Now I'm really getting worried...

[dreamflower]

A friend emailed me this link.

*Eeep*

http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iwszone?Sites=:laz062#t2

Comments

Katrina

[viresse02.livejournal.com]

I'd been glued to the CNN and various other news channels earlier and took a break for dinner and to get ready for work tomorrow. I hadn't seen that. eeep. My prayers are with you.

Re: Katrina

[dreamflower]

Thank you, dear! So far, so good. But it's still early.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

That's scary as hell. What kind of building do you live in? *bites fingernails*

[dreamflower]

It's a single story brick house built on a concete slab, like almost all the houses in the area. What worries me are the screen porches, front and back, and the freestanding carport and the storage building and the greenhouse--all of them far too vulnerable to ripping away and flying off. After Frederick, our storage building was completely missing, and we found bits of things from it all the way to I-10.

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

So, think it'll rain?

That sounded terrible. I hope they are completely wrong on all counts. That was one scary weather report. Please be careful!

[obeliamedusa.livejournal.com]

Oh my! Are they talking about New Orleans, or Mississippi? Or both? *is all alarmed*

[dreamflower]

*snork*
Thanks. I needed that.

[dreamflower]

Well, the report's for N.O., but we are to the east of it, and not all that far away. We are on the "bad side" of the storm. Remember what Ivan did to Pensacola?

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I hope you're well above sea-level. And that you don't have a gable roof!

It's probably too late to run for it now, though. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

(Too bad you can't go to the military retirement home that msnbc or cnn or somebody was talking about. From what they said that building was built for 160 mph winds.)

[dreamflower]

We are about 27 feet above here. Which is 2 feet higher than the predicted surge, but we *are* North of I-10 (I keep saying that like it's a good luck mantra). We have a pitched roof, that slopes down at the ends (for the life of me I can't remember what that's called.)

It's definitely too late to run for it. And the curfew starts at 9PM.

Funnily enough, my DH worked there for several years after we first got married. If he still did, I suppose that I *would* be there with him. It's very well built. But the guy on the Weather Channel lied. It's *not* a mile and a half in. It's right across Hiway 90 from the beach for goodness' sake. Although I suppose it might be a mile and a half from the front gate to the back edge of the property.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I'm keeping you in my thoughts and hoping that the damage isn't as bad as in that report, which sounded rather armageddon-like.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

If there are four slopes it's a hipped roof, if there are only two it's the simplest form of a gabled roof. Although I suspect that they mean a house with multiple gables (like the house of seven gables...) where there are angles set into the roof which could mean weaker joints.

http://www.realtor.org/rmomag.nsf/pages/arch33

Those aren't the only types, actually, but at least there are pictures.

I found a second site which discusses roof types in windstorms:

http://www.flash.org/activity.cfm?currentPeril=1&activityID=182

[dreamflower]

*Hipped* roof it is. And by the pictures, the one called "pavillion hipped".
Thanks for the links!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I will worry slightly less, then.

[lilybaggins.livejournal.com]

Wow. I know they're predicting the absolute worst, to prepare people (especially the ones uninitiated to hurricanes), but I surely hope the damage won't be as bad as that. *prays*

A moment of... levity?

[lindelea1.livejournal.com]

When we checked the AOL weather forecast for Monday for N.O. it said something like "80 percent chance of rain" and right after that "10 inches of rain".

Now, how do you get 10 inches of rain with only an 80 percent chance, I ask?

So, perhaps GW wasn't that far off in her query... depends on what meteorologist she's been listening to, perhaps.

Cagey folk, they are. Difficult to pin down.

Must be a heck of an occupation. Blamed for the bad weather (not logical, but true to life), laughed at when you predict the worst and it doesn't happen, and certainly haven't heard of them being thanked for predicting the worst and having it happen.

Still sending up prayers. Thanks for the updates.

Re: A moment of... levity?

[dreamflower]

One of my husband's favorite sayings when we get caught in the rain: "Well, it's thirty per centing all over me." (or whatever percent the meteorologist has predicted, LOL)

I guess the only more thankless job is president. I wouldn't want either job.

[dreamflower]

It does, doesn't it?

*takes deep breath in through nose and out through mouth*

[dreamflower]

Well, I hope so too, but I saw the damage after Frederick, Elena and Georges--and they were dinky dudes compared to Katrina.

And I can still see the scars around here from Camille...

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

That`s the scariest weather report I`ve ever seen!

*worried*