Here comes Wilma!

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So, as I’m sure many, if not most of you have heard, Hurricane Wilma is coming. Another hurricane doesn’t seem like anything new this year, but everytime one comes and makes landfall, everyone here goes into a panic. Which is completely understandable. I mean, when an area of low pressure (Wilma having one of the lowest on record, 882mB) meets an area of high(er) pressure, there is a very good chance that tornado(e)s will develop - we are still not back at our house in Hobe Sound yet. We having been renting a house in the Stuart Yacht & Country Club since last year (paid for by our wonderful insurance :smiley: ), but we are still DIRECTLY IN HURRICANE WILMA’S PREDICTED PATH, which is between Jupiter and Port St. Lucie.

The map thread comes in handy here.

I am the little red bubble immediately North of redhead. He lives in West Palm Beach, and I live in Hobe Sound/Stuart.

I spent 3 hours today boarding up the windows at our Hobe Sound house. My Mom gave me $20 and filled up my gas tank (from 1/8th tank).

There are some pictures of the Damage from last year on my old, rarely updated website.

and here is a link directly to the pictures.

Wilma is currently a slowly-strengthening Category 2** hurricane and may reach Cat. 3 by tomorrow morning (when it is predicted to hit here).

I’ve always liked Hurricanes for some reason. It’s not because we don’t have to go to school, and it’s not because we don’t have to go to work, but theres something about being stuck in a house with the same bunch of people for x hours, with occasional power outages and lound bangs/thunderings/shatterings from outside, that brings you closer to them. It’s fun when you’re with friends and/or good family. We have Hurricane Partys and Hurrikeggers, and a good time is had by all. We play a lot of cards (poker, rummy, go fish, war, etc.) and board games, and hide-and-seek (jk…?:p). It’s always fun to go outside and assess the damage, as long as everyone is safe and unharmed, and to play in the wind and rain.

It’s truly something you have to experience.

-Joe Burzynski

**-Link to page explaining the strength of each Category.

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Here it comes in deedy
stay safe latter

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WTF?

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Day Ja Vo(( the Palm Beach Post)Our local news paper) had some stupid artical about that wilma and this wilma

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I was down in Kingston Jamaica last week while Wilma crossed the island. I had my 20" trials and managed to ride thru water up to the axle. Jamaicans love unicycling because of an old drummer named Peter Tosh who wrote a song something like “One Wheelie, Wheelie Mon”. Everyone had to sing it for me, and it was much better than that fn circus tune. Even had a few offers of Gonja :smiley: …

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mmmm…ganja :D…found a 5nug of chron of my mom’s todayy…BUT ANYWAYYYY

yeah, Peter Tosh used to play with Bob Marley way back when. Agh, the Wailers rox0r my sox0rz…

On a more related note:
I haven’t heard any rain or especially strong winds yet, but it’s only 9:50pm, so we’ve got some time still.

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Hurricane Wilma takes out Bedrock

Good chance I’ll be down to visit Wilma’s mess. Maybe I’ll pack my Uni this time.

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That link doesn’t even humor me, for some reason :roll_eyes: . I was a fan of the Flintstones and all, but I ‘dunno’. It probably has something to do with having drank a full bottle of Bacardi Limon…which i just realized i did…oops. it’s 7:02am and I’m still up (and concious :roll_eyes: )…I just heard a tornado a little bit ago…I also found our cat that had been missing for 2 days (it’s only unusual at this house, because it’s a gated community with golf courses. back by the park, it wouldn’t be strange to be gone a week). Wow. It’s 7:06am and i’M UP (oops). It’s been a while (back in my counter-strike days) since i’ve been up like this.

we’ll see tomorrow on my morning uni ride if there was any damage from that tornado.

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Peter Tosh

Nice article on Peter Tosh, mon

http://midnightdread.com/peter.html

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So Wilma hit the other day (I don’t know which; it’s been so hectic here without electricity that I’ve lost track of the day, ha), and we have some damage at both the Stuart and the Hobe Sound houses, but minimal. We have a vertically-bent garage door at the Hobe Sound house (~$1000) and a mangled trampoline (we probably won’t replace that). At the Stuart house it’s just screens that need to be replaced.

There are fallen trees everywhere, and hardly anyone has power back yet. Martin county, my county, supposedly has 40% of it’s power back, but Broward county is not estimated to be back to 100% until November, 22! Almost another month without power! We’ve been cooking on a Coleman Propane stove and keeping everything in coolers on ice, but I still instinctively look in the fridge every time I want something to eat or drink :roll_eyes: .

Right now I’m at the Hobe Sound Public Library because they have WiFi and power to charge my laptop and phone. There are far less people here than I had anticipated. I saw a line of cars backed up almost a mile yesterday. I thought they were trying to get the ice/water/MREs that troops (yes, troops with M-16s!) are giving out. But I was wrong. There is a 3-hour wait for gas! There are only a very few working gas stations; it’s not that they don’t have gasoline, but they don’t have power to pump the gas!

Hopefully I’ll have power within the next week and life can continue as it was, but even that’s wishful thinking. My mother works for FPL (Florida Power & Light) and even she’s saying that she has no idea when the power will be back for us. There is no school, no work, no phone, no power, and we don’t have a generator, but it is ‘kinda’ relaxing. It’s like camping, except less fun and without the tents.

I did manage to get down to Hobe Sound to pick up a bunch of extra cedar, nails, and a hammer, and build some neat trials obstacles.

I think I might build a chair.

-Joe Burzynski

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So Wilma hit the other day (I don’t know which; it’s been so hectic here without electricity that I’ve lost track of the day, ha), and we have some damage at both the Stuart and the Hobe Sound houses, but minimal. We have a vertically-bent garage door at the Hobe Sound house (~$1000) and a mangled trampoline (we probably won’t replace that). At the Stuart house it’s just screens that need to be replaced.

There are fallen trees everywhere, and hardly anyone has power back yet. Martin county, my county, supposedly has 40% of it’s power back, but Broward county is not estimated to be back to 100% until November, 22! Almost another month without power! We’ve been cooking on a Coleman Propane stove and keeping everything in coolers on ice, but I still instinctively look in the fridge every time I want something to eat or drink :roll_eyes: .

Right now I’m at the Hobe Sound Public Library because they have WiFi and power to charge my laptop and phone. There are far less people here than I had anticipated. I saw a line of cars backed up almost a mile yesterday. I thought they were trying to get the ice/water/MREs that troops (yes, troops with M-16s!) are giving out. But I was wrong. There is a 3-hour wait for gas! There are only a very few working gas stations; it’s not that they don’t have gasoline, but they don’t have power to pump the gas!

Hopefully I’ll have power within the next week and life can continue as it was, but even that’s wishful thinking. My mother works for FPL (Florida Power & Light) and even she’s saying that she has no idea when the power will be back for us. There is no school, no work, no phone, no power, and we don’t have a generator, but it is ‘kinda’ relaxing. It’s like camping, except less fun and without the tents.

I did manage to get down to Hobe Sound to pick up a bunch of extra cedar, nails, and a hammer, and build some neat trials obstacles.

I think I might build a chair.

-Joe Burzynski