Avoid New Orleans/Louisiana if you can
#21
08-30-2008, 11:49 AM
Originally Posted by Malaki86
What are they saying for around Texarkana and such? I'm heading for Laredo for a Wednesday morning delivery. Planning on taking I-40 west to I-35 south.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...?5day#contents If I was gonna be down this way on tuesday, from up there where you are...I would eat the miles and stay on I-30 to Dallas. Talk with your dispatch..they may pay you to skirt around the storm path if you need to.
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#22
08-30-2008, 11:56 AM
I "should" be ok from the looks of it. I plan on being in Laredo before 5pm eastern on Tuesday. Looks like I might fight it coming back north/east though.
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#23
08-30-2008, 12:32 PM
Latest report is this hurricane is just short of a category 5, so DON"T MESS AROUND if you are in the area it will hit. Get out, Get out!!
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#24
08-30-2008, 01:20 PM
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I can't get through to my family in NOLA! Are the cell towers shut down for emergency use?!?! I nearly lost them once before...I want to get them down here!!!
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#25
08-30-2008, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by BlooMoose
I can't get through to my family in NOLA! Are the cell towers shut down for emergency use?!?! I nearly lost them once before...I want to get them down here!!!
I live in SW FL...right where Charley came ashore....been through a few of them...not fun.
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08-30-2008, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Syncrosonix
hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible!
Some idiots I know stayed in Punta Gorda when Charley came ashore as a 4, and got the crap scared out of them....they saw stuff flying through the air that never should have gotten "airborne"..... Its not the wind that gets you....its all the :dung: in the wind that gets you..... :shock:
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#27
08-30-2008, 03:21 PM
Originally Posted by Skywalker
Originally Posted by Syncrosonix
hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible!
Some idiots I know stayed in Punta Gorda when Charley came ashore as a 4, and got the crap scared out of them....they saw stuff flying through the air that never should have gotten "airborne"..... Its not the wind that gets you....its all the :dung: in the wind that gets you..... :shock: It's still looking good for a Port of Fourchon land fall! That means I be in good shape! I will continue to talk with my good friend, and hope he sees things my way....Otherwise I know this chick the otherside of downtown..She is BIGTIME into the "VooDoo" medicine!! :P :P :P Rob...where is your barge camped out at?? Below Tampa you say?? :wink:
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#28
08-30-2008, 03:29 PM
Syncrosonix wrote:
hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible! You may think you are ( invincible ) but please don't make those of us who aren't ( rescue workers ) risk our lives when you find out your not.
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#29
08-30-2008, 03:34 PM
Originally Posted by Ridge Runner
Syncrosonix wrote:
hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible! You may think you are ( invincible ) but please don't make those of us who aren't ( rescue workers ) risk our lives when you find out your not. So ..Squire Ridge of Runner...are you loaded up and ready for bear??
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#30
08-30-2008, 03:39 PM
Originally Posted by Ridge Runner
Syncrosonix wrote:
hell, i'd be out there windsurfing! hurricanes are NOTHING to ME! i'm still a young age of 25. i am invincible! You may think you are ( invincible ) but please don't make those of us who aren't ( rescue workers ) risk our lives when you find out your not. my only weakness is a hot brunette with green or blue eyes. ladies with jet black hair seem to have the same effect on me, too. then there are the red-heads. the ones with green eyes really get me going. going so much that i cannot think straight! |
