What's the mood.....

#41 Postby **SeaBrz_FL** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:45 pm

My family just cancelled a major birthday (104) party celebration planned for Ft Lauderdale this weekend. We had to make a decision early since some guests were starting to travel south today, so after talking to the local family in FLL and watching the NHC predictions, we called it off.

My FLL family is more concerned with flooding rain than with wind damage, but overall they are pretty much just annoyed with Katrina and not worried. They will not board windows unless she increases to a Cat 2 or higher.

DAVE440 · #42 Postby **DAVE440** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:52 pm

The mood? Depends who you ask.

Stores not too bad. Most South Floridians see a 40mph storm headed this
way and aren't terribly concerned with it strengthening so close to us...but we're on alert.

Now.....if you go by AOL news.... the headline story is...

STORM ROARS TOWARDS FLORIDA

HAHAHAHAHAH..... so 40mph tropical storm movin a 8mph is roaring eh?

Back to what I said the other day about sensationalism. I'm gonna go outside now and make some room for our other car in the garage before the storm ROARS ashore! :wink:

#43 Postby **dixiebreeze** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:56 pm

The size of Katrina right now is not, IMHO, "sensationalism:"

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... IR4/20.jpg

Website · #44 Postby **Brent** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:03 pm

It's not "that" big. Now Floyd... that was a monster.

Bottom line: There is a, as of now, weak rainmaker moving not terribly fast towards Florida. That is all. Now that could change, but I'd really like to see it quite a bit stronger before panic starts. It's a slow news week.

sfwx · #45 Postby **sfwx** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:04 pm

Very calm here. After last year, people aren't too excited about this. We may end up with a whole bunch of rain especially if Katrina slows down even more. We just received an e-mail about our schools being closed Friday. I'm a little worried about teaching tomorrow. I'm in a portable and I always worry about tornados with a system like this.

Eric

#46 Postby **dixiebreeze** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:05 pm

Brent wrote:It's not "that" big. Now Floyd... that was a monster.

Bottom line: There is a, as of now, weak rainmaker moving not terribly fast towards Florida. That is all. Now that could change, but I'd really like to see it quite a bit stronger before panic starts. It's a slow news week.

I don't think there is any "panic," most of us have been through this a time or three.

Website · #47 Postby **Brent** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:07 pm

dixiebreeze wrote:
Brent wrote:It's not "that" big. Now Floyd... that was a monster.

Bottom line: There is a, as of now, weak rainmaker moving not terribly fast towards Florida. That is all. Now that could change, but I'd really like to see it quite a bit stronger before panic starts. It's a slow news week.

I don't think there is any "panic," most of us have been through this a time or three.

It's not panic yet... but it seems like people are overreacting a bit. I think last year spooked everyone.

I've not seen so much coverage for a weak storm that may or may not become a hurricane before.

Eyes2theSkies · #48 Postby **Eyes2theSkies** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:19 pm

That about explains what just happened to my vacation plans...

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