Hurricane Advice

[rjohns39]

Here's current Radar

 

[rjohns39]

My 90 grandma just called to complain they haven't deliver her news paper yet in Sulphur LA.

Keep in mind what's important

 

[Kiki]

Keep in mind what's important

If anyone wants to know where I get my nuttiness from....it's her. But she was dead serious. I am usually not.

 

[RUNuts]

Saw dust, yes. Wet saw dust, not so much. Will be cutting while standing in ankle deep mud/water.

House is dry. Yard, not so much.

Great point about saw dust though. Wonder if I can shoot it into a bucket? May not be worth the effort. Operating power tools while standing in mud. Hmmm - what could go wrong?

 

[rjohns39]

Saw dust, yes. Wet saw dust, not so much. Will be cutting while standing in ankle deep mud/water.

House is dry. Yard, not so much.

Great point about saw dust though. Wonder if I can shoot it into a bucket? May not be worth the effort. Operating power tools while standing in mud. Hmmm - what could go wrong?

Yea, maybe re-think that idea...

 

[pennyJo1960]

My 90 grandma just called to complain they haven't deliver her news paper yet in Sulphur LA.

probably the high point in her day they do not mean much to us but for them a lifeline

 

[h2oratt]

probably the high point in her day they do not mean much to us but for them a lifeline

Maybe she ran out of TP also.

 

[NorthTexasWink]

I slept early and hard last night. Half my guests left to start for their areas. I'll let y'all know how that goes. They are hauling some johnny boats (flat bottomed aluminum) and supplies. We shall see how far they get.

Looking good here. Humid, but cooler so far. Expected 90's but less humid so not terrible. Folks seem hopeful.

Glad you got out Kiki! Lilapot ok too? Saw Rooster was on line this morning. Sean ok? Our regulars I see are posting ok. Who else we missing?

 

[Peeps61]

Harvey was a large, powerful, well-developed storm traveling over quite warm water, so he was packing a lot of rain with him when he made landfall. Once he made it to Texas, he seemed to lose all sense of direction. He sort of wandered on shore, then stalled. Normally, once the eye gets over land, a storm loses strength rapidly, but Harvey never got very far inland, and with some of his feeder bands still over the warm Gulf water, Harvey managed to maintain a certain amount of structure; he just sat there and pumped all that Gulf moisture onto the land. Now the eye has backed out over the water again, and the storm has regained a little bit of strength. But it is a very lopsided, unhealthy looking storm with lots of dry areas; and it is finally (slowly) moving to the east and north. Some storms have strong steering currents that move them rapidly along their courses, but Harvey's currents were weak, and he was blocked from moving by ridges of high pressure. I've seen storms wobble and stagger and stall for days in this area, and I've seen them move along like they were on rails - it all depends on the rivers of air they are traveling in.

Yes, they can be very unpredictable at times. I live in Pensacola and we have had several inches of rain from some of the outer feeder bands from Harvey. I waded out to feed my horses and they waded over to eat. The chickens are under our barn/pole barn section and were still dry, thank goodness!

 

[daxigait]

Having just spent two weeks on pack and hiking trips some inexpensive options for filters to keep around are the Sawyer Mini which is about $18 or the katadyn befree which is 40. When they don't have their water bags full they are very Compact and easy to store or carry.
The original steripen is about $40 but it requires batteries.