Hurricane Dennis
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YES DEFINLY!!!Lnanaa said:I just moved to Central Florida a week ago, I've never been through a hurricane, should I worry about it since I am inland?
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It will be a bad hurricane. Watch your local TV weather for information.
People here are getting nervous, even though the hurricane is not coming this way. Since just this morning, gas prices have gone up 6 cents per gallon. Grrrr....
People here are getting nervous, even though the hurricane is not coming this way. Since just this morning, gas prices have gone up 6 cents per gallon. Grrrr....
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Miss*Pinocchio said:
Correction:
It's still a category 4 storm, which isn't much better than a five. It's possible it could become a category 5 later tonight.
http://www.weather.com/index.html
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Lnanaa said:I just moved to Central Florida a week ago, I've never been through a hurricane, should I worry about it since I am inland?
Yes, you need to pay attention to this even if you are inland. Large hurricanes have been known to wreck havoc even on those who are away from coastlines. I would strongly suggest you moniter your television set, and if you are told evacuate, please do so. This is a dangerous storm and you should not take it lightly.
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sequoias said:
Yep! Life is never dull here!
We are currently under every applicable advisory you can think of:
Hurricane Warning
Tropical Storm Warning
Flood Watch
Tornado Watch
Occasionally, they we will also have strong thunderstorms come through, and have thunderstorm warnings as well. It's been a "fun" day! NOT!
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Oceanbreeze said:Yep! Life is never dull here!
We are currently under every applicable advisory you can think of:
Hurricane Warning
Tropical Storm Warning
Flood Watch
Tornado Watch
Occasionally, they we will also have strong thunderstorms come through, and have thunderstorm warnings as well. It's been a "fun" day! NOT!
too bad severe thunderstorm warnings are very rare up here in Northwest. :P
Weather can be boring at times here, pity for me.
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sequoias said:too bad severe thunderstorm warnings are very rare up here in Northwest. :P
Weather can be boring at times here, pity for me.
Move to FL. I promise you; you won't get bored of your weather here! At least, not during hurricane season.
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this hurricane is a wimpy hurricane.
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Hurricane Dennis Cause my game to get rained out!
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they will come in alabama tmw abt 2pm.. so i have watch out tmw... UGH!
Lnanaa said:I just moved to Central Florida a week ago, I've never been through a hurricane, should I worry about it since I am inland?
I live around the Central FL area, and there were 3 hurricanes that plowed through my area last year (Ivan didn't hit us but the 3 others did)....so should you worry? The answer is Yes, just like OceanBreeze said.
Yes, Florida has thunderstorm warnings, hurricane warnings, flood watch....the weather's never a dull moment here.
Oh, and we have lightning too...I hate lightning!
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When I lived in Mobile, Alabama at age 10...I experienced hurricaine - I remember my parents put tape on window like cross X..to prevent from breaking our windows...we had to sleep in the living room..the day after it happened...there were flood everywhere...all our white columns in front porch fell down except one! If the last one fell, the house would have fall down on us...thank God we were blessing that the last column didnt fall down competely..it was barely!
We didnt have much electricity for 2 weeks or a month...I cant remember this part...but I do remember well how bad hurricaine was...
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When I lived in Mobile, Alabama at age 10...I experienced hurricaine - I remember my parents put tape on window like cross X..to prevent from breaking our windows...we had to sleep in the living room..the day after it happened...there were flood everywhere...all our white columns in front porch fell down except one! If the last one fell, the house would have fall down on us...thank God we were blessing that the last column didnt fall down competely..it was barely!
We didnt have much electricity for 2 weeks or a month...I cant remember this part...but I do remember well how bad hurricaine was...
I watched the news and they said Dennis is gonna be worse than Andrew.. I'm not sure when Andrew hit. Sure is gonna be a bad one!!! 
Fla and south Alabama had just done rebuilt hotels, stores and clean up the debris almost a year ago and now they're having to start all over again! I live in the North part of Alabama, We'll be having a tropical storm coming our way. This is really a terrible disaster! Hope you guys will be safe!!
Fla and south Alabama had just done rebuilt hotels, stores and clean up the debris almost a year ago and now they're having to start all over again! I live in the North part of Alabama, We'll be having a tropical storm coming our way. This is really a terrible disaster! Hope you guys will be safe!!
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Hurricane Andrew was in 1992, it was famous, because it damaged
everything and was so strong... many people killed, hundreds!!!!
It was the baddest Hurricane I ever seen.
I heard Hurrican Dennis is now Category 4 Hurricane on Fox News, wow.
everything and was so strong... many people killed, hundreds!!!!
It was the baddest Hurricane I ever seen.
I heard Hurrican Dennis is now Category 4 Hurricane on Fox News, wow.
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uh oh! Looks like a bad hurricane! It's gonna plow in at catergory 3 storm!
FT. WALTON BEACH, FLA. - Hurricane Dennis closed in on the Gulf Coast on Sunday with battering waves and high wind after strengthening into a dangerous Category 4 storm, roaring toward a region still patching up damage from a hurricane 10 months ago.
More than 100 miles ahead of the eye of the storm, rain blew sideways and wind exceeded 45 mph in some spots Sunday morning and rolling waves pounded piers and beaches. Landfall was expected Sunday afternoon somewhere along the coast of the Florida Panhandle or Alabama in virtually the same spot as last year's Hurricane Ivan.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami has no record of a Category 4 storm ever hitting the Florida Panhandle or Alabama.
With nearly 1.4 million people under evacuation orders, some towns in the projected path were left almost deserted, and storm shelters were filling up in Mississippi, Florida and Alabama. More than 7,000 people were in shelters Sunday in Florida alone, and others headed to motels and relatives' homes.
"We're expecting to be sheltering tens of thousands," said Red Cross spokeswoman Margaret O'Brien.
Even the police force evacuated Gulf Shores, Ala., instead of riding out the storm in a municipal building as they did during last year's Hurricane Ivan, whose damage still scars the beach resort.
With the storm appearing likely to follow the path torn by the Category 3 Ivan, some buildings still had scaffolding around them and piles of debris lay in streets, ready to be launched into the air by fierce wind.
"I think there is a legitimate feeling, 'Why me? What did I do wrong?"' Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said.
Blamed for at least 20 deaths in Haiti and Cuba, Dennis weakened to a Category 1 storm over Cuba, then retained strength in the Gulf on Saturday and became a Category 4 storm again early Sunday, with top sustained winds of 140 mph.
"Category 4 is not just a little bit worse - it's much worse," said Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "Damage increases exponentially as the wind speed increases. And no matter where it makes actual landfall, it's going to have a tremendous impact well away from the center."
Dennis would be the earliest Category 4 hurricane to hit the United States since Hurricane Audrey struck the Louisiana and Texas coasts in June 1957, according to the hurricane center. The center has no record of a Category 4 storm ever hitting Florida's Panhandle or Alabama.
Hurricane-force winds stretched out up to 40 miles from Dennis' center, and they could go as far as 175 miles inland, forecasters said. A data buoy about 50 miles offshore recorded a 33-foot high wave in the Gulf.
The worst weather from hurricanes is typically on the front right side of the storm, in this case to the east of where it hits. That puts places like Mobile, Ala., Pensacola and Fort Walton Beach firmly in the crosshairs, with a threat of more than a foot of rain plus waves on top of storm surge up to 15 feet.
West of Gulf Shores in Mobile County, the 40 to 50 vessels at the Sundowner Marina had been "double tied, retied and tied again," said owner Cliff Lockett.
"I'll lock it up and kiss it goodbye," he said. "If it's here in the morning, we'll be happy."
Before entering the Gulf, Dennis swung around the Florida Keys and dealt a glancing blow, flooding streets and knocking out power. As night fell Saturday and the first bands of rain started hitting Fort Walton Beach, nearly every business was closed.
One exception was Joe and Eddie's, a diner providing short breaks for sheriff's deputies working 12-hour shifts. "It's the only place around that's open," deputy Jim Welch said.
About 700,000 people were under evacuation orders in Florida, as were 500,000 in Alabama and 190,000 in Mississippi. Traffic doubled on some highways as people fled inland. Alabama officials turned Interstate 65 into a one-way route north from the coast to Montgomery.
In Pensacola, a 70-year-old man at a special needs shelters died, but it appeared to be due to natural causes, Escambia County sheriff's investigator Terry Kilgore said.
Police went through waterfront neighborhoods in coastal Panhandle cities advising residents of the mandatory evacuation orders. In Fort Walton Beach, they didn't have any problem convincing Pat Gosney, who remained in his house across the street from an offshoot of Choctawhatchee Bay during Hurricane Ivan last year.
"That's why we're leaving," Gosney said. "We'll never stay again."
At 11 a.m. EDT, Dennis' eye was about 80 miles south-southeast of Pensacola in the Panhandle and 125 miles southeast of Mobile. It was moving north-northwest at about 18 mph, forecasters said.
In the southern tip of Florida early Sunday, power was back to more than three-quarters of the 428,000 homes and businesses who had outages when Dennis' eye passed 125 miles to the west of Key West a day earlier.
Exposed at the tip of Florida's Peninsula, Key West last endured a direct hit from a hurricane in 1948.
"We were lucky, no doubt about it," said Jim Hendrick as he picked up branches in front of his house.
For Gulf Coast residents, the approaching hurricane was all too familiar.
"I have my moments of bitterness, but I'm OK," said Andrea Walter of Gulf Breeze, whose house was seriously damaged by Ivan. "You can't get too discouraged or you'll go crazy."
FT. WALTON BEACH, FLA. - Hurricane Dennis closed in on the Gulf Coast on Sunday with battering waves and high wind after strengthening into a dangerous Category 4 storm, roaring toward a region still patching up damage from a hurricane 10 months ago.
More than 100 miles ahead of the eye of the storm, rain blew sideways and wind exceeded 45 mph in some spots Sunday morning and rolling waves pounded piers and beaches. Landfall was expected Sunday afternoon somewhere along the coast of the Florida Panhandle or Alabama in virtually the same spot as last year's Hurricane Ivan.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami has no record of a Category 4 storm ever hitting the Florida Panhandle or Alabama.
With nearly 1.4 million people under evacuation orders, some towns in the projected path were left almost deserted, and storm shelters were filling up in Mississippi, Florida and Alabama. More than 7,000 people were in shelters Sunday in Florida alone, and others headed to motels and relatives' homes.
"We're expecting to be sheltering tens of thousands," said Red Cross spokeswoman Margaret O'Brien.
Even the police force evacuated Gulf Shores, Ala., instead of riding out the storm in a municipal building as they did during last year's Hurricane Ivan, whose damage still scars the beach resort.
With the storm appearing likely to follow the path torn by the Category 3 Ivan, some buildings still had scaffolding around them and piles of debris lay in streets, ready to be launched into the air by fierce wind.
"I think there is a legitimate feeling, 'Why me? What did I do wrong?"' Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said.
Blamed for at least 20 deaths in Haiti and Cuba, Dennis weakened to a Category 1 storm over Cuba, then retained strength in the Gulf on Saturday and became a Category 4 storm again early Sunday, with top sustained winds of 140 mph.
"Category 4 is not just a little bit worse - it's much worse," said Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "Damage increases exponentially as the wind speed increases. And no matter where it makes actual landfall, it's going to have a tremendous impact well away from the center."
Dennis would be the earliest Category 4 hurricane to hit the United States since Hurricane Audrey struck the Louisiana and Texas coasts in June 1957, according to the hurricane center. The center has no record of a Category 4 storm ever hitting Florida's Panhandle or Alabama.
Hurricane-force winds stretched out up to 40 miles from Dennis' center, and they could go as far as 175 miles inland, forecasters said. A data buoy about 50 miles offshore recorded a 33-foot high wave in the Gulf.
The worst weather from hurricanes is typically on the front right side of the storm, in this case to the east of where it hits. That puts places like Mobile, Ala., Pensacola and Fort Walton Beach firmly in the crosshairs, with a threat of more than a foot of rain plus waves on top of storm surge up to 15 feet.
West of Gulf Shores in Mobile County, the 40 to 50 vessels at the Sundowner Marina had been "double tied, retied and tied again," said owner Cliff Lockett.
"I'll lock it up and kiss it goodbye," he said. "If it's here in the morning, we'll be happy."
Before entering the Gulf, Dennis swung around the Florida Keys and dealt a glancing blow, flooding streets and knocking out power. As night fell Saturday and the first bands of rain started hitting Fort Walton Beach, nearly every business was closed.
One exception was Joe and Eddie's, a diner providing short breaks for sheriff's deputies working 12-hour shifts. "It's the only place around that's open," deputy Jim Welch said.
About 700,000 people were under evacuation orders in Florida, as were 500,000 in Alabama and 190,000 in Mississippi. Traffic doubled on some highways as people fled inland. Alabama officials turned Interstate 65 into a one-way route north from the coast to Montgomery.
In Pensacola, a 70-year-old man at a special needs shelters died, but it appeared to be due to natural causes, Escambia County sheriff's investigator Terry Kilgore said.
Police went through waterfront neighborhoods in coastal Panhandle cities advising residents of the mandatory evacuation orders. In Fort Walton Beach, they didn't have any problem convincing Pat Gosney, who remained in his house across the street from an offshoot of Choctawhatchee Bay during Hurricane Ivan last year.
"That's why we're leaving," Gosney said. "We'll never stay again."
At 11 a.m. EDT, Dennis' eye was about 80 miles south-southeast of Pensacola in the Panhandle and 125 miles southeast of Mobile. It was moving north-northwest at about 18 mph, forecasters said.
In the southern tip of Florida early Sunday, power was back to more than three-quarters of the 428,000 homes and businesses who had outages when Dennis' eye passed 125 miles to the west of Key West a day earlier.
Exposed at the tip of Florida's Peninsula, Key West last endured a direct hit from a hurricane in 1948.
"We were lucky, no doubt about it," said Jim Hendrick as he picked up branches in front of his house.
For Gulf Coast residents, the approaching hurricane was all too familiar.
"I have my moments of bitterness, but I'm OK," said Andrea Walter of Gulf Breeze, whose house was seriously damaged by Ivan. "You can't get too discouraged or you'll go crazy."