Hurricane Frances Report 9/01/04

[Curt]

Originally Posted by cleonard

:tongue: Oh, come on, just trying to break the tension a little.

I think John at least already has a good handle on that.

Just took another look at some satelite images though (http://www.hurricaneadvisories.com/tropsat.html, specifically the West Atlantic/Caribbean loops), and it actually kind of looks like Frances is heading straight north now. I'm no meteorologist, so I could very well be misunderstanding what I'm seeing, but I'm holding out some hope that we may be seeing a significant turn in the storm's course.

I'm also hopeful that whoever said something about things happening in three's didn't jinx Florida. If you look at the Eastern Atlantic loops on the site above, you'll unfortunately see yet another storm brewing, specifically tropical storm Ivan. Just the name alone definitely sounds scarier than Charley and Frances, so hopefully it's following a different track, or even better, simply disipates altogether.

By the way, I believe I read somewhere that there haven't been two major hurricanes to hit the US in the same year since 1915, and they at least hit different locations. I could make a joke about Bush's opinions on climate change, but Florida in specific is probably not a good place to make President jokes, right?

Seriously though, good luck to the Vortech folks who are sticking around, and remember that we'd rather know you're safe than taking chances just to answer a couple more support tickets.

[TonyK]

Originally Posted by Bladesnitz

I'm staying in my house... I'm in Daytona, so we're not looking at a direct hit, but we'll be in the TS winds for 24-36 hours like the rest of Florida. I'm away from flood zones, so storm surge won't be a problem, and there aren't too many trees nearby. House was built last year, so its suppose to be Hurricane ready... so we'll see!

From what they say at CNN, It looks like is coming your way Mat, I hope your house is Hurricane ready or go somewhere safe
Good Luck

Tony

"Snow is not bad after all"

[admin]

Well I made it to savannah so I will keeping an eye on things once they lose power.

Everyone stay safe in FL.

[dpyers]

That storms moving slooow. Loks like it may be hanging around for a while. Good Luck all.

[generic]

see you now have a curfew down there

[atlantic2]

Not to plug an ad here, but we had a new site go on-line this week that would REALLY like to have any storm photos anybody can get. It deals with Fire, Rescue and Weather Photos and it's a non-profit site too.

It will be on-line as long as the servers in Orlando don't flood out.

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[admin]

atlantic I am sure some of the techs will have some good pic's. I will also take some when I get back.

[admin]

Alex is also the DC for the storm, so we should have no ticket or server issues this time.


Thank you alex..

[atlantic2]

Thanks, and be careful in GA.

[Carly]

If you search the forums, atlantic, you'll see posts with pictures from Hurricane Charley (if you haven't seen those yet).

[Curt]

Originally Posted by admin

Alex is also the DC for the storm, so we should have no ticket or server issues this time.

I was wondering who was going to do it.

Alex, you're crazy, but thanks.

Originally Posted by Curt

Alex, you're crazy, but thanks.

Actually, he's not DC is probably the sturdiest building any of us could go to! I might have gone there too, but don't wanna be stuck with 2 small kids in the little office we have there

I live in Titusville, on the east coast about 45 miles south of Matt. It was either the frying pan or the fire. We have no idea whether anyone will be able to get in or out of the DC until Tuesday.

The datacentre is still getting power from the grid and conditions have been fairly mild with the exception of some brief but nasty squalls from two of the outer bands.

[mresell]

Originally Posted by Bladesnitz

Actually, he's not DC is probably the sturdiest building any of us could go to! I might have gone there too, but don't wanna be stuck with 2 small kids in the little office we have there

That's what I was thinking. That building was built to take it.

[bubba]

Did the power go out in your metro area and how is the storm in your part of FL?