No time for panic just yet

[Ex Lurker]

but if you live on the Gulf Coast, it's time to update your emergency plan. Go to the link and hit the "Fwd" button toward the bottom.

http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/gfdltc2.cgi?time=2008082418-invest94l&field=Sea+Level+Pressure&hour=Animation

[gi4obama]

1. That does not look good.

I was in the Gulfport/Picayune area two days after Katrina blew through. We working working our butts off for 16-20 hours a day for two straight months. I hope the course of this storm changes.

[Suich]

2. Welcome to DU, gi4obama!

Thanks for helping out after Katrina! My son's been down there for 2 years and there's still a whole lotta work to do.

:toast:

[magellan]

3. Cat 5 in the middle of GOM in 5 days?

Can I panic just a little??

:scared:

[Kaleko]

4. Sure, go ahead

and freak as much as is appropriate. :hug:

But tell me, what is GOM?

[DCKit]

6. GoM, Gulf of Mexico

Good luck folks. You don't deserve another so soon.

[magellan]

8. GOM = Gulf of Mexico

I just looked at some of the other computer models and none of them are developing 94L anywhere near as intensely as the GFDL is. Some don't develop it at all...but I think that's likely to change. Guess we'll just have to wait and see what the computers spit out once a closed low is found.

I'm packing my panic away again for the time being. Thanks for the :hug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Oh my...

by the way... we were looking at water temps for the west coast

They are ahem unusually warm

So I am gonna check on my kit.

Did I mention they are unusually warm all the way down to Mexico?

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7. f you've never been through a storm then i guess that must be scary...en i guess a storm

but i've never been through an earthquake...

or a tornado...

hummm...

[magellan]

9. The only thing I haven't been through is a tornado

Although I see hurricanes as ginormous tornadoes....

I'd take living in earthquake country again to living in 'cane alley. At least with earthquakes you aren't given time to worry. They just happen. Life is much simpler!