Send out some good thoughts to the Keys, please!

[cwydro]

Gonna get crappy by this evening. Real ugly by tomorrow.

I hope she stays a tropical storm.

Well, back to the grind of preparations. All the lawn furniture is secured. Boats lashed down.

My favorite is climbing a ladder with a chain saw. That is up next.

Hope everyone else is having a good Sunday:hi: !

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. lots of vibes and best wishes

and hugs and love

[cwydro]

4. Thaks Pri!

I am procrastinating right now

I need to go back outside.

[TZ]

2. Good luck to you!

The Keys are someplace I would love to be..except in hurricane season!:)

Seriously--good luck..I heard Fay might actually swerve to the east....

[cwydro]

5. I think a lot depends on after she comes off Cuba -

That's a big variable. But we're in for a blow at any rate

Thanks for the good wishes.

[Inchworm]

3. Hope all goes well down there

At least you aren't desensitized to preparation. :applause:

I'll be watching the news and brain-waving the storm to stay small and dodgy.

:hug:

[cwydro]

7. You got that right.

I just go into automatic mode; I've done this so many times before.

Keep up with those brainwaves!

Back to work now.

[lizziegrace]

6. Be safe...

I'd ask about the ladder and chainsaw, but that would make you procrastinate more. ;)

:hug:

[cwydro]

10. Yeah, just had a little mishap there.

Ouch. Whacked my ribs but good.:spank:

[redqueen]

8. Coming your way...

and I am, thanks! :hi:

Good luck...

[cwydro]

11. Thanks!

Here comes one of many squall lines. My elderly dog is terrorized. Big thunder and some heavy rain.

Hmmm, quite breezy too.:hide:

Only going to deteriorate further into tomorrow.

Edit to add a u in thunder, lol.

[zanne]

9. Stay safe, cwydro! nt

[cwydro]

12. I appreciate that.

Just hoping the electricity stays on at least until tomorrow.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. My dear cwydro!

Oh, sweetie...

Lots and lots of good vibes for you and your dogs!

Stay as safe as you can, OK?

I cannot even imagine climbing a ladder with a chainsaw!:scared:

:hug:

:loveya:

[cwydro]

15. It was the dismount that got me, lol!

Pouring rain now as the outer rainbands approach.

Thanks for the thoughts, Peg!

I did get the branches cut though, so that's good.

[Maestro]

14. Vibes sent.

Stay safe!

[cwydro]

16. Thanks Maestro.

Send me a pretty bird!

[RevolutionaryActs]

17. You stay safe!

:loveya::hug:

[cwydro]

19. Thanks revvie!

Your little bouncing critter always makes me smile.

Calm as hell here right now. Too calm.:hide:

[RevolutionaryActs]

21. That is Prozaicmon's only job in life.

To bounce, bounce, bounce until you smile dammit! - Did I mention he can be a little angry at times? :shrug:

[cwydro]

18. Unbelievable calm right now

with a fantastic sunset.

I saw two women get into a huge fight at the gas station. Big line of peeps waiting. I never get gas before hurricanes, so I avoid that particular headache. I was there to get propane for the grill.

I thought they were going to come to blows. Made me sad to see, because usually folks are so cool down here in times of emergency.

Oh well, bad on them.

[Midlodemocrat]

20. Stay safe!

[cwydro]

23. Thanks!

If I hadn't fallen off the ladder...I think all would be well..:blush:

The worst will be tomorrow night, but the whole day will be going downhill from the morning on.

[Midlodemocrat]

31. Maybe it will weaken. I hope so, for your sake.

:hug:

And, thanks for your support the other day. I appreciate it. We haven't always been on the same side of an argument, but I really appreciated your comments.

[cwydro]

41. Hey, thanks for the thanks.

I think people can always agree to disagree with other reasonable people. I never hold grudges for differences of opinion. If I did, I wouldn't be speaking with anyone in my family, lol.

And we are certainly on the same side on that particular issue. I had to stop reading that thread; just could not believe some of the comments.

The storm seems disorganized. Bad weather tomorrow, but nothing like what we've seen in years past.(or so I hope)

[texanwitch]

22. Hope the storm stays small.

The waiting is the worse thing.

Take care.

[cwydro]

24. Lol,

one of our Keys radio stations was playing that Tom Petty song today - about the waiting.

Right now the storm is looking pretty disorganized. But we are right smack dab in the middle of that damn cone. Better if it went east of us. West and we get the nasty side of the storm

[texanwitch]

25. We were in the middle of the cone for the last storm.

Nobody here seemed nervous about it.

All we got was a little rain out of it.

My house was built by someone who's family was killed in the big 1900 hurricane.

When the guy built this house, he over built it.

Stay safe and I hope dry.

[cwydro]

29. I know what you mean.

Sometimes being in the middle of the cone is great, because it is so often wrong.

I think it will mainly be a rain event too, but after Wilma and the rest of them in 2005, I'm a little nervous.

[texanwitch]

39. I will be glad when hurricane season is over.

I remember a few years ago when Houston freaked out over the big huricane that was coming.

My neighborhood was almost empty.

We went down to I -10 to watch all the cars stuck on the freeway,

This part of the freeway is below ground where it has flooded twice before.

We were ready with small boats, canoes, and little rubber boats.

The water comes up really fast.

The hurricane turned east so we just lost power for the day.

The waiting was terrible.

Hope all y'all get is rain.

:hug:

[cwydro]

43. Hurricanes are contrary critters, that is for sure.

I always thought it appropriate they had women's names, lol, not pc, but there you are.

Yeah, we geared up bigtime for Andrew back in the day. We were threatened with certain death if we did not leave the Keys. Some friends of mine left and went to Miami. Not a good decision. Night of terror and lost their car to a tree. CNN reported that year that the Keys were gone. Nope, we were all waking up in our boarded up sweltering houses looking for the first bar we could find open.

We did lose power in the Keys, because we are connected to the mainland by the tieline. But barely a squall.

Friends and I ended up forming a convoy with all the supplies we had hoarded and headed north to Florida City, where the migrant workers had been devastated. Everyone was in Miami and no one gave a crap about them. We just pulled up and handed out water, food, etc. It was an eye opening experience. FEMA? Pffft.

You just never know. The fearmongers on TV just irritate the crap out of me.

[texanwitch]

45. I never could understand how they thought all of Houston could escape at one time.

Only parts of Houston needed to leave.

There were people stuck out on the highway with no gas for miles.

There was a bus that caught fire and killed the people inside.

Everything was a giant mess.

We had over 50 people at my house before it was over, and many animals.

It was a time.

All the bugs are supposed to be worked now, I hope so.

[cwydro]

46. OMG.

I was not putting that together at first. I remember all that.

Yes, I remember watching the coverage of the traffic...and that horrible bus thing with all the elderly. Just awful.

Good for you for being there for the stranded ones.

Yeah, the evacuation plans are bullshit, for just about everywhere.

[texanwitch]

47. We rescued families with little kids, old people and pets.

The neighbors who stayed also took people in, it was just so hot and humid.

It was so stupid not to open a few lanes on the other side of the freeway, that would have helped.

If we would have been hit with the hurricane a lot of people stuck on I-10 might have died.

They had no way to escape with all that wind and rain.

We had wall to wall people in the house.

We passed out a lot of water to people in the cars, it was like a oven on the freeway.

I will not forget that hurricane.

[cwydro]

48. Have they done anything to improve it, do you know?

Same nosnsnse with evacuation in the Keys. One wreck is all it would take to shut down the whole deal.

Only one road out.

[texanwitch]

52. The city and county are suppose to have new and impoved plans for the next big hurricane.

We will see.

Houston is so big that it doesn't take much to cause traffic backup.

I will stay home in my super strong house.

[bertha katzenengel]

26. Thinking of you. Check in once it's blown over!

:hug:

[bertha katzenengel]

27. Thinking of you. Check in once it's blown over!

:hug:

[bertha katzenengel]

28. Thinking of you. Check in once it's blown over!

:hug:

[cwydro]

30. Thanks girlfriend!

Times three!:hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

32. lol

:blush:

[cwydro]

44. now you made me laugh again

three times!:rofl:

[bertha katzenengel]

33. lol

:blush:

[bertha katzenengel]

34. lol

:blush:

[flvegan]

35. Hope Cuba takes some of the wind out of her sails.

Gives the Keys a little bit of a relief. A good number of the tracker programs have this one hitting my front door as a cat 1 on Tuesday.

Nothing to do but wait it out. Stay safe! :hi:

[cwydro]

36. Yeah, though I hate to wish it on them.

I forget where you live in FL, but yes, I think we are probably safer than the rest of the state.

You on the west coast? It could definitely pick up steam, I mean the Keys do nothing to tear up a storm...we are just some rocks in the ocean. But hey, I'll have a word with the bitch as she passes through.

Right now, it is still dead calm.

Thanks for the vibes!

edit to add thanks.

[flvegan]

37. Tampa.

I don't wish the Cubans any harm, but as I was reading today, Cuba has a fantastic evacuation execution plan. One we could be jealous of.

[cwydro]

38. Oh I agree.

They got that down. Funny how we can visit China but not Cuba. (Subject best left for GD).

Tampa; yep, Fay is lookin' at y'all for sure.

Fingers crossed for all us Flordinians.

[PermanentRevolution]

40. Good luck, Keys!

And good luck Left-Coasters. Looks like you'll be getting more of this one than we will...

[LeftyFingerPop]

42. Please stay safe...

Sounds like you are on top of the situation and are taking all the precautions. Best wishes and good luck! :pals:

[cwydro]

50. Thanks!

Nasty squall came through about 3am. Fairly calm now, grey skies, not raining though breezy.

Looks like we're about to get another line in just a bit.

[Pushed To The Left]

49. Sending them right now!

[cwydro]

51. Thanks!

The center of circulation is forecast to be over KW by 4ish this afternoon.