Damn Hurricanes...
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Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 2,934
From: Jensen Beach, FL / Sylva, NC
It was on my list of things to do for my house to buy hurricane shutters. We just redid the roof a few months ago.
I have 3/4" plywood cut to fit my windows. I put it up years ago when Hurricane Floyd was looming close just like this one.
I have the boards in my garage all marked where to go on the house. I will start putting them up this weekend just in case.
THIS SUCKS!
I have 3/4" plywood cut to fit my windows. I put it up years ago when Hurricane Floyd was looming close just like this one.
I have the boards in my garage all marked where to go on the house. I will start putting them up this weekend just in case.
THIS SUCKS!
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Joined: Jul 2001
Posts: 3,346
From: Tulsa, OK
Hurricanes are no fun. I lived about 500' from the intercoastal in North Carolina and went through 5 hurricanes in the 13 years I lived there. All of them were a little different. Some packed more wind and others caused more flooding.
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Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 2,934
From: Jensen Beach, FL / Sylva, NC
Originally Posted by mazdaspeed7' date='Sep 12 2003, 11:44 AM
Jims, If youre going to atl to run from the storm, send me a PM before you leave. I live about a mile and a half away from I95 just south of Savannah.
BTW - I love Savannah its so awseome there. I try to stop in there and have dinner anytime I am passing on I-95.
I am not sure where I am going. I might head to Miami if it turns North far enough and get behind it.
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Joined: May 2003
Posts: 124
From: Pensacola, FL
I was watching comedy central a week ago and a comedian had a good joke about hurricanes.. it went a little something like this..
"A few years ago off the keys a hurricane started brewing, so the PD ordered every one off the island. Everyone left but one man, who was destined to prove that he could survive a hurricane because he had been working out a lot, and he felt physically superior to nature. So he strapped himself to a tree and went out in the hurricane. I wish I could have been there to explain a very simple concept to him: it's not THAT the wind is blowing.. it's WHAT the wind is blowing. If you get hit by a flying volvo.. it doesn't really matter how many sit ups you did that morning."
I laughed hard on that one.
"A few years ago off the keys a hurricane started brewing, so the PD ordered every one off the island. Everyone left but one man, who was destined to prove that he could survive a hurricane because he had been working out a lot, and he felt physically superior to nature. So he strapped himself to a tree and went out in the hurricane. I wish I could have been there to explain a very simple concept to him: it's not THAT the wind is blowing.. it's WHAT the wind is blowing. If you get hit by a flying volvo.. it doesn't really matter how many sit ups you did that morning."
I laughed hard on that one.
