Frances wore us out!! (Sunday 9/5/04 Royal Palm Beach, Fl)

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Frances wore us out!! (Sunday 9/5/04 Royal Palm Beach, Fl)

#1 Postby sprink52 » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:39 pm

We started preparations one week ago. We felt as though we were well prepared. My wife & I plan to sit down & list what we did right & what we need to improve on. We got the first band about 4:00PM Friday. We came out of the house at 7:30 this morning. Thats 63.5 hours. The last 8 hours were pure hell, while the time before that was just regular hell. I admit that when we got the back side of Frances this AM I was scared. I guess it was because I had been hearing those screaming winds fo almost 3 days solid plus I had cabin fever. Thank God FPL came back on line tonight.

If Frances had maintained Cat 4 status and had remained over the Bahamas & South Florida for as long as it did, I fear that the destruction may have been complete & Biblical.

I am leaving our shutters up untill we are through with Ivan. If Ivan approaches as a Cat 4 or 5 & and landfall is in Palm Beach or Martin Co. we mave leave. I'm tired of hurricanes!

8-) :x
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#2 Postby Sean in New Orleans » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:47 pm

Cabin fever is a major problem with these long systems--this was even addressed on FoxNews. One of the best solutions---sleep, sleep, sleep as much as possible.
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#3 Postby Cookiely » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:55 pm

That's all I have been doing is sleep. My mother stays busy and is cranky, can't stand being cooped up.
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#4 Postby dynamo » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:55 pm

Sean in New Orleans wrote:Cabin fever is a major problem with these long systems--this was even addressed on FoxNews. One of the best solutions---sleep, sleep, sleep as much as possible.


There are other activities that can pass the time as well.... Speaking of which, any guesses to the % increase of FL babies around the first week in June next year?
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What, babies???

#5 Postby millibar » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:59 pm

lol!!! :D

We in fact had a mini "baby boom" after Fran!!! :lol:

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#6 Postby PTPatrick » Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:40 pm

I feel your pain...I was once in a blizzard in a hotel room with 8 people for 48 hours...rode Georges out here in Pascagoula at my mothers school(she is a principal) from about 8 AM one day until about 4 the following day, then had to live in a hotel room with 6 people for a week after the storm(damage in my area was bad)...talk about cabin fever, wanted to shoot my family before it was done
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