Hurricane Gustav

[aufan]

Anticipate Affect on SoWal

Based upon the current (latest) track. What is the anticipated affect on SoWal? When?

Thanks

 

[BeachSiO2]

The last "cone" of possible impact on TWC (9:34 a.m. Friday, Aug. 29) seemed to leave out South Walton and Panama City Beach. Pensacola, which is about 80 miles to the east of us seems to be on the edge. Any other confirmation on this? Weather is great here today. Blue skies. People at beach and playing golf.

From the latest update I have seen it also does not include sowal. It actually doesn't include any of Florida.

 

[BeachSiO2]

Based upon the current (latest) track. What is the anticipated affect on SoWal? When?

Thanks

Based on the current guesstimates, probably some heavy surf over the weekend and Monday but that's about it.

 

[beachmouse]

While I don't think we'll get the eye of the storm, there are a couple things going on with the timing and development of the trough that's supposed to pull Gus to the NW that I wouldn't be surprised to see the storm shift a little to the east, and by the time the storm gets into the Gulf, it could be big enough we get a little bit of tropical storm force winds and the usual weak tornadoes you get on the fringes of hurricanes.

 

[JoshMclean]

I'm heading to the Bahamas on Wednesday. What luck if we get here and there!

 

[Miss Critter]

I'm heading to the Bahamas on Wednesday. What luck if we get here and there!

I think Hanna is the greater problem there.

 

[Matt J]

One way to keep important papers & photos safe and easily accessible is to put them on a disk or the internet. You can easily scan documents and have a disk w/ pdfs instead of a stack of paper.

I have a dedicated gmail address that I email my pictures to for additional backup.

You? The queen of internet paranoia? :shock:

I tried to post some pictures of Hurricane Eloise. Also have a movie (old family 8mm now on cd). Maybe I'll figure it out tomorrow. It shows Lake Tresca and Eastern Lake joined. Water going through where now there is a house on the corner of SanRoy. You may just have to come by the house to see them. I drove back from Pensacola today and must have passed a dozen busses heading west, I guess towards New Orleans.

Let me know if you haven't figured it out and I'll see what I can do to help.

Does anyone know where to find one of those sea tempurature maps of the gulf? I was searching around but couldn't find a current one. I'm curious what Gustav will be passing over on it's way up towards us.

A client passed along a good tip:
If you have to evacuate or just want to try to protect valuables from water, put your laptop, photo albums and any other items you might want to protect from water into your dishwasher. It has a watertight seal. Be sure to turn off the water to the machine, just in case. You can remove the racks for more room.

This doesn't work too well, some friend of ours tried this in Mississippi during Katrina and came back to find no house whatsoever. If you want it, treasure it, and can't imagine losing it you're best off taking it with you.

I'm heading to the Bahamas on Wednesday. What luck if we get here and there!

Cash drop?

 

[InletBchDweller]

ok, things are starting to get crazy here. Wally world was almost out of bread and peanut butter. This lady today almost went off on me and the cashier b/c the cashier was leaving after my purchase. :shock:

Mr. IBD just went to home depot, he felt the need :roll: for a third generator. He got the last one...He said it was the DMZ! People were sitting and laying on generators waiting for someone they know to come and purchase them. So far the 5 gas stations he has been to are out of gas.

Being that it is a Friday, pay day, labor day weekend, storm is on the way and the LSU game time has been moved things are in complete chaos. Not us though. we are .

 

[Matt J]

OMG not the LSU game! It's all over people!!! :funn:

 

[Smiling JOe]

While it doesn't look like Gustav will be stronger than a Cat 2, I pray for everyone in the path. NOLA and the Mississippi Gulf Coast will likely be affected to some degree. You guys be safe! Remember that things, and even precious photos, are not important -- people are important.

Speaking of precious old family photos, you can always digitally scan them as back ups in case something happens to the originals. If you don't have a scanner, you can still take them to places like the UPS store or Kinko's and have them scanned to CD. You can then upload them to the free storage websites like www.Flickr.com , www.photobucket.com , and sowal.com . Many of these free sites even have the ability to set your profile to private, so only you and people you choose, can view the pics or just select albums. You could have some public albums and some private.

Anywho, be safe! Think. Plan. Have contingency plans.