Doc Seminole wrote:He was also saying Tampa is going to get absolutely pounded and is frustrated that
it will still be a storm up in Atlanta. He is as tired of this as everyone else, doesn't want to lose power up home and wants to go be with his family.
This isn't as bad as Frances here.... yet.... but I saw 4 roofs of which parts are flying off, a few street lights down but most of Daytona Beach and Volusia County still has power...... 10:40 a.m. Sunday
Good luck to all in the path of Jeanne........ it is going to be tearing Central Florida up...... Jim is very sad for Florida.
The sun will shine again and fall is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello all,
First time posting here. Congrats on meeting Cantore! I'm so pleased he took time with your kids and made such a good impression!
Have parents in Volusia County, I'm in Metro Atlanta, and this board has been very helpful in keeping an eye on my folks (they're inland Volusia...they don't evacuate because shelter is at end of their street, and they think it silly to go there).
At any rate, this bit about Atlanta getting the storm caught my eye. That's NOT what they're saying up here. Just like w/Ivan...they're piddly-tooting around about what might/might not happen here.
Right now we're in high 60's-low 70's, without a cloud in the sky. Light breezes, doesn't look stormy at all. I highly doubt people up here are thinking "Jeanne's coming our way....better get batteries, food, etc, etc.
They always wait until the last dog-gone minute up here to call it, then there's no time to prepare (as daughter of Floridians, and having lived in GA since 1968, I know to keep a Kit in our house--so we're good).
W/Ivan we ended up with him trekking through here mid-day--schools open and then kids were dismissed at the height of the storm. VERY dangerous with school buses loaded with kids. I'd hate to see our stupid schools do that again, but given there's nothing coming from our Met's to give them a clue, it likely will be repeated if we get anything significant from Jeanne.
So....guess my questions ares....what should Atlanta expect? How prepared for foul weather should we be? And why, why, why don't they tell us this in advance enough to prepare and to close schools so kids aren't in harm's way? (don't expect you to answer that one, it's rhetorical)
It really ticks me off how stupid we do 'Canes up here, and needed to vent my spleen on that as I have 10 year old twins who were caught in the worst of Ivan--as I drove from work to pick them up in rather ugly conditions--affter they cancelled the after school program.
Thanks for any guidance you can give.
To those in Jeanne's path...or nearby....stay dry, stay safe and prayers are headed your way! Pretty soon you'll have a rest from these beasts (I hope and pray).
Jeny
He did clock winds in the 80's and gust to 112 but that is getting a wind tunnel affect at the Dunlawton Beach approach.
My biggest concern while living there were tornados. When we first moved there, one hit and demolished the neighborhood right behind us. Missed our house by 2 and leveled an A frame totally. Lost all of our pines in the back yard,(1/2 acre of them) so simply had a pool put in.
