Hurricane Wilma

SammysMom · October 19th, 2005, 01:38 PM

Anyone here in the path of this Hurricane? Forecasters say it will hit southern Florida. It broke a record per my husband the Hurricane Man. It dropped down to 882 mb and the last hurricane to do that was Gilbert in 1988 and it dropped to 888 mb. Pretty unsettling to me.
Ill be saying a prayer for those in Florida

LynnieD · October 19th, 2005, 01:46 PM

Not I thank god. These hurricane's are getting out of control. It's enough already.

SammysMom · October 19th, 2005, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by LynnieD

Not I thank god. These hurricane's are getting out of control. It's enough already.

Have you had a lot of rain LynnieD?

LynnieD · October 19th, 2005, 03:48 PM

HOLY SHIT I AM SO SICK OF RAIN!!!! Today was forecasted to be in the 60's and sunny....yet, here it is raining and in the 50's again. UGH!!!!

Its crazy!! Yet, better than snow, so I suppose I shouldn't complain...
Course, you know I still will complain....

Where are you Sammysmom??

Elise · October 19th, 2005, 03:50 PM

Ugh oh--my grandpa lives in Naples, Florida. Hope he's not going to get hit.

SammysMom · October 19th, 2005, 04:54 PM

Sorry LynnieD it took me awhile to respond I had to do some grocery shopping. Im in Texas outside of Houston. We had rain last week on Monday but it has been really really nice, low humidity and sunny. Sorry

LynnieD · October 19th, 2005, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by SammysMom

Sorry LynnieD it took me awhile to respond I had to do some grocery shopping. Im in Texas outside of Houston. We had rain last week on Monday but it has been really really nice, low humidity and sunny. Sorry

Never apologize.....you have a life!!

My bestest friend in the whole world lives outside Houston too. Cypress!
Hope you weren't hit hard by Rita!!!

barbiedoll25 · October 19th, 2005, 08:00 PM

Well, I live in South Beach. They have already started the preliminary "scare everyone even though we don't know where or if the hurrican will hit our area, hurry up and get supplies, interrupt every single program with the same damn information" on our news stations. I mean I know it could possibly be bad, but really they have no idea this early. It's not even supposed to be near our area until Late Saturday or Sunday. I hope it's not bad,but I am not worrying yet.

olivia720 · October 19th, 2005, 11:56 PM

oh christ thats all you guys need. more freakin hurricanes! times like this i dont mind being a wisconsin bumpkin!!

mermaiddelsol · October 20th, 2005, 12:09 AM

well i heard tonight that this hurricane is breaking records....not to alarm anyone....but it's better to be safe than sorry....

SammysMom · October 20th, 2005, 01:00 AM

Yeah my husband who loves to track and follow hurrincanes said this one could be pretty bad. It has broken several records he said. He says it just may brush the Keys and southern part of Florida. Im really really sick of these hurricanes

SammysMom · October 20th, 2005, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by LynnieD

Never apologize.....you have a life!!

My bestest friend in the whole world lives outside Houston too. Cypress!
Hope you weren't hit hard by Rita!!!

Are you serious about your friend? My mom lived in Cypress and my sister now lives there. It use to be so beautiful but now all these subdivisions have gone in and the quiet and beauty are gone since they took the trees out. It was were you could be in the woods/country and in 5 minutes your in the hustle and bustle of it all. Just makes me so sad

I dont live too far from Cypress, just north of it.

Tiara · October 20th, 2005, 05:09 AM

This is probably a complete lie that my brother just made up but I thought I'd ask you guys anyway!

He said he heard that hurricanes are named according to how strong they are

i.e. Hurricane Alan = not bad
Hurricane Zack - Really bad

DisruptiveHair · October 20th, 2005, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Tiara

This is probably a complete lie that my brother just made up but I thought I'd ask you guys anyway!

He said he heard that hurricanes are named according to how strong they are

i.e. Hurricane Alan = not bad
Hurricane Zack - Really bad

It's a complete lie. Hurricane names are chosen well in advance of the hurricane season. Atlantic hurricanes are named by the NOAA National Hurricane Center off predetermined lists that are recycled every few years. Atlantic hurricanes already have names through the year 2010.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

AliceInWonderland · October 20th, 2005, 04:34 PM

as with everything else horrible going on in this country:
I BLAME BUSH