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TheWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 05:08 AM
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Frances Update: 5AM She's getting Stronger. (WARNING: BIG PICTURE)
And She is getting angrier.

Maximum Winds of 145 MPH with Gusts to 180.
Pressure is 936MB and Dropping.

My partner's Mom is in the projected path of this thing. :(
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I have to say I have never been taken aback by a Weather Image Before, but I have never seen anything like this.

At 360 miles across, with an eye 20 miles across that is just incredible.

It is far to early to speculate such things but this is beginning to feel like Camille 2.0.

I don't know how many on this Board remember Camille, but this one is starting to scare me. If I am correct, Andrew was not this Big in Size.

Please take care, my friends.

Nature is in a VERY Bad Mood.
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MadProphetMargin Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 05:23 AM
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1. I hope your SO's mom is okay. On a lighter note, I'm pretty sure if
you stapled my gloves to the yoke, I could hang glide through that.
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TheWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 05:28 AM
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3. Truly an Amazing Picture.
I was completely taken aback when I saw it.

It is breathtaking and frightening at the same time.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 05:27 AM
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2. My huband's family lives on Eleuthera
and they still haven recovered from Floyd. It destroyed the island's pineapple industry. There's no place to hide down there. We are very worried.
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MadProphetMargin Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 05:29 AM
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4. Good luck to them.
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TheWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 05:30 AM
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5. I do hope everyone will Be OK.
I am very concerned about my SO's Mom because she hasn't contacted us and we don't know what is going on.

Has there been any update as to evacuations or anything of that nature?
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soup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 06:08 AM
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7. A 3 a.m. (eastern time) recap of evacuations
and related closings
St Petersburg Times
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histohoney Donating Member (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 05:59 AM
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6. A prayer
for the mom. I hope it misses her but if need be, I hope she will be able to leave in time.
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TheWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 06:41 AM
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8. Thank You So Much.
And may I do the same for anyone who has friends and family at peril.

I am so happy to be a part of a community like this. It is comforting to know that there is a place of support and comfort in times like these, to help us see through the troubled times.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 06:45 AM
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9. That picture is breathtaking.
For all in Frances' path... be safe.
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 07:21 AM
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10. Oh My God!
That storm is HUGE! Hope your partner's mom will be safe. I hope everyone in this storm's path will be ok. Stay safe, people!
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 07:25 AM
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11. Oh yes I remember Camille very well.
My parents and I drove to NY to visit my grandparents in Manhattan to escape Camille. We drove along the coast both ways. When we came back, most of the houses were gone along the coast. Cement and steel staircases led to nowhere. Entire cement foundations were flipped like potato chips and great oaks were toppled over with all the branches streatched out and leaves gone. I also remember a super tanker/giant ship washed ashore pepperd by hundreds of small boats smashed to smithereens.

We held a vodou ceremony a few weeks ago to keep the hurricans away... I hope it works. :-(
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 07:41 AM
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12. That sucker is HUGE
That thing can easily cover Florida coast to coast. Where the heck are all those people going to evacuate to? And one of the computer models has it crossing Florida and heading straight for New Orleans:
http://www.weatherunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200406_model.html
This could be very bad.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:40 AM
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16. We're fucked if it comes here. We have hardly any National Guard anymore
and there's no escape from this city for the hundreds of thousands of poor folks. We all could easily be trapped here since all highways must cross vast streatches of water. The best escape route is I-10 West, but in order for Orleans Parish residents to leave that way, we must go under a train bridge - the highway dips down about 20ft below sea level.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:44 AM
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17. This is the reason I only go to those islands in any other
Edited on Thu Sep-02-04 08:44 AM by Skidmore
season but hurricane. I can't swim and I fear drowning. As much as I love the beauty of the tropics and the sea, I fear the sea even more.

Stay safe.
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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:15 AM
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13. Aw crap.
Aunt in Orlando. Parents on NC coast. Sister in Myrtle Beach. Where is this monster headed?

Look at how tiny those islands appear! I don't understand how any people survive when these storms pass over them...you'd think they would all be swept into the ocean!

Let's all wish it into the cornfield. (Obscure Twilight Zone reference.)
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:25 AM
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14. Here's another stormtracker site.
http://www.stormcarib.com/#six
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Ripley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:33 AM
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15. YIKES!!!
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