Hurricane Wilma Discussion

Well, since this one just became a category 5 after it was just a
tropical storm yesterday, I'm kinda thinking the world is ending...Oh
well.  Jack this thread up there when it becomes necessary Walrus.
:smileyindifferent:



Good luck people, hopefully this is the last one this year.

It's not the end of the world, but all of our prayers go out to them.

The bad thing about this one is that it's going to where my sister lives....(I told them not to go down there around this time of year ) They plan on moving out of the state for a while....(Im glad I live in Ohio...the most we get is a few snow storms and a tornado)

well this is the first i heard of this one, but for those who want to read about it. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/10/19/wilma/index.html

end times may be near?

We just had the tail end of Typhoon Number 20. Went over the prefecture I live in, but wasn't much more than heavy rain this time. Yeah I know. Japan is boring and numbers the things instead of naming them. I had to explain the naming system of hurricanes to my other half and how they retired names if people died and rotated the lists every seven years or so. Wonder if that's changed? I haven't been keeping track lately.

Meh. I just hope that we've all seen the last of these types of storms for the year.

not sure, but from that article it says they do not use the letters of the alphabit of X Y and Z. so many possibilites of storm names would be nice to see from those letters. Maybe xenomorph or Zippy

the end of florida eventually , maybe i and the rest of the floridians are gonna sink one day



sorry thats my attempt to make humor during bad weather situations...



prayers and wishes again to everyone affected by wilma and all the others on this horrible hurricaine season

I'm from the UK so we don't really experience anything quite like this, but our thoughts and best wishes are with all that do - sincerely hoping this one doesn't develop as the earlier storms did

Sadly the likelyhood of severe and extreme weather is increasing all the time, films like 'The Day After Tomorrow' speed that change up, but its frightening to think it may not ultimately turn out to be just fiction....

Yeah, stay safe anyone out there..

Also the film "Day After Tomorrow", even though its "fiction" its bassed around facts of what can happen, and we are seeing more extreme natural disaters happening every day.....

I know a lot of people hated that movie, but it's still one of my favorites. Don't know why, but I just love the way they ended it. In other news, we had a grade weak 5 earthquake today. That's a 5 on the Japanese scale that only goes up to strong 7, so this wasn't a "little" quake. Funny thing is it was just over a year after the last strong quake that did a lot of damage in Niigata (IIRC) which they are still sorting out today. I guess everywhere in the world has it's own disasters on a regular basis. We don't hear of them all though due to whatever reasons.

I hope everyone stays safe.

Ditto :smileyhappy:

/sign

Yeah Wilma is pretty friggin serious... I live in Central Florida so im in some big trouble if it does come in our direction.

holy moly was that pic what a hurricane looks like close up?

last i heard Wilma is a cat. 2 that was at like 3am this morning central time.

once again, best wishes to all.

Someone seriously had the guts to one star my post in this thread.  Who ever did it is pathetic and needs help.





Its people like you bandit who are trying to ruin whats left of this community.

Message Edited by FAOrien on 10-19-2005 09:08 PM

Someone seriously had the guts to one star my post in this thread.  Who ever did it is pathetic and needs help.Its people like you bandit who are trying to ruin whats left of this community.

*CENSORED* they did it to me as well :smileysad:

I gave ya 5.:smileyhappy:



Anyway I heard that its making its way toward the Gulf coast states
with winds at about 175.  Hopefully it will degrade rapidly before
it hits.

i officially 5 starred every post in this thread.

even though stars dont mean **Bleep**.

Message Edited by MOD_D on 10-20-2005 10:22 AM

Take care and good luck.

a YTMND for all people living in Florida at the moment.

Text Profanity alert.  There was your warning.

http://gtfowilma.ytmnd.com

please get out of the way.  This is the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded.

Oh joy another rainy day in Florida.  *yawn*

I live in central Florida.  I'm not leaving and I'm not impressed.

To quote REO Speedwagon, I'll be... "Riding the storm out."

That is all.

I hope that everyone can survive, I had heared that the hurricane is greater then germany :smileysurprised:

Im from germany, so I had heared this in the news.



Also I had heared that the hurricane is above the hurricane scala,
there are parameters inside the hurricane that cant be detect on normal
measuring devices :smileysurprised:



This is realy mad, but what will we see in the next year? Or in 10 years? :smileysad:

thnx and god bless you for caring.  GOD BLESS U ALL YOU GUYS ROCK!

Clunk,



We already have a thread for the discussion of Wilma which is stickied
at the top of these forums.  Before posting such topics in the
future, try to use the search fuction available to all users and check
stickies to see if something has already been started.



That said, do be careful.  A hurricane, no matter how strong or
weak is still a force of nature.  If they tell you to get out, get
out.



I'm going to merge this thread with the current Wilma topic so nothing gets lost.

It is not the end of the world. It is simply hurricane season. If it
were the end of the world, hurricans would be in every single state.

Yea, ima catch some flames on this one..but..oh well. Ya know I live on
the gulf coast..I go through hurricanes every year..it's no fun! But,
it annoys me to no end that every time a hurricane pops up you log on
the forums to see it stickied at the top...this is MxO..not the
National Weather Service if you guys are going to sticky
every..single..freakin..hurricane then please be prepared to have about
20 stickies at the top of this forum by the end of hurricane season!
Every hurricane that pops up isn't the end all be all of life and isn't
another Katrina...yea it sucks to have a hurricane hit..loss is
inevitable. Now I can only imagine the posts to follow this up. "You're
a sick and twisted individual"...nah probably not that bad..if you're
going to go on the trip that im cold hearted and don't
care..please...don't even try all I am saying is im just tired of
seeing a sticky for every storm that pops up..I live on the gulf coast
I hear this crap year round.

HackViral, you're not being cold hearted, i dont see how you could be
considered that from that post, but the thing about these hurricane's
is that they are significantly worse and more frequent then they have
been in previous years. i mean, 3+ MAJOR hurricanes right after each
other isn't something that happens on a yearly basis. ya 3+ hurricanes
right after each other is common during hurricane season, but of the
magnitude of these ones?



anyway, <3 to everyone who may be in the path of Wilma. good luck!

I'm a Central Florida resident myself, and all was well here.  We got a lot of wind and rain, and that's about it.



I'm from West Palm Beach however, where my family still is, and they
got hit pretty bad.  Thankfully all of them are alright... but the
city itself has a lot of damage.  Surprisingly, it was a lot more
than anyone thought.  Hopefully things will return to a state of
normalcy down there soon :-/



Hopefully everyone else made it through that ride alright.

Im in the exact same situation as Calliente..wierd.  Im from the
WPB and my parents house was hit pretty hard, we didnt get major
damage, but we have a lot of cosmetic damages.  I live in Orlando
at UCF and we really didnt get much here.  I was asleep the whole
day as classes were canceled, but i heard the wind and rain was really
bad, and  that was like it.  So yea, I am very very grateful
it wasnt anything like last year with all 4 hitting, or anything like
New Orleans.

I live in Boca Raton myself and just hooked up my remaining laptop battery to the only remaining phone line i know of in a 10 mile radius (My house woot)  We don't have power or clean water and i've spent the last two days moving a few thousand pounds of trees out of my front yard so we can get out of the house but we can't go anywhere since there's no gas.  It's pretty messed up down here.  See you guys later I'm not supposed to have power for a month.

Professor Chillhard

Florida sounds like a mess but good to see that they are making progress with things. I was just talking with a person that I know over in Cozumel Mexico. Storm sat over the top of them for almost 60 hours at Cat 4/5 strength with only a 1/2 hr break due to the eye. Massive devistation all over the place there. Most of the hotels there are pretty thrashed, one of the cruise ship docks is completely destroyed with the other missing a big chunk out of it and of course majority of the power lines are completely out. It's scary when you link about it actually, from texas to the tip of florida is basically one big storm trashed area from the last 2 years. Having been through almost 14 hurricanes myself I keep my fingers crossed for all of you that were effected by the storms this year and hope that your recovery is swift. The aftermath of a major storm sucks but it really makes you appreciate the little things in life. Best of luck !

In Florida myself, Port St. Lucie on the east coast, and the east coast
got hit hard, we had 3 tornados in our backyard, one tore our sheds
apart, another ripped apart our neighbor's screen enclosure around his
pool apart and flung pieces onto his roof, across the street, and into
some neighboring yards, the third tore down trees and tore up a fence 3
houses away (we have those clear shutters so we watched the whole
thing) we still don't have power and i'm online of a generator right
now on a laptop, i won't be able to make the halloween thing on MxO and
i'm sure alot of other ppl won't be able to either... PLEASE devs give
us a chance to get those awesome masks!    please leave
the jack-o-laterns there for a few extra weeks!!!



i also want to add that i know we don't have nearly as much devestation
as those who were hit when it was a cat.4-cat.5    they'll
need an extra month to get their masks!!!

Message Edited by Myoukitsune on 10-27-2005 02:37 PM

Im in Jupiter, just north of West Palm, FL and I luckily had power back on Monday night, but no Internet :smileysad:

And my job just got power back today, friday, so Ive been home all week but at least I power..now hopefully I can get power back at the house so I can enjoy this haloween masquerade :robottongue:

I'm staying at a friend's who lives in an area with power. I live in
the Broward area and they are still pondering on when the power will be
back on... The latest they said was November 22nd.



Brought my own computer to this house so I can work and have some fun on the Matrix... Good luck to everyone out of power.

I just got power back :smileyvery-happy: but I won't have anything besides this dialup connection that keeps cutting out because the phone lines are bad for another couple of weeks :smileysad: So I'll have been jacked out for over a month by the time i get back.