posted 08-31-2004 11:20 AM                  

If we can get Frances to do what Charley did and turn North/Northeast a few hours ahead of schedule, she would head up the east coast of Florida about 100 miles offshore. I'd say that would be just about perfect

By the way - I picked up another Prowler (missed my last one since the day it left) so, if it's okay with youz guyz, I'll be joining you in conversation from time to time. I'm Purple now. Did Orange last time, figured I'd try Purple. Big plans for this one too.

posted 08-31-2004 03:44 PM                  

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Originally posted by BuckNekkid:
No kidding. I moved to North Central Florida (just south of Ocala) back in mid January and I'm beginning to think the welcome wagon here consists entirely of category 4 hurricanes

If we can get Frances to do what Charley did and turn North/Northeast a few hours ahead of schedule, she would head up the east coast of Florida about 100 miles offshore. I'd say that would be just about perfect

By the way - I picked up another Prowler (missed my last one since the day it left) so, if it's okay with youz guyz, I'll be joining you in conversation from time to time. I'm Purple now. Did Orange last time, figured I'd try Purple. Big plans for this one too.

Ahhhh. It's good to be back

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posted 08-31-2004 04:36 PM                  

I'm lookin' forward to meeting all of you guyz (and galz er...girlz, um....women) in the coming months - my last Prowler was truly a Garage Queen, and I'm not doin' that again. I'll do the mods, and I'll keep it as close to perfect as I can, but I bought this one to drive

Thanks for the warm welcome

posted 08-31-2004 04:40 PM                  

Keep us posted on the incoming storm.

posted 08-31-2004 10:01 PM                  

Oh, yeah.....I'm one of those..

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CJ - The One and Only
1999 Black - PPROWLR 2002 Deep Candy Red - CJPROWLN

posted 08-31-2004 10:17 PM                  

What is up with all of this weather? My old home town of Medford, NJ had 12 dams break 6 weeks ago, then Charley down here in my new home, now this... what's next?

posted 09-01-2004 08:46 AM                  

We are doing all we can to prepare for her but one can only do so much. Wish we could pick up the house and move it to the mid-West for a few days then drop it back home again.

Just finished all the cleanup and got back to normal here last Sunday. We are praying that Frances changes her mind and drifts out back to the Atlantic but we are not expecting her to.

Rick & Phyllis

posted 09-01-2004 02:33 PM                  

A little heads up. Many of you know I'm in the gasoline biz. The pipeline logistic people are sending out warnings about possible disruptive of light oils (gas/diesel/kero/jet) supply due to this hurricane. Their afraid of additional flooding. All fuel terminals are packed with transports from Fl up thru MD to try and get as many stations full as possible before this thing hits.

There certainly is no need to panick, but I would advise anyone along the east coast to top off their gas tanks just in case of pipeline delays or power outage.

posted 09-01-2004 10:01 PM                  

Most people here in Daytona Beach seem to be a little bewildered. Everywhere I went tonight (the stores) a lot of people seemed to be zombied like, not really there but somewhere. The Home Depot had a steady line of about 200 people all day as did Lowes for plywood. You'd think it was the mall the day after Thanksgiving.

Went out tonight to cruise at least one last time for an hour or so. I didn't see a lot of preparations being made, but there was some. I hope they get off their *** and do something or get the hell out of Dodge. They no not what is about to hit them. Been here all my life, (half in Daytona and the first half in Miami) so I know what can happen.

If you ask if I'm scared? I'll reply somewhat. What scares me the most is when these monsters of Summer hit you at night in the dark. We will have to go through about 20-24 hours of wind, rain and more wind. We had a bunch of tornados during Charley and this one will or should be no difference. Just hoping for the best and get it over with so we can clean up and get on with it. By the way, some of the cities nearby have not even had enough time to clean the debris from the sides of the roadway yet from Charley.

Hope all to the south west and north do well, we are just going to hunker down and ride the wind until it blows no more, if we are still able to stand.

Tally Ho

posted 09-02-2004 12:18 AM                  

Brandie and Frank

posted 09-02-2004 01:00 AM                  

We live in Palm Beach county also on the south end. Jay and I were surprised tonite like "wallygator310" already mentioned in his post that more in our immediate neighborhood had not even begun any preparations. We went ahead with closing up the storm shutters and will finish early Thursday. The cat is secure in the garage and hopefully will stay that way.
We're hoping we miss this one too but have to be as prepared as we can.
Thanks also to our west coast FL Prowler friends for offers to stay in their homes....Nancy & Dave Ridge and Ken & Carol Carter.

Take care everyone.

Nancy & Jay Harris

posted 09-02-2004 01:54 AM                  

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... Still have a few things to do like support the garage door a little better with some 2X4's. During Charley the wind was pushing the door in and out by about 6 inches. It bent but did not break!. ...

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posted 09-02-2004 08:01 PM                  

THANKS for the many, many calls today of concern and we will keep y'all posted.

Nancy & Jay