Hurricane Gustav

The reason why the NHC couldn't find a center of the storm parts of yesterday is that it didn't exist. The mountains of Haiti once more ripped a tropical cyclone apart until it was barely a tropical depression.

Once that happens, and if you've still got a lot of disturbed air and nothing to prevent redevelopment, it's common to see a center of circulation reform elsewhere in the blob'o'weather, something that takes a couple hours to happen.

And once it has gone back down to TD/TS status, the planes dont fly back to determine the true center again until the next day.

One more suggestion if you evacuate- power surges as the grid goes down can zap a lot of home electronics. Unplug and then trip the breakers for everything except for two things- a) the refridgerator and b) the outlet nearest the phone jack. Get a cheap old school answering machine that requires the power to be on in order to give the 'Hi, this is the Funn residence' and you've got an easy way to check the status of the electrical grid when you're away from home.

Good suggestion! We had a power surge near my house last month & 560 homes lost an average of $1,000 in appliances. Most of these appliances had power surge protection.

The latest models seem to be indicating a shift toward Texas, maybe Houston?

The latest models seem to be indicating a shift toward Texas, maybe Houston?

I made the decision to leave for Houston tomorrow instead of today. This will give us plenty of time to prepare and get PawPaw back to Dallas. Poor thing...Katrina hit on his Aug. 29th bday and now this IDIOT Swedish fish is trying to distrupt his 83rd!

Continue the updates....I really appreciate all your knowledge.

I made the decision to leave for Houston tomorrow instead of today. This will give us plenty of time to prepare and get PawPaw back to Dallas. Poor thing...Katrina hit on his Aug. 29th bday and now this IDIOT Swedish fish is trying to distrupt his 83rd!

Continue the updates....I really appreciate all your knowledge.

I don't think Houston, but the Rita track looks pretty good right now, maybe Red Stick

I made the decision to leave for Houston tomorrow instead of today. This will give us plenty of time to prepare and get PawPaw back to Dallas. Poor thing...Katrina hit on his Aug. 29th bday and now this IDIOT Swedish fish is trying to distrupt his 83rd!

Continue the updates....I really appreciate all your knowledge.

WOW 83! Happy Birthday PawPaw!!

IDIOT Swedish fish

A good tip I heard today on WWL was to look for batteries, flashlights, gas cans and generators at Auto Stores (auto zone, o'rileys,pep boys) I personally had never thought of that as I always think "big box" stores. The first auto store I went into I scored on 12 D cell batteries.

Another tip I heard was to fill up your boat with gas instead of all the cans.

Just got this in an email. WIth apologies to my home state. (Kurt, please delete if not allowed.)

Just got this in an email. WIth apologies to my home state. (Kurt, please delete if not allowed.)

Well, all I see is a red X.

Well, all I see is a red X.

Me, too! What did you put that was that bad?

For you insect hating people, you might want to stock up on DEET, if for some reason you stick around and the water pushes you out of your home.

How about now? Keep in mind this sent from La. Guess you've gotta have a sense of humor after all they've been through.

Gustav being chased by Hannah

Here's an ugly animation I put together from the European Weather Site (ECWMF) that shows Gustaf rolling up thru the Gulf and a few days latter a bigger/badder Hannah following almost the same track (maybe a little east of Gustav.)

You can see from this image, how big Hannah is in their model.

Good suggestion! We had a power surge near my house last month & 560 homes lost an average of $1,000 in appliances. Most of these appliances had power surge protection.

In, IIRC, 2003, we had that same kind of lightning storm go through our neighborhood. Even though the lines are underground, we still had about $4K worth of damage to electronics in our house.

Why is it that when that kind of stuff happens, the appliances you really hope would die don't*, but the stuff you actually like gets fried?

Okay, I was glad when the garage door opener got fried because it was weird even before then, but the rest of the mess broke or didn't along those lines.

Gustav appears to be taking the same path as Hurricane Eloise, that smashed Sowal in 1975. It was a direct hit. We were living in Dune Allen at the time and the eye came right over the house. Ten days no elec and extensive damage to homes (especially the beach homes) huge trees toppled or splintered like sticks. No communications for 3 days.

Very Nasty...if Gustav does what Eloise did.....please don't stay. If you do and you come out unscathed, you will wish you didn't stay. It is terrifying!

What seagrovegirl said. And even though very few people actually evacuated back then, we went to bed with the broadcasts predicting landfall at Mobile.

Eloise turned.

What seagrovegirl said. And even though very few people actually evacuated back then, we went to bed with the broadcasts predicting landfall at Mobile.

Eloise turned.

And as you can see.....she turned at the last minute!!!!!!!!!!!

Gustav appears to be taking the same path as Hurricane Eloise, that smashed Sowal in 1975. It was a direct hit. We were living in Dune Allen at the time and the eye came right over the house. Ten days no elec and extensive damage to homes (especially the beach homes) huge trees toppled or splintered like sticks. No communications for 3 days.

Very Nasty...if Gustav does what Eloise did.....please don't stay. If you do and you come out unscathed, you will wish you didn't stay. It is terrifying!

What seagrovegirl said. And even though very few people actually evacuated back then, we went to bed with the broadcasts predicting landfall at Mobile.

Eloise turned.

We were about 45 miles inland and she picked up 100 year old pecan trees and laid them out like toothpicks. Also, picked up the family car and turned it around in our yard. First Hurricane I remember and she was a bad mama jama :shock:

Uh-oh.....I might need to go further than Paxton.........any thoughts on this????

How about now? Keep in mind this sent from La. Guess you've gotta have a sense of humor after all they've been through.

I love it. You have to keep some sort of humor our you will go insane...

And as you can see.....she turned at the last minute!!!!!!!!!!!

women, always changing their mind.:roll:

Uh-oh.....I might need to go further than Paxton.........any thoughts on this????

We were right across the line from Paxton. But, I believe we see a lot of power outages and such because a big storm hadn't hit in a long time, and they do a lot of pruning when they come through. Tornado's scare me more than Hurricanes. Eloise also showed that quick right hook before landfall that many do. Let's just all be prepared to make a move if we have to do it

Gustav appears to be taking the same path as Hurricane Eloise, that smashed Sowal in 1975. It was a direct hit. We were living in Dune Allen at the time and the eye came right over the house. Ten days no elec and extensive damage to homes (especially the beach homes) huge trees toppled or splintered like sticks. No communications for 3 days.

Very Nasty...if Gustav does what Eloise did.....please don't stay. If you do and you come out unscathed, you will wish you didn't stay. It is terrifying!

I would hope that 33 years later, we have better technology to track and predict these things. I mean, I know that it's unpredictible past 3 days, but for it to be totally missed until the last minute is not acceptable in 2008.

How about now? Keep in mind this sent from La. Guess you've gotta have a sense of humor after all they've been through.

Oh my. Everyone please be safe--wherever this mofo goes.

I just hope that we dont get another record on the books for having 2 storms make landfall in FL on the same day........that would REALLY su**. But from the looks of all those models it is possible. I called Fay for making the record books for the most landfalls in one state and had a premonition at the Red Bar earlier that they both hit at the same time. *crosses self*

well, what kind of a name is this ??
All water,gas cans etc are gone up here (Jackson metro area) my birthday is Monday the 1st, its bad enough that Big K came on my birthday eve 3 years ago.
I don't have a generator so I'm just praying . Now is one of the times I wish I'd saved old water bottles. I don't buy milk in gallons either.