Hurricane Advice

[Flashpoint]

At times like this, a little levity seems like a good idea. Beat me up if I'm wrong...

Many years ago when I was a LOT younger (and dumber I might add) we had a hurricane form in relatively short order and threaten Okinawa. We were there for exercises but the main force had a long weekend. There was less than 24 hours between the time that the hurricane formed til it made landfall with 90 mph winds... My crew of 240 or so folks managed to get all of the birds sheltered in like 18 hours--but that meant no food or rest until the job was done.

We didn't have enough time to shelter anywhere else before the thing made landfall, so we were sleeping on concrete floors in the shelters. So here comes the craziness... We had a 4 barrel grill and we managed to convince a guy from the chow hall to bring us food and charcoal as long as we could protect his truck. He brought hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken, buns, charcoal, potato salad,macaroni salad, lettuce salad buns and salad dressing. We used 1/4" steel cable to tie the grill down and used straps to tie us down. My chief, Operations officer and I cooked all of the meat using the cycles when wind dropped off to bring food in. We managed to feed about 260 folks. The tidal wave that hit us next put out the grill but we were already inside.

No one was injured, no aircraft were damaged and no one went hungry. The next morning, once the storm had passed, everyone went to the hotel for a good nights rest. The three of us who manned the grill had to head home to deal with the same hurricane and its damage. We lost two critical building and had a lot of glass damage but no loss of life. It was a "good" storm.

All the comforts of home indeed.

 

[jeria]

Doing fine.. got the goats on the resident side. Pasture is flooded. And it's not here yet.
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Love the look on your pup's face! Like what the heck is going on here but I guess I'll stay. Pretty goats ! Used to have some Nubians they aren't as pretty. Praying you and yours stay safe, luckily since it hit land the intensity is dropping some.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Love the look on your pup's face! Like what the heck is going on here but I guess I'll stay. Pretty goats ! Used to have some Nubians they aren't as pretty. Praying you and yours stay safe, luckily since it hit land the intensity is dropping some.

Hoping it will stay on land. Water is fuel.

 

[barred2rock]

Fort Myers turn

 

[Ursuline Chick]

At times like this, a little levity seems like a good idea. Beat me up if I'm wrong...

Many years ago when I was a LOT younger (and dumber I might add) we had a hurricane form in relatively short order and threaten Okinawa. We were there for exercises but the main force had a long weekend. There was less than 24 hours between the time that the hurricane formed til it made landfall with 90 mph winds... My crew of 240 or so folks managed to get all of the birds sheltered in like 18 hours--but that meant no food or rest until the job was done.

We didn't have enough time to shelter anywhere else before the thing made landfall, so we were sleeping on concrete floors in the shelters. So here comes the craziness... We had a 4 barrel grill and we managed to convince a guy from the chow hall to bring us food and charcoal as long as we could protect his truck. He brought hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken, buns, charcoal, potato salad,macaroni salad, lettuce salad buns and salad dressing. We used 1/4" steel cable to tie the grill down and used straps to tie us down. My chief, Operations officer and I cooked all of the meat using the cycles when wind dropped off to bring food in. We managed to feed about 260 folks. The tidal wave that hit us next put out the grill but we were already inside.

No one was injured, no aircraft were damaged and no one went hungry. The next morning, once the storm had passed, everyone went to the hotel for a good nights rest. The three of us who manned the grill had to head home to deal with the same hurricane and its damage. We lost two critical building and had a lot of glass damage but no loss of life. It was a "good" storm.

Oh, rjohns39, what a great post! When you got to the tidal wave part, I literally laughed out loud. Thank you

 

[rjohns39]

Oh, rjohns39, what a great post! When you got to the tital wave part, I literally laughed out loud. Thank you

Hey, it put out the fire in the grill.

 

[barred2rock]

Its good to read you as I have family in Spring hill and havent heard from them.

Not too bad so far.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Hey, it put out the fire in the grill.

Yes, I guess most things have some positive side, sometimes you just have to look really hard for it.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Not too bad so far.

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Has the worst got there yet please ?

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Has the worst got there yet please ?

Granny, the saying you have under your posts is so touching and so deep. Thank you for giving us all something to think about.