What do canes have against daylight and weekdays?

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What do canes have against daylight and weekdays?

#1 Postby GalvestonDuck » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:07 pm

Except for Ivan, haven't most of the hurricanes made US landfall on weekends and at night?

I recall joking about it with coworkers last year also -- everytime something was a possible threat, folks were on edge over the weekend because there was no way for us to all be in contact and confer together.
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#2 Postby Brent » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:17 pm

Ivan made his first U.S. landfall in the middle of the night... 3am.

Charley hit at 4pm on a Friday, but Frances came in at 1am on a Sunday.
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#3 Postby tronbunny » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:22 pm

Brent wrote:Ivan made his first U.S. landfall in the middle of the night... 3am.

Charley hit at 4pm on a Friday, but Frances came in at 1am on a Sunday.


But Charley hit the most populated areas in the dark!
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#4 Postby GalvestonDuck » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:29 pm

Yup, see?

I don't get it.
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#5 Postby KG4HPN » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:30 pm

And while 1am on a Sunday is usually not considered weekend anymore, Monday was a holiday, so it WAS weekend!

Why can't they pick...say... Wed around 3pm instead?

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#6 Postby Josephine96 » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:31 pm

Charley did hit all of us after dark yep.. Scary seeing a transformer blowing in the distance
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#7 Postby weathermom » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:32 pm

Probably the same reason that kids only get really sick at 2AM or on the weekend! Unless of course it's a holiday, then weekdays are fair game! :D
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#8 Postby Brent » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:33 pm

I hate nighttime landfalls. It takes the fun out of tracking them because I can't be awake at 3am...
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#9 Postby Brent » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:33 pm

KG4HPN wrote:And while 1am on a Sunday is usually not considered weekend anymore, Monday was a holiday, so it WAS weekend!

Why can't they pick...say... Wed around 3pm instead?

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No... Frances came in at 1am Sunday MORNING so it was the weekend.
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#10 Postby tronbunny » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:34 pm

Josephine96 wrote:Charley did hit all of us after dark yep.. Scary seeing a transformer blowing in the distance

That's it..Hurricanes love "show" and the light show and terror factor is better in the dark!
yeah, and with everyone's "freetime" ruined, even more effect.
Now that's a PT Barnum philosophy, that must be why Barnum wanted to be headquartered on the FL gulf!
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#11 Postby rainydaze » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:44 pm

Night time landfalls are good if your like my husband who put his earplugs in and slept like a baby all night.

They are bad if your like me, and you're terrified of tornados and you can't sleep a wink all night and you're mad at your husband because doesn't he know that a tornado could be coming and whisk his wife and two kids away and he wouldn't even know it and how could he possibly be so selfish as to put earplugs in, go to sleep and snore all night!
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#12 Postby KG4HPN » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:45 pm

Brent wrote:
KG4HPN wrote:And while 1am on a Sunday is usually not considered weekend anymore, Monday was a holiday, so it WAS weekend!

Why can't they pick...say... Wed around 3pm instead?

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No... Frances came in at 1am Sunday MORNING so it was the weekend.


DOH! :oops: Well, I was in KY and in a drunken stupor at 1am Sun AND Mon, so I have an excuse. :D
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