Hurricane Dennis

[CBulla]

Hey.. that means that by August the "weather persons" will be totally worn out and just doing reports from their offices.

And how fun is this?! We're not projected to get much from Dennis than a little wind and rain. But what are people doing around here? Mass hysteria. the gas stations are starting to do "out of gas" signs, the stores are selling out of all those weird canned goods they normally sell 3 of in a year, and folks have that rabid goat look in their eyes as they graze around.

How fun!

 

[Rick Murchison]

They keep creeping east with their forecast... looks like Perdido & P'cola may now both be on the low-water side of the storm; Destin's in the Bulls-eye and Panama City in line for the eastern eye-wall.
I should take a break from watchin' this thing...
Rick

 

[chickdiver]

They keep creeping east with their forecast... looks like Perdido & P'cola may now both be on the low-water side of the storm; Destin's in the Bulls-eye and Panama City in line for the eastern eye-wall.
I should take a break from watchin' this thing...
Rick

C'mon Rick- you know there's no use in trying to reason with Hurricane Season! In all seriousness, there's no way to accurately predict until its about 6 hours out- 12 at most.... I'm about to go to work bringing in the outdoor stuff and battening the hatches down. I'll make the final stay/ run decision Saturday AM.

 

[DEEPSEAWOLF]

I work at one of the largest insurance companies in the Southeastern US. We finally got the generator installed and the 1500 gallon tank. Last year, I was filling a rental from reserves on a trailer all weekend long, every storm!
I remember what it was like at the end of the season, just waiting to be rid of the storms. Now the realization has hit that we didn't get out of storm season last year until two days before the October Megadive. This year had better not turn out like or worse than last year, or I'm moving to Canada!
Ah well, at least all the new sand will be cleaned off the reef in Venice by Christmas.
Hee hee hee. So much for their beach restoration project! Dad just paid big bucks to have trees cut down that were held off the house by cables since Frances. So much for my prospective Destin trip this weekend, too. You guys be careful. Our prayers are with you! Call me if you need help after the storm. Hopefully we'll still have a house, too.

 

[Bill51]

I’m afraid that landfall for Dennis is pretty much a wild guess right now, but I do hope that it stays as compact as it is with hurricane force winds only 45 miles out still. It backed up for an hour or so earlier today and intensified, but never enlarged so there’s still hope it won’t take out the entire coast wherever it hits.

Chickdiver, you may want to wait until Saturday afternoon to make your final decision and give Dennis time to get past the Keys to see which way it’s headed then unless there are some major changes (unlikely) in the upper level winds.

I’ll be thinking about you all and hoping for the best for you, but please don’t start sending these things over my way when you’re done with them like you did last year.

 

[CBulla]

The more east it gets, the more it looks like I'll be having a LOT of fun in my jeep

They keep creeping east with their forecast... looks like Perdido & P'cola may now both be on the low-water side of the storm; Destin's in the Bulls-eye and Panama City in line for the eastern eye-wall.
I should take a break from watchin' this thing...
Rick

 

[chickdiver]

Chickdiver, you may want to wait until Saturday afternoon to make your final decision and give Dennis time to get past the Keys to see which way it’s headed then unless there are some major changes (unlikely) in the upper level winds.

I’ll be thinking about you all and hoping for the best for you, but please don’t start sending these things over my way when you’re done with them like you did last year.

No way, dude- if your gonna run, run early, otherwise dig in and ride it out. They are predicting landfall on late Sunday/ early Monday- if I run North it will be before the weather deteriorates- last thing I want is to get trapped on the highway in crappy weather.

 

[Scuba_Dad]

Well Here we go again! The new models today have this thing skirting the West Coast.

I am working overtime this weekend so the 6'-8' seas on the east coast did not wreck my plans.

The storm kindof messed up my weekend. I was supposed to teach a Rescue class at Peppers Park (Your neighborhood) and an AOW in Lake Denton. Looks like Saturday is pretty much a wash... I'm still planning on Denton on Sunday. I sure hope all the LDS' in Florida don't decide to hit Denton on Sunday. Maybe they'll stay home.

Al

 

[ScottZeagle]

I just saw on the news that this is the first Cat 4 hurricane to ever hit the gulf in July??

I honestly don't know if dive shop owners can make it through a season worse (and earlier) than last year...

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

I'm just hoping this thing keeps tracking further and further East, it'd be great not having to buckle in or evacuate.