbors and they had gotten prices of about $ 300 to put up and take down the shutters. I figured if I live to 100 would have to have approx 2 hurricanes strong enough to put up the shutters each year to break even.
@Felton10 I have the metal panels with headers and sills. Thought about upgrading some of them to the clear panels.
I’d love to have roll down or accordions. I don’t have that kind of money. Impact is nice… But I’d be afraid that they’d still get damaged.
I just bought four new double pane windows for… Very cheap. I’m just glad I’m upgrading from my single pane aluminum framed windows. At least four of them, lol
@RiotDemon Had about 7 lucite panels for the aquarium window in the front of our house (rather than the metal ones which I was afraid would be too heavy and sharp) in addition to the motorized roll downs on the front door/transom and part of the lanai-rest of the windows had the accordian shutters bolted to the side of the windows. Also had aluminium poles that attached to the garage doors and attached the concrete wall at the top and dowels in the concrete at the bottom. All that cost in excess of 20k 13 years ago. So when the builder wanted “only” 16k for hurricane protection for the two sides and the back of the new house (approx 8 windows and 2 sliding glass doors (1 two sliders and 1 three sliders), I thought it wasn’t too bad a deal. When the building code changed a couple of years ago made all the windows on the front of the house hurricane proof and gave everyone metal panels for the rest of the house.
Rain bands started in Jacksonville about 3 PM today. A few gusts, but no drama yet. Kite surfers are insane.
Tahoe is prepped, CERT teams on standby, all I can do is wait to see what it does here on Long Island
Blue sky. Cloudy. Sunshine. Cloudy. Breeze is 10 mph. No rain, even last night. Bye, Isaiah!
My kid has an out of state doctors appointment today- 4 hours from home. I was gonna stay over tonight but the entire route home is under a tropical storm warning tomorrow. Thunderstorms today. It’s going to be a caffeine filled day.