Doesn't Look Good For Us!
 

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...443.shtml?cone Putting up storm shutters Port St Lucie. Going to shrink wrap 21 lugers and lots of leather! Live near coast between the 2 MMs.This Suggs!

Eric,
Maybe better put them and all in the car and head north?

Eric,

Take care. This could be a bad one!!

John

Not knowing your situation ...age money and the such. After just going through this last one, it was just rain for days and days. 61'' to be exact, I would be planning a trip to see the Grand canyon right about now if I were you. Nothing will change if you stay and try to ride it out. I was pretty sure we wouldn't flood but facing a cat 4 would have changed my mind.
I have lived in Houston area for 67 years and been through all that came through but getting way to old to face another high wind one.

Were have been a few before.The worst would be sitting with thousands on I-95 north to nowhere. We lease and don't live on a flood plain! We have sewers and city water. Because we are disabled the Homeowners" Association has installers coming to install our steel storm shutters in our garage! We have a generator and may not need them as after Andrew the put up concrete lines and underground power! Debby will protect me and our lugers. I'll try to keep our adopted family up to date! God Bless! Its great to know we have friends who care!! LuvYa!

I will send yall some prayers and keep my fingers crossed.

We just got the call, the installers are on the way! I'll post so happy pictures!I luv America, We take care of each other when we can!!

Paul, The Texans showed us just what we are as one!!

My last picture before the storm shutters~Good Bye Alligators!

Yeah the best part was when hundreds of fishermen got their boats in all the flooded
neighborhoods and saved lots of lives . The news kinda skipped by all the work they
did and kinda gave credit to the National Guard. I know they did a lot too but the fishermen really saved the bacon.

Eric

Goodnessd for a second I though you were joking.

I don't know what to say, apart from that I will send you & famly my prayers and hope everithing will end well.

Please keep in touch mate.

Sergio

I have very close friends that worked on shrimp boats. Years ago they caught plenty of square grouper!

Up to 185mph, installation $50/ window or door! Worth any price! Those poor people in trailer parks!

Eric, when I first heard that the storm was heading to Florida, you and your family's safety were first in my thoughts.

I know you've lived through these before, and have a good idea what to do. This one is exceptional and has a good probability of doing structural damage.

i've been through 8 hurricanes up to a category 3 on the coast in North Carolina. We're about a mile inland from the ocean, and a mile from the Cape Fear river. Most people don't understand that it's not 185mph of air blowing at you, it's a 185 mile per hour wall of accelerated water.

You'll continue to be in my thoughts. Please let us know you're safe.

Almost done!

Eric
The best to you and Debby. Bill

Thank you Bill! I will keep you all posted as long as I can!!

No one mentioned the NG, at least that I heard- all the news coverage I saw was how great the "Redneck Navy" was doing their best to help people- and on their own dime.:)

Eric,
do the best you can and stay safe.
Put those tubs of lugers up high. ;)

The Red Neck Navy were out of Texas and drove those 8 foot tall trucks and are credited for saving so many lives and haven't finished~ Americans Saving Americans~

I just heard my wife talking about this coming one at dinner table. Sounds scary.

Where are you??

Well I don't know about you but, if I'm standing chest deep in flood waters, Would I
rather be saved by 4 soldiers in an overloaded rubber boat....Or a few good Ol boys
in a cool bass boat...with a cooler full of cold beer.

I guess that would depend on what color you are...And what flag they're flying... :rolleyes:

All that went out the window. If someone was in trouble they risked their lives to save them. Watched it on tv for days and never saw anybody not get helped for any reason.

True American spirit! Shoot the looters!!

I look at the reverse...If I saw a boatload of Rollin' 60's Crips cruising around, I'd take my chances with the alligators... :p

Maybe not. Most people are well-meaning, and a disaster might add a few more. Getting together around something like this is what it's all about, I think. The quibbling about other things is severely interrupted for a while, at least. Too bad it's a hurricane instead of something productive.

There is also flooding in Asia, and the death toll there is staggering. The West is being incinerated, and now yet another hurricane is headed for Eric and others. Looks scary to me...

Hang in there, buddy, keep us posted as best you can. Sounds like you got the shrink wrap infrastructure together just in time?

When I was young we had hurricane Carla, A guy floated for three days on a roof of his
house. He had a rabbit, a pile of rattlesnakes, and a deer. He said none ever bothered
the others. Lots of times during extreme stress differences are put aside.

OUCH!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-06gcfh-Ud8

We spent $500 to install steel shutters and we have 2 generators. I'll take a picture of our Alimo tomorrow. I admit we are a little scared. Hurricane windows are a scam, anything flying at 185mph shatters your safety! Luvya!

Best wishes. It puts a lot of things in perspective. 40 below zero and 5 months of dark suddenly doesn't seem so bad...

My God reading all your post leaves me without words as I can perceive your feelings, about things that here, so far, we see only in films.

Having a simmilar time over here as well. Gonna have to ride it out and hope for the best. The guns are put up high and are vacuum sealed as well as the ammo. I work at a hospital and will have to be on emergency standby sunday. Best wishes to everyone

Now, Theres the awesome hurricane shutters~ Metal roof!

praying for you dear friend.

The best area in the US is DC area. No earthquake, no big storm, not too hot, not too cold, not much snow. All other places have one type of trouble or another...

Too much hot air keeps the dry year round!!!

Ted we have prayed together close to fifteen year! Brother For Life!! I sometime wish I had a crappy luger for you to restore!!!

Is that Celsius or Fharenheit? :D

I always found Washington D.C. to always be the hottest in the summer and coldest of any city that I spent any time!! I decided Villanova Law PA right near Paoli Pa. A beautiful place to spend my 3 years!

I want to thank Ted for always being there, through 2 wives, a stroke and rehab. Its possible because of our beautiful family friends!! Please Lord keep her west or right of Port St Lucie!!

Have you lived there?

DC was built in a swamp, they do have floods. It is hot and humid in the summer, and in winter they have snow- but it only shuts down the govt. so it is not all bad!:D

Trouble? They have Congress and the Bureaucracy- more trouble they don't need!:crying:

How quickly some forget. :( Following Katrina, armed gangs of thugs roamed the streets in New Orleans and environs, looting and destroying with impunity. A colleague of mine from another forum, who made his millions in computer programming and retired at 45, was trapped in his renovated loft for several weeks while the gangs burned cars and looted shops beneath his converted 'trendy' warehouse. He was an avowed anti-gun advocate. But after three days of watching the carnage, he 'acquired' an AR-15 and a pump 12 gauge and was ready to defend his wife and a neighboring couple sheltering with them. :rolleyes:

I prefer to follow Fox Mulder's advice. :thumbup:

I expect that all the countries we've helped over the years when they were hit by tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, civil disorder, etc will rally around and start delivering supplies of food, water, clothing, building materials, even money to the storm ravaged areas of our South. Somalia, Bosnia, Cuba, India, Bangladesh, all the nations we've sent relief to in the past will show their appreciation and compassion for our devastation...Right??? Because they're all well meaning and helpful people who remember their friends in time of need... :rolleyes: