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You know you live on the Gulf Coast when...

#1 Postby IrishRose » Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:48 pm

You have FEMA's number on your speed dialer.

You have more than 300 C and D batteries in your kitchen drawer.

Your pantry contains more than 20 cans of Spaghetti Os.

You are thinking of repainting your house to match the plywood covering
your windows.

When describing your house to a prospective buyer, you say it has
three bedrooms, two baths and one safe hallway.

Your SSN isn't a secret; it"s written in Sharpie on your arms.

You are on a first-name basis with the cashier at Home Depot.

You are delighted to pay $3 for a gallon of regular unleaded.

The road leading to your house has been declared a No-Wake Zone.

You decide that your patio furniture looks better on the bottom of the pool.

You own more than three large coolers.

You can wish that other people get hit by a hurricane and not feel the
least bit guilty about it.

You rationalize helping a friend board up by thinking “It'll only take a gallon of gas to get there and back”

You have 2-liter coke bottles and milk jugs filled with water in your freezer.

Three months ago you couldn't hang a shower curtain; today you can assemble
a portable generator by candlelight.

You catch a 13-pound redfish. In your driveway.

You can recite from memory whole portions of your homeowner's insurance
policy.

You consider a “vacation” to stunning Tupelo, Mississippi.

At cocktail parties, women are attracted to the guy with the biggest chain-saw.

You have had tuna fish more than 5 days in a row.

There is a roll of tar paper in your garage.

You can rattle off the names of three or more meteorologists who work at
the Weather Channel.

Someone comes to your door to tell you they found your roof.

Ice is a valid topic of conversation.

Your “drive-thru” meal consists of MRE’s and bottled water.

Relocating to South Dakota does not seem like such a crazy idea.

You spend more time on your roof than in your living room.

You've been laughed at over the phone by a roofer, fence builder or a tree worker.

A battery powered TV is considered a home entertainment center.

You don't worry about relatives wanting to visit during the summer.

Your child's first words, “hunker down” and you didn't go to UGA!

Having a tree in your living room does not necessarily mean it's Christmas.

Toilet Paper is elevated to coin of the realm at the shelters.

You know the difference between the "good side" of a storm and the "bad side."

Your kids start school in August and finish in July.

You go to work early and stay late just to enjoy the air conditioning.

You'd like to track down Saffir and Simpson and kick them in the rear!
:) :lol: :)
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#2 Postby beachbum_al » Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:54 pm

:lol:

This is scary but I could answer yes to most of them.
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#3 Postby Swimdude » Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:58 pm

Haha absolutely love it. Where'd you find those?
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#4 Postby Astro_man92 » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:02 pm

i live in the midwest an we don't get any hurricanes (duh) so that was sort of funny. I can see how all that could happen

school from augest to july i wouldn't be able to stand that

honestly i want to know what it is like to live though a major hurricane personally :?:
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#5 Postby IrishRose » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:08 pm

Swimdude - A friend who lives in Switzerland sent those to me...she thought I might enjoy them after all the storms we have got in the last year!
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