Keep in mind, a lot of the on shore damage from hurricanes are from the tornados that they spawn, so you don't want to be on the dirty side when they come ashore. Last year we chose to ride out Rita, mostly because dad was at my house, I got him off Galveston on Wednesday before the storm hit, and did not feel good about getting him on the road with everyone else. He's wheelchair bound, and I was concerned about becoming one of those people you saw on the news. That was a judgment call that I made, several neighbors tried clearing out, and ended up back in town, it was quite a zoo. BTW, I'm pricing a project to outfit gas stations with provisions for manual generator back up, with exterior tap boxes, and Kirk key interlock transfer switches, apparently FEMA mandated, but thank god, not financed. the idea of course to get stations up and running ASAP after the storm, the company that we are pricing this to is purchasing 150, 100 KW, portable generators. We heard plenty of horror stories of people on the road. Like a friend of mine who was caravanning with his wife and daughter up I-45, each is a vehicle. His daughter was taking up the rear, the woman behind her started running into her, mind you, nobody was moving too fast, so my friend switched places in line with her. The woman started hitting him. He gets out to see what the problem is, the driver was a woman in her sixties, her 40 year old son was riding. Turns out she had died with her foot dragging the brakes, her son was a life long stoner, and was so messed up he didn't realize what had happened. Now I don't want to be in town if a Cat 5 is headed in, but a Cat 2-3 I would probably stay put, which will tear this place all to hell (Alicia sure did, and that was a Cat 2 when it hit downtown). From our stand point though, it's best all the half-wits hit the road, it will make it easier to get back up and running. Like San Francisco, it's not if it's going happen, but when.
No Hero
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From: B-P Golden Oldies: \"Magma Charta Erupts Weakly\"
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Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 5:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [BP] lay my asbestos-laden body down, lawd.
I think we're answering different questions. Sharpshooter asked a
question comparing tornadoes to hurricanes in the context of wind, and I
took that as a direct comparison of the forces related thereto. I agree
statistically that tornadoes are hit or miss, and a hurricane is more
generalized; hurricanes also have storm surges at the coastline, etc.
that are generally more destructive on a wider basis, and I would never
try to ride one out either. But wind force to wind force, if I had to
choose, I'd rather try to reinforce against the straight-line wind of a
hurricane than deal with the rapid depressurization of tornadoes.
dan whose superior-rated 8th-grade science project on 'hurricanes and
tornadoes' included a tornado in a tall plywood box contraption with two
glass viewing panels air induction slots a stovepipe for convection and
a tray of water on a hot plate at the bottom producing white steam
vortexes whipping a piece of paper on a thread around becker
> -----Original Message-----
> From: B-P Golden Oldies: \"Magma Charta Erupts Weakly\"
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
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> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 5:42 PM
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> Subject: Re: [BP] lay my asbestos-laden body down, lawd.
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> I don't know if I agree. As a child, over the course of 5
> years I spent several harrowing days cramped into the
> basement of a 1914 school building in south Alabama waiting
> for tornados to pass. When they hit they were quick and the
> damage localized. Mostly dead cows, chickens, and a few
> smashed mobile homes. Anyway, where would you run even if you
> had the chance?
>
> Standing in the Hiroshima that runs from New Orleans to
> Alabama after Katrina I never met a single person who would
> stay for a hurricane again. I would take my chances of being
> hit by a tornado (slim to none) over seeing a monster like
> Katrina or Rita moving in and sitting pat.
>
> Brian
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Becker, Dan" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Monday, April 17, 2006 5:31 pm
> Subject: Re: [BP] lay my asbestos-laden body down, lawd.
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Jim Follett
> > > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 5:00 PM
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't know about you guys, but down here there is no
> > > difference if either delivers a direct hit. Hurricanes I can
> > > deal, tornados I don't want to be anywhere near.
> >
> > Straight line winds you can certainly deal with if your budget and
> > structural engineering designs choose to create the beefy brawny
> > building, but tornadoes explode things, not blow them over.
> Definitely
> > prefer hurricane-wrasslin' over tornado-tussling if I have to
> > choose my
> > natural calamity.
> >
> > dan then there was the great blizzard of '78 followed by the 30-day
> > freeze becker
> >
> >
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