Just Like Andrew, Floridians Not Prepared

They didn't even have two days worth of food at home.
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Pretty sad.... Floridians a storm weary and aren't making good decisions.... those that died when Katrina hit Florida earlier are probably an example of not taking the storm seriously enough.... I tell you.... any storm .... especially a tropical strength storm near hurricane strength is not to be taken lightly.... I am hoping for the best for New Orleans, any area it makes landfall for that matter ... a direct hit will be very bad.....

 

After three last year, " oh, it won't hit us", is not optomism, it's delusional. I can't imagine somebody not having two days worth of food and water at home.

 

Hurricanes to Hit Fla. Since August 2004 By The Associated Press
Sat Aug 27,12:19 AM ET


Hurricanes hitting Florida in 2004-05 and their impact on the state.


2004:

Name: Charley

Landfall: Aug. 13, Cayo Costa.

Maximum wind: 150 mph (Category 4)

Fatalities: 35

Estimated insured losses (as of late 2004): $7.8 billion.

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Name: Frances

Landfall: Sept. 5, Sewall's Point.

Wind speed: 105 mph (Category 2)

Fatalities: 40

Estimated insured losses: $4.6 billion.

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Name: Ivan

Landfall: Sept. 16, Gulf Shores, Ala.

Wind speed: 130 mph (Category 3)

Fatalities: 29

Estimated insured losses: $4.1 billion.

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Name: Jeanne

Landfall: Sept. 26, Hutchinson Island.

Wind speed: 121 mph (Category 3)

Fatalities: 19

Estimated insured losses: $4.1 billion.

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2005:

Name: Dennis

Landfall: July 10, between Navarre Beach and Pensacola Beach.

Wind speed: 120 mph (Category 3)

Fatalities: 12

Estimated insured losses: $1 billion to $2.5 billion (initial projection)

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Name: Katrina

Landfall: Aug. 25, between Hallandale Beach and North Miami Beach

Wind speed: 80 mph (Category 1)

Fatalities: 7

Estimated insured losses: not available.

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Sources: National Hurricane Center, State Emergency Operations Center, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.

 

Yup.... pretty scary huh ?..... Imagine a place like Florida... that has all those hits... and people are still not prepared..... What must the rest of the country be like?.... and if there is a larger disaster ... like say... the electrical grid goes down on a wide scale basis, pumps don't work, registers don't work etc.... that's gonna be pretty scary.... it would a wild time..... People will get pretty upset, angry and desparate pretty fast.... I don't understand sometimes, actually I do,....bug out or bug in.... either way... people have got to assess and prepare.....

 

While I am not near prepared as much as I would like, I could get by for a good while. I have a feeling that a bunch of folks couldn't go a day. Just reaffirms why security has to be a big part of preparing. Those that don't have, will be trying to take from those that do.

 

well I have nearly been killed by 2 floridains in TX driving around like they owned the roads....so nothing ingnorant from them suprises me. They are the next Kali.

 

Yup.... pretty sad.... I have a friend who's a pretty smart guy when it comes to most things... he's got a family and kids.... but when it comes to preps... even basic ones like food and water.... his answer is "that if "it" happens, I have a gun and I'll take what I need to provide for my family".... tsk tsk.... I was pretty shocked at that.... tried to tell him as good as he thinks he is (and he's pretty good)... others will be thinking the same thing and protecting what they have... also told him he's no good to his wife and kids dead!.... still.... I don't think he's taken it to heart.... got his head in the sand and hoping for the best..... I don't talk about it with him anymore.....
Yup.... security is a really big part of prepping.... maybe even from those you've called "friends".....

 

Looks like Katrina's winds put it in the high category 4 hurricane status....
May become a category 5 as it enters warmer waters... high 80's low 90's...
New Orleans is under a mandatory evac ....

This may be the bad one they were hoping would never come their way....

Time to bug out!!!!!!!!

 

Did anyone see the movie on SciFi a few months ago called "Oil Storm"?

 

Bear, unfortunately too many people do not bug out in time.

We can only pray that they make it through it.

 

The problem is, for every two people that can bug out, there's one that can't, and one planning a hurricane party.

 

Yeah, as a matter of fact over the last month that already several things from that fake documentary have come true. I was telling my wife about it at the time, then this morning I reminded her, that in "Oil Storm" a big hurricane hit N.O. and wiped out a bridge to a big refinery, and did major damage there severing a pipe line too. Spooky.....................................................

 

I don't think you can limit stupid people to a particular geographic region, although I might ammend that opinion about New Jersey...the problem is that people have become so damned reliant on big brother providing all their needs that survival isn't really a question until you get slapped in the face with it. Maybe it's 90% law of natural selection raising it's vengeful head.

 

Katrina is actually a high category 5 now. 175 mph winds. This is going to be a bad one.

 

Yup this has great potential to be a bad one in so many ways.... Loss of life, property damage.... oh and watch the markets.... especially oil.... it will be "interesting" to watch the "ripple effects" of this..... "GOT PREPS ?".....

HERE'S A INTERESTING WARNING FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE....

490 WWUS74 KLIX 281550 NPWLIX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 ..DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED HURRICANE KATRINA A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED STRENGTH...RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969. MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL. PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE. HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT. AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK. POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS. THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE KILLED. AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS. ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE OUTSIDE! MSZ080>082-282100- HANCOCK-HARRISON-JACKSON- 1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 ..INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IN EFFECT HURRICANE KATRINA A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED STRENGTH...RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969. 0NSET OF TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS WILL BE AROUND 3 PM AND PERSIST FOR 24 TO 28 HOURS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS WILL ONSET AROUND DAYBREAK MONDAY AND PERSIST FOR 12 TO 15 HOURS. ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE OUTSIDE!

Hope we don't have any friends or family in harm's way.... if so... prayers are being sent....

 

Ghostrider, I've seen that attitude of "Oh it won't happen again" and couldn't believe it. My wife's Dad lives in Pensacola and had the roof ripped off his very nice house last year. We were visiting them (him and his wife) in their $1800/month apartment they get to live in for a year, and I could not believe the head-in-the-sand things they were saying. I for one could not live anywhere that got hit like they do.

New Orleans is in deep trouble being 12' below sea level, plus there won't be anywhere to pump water to. If they get hit with 20' of water, well we can hope they don't.

 

I have never seen a hurricane with that big of a well formed eye. That thing is a monster. The only hurricanes that I ever have been through in New Orleans were a couple from Pat O'Brien's. They were pretty potent too.

 

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