Snowbird season has started early this year!

Dont tell me that . The weather has not even cooled off here yet and now the chaos begins?

 

Last I heard it was tracking eastward and away from most of the population. A cursory search says its stalled over the Bahamas. I've never been in a hurricane, but do folks just drop and run when one is coming ???

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lol depends on where they are and how many they've been through. I know NC started evacuating the outer banks region yesterday.

Current track puts it farther east maybe just a glancing blow and a ton of east coast rain but they won't know till it almost gets here where it's actually going.

I was up around Richmond when sandy came through and glanced up the coast there. Empty in 50-60 sustained gusting 70+ and blinding sheets of rain coming up 95 to 295 into Richmond to pick up. Wasn't fun. I wouldn't want to try anything more than that and couldn't get under my load and out of there fast enough.

 

I was spending the night in Truck #235 at the Volvo shop in Buffalo, NY when the remnants of Sandy passed over.

 

Not really. Only the ones with a slight modicum of intelligence do. The others have "hurricane parties" and just ride it out. OR NOT.
(Not the voice of experience on this, I've never been in a hurricane either. But I do live in a TOWN called Hurricane, if that helps.) (Oh yeah, I've read a book or two as well. . .)

 

Typhon's are more fun when you are on a island.

 

Meh. Mostly folks who have never been through one, those who get freaked out by all the "Oh NOES, a HUGE< DANGEROUS STORM is coming" newscasts, and those who live in especially vulnerable areas. I've lived in FL mostly my whole life, and been through so many (most notably Andrew down near Miami in '92 I believe) that they aren't anything to wad my panties up.....

I was working at a debris removal company that had a an emergency assistance agreement with a NY company at the time, who had the contract to respond to the borough of Queens in such an event. I was actually on the road rolling into Princeton NJ as the storm was at it's peak (around 9:30- 10:00pm IIRC). I was driving a POS sterling knuckle-boom crane truck with a 40-yard can, and pulling another 40 yard pup trailer almost identical to this one-



With both of those cans empty, it was like being in a sailboat in 70+ mph winds going up the Jersey Turnpike!

Never do that again........

 

So if it is snowbird season, we can shoot them, right?