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last updated
03/11/2007 08:12 |
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Sunday
1430 EST
1830Z
August 28
2005 |
Today at about 2:00 pm our
power was restored. By 3:00 we had the new generator and
extension cords put away and were sitting in air
conditioned luxury watching the news reports of Katrina
making for New Orleans. Wind speeds here were 80 mph.
The forecast is for 160+ mph when it makes for land
fall. That means wind pressures that are 4 times those
in Florida! |
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Sunday
0530 EST
0930Z
August 28
2005 |
Hurricane Katrina aftermath.
Yesterday Cuzncindy decided we couldn't live without our
own generator so now we have one. The up side is we have
both refrigerators going which means not only the food
is going to be ok but the beer is cold too. Even better
as far as Cuzncindy is concerned is a neighbor offered
us the use of a portable air conditioner which is now
blowing cold air into the bedroom.
There are more generators
in the neighborhood than last year which means a lot of
noise. The power is still out but FPL know about the
leaning pole at the end of our street and this is
apparently bad enough to put us higher on their priority
list. So maybe today ... |
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Friday
August 26
1918 EST
2318Z
2005 |
The hurricane has passed and
we are ok.
The power went out at
about 7:00 Thursday evening just as the wind started
picking up. One of the joys of living in an old part of
town with old power distribution. The worst of the wind
occurred last night. This morning we woke up to cloudy
skies and very breezy and no air conditioning which made
one of us very cranky.
We spent the morning
cleaning up the broken tree branches and palm fronds.
Now all we have to do is wait for the electricity
company to come and fix the two power lines that are
down and the broken power pole at the end of the street.
Things got a lot better
this afternoon when our neighbor Alan let us plug in an
extension cord to his generator. So now we have a
refrigerator running, a few lights, internet access and
coffee in the morning. |
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Thursday
August 25
1800 EST
2200Z
2005 |
Hurricane Katrina is now a
category one storm. The western eye wall has made land
fall south of us. The center of the eye is 16 miles
south east of us. The wind speed at the airport 3/4 mile
inland from us is showing sustained wind of 50 mph.
The good news for us is
the storm wobbled a little south of us and we still have
electricity. The weather guessers are saying the back
side of the storm looks like it will be wetter and
windier than the side we have just seen. |
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Thursday
August 25
1300 EST
1700Z
2005 |
Tropical storm Katrina is
now 37 miles directly east of us. We have brought all
the patio furniture inside. It has been raining lightly
for a couple hours now and the wind is starting to pick
up. The weather
guessers are predicting landfall sometime early this
evening.
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Wednesday
August 24
2100Z
2005 |
Tropical Storm Katrina is
185 miles from our house. Here we go again.
The
computer models are predicting Katrina will turn
during the night and will take aim at our house! I am
desperately hoping the computers are wrong.
Trivia:
today is the 13th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew which
was the first named storm of 1992. |
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