NC, VA, NJ & NY'ers, you have your Peppers packed?
08-25-2011 | 09:52 PM
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oh c'mon!
i was born and raised in wilmington NC where pretty much every hurricane hit directly for like 5 years straight and still does... no need to worry.... hell, boarding up the windows even got old after a few cat 4's... just dont live in a trailer park, they seriously DESTROY trailer parks, running away always causes the hurricane to avoid your town and hit where you drove to, that has happened to us at least 3x..
get water, batteries... put blankets in tub if you hear a train noise then jump in it... and ur good.
we even lived on the ocean, house was 14'6" above highest recorded flood line, tide still hit us but never was anything worse than resetting the pilings on the pier.
i was born and raised in wilmington NC where pretty much every hurricane hit directly for like 5 years straight and still does... no need to worry.... hell, boarding up the windows even got old after a few cat 4's... just dont live in a trailer park, they seriously DESTROY trailer parks, running away always causes the hurricane to avoid your town and hit where you drove to, that has happened to us at least 3x..
get water, batteries... put blankets in tub if you hear a train noise then jump in it... and ur good.
we even lived on the ocean, house was 14'6" above highest recorded flood line, tide still hit us but never was anything worse than resetting the pilings on the pier.
There's also a huge difference biased on which side of the hurricane you're on which will make a very big difference for those folks in the NE. If it tracks further west as they're saying it might that will increase the winds and storm surge up the Chesapeake Bay by a big factor and Baltimore will see severe flooding like they did about 8 yrs ago (and that was a relatively minor storm). Further to east helps them tremendously.
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08-25-2011 | 10:26 PM
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Au contraire:
Admittedly, they probably won't float far...
Originally Posted by Rod Millen
"One day in Mongolia, we had to cross maybe 150 of them. We crossed in the rapids because they're shallower. The calm parts are always the deepest-vehicles would get in them and just float."
08-25-2011 | 11:58 PM
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At the moment I'm more worried about my sailboat riding out the storm in the marina than the "new" Cayenne Turbo riding out the storm in the garage.
Just got the CTT home tonight from the dealer in Philadelphia!
Just got the CTT home tonight from the dealer in Philadelphia!
08-26-2011 | 08:46 AM
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I hope they didn't contaminate that river with any coolant....
08-26-2011 | 05:21 PM
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Ahhh... heck, I'm 10 blocks from the Atlantic.. that's far enough right? And I'm on top of what passes for a hill in these parts (40' above sea level..)
What will be "interesting" will be if it heads for the mouth of NY harbor. Saw a graphic once of how deep the water would be in midtown Manhattan if that happened (forget what force they used for the simulation) - but most all of Manhattan, LI, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens was several feet deep in water, and midtown Manhattan, about to the 2nd floor. Figuring how much is underground in NYC, that could take a while to clean up. Mebbe put in some short sells..
What will be "interesting" will be if it heads for the mouth of NY harbor. Saw a graphic once of how deep the water would be in midtown Manhattan if that happened (forget what force they used for the simulation) - but most all of Manhattan, LI, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens was several feet deep in water, and midtown Manhattan, about to the 2nd floor. Figuring how much is underground in NYC, that could take a while to clean up. Mebbe put in some short sells..
08-26-2011 | 09:04 PM
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08-29-2011 | 07:28 PM
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