Tropical storm Beryl about to give us a smackdown

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What do you do when you hear a cyclone is heading right for you? I just cleaned up the yard. I'm nervous because we have two tall pines in front of the house that are infested with bore beetles, undermining their strength. Last time I noticed one of our trees had vermin, it blew down on our roof a few weeks after I called the tree guy and asked him to remove it but before he found the time in his schedule. That part of our roof leaks now, and Beryl is supposed to dump a lot of rain.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

MIAMI, July 20 (Reuters) - Forecasters issued storm warnings for some of the vacation playgrounds of the northeastern United States on Thursday as Tropical Storm Beryl headed toward the coast of Massachusetts.

Beryl, the second cyclone of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, was located 150 miles (240 km) south-southeast of New York City and 220 miles (355 km) southwest of Nantucket Island at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Rainfall from Beryl was already affecting Long Island and the New England coast, the Miami-based center said. Tropical storms rarely pose a threat to developed countries but can bring torrential rain.

The storm's maximum sustained winds were holding steady at 60 miles per hour (95 km per hour) and it was moving to the north-northeast at 13 mph (20 kph), a trajectory and speed that could bring it near the southeastern coast of Massachusetts on Thursday night or Friday morning.

A tropical storm warning, meaning residents could see storm conditions within 24 hours, was in effect from Plymouth to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, including the summer vacation destinations of Cape Cod, Nantucket Island and Martha's Vineyard.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

AIIGH!!!!!!!!

RUN!!!!!!!!!!

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

If the power goes out it's a real annoyance. Trust me: I live in Miami, where this shit happens every season.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. get some candles and flashlights and shit.
invite some friends over and have a bbq if youve got a porch that can handle it.
alcohol helps too.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

and a boombox that takes batteries

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Gather up containers for the possible roof leaks. Duct tape! Visqueen/garbage bags!

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

get in your fucking car, head west at 110 per. DO. IT. NOW. I AM NOT KIDDING

― gear (gear), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

...and now it's just gonna fizzle away to Nova Scotia.

― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Friday, 21 July 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

I got worried for nothing, but it was a good exercise (find the flashlights!) and a good reason to tidy up our lawn and good incentive to do something about the bore beetles.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

get in your fucking car, head west at 110 per. DO. IT. NOW. I AM NOT KIDDING

Should she stop when she gets to the Atlantic or will the momentum carry her to the mainland?

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

I was not impressed. A little breeze in the middle of the night. I was a little concerned about my son's friend who is camping out in the back yard, but figured he'd come in and sleep on the couch if it got bad. It didn't.
The thunderstorm a few nights ago was way freakier. That one had me cowering at the bottom of the stairs, far away from all the windows.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

As usual, we New Englanders in our (sort of) sturdy post-and-beam houses think we're in as much peril as trailer-park residents on the Gulf.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I just hate being out-disastered!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

They probably get even worse tourists than us!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Heh! :) Glad to hear it fizzled.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

us miamians are relieved at tropical storms

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

is there a thread for things to do when the power goes out in the miami summer?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

That thunderstorm the other night was freaky! Before bed, I had just read the Harper's story about the impending apocalypse when we run out of oil, so I was dreaming all about fire and brimstone and einsturzende neubauten. I think I'm just having an apocalyptic week.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

is there a thread for things to do when the power goes out in the miami summer?

As soon as I find out that other ILX'ers live in Miami I will seek them out and hug them.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ans: Buy a generator.

My parents had a storm with lots of wind shear and lost power for most of this week, but they and most of their neighbors already have generators, so no harm done. (They need 'em because we all have wells and there'd be no water, else. Before we powered up, I can remember filling up the tub before a thunderstorm so that in case we lost leccy we could force-flush the toilet.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

we also need a thread for things to do when the power goes out in nola. with our fragile power grid it seems like every time we get a thunderstorm we lose it.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

We lose power all the time, too. And we can't flush the toilet with tub water because the sewage is pumped up-grade from the d-box behind the house to the leach bed over yonder. We need electricity even for shit-disposal! Our house is planted in pure clay. Bad siting. I could lift the manhole cover up and check the level, but there's a whiskey barrel full of plants on top of it. Beautifying the septic tank, ya know.
What I really want to do is build an outhouse. We dug the hole, and the lumber for it has been stacked in the field for a year. Haven't progressed.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 21 July 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

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