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Millwright

Millwright

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Millwright

Millwright

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etdeb

etdeb

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Yes this past couple of weeks we have been busy doing work incase of hurricanes in gulf effecting Houston.
Our businees runs up to 10 loads a day out of ports and our customer has ask us to gear up to increase our storage volume by 5000 bbls on hand above the 14,500 bbls we had been stocking at all times at our facility in East Texas.
They are concerned about this possibly being a bad season and the ports shutting down.
 
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Shadow

Shadow

Swift, Silent,...Sleepy
etdeb said:
Yes this past couple of weeks we have been busy doing work incase of hurricanes in gulf effecting Houston.
Our businees runs up to 10 loads a day out if ports and our customer has ask us to gear up to increase our storage volume by 5000 bbls on hand above the 14,500 bbls we had been stocking at all times.
They are concerned about this possibly being a bad season and the ports shutting down.
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Think and preparing ahead! So much better than the reaction after the fact that many businesses do.

Shadow
 
dstraito

dstraito

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Let's just hope they leave the microwaves and weather changing equipment out of this and do not try to intensify or weaponized those storms. I know that sounds like WOO but who knows in this wacky world and things like the Antarctic anomaly happening it seems like anything is possible.
 
Doc1

Doc1

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Hurricanes...and lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my!!!

As a well-seasoned hurricane veteran, I see nothing to recommend the damned things. I do remember that as a child, I actually looked forward to hurricanes. We'd pack up and leave our relatively low-lying suburban house in eastern New Orleans and decamp to my father's high rise office building downtown.

I thought it was great adventure and the fact that it usually meant a few days off of school was a bonus. By the time I reached adolescence and had to deal with some of the more practical hurricane difficulties, the 'canes had lost their allure. By the time I was in my late teens I developed a positive hatred for them and it's a hatred that persists to this day.

Some of you may remember the stories of my Katrina odyssey and evacuation. At the time we were living right on the coast in the Bay St. Louis - Waveland area. Our property had 27' of flood water. Since then, we've moved about fifty miles off of the coast and now enjoy a hillside elevation of 250' above sea level. I now tell people that if we ever get flooded, look for an old man with a white beard, herding the animals two by two into an ark!

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Doc
 
Toosh

Toosh

Veteran Member
Millwright said:
Sites to bookmark, if you lost them in a computer crash since last year.
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Consider adding the National Buoy Data center to your list of sites to bookmark. While satellites can show you what's happening at altitude, buoys let you know what's happening at the surface in terms of winds, wave height and fetch. It's another data point as hurricanes tend to wiggle around in their track. There are buoys dotting every coastline. NDBC - Station 41114 Recent Data
 
Millwright

Millwright

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Toosh said:
Consider adding the National Buoy Data center to your list of sites to bookmark. While satellites can show you what's happening at altitude, buoys let you know what's happening at the surface in terms of winds, wave height and fetch. It's another data point as hurricanes tend to wiggle around in their track. There are buoys dotting every coastline. NDBC - Station 41114 Recent Data
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It should be linked to at trackthetropics.

All the available info is there.
 
nomifyle

nomifyle

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Doc1 said:
Hurricanes...and lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my!!!

As a well-seasoned hurricane veteran, I see nothing to recommend the damned things. I do remember that as a child, I actually looked forward to hurricanes. We'd pack up and leave our relatively low-lying suburban house in eastern New Orleans and decamp to my father's high rise office building downtown.

I thought it was great adventure and the fact that it usually meant a few days off of school was a bonus. By the time I reached adolescence and had to deal with some of the more practical hurricane difficulties, the 'canes had lost their allure. By the time I was in my late teens I developed a positive hatred for them and it's a hatred that persists to this day.

Some of you may remember the stories of my Katrina odyssey and evacuation. At the time we were living right on the coast in the Bay St. Louis - Waveland area. Our property had 27' of flood water. Since then, we've moved about fifty miles off of the coast and now enjoy a hillside elevation of 250' above sea level. I now tell people that if we ever get flooded, look for an old man with a white beard, herding the animals two by two into an ark!

Best
Doc
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I would consider myself a seasoned hurricane veteran, although I move away to the sand hills of north Louisiana, I think we are about 250' above sea level, positively nose bleed elevation. The first time I ever evacuated was for George in '98. Prior to that I just waited it out. Some of that time I had not way of evacuating anyway. I would never have gotten on anyones bus to leave, so I understand why people didn't evacuate, you just toughed it out.

The younger generation has no clue about toughing it out, sad for them, they will perish in tough times.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
dstraito said:
Let's just hope they leave the microwaves and weather changing equipment out of this and do not try to intensify or weaponized those storms. I know that sounds like WOO but who knows in this wacky world and things like the Antarctic anomaly happening it seems like anything is possible.
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Sounds like this needs to be a separate thread, what Antarctic anomaly?
 
Ragnarok

Ragnarok

On and On, South of Heaven
Doc1 said:
I thought it was great adventure and the fact that it usually meant a few days off of school was a bonus. By the time I reached adolescence and had to deal with some of the more practical hurricane difficulties, the 'canes had lost their allure. By the time I was in my late teens I developed a positive hatred for them and it's a hatred that persists to this day.
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Almost a carbon copy of my experiences.

When I first moved to the Tampa/St. Pete area a hurricane rolled through the area ( off our coast. Not a direct hit, just skirtting where we lived ). Having witnessed in been in bad weather in the northwoods, I had seen hail, violent thunderstorms and tornados. I was oblivious to hurricanes. Anyway, when it hit I was dumbfounded at the amount of rain that fell. My two roomates and I were watching the whole thing from our screened in balcony. Then I noticed that it was so windy that there were whitecaps on the swimming pool. What did we do? We all ran down to the pool to swim in the whitecaps, in the middle of a hurricane.

Flash forward to today and now, being a homeowner, I look forward to hurricane season with a lot of trepidation. I am trying to get enough money to get out of here as it just doesn't hold the same allure as it used to. The bad memories have outweighed the good and that is usually my cue to move on. We haven't had a direct hit in 120 years, so I'm thinking we are about due. Add in that the county I live in is the most populated in the entire state, it's just too crowded.

I cannot wait for the day I can move back to the woods.
 
J

john70

Veteran Member
i am sorry to report,

gainesville, florida is still here, dry, ran by a bunch of perverts

some say north florida is damp,

south florida is dry, getting heavy, may tip the state, we are keeping an eye on guam
 
SmithJ

SmithJ

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If doesn’t appear that the gulf is that warm yet. Anybody have a way to compare water temperature year to year
 
Kathy in FL

Kathy in FL

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Ragnarok said:
Almost a carbon copy of my experiences.

When I first moved to the Tampa/St. Pete area a hurricane rolled through the area ( off our coast. Not a direct hit, just skirtting where we lived ). Having witnessed in been in bad weather in the northwoods, I had seen hail, violent thunderstorms and tornados. I was oblivious to hurricanes. Anyway, when it hit I was dumbfounded at the amount of rain that fell. My two roomates and I were watching the whole thing from our screened in balcony. Then I noticed that it was so windy that there were whitecaps on the swimming pool. What did we do? We all ran down to the pool to swim in the whitecaps, in the middle of a hurricane.

Flash forward to today and now, being a homeowner, I look forward to hurricane season with a lot of trepidation. I am trying to get enough money to get out of here as it just doesn't hold the same allure as it used to. The bad memories have outweighed the good and that is usually my cue to move on. We haven't had a direct hit in 120 years, so I'm thinking we are about due. Add in that the county I live in is the most populated in the entire state, it's just too crowded.

I cannot wait for the day I can move back to the woods.
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Elena was probably the closest we’ve come. Hooker’s Point, Bayshore, Downtown, and Port of Tampa were completely underwater and that was just from a little storm surge.
 
Millwright

Millwright

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Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Tue Jun 11 2024

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

1. Eastern Gulf of Mexico and Offshore Southeast U.S.:
A trough of low pressure over the eastern Gulf of Mexico is
producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
This system is expected to move northeastward across Florida during
the next day or so and offshore of the U.S. Southeast coast later
this week. Environmental conditions are expected to be generally
unfavorable, although some slow development is possible when the
system is offshore of the U.S. Southeast coast. Regardless of
development, heavy rainfall is expected across portions of Florida
during the next few days. For more information, see products issued
by the Weather Prediction Center and local National Weather Service
Forecast Offices.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...20 percent.
 
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john70

Veteran Member
Firebird said:
Rain to come this week in Florida
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I LOOK ON THE NWS RADAR
and i find no red and very little yellow

NO MUCH rain atall

the weather channel is selling fear

 
Kathy in FL

Kathy in FL

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We had a rainy day here in Tampa, but it hasn't even touched how dry we are. The swamp behind my house is still nothing but dry mud. It will take days of rain like we had today to fill the swamp back up and all of the lakes and ponds in our area.
 
Ragnarok

Ragnarok

On and On, South of Heaven
Nice rainy day. No storms just a light rain interspersed with a few minutes of downpors. A good day for sleeping and relaxing. Should have taken the day off...
 
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