Hurricane Advice

[Kiki]

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No ma'am. Thank you though. Y'all have more rain coming this week and Harvey may not have all drained off by then.

what???? More rain?

 

[pennyJo1960]

looks like major rebuild will eventually happen or allot of folks move out the are damaged the most

 

[Peeps61]

In SC every time there was bad weather (hurricane, flood, snow) the stores sold out of milk and bread. If the power goes out there goes your milk... and the bread will mold. We joked people must like their milk sandwiches.

I always kept good stock of peanut butter, crackers, granola bars, proteins bars, canned salmon, other canned goods, and bottled water. Plus things like potatoes that can be cooked a multitude of ways.

After Hurricane Ivan in Pensacola, our entire block had a cookout. Everyone brought meat that was defrosting and cooked it. We had chips, sodas and even a few potato and macaroni salads to go with it. Gas grills still work, if the power is out and the food was going to go bad anyway, so an enterprising neighbor went around to all 50 houses and invited everyone to come. We had a great time, and it was the last "HOT" meal we had for several days, at least until we got a generator. I lost my house, so I had to come back over for the event as I was living in my parent's house (they were RVing out west at the time).

 

[BantyChooks]

Listen fruit cake.....we don't normally get stuck for weeks. You are used to getting snowed in for months so it's normal for your kind to hoard stuff. Just ask the professional rooster hoarder @Wicked chicken6

Months?? Nah. Days at most.

Up here we have this really cool invention called a snow plough. You should get a rain plough if you plan on living in a flood more often.

I have cases and cases of baby wipes, don't ask why.

Why?

 

[Dmontgomery]

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what???? More rain? [/QUOTE]

Yeah, I know. You'd think the gulf would be completely empty by now. But there's a new tropical system forming in the Yucatán and possibly coming back up here next week as a hurricane. I hope they're wrong.

 

[pennyJo1960]

we could use some rain up here... First we broke all records of rainfall between September until june now we are breaking the record of how many days without rain
in Western Washington state but inland where we are we use to get a bit more rain before the clouds could lift over the mountains

 

[lilmarie84]

Texting was the only thing that worked well after Katrina, to get in touched with friends and loved ones

That is so true I remember that and ironically I was in Huston at that time the only bad part of that was that my dad refuses to text so I had a difficult time getting in touch with him

 

[NorthTexasWink]

I saw someone ask about how much snow an inch of rain equals. I think someone else answered than it was a 1:1 ratio, and I knew that couldn't be right at all. Did some research and it appears there are many answers, but it always takes a fair amount of snow to liquid rain, as snow is far less dense than liquid water. The generally accepted quesstimation for North America seems to be that 1 inch of rain is about equal to 10 inches of snow. So 50 inches of rain times 10 = 500 inches, or 41 2/3 feet of snow.

 

[NorthTexasWink]

HE's son came back from work this evening low on gas after having been by all his regular fuel stations. Most were out of gas, one had a long line, so he just came home. Y'all be aware, refineries are out of commission for a while. Prices going up, and supplies might get low.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Texting I haven't had a problem with. Dropped calls yes. And the internet/data has gotten way better since just yesterday.

Glad internet has gotten better, we were unable to make calls after Katrina for weeks, texting was the only way to contact others