I am so pleased to see LA taking all these precautions. Hard lessons were learned.
Hurricane Gustav
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My sister's computer just crashed and she lost all of her photos and music. I learned the lesson and went out and got a Western Digital Passport that holds 320 gig. $120 well spent in my opinion. I filled half of it today with my photos and music. It goes between my Mac and PC seamlessly. Tomorrow the rest of my docs are going on there and I am scanning every shred of legal paperwork I have and getting it uploaded as well. This isn't just hurricane preparedness, it is good overall planning.
I need to do this ASAP, as the dinosaur I'm using is almost a goner & we will be switching to a Mac. I don't want to loose the photos or music!
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.
Riv's worried about Little IBD! Please tell her that she's thinking about her!
What do you mean?
Weather Underground now has this thing going to a Cat 4 Sunday night and back down to a Cat 3 before making land.
Our weathermen have been predicting the same thing.
Those do sound like good suggestions, as does the "old school" answering machine that someone had suggested inanother thread: deactivate your telco voicemail, and plug up an electric answeringmachine, so that you can determine, remotely, if you have power. My wife, brothers and niece evacuated early Saturday morning before Dennis, July 2005. She and I drove back down Monday evening, expecting everything to be fine since landfall had been 60+ miles west in the Navarre/Eglin area. We arrived at about 10:00 that Monday night, (expecting to host friends for most of the week), only to find the building structurally damaged, without power, and condemned. It was one of the few severe damages in SoWal, but we were able to get the last room at Hampton Inn at Bluewater Bay for the night (the Clemson/UF Hurricane Study project had most of the rooms and all of the parking lot for their "Twister" type research trucks).
I had never thought of the dishwasher plan, but it makes perfect sense.
Based on the latest track posted by Shelly, it looks like my friends need to leave the Eastern Shore/Daphne area Monday morning. God Save the Dew Drop Inn, Fort Gaines, and Fort Morgan.