Hurricane Ike !!


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Hurricane Ike may affect my Rally plans ??? This could be a bad Storm for South Florida ???? Three of the five path projection put the storm in our back yard ..:ack :ack
 
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FlorIdaho Chris

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Yeah, I hear you Stormy. I haven't stressed over a hurricane like this since Andrew. It is not looking good. Currently showing as a CAT 4 hit with a bulls eye on my back yard. :eek

My GT is already staged in PHX but my flight back is uncertain at this point. Pray to the weather Gods! :frown
 

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I was planning to leave Sunday.. With this storm closing in it maybe tough.. :frown But I would have a good tail wind ..:willy
 

MAD IN NC

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Brian/ Chris,

Check out this link. It's superimposed over Google Map and shows wind paterns
http://www.wunderground.com/wunderm...hur.cod=1&hur.fx=1&hur.obs=1&fire=0&ft=0&sl=0

This weekend I'll be fighting the TA Hanna.....
 

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Brian/ Chris,

Check out this link. It's superimposed over Google Map and shows wind paterns
http://www.wunderground.com/wunderm...hur.cod=1&hur.fx=1&hur.obs=1&fire=0&ft=0&sl=0

This weekend I'll be fighting the TA Hanna.....

Hey Mike,

Yes ,the storms are lined up and coming down the pipeline,, I guess this year we in Florida have been lucky but it may be our turn..

I have been looking at the National Huricane center projections and they show a high chance of Ike hitting South Florida.. In this case you need to make preperations early. As you know by the time you really know where these things are going it's too late to start preparing !!
 

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The only positive outcome if the storm hits Florida is the Gulf will be spared. Gas prices will continue to drop and you should be able to burn up some reasonably priced high octane fuel at the rally !! :biggrin
 

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Not looking good for us Brian. I am really hopping we get lucky. Is your car already in Vegas? I just finished a customers black car wednessday so he could make his transporter out to Vegas. I am sure this is going to effect a few peoples decisions to go or not.
 

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Not looking good for us Brian. I am really hopping we get lucky. Is your car already in Vegas? I just finished a customers black car wednessday so he could make his transporter out to Vegas. I am sure this is going to effect a few peoples decisions to go or not.

Mike, My car is here.. I have my own trailer and was going to leave on Sunday.. Tomorrow I will need to decide !! But it is not looking good..:frown
 

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Yeah, I hear you Stormy. I haven't stressed over a hurricane like this since Andrew. It is not looking good. Currently showing as a CAT 4 hit with a bulls eye on my back yard. :eek

My GT is already staged in PHX but my flight back is uncertain at this point. Pray to the weather Gods! :frown

hey buddy.. I am prayin for sure !!
 

FlorIdaho Chris

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Latest update moved Ike a tad south. Keep you fingers crossed.
 

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Mike, My car is here.. I have my own trailer and was going to leave on Sunday.. Tomorrow I will need to decide !! But it is not looking good..:frown

If you have to evacuate anyway, what safer place than Vegas?

You're not thinking about riding it out are you??
 

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Hey how come cuba isnt the 51 state, what a condo developement ?:biggringtjoey 1314
 

STORMCAT

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If you have to evacuate anyway, what safer place than Vegas?

You're not thinking about riding it out are you??

It's the prep work that will do me in .. My brother and I would need to prep 3 houses and my business.. And I need to go help Manny to pick some fruit from the trees !!! :biggrin
 

MAD IN NC

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Latest update moved Ike a tad south. Keep you fingers crossed.

Watch out for the wind radius. As you know it's always worse on the north east side. That is where the most damage occurs.

ie Fran 1996 in Raleigh!
 

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Hopefully it goes south of us!
 

tmcphail

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Hopefully it goes south of us!

Amen to that. We have been getting hit with rain bands from Hanna all day today.
 

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we are praying for all of you folks... including Mike who will be missed at the rally.
 

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Mike, My car is here.. I have my own trailer and was going to leave on Sunday.. Tomorrow I will need to decide !! But it is not looking good..:frown

Time to live up to your name. Make the name Stormcat a legend (living legend).

Hope it all works out and sorry to hear about the conditions.
 

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Hanna

Just in (soaked) from securing potential "flying debris". Deck stuff, yard stuff, etc. Couple of extra lines on the boat...and we wait for Hanna. Fortunately, (for us) it looks like she's going North...but we're still looking at 50 - 60 mph winds and a whole lot of rain... and a whole lot of clean up tomorrow morning.

Now we wait for Ike...I hope all our South Florida members are safe. Rally III and Carolina Trophy look iffy.
 

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I knew there was a reason I didn't move back to FL! What bad timing! :frown I sure hope you guys are still able to make it to the rally.

MJ