And it starts again

MCourson · July 10, 2005

Early begining to another season.

PELICAN · July 10, 2005

yeah two so far and the seaon is just begging. I hope those people are ready for it

carbuster · July 11, 2005

Yeah we were ordered to evacuate Friday afternoon. So now I've been sitting here at my mother's house in NC waching the Weather Channel like a hawk. Stupid hurricanes!!!

Wingnut · July 11, 2005

Well, good luck this year.

Our "season" is about over now. And I still have all the glass in the front of my house, and no new dents in my hoods. That's two years in a row that I've missed tornado damage...I should probably move before next year.

carbuster · July 13, 2005

Well there wasn't as much damage around here locally as I thought there would be, and the eye hit landfall about 25 miles west of here. I guess Ivan already cleared the path for this one last year, and uprooted just about everything that was uprootable. Luckily for me, my power was turned back on about 45 minutes before I got home yesterday, but I still have no cable, so no tv and no internet for me..darn it. At least I have an internet connection here at work.

MS3DALE · July 13, 2005

Glad your OK carbuster,My uncle had to leave the base on Friday too.

Friz · July 15, 2005

I rode it out. The eye was within 10 miles of me. I was getting pretty scared for a while there. Thankfully this storm was more compact and faster moving than Ivan. I had a little damage, parts of the fence are down and lost some more trees.

Overall, everything is pretty good. I got power back Thursday evening.

Carbuster, you're in Pensacola?

I'm in Milton.

carbuster · July 15, 2005

No, I'm over in Fort Walton Beach. I left town (was ordered to since I'm in the AF) and just went home up in NC. Glad to hear you're alright. I was driving around town yesterday and today, and this place looks so ghetto now with all the damage. All these bank, fast food, and street signs are all bent over or destroyed. I haven't ventured towards the beach just yet to see how much damage was done over there though.

My apartment was fine though, but my grill was destroyed. NOOOOO!!!! I kinda forgot to put that away since I was in a hurry to get out of here and try to miss all the outbound traffic.

silverado3500 · July 16, 2005

I lived in Fort Walton Beach (just off of Mooney to be specific until this past christmas. I'm temporarily in Miami but am looking forward to returning, hurricane or not... At least we seemed to fare a lot better this time around than during Ivan.

The evacuation traffic and was the only thing that I don't miss. I left around midnight the Sunday before Ivan hit (Ivan hit on wednesday night), and SR85 was extremely heavy, even then. I would include the gas shortages on that list as well, but I have a diesel truck as well and they never seemed to run out of that.

Glad to hear that y'all fared ok

silverado3500 · July 16, 2005

carbuster · July 16, 2005

More like this now.

carbuster · August 26, 2005

Well, looks like we're gonna have to evacuate again. I already had to wait in line earlier for fuel. Trying to decide whether I want to go back to NC again or just go somewhere else. Might just go to New Orleans and party on Bourbon Street

MCourson · August 26, 2005

I have a full tank, but I couldn't imagine what kind of nightmare it would be to leave here along with everyone else.

carbuster · August 26, 2005

I just talked with a buddy of mine, and most likely we'll head down to Orlando. I think Seaworld is still having the special where it's free for military, so that's our plan for now. Nothing like a free trip to an amusement park.