Tropical storm Felix forms in Caribbean

  • #21
Tis the price they pay to live in paradise! Have to take the good with the bad, I suppose.

I guess I should really be checking out this hurricane! Sounds like Felix blew up rapidly. Very scary!
 
  • #22
You have to wonder what the poor people of Belize did to p*ss off Mother Nature this much. First Dean, and now Felix, back-to-back.
 
  • #23
Camper, your grandson could make a pretty good career in the Coast Guard these days. They will play a very large role in our Homeland Security. Seems the Coast Guard would be attempting to keep their people. If it was the Army they would be offering him $$$$$ to stay.

Hoping Hurricane Felix stirred up the ocean around Aruba; maybe washing a piece of Natalee's clothing in.



--->>>His lifetime ambition has been to become a fireman, and that will be where his attention is to be focused. His plans are firm, HOWEVER, I donut know how big his eyes might get with the offers, OR I donut know IF he has already been offered any.

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  • #24
OMG! How horrible for those people getting hit again with a cat 5!!! Uh Oh...headed right for Belize! Hope my friend fairs OK through this one.
--Wind gusts up to 202 mph!-- but I think your friend will be ok, supposed to strike south of Belize, near the Honduras/Nicaraguan border
 
  • #25
My grandson just left for his last Coast Guard patrol in Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao areas and other points, he will return end of October then be out for good in November.

There is no amount of money that could get me to live in the part of the world where the hurricanes are a threat. Scary business, Mother Nature and the weather.

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--Well, after that endless nightmare winter you had last year, I'll bet some Coloradans are thinking otherwise--talked to a rancher out there recently and he said everyone in Colorado is trying to erase last year's winter from their minds lol--Denver had 60 straight days of snow on the ground and endless bitter cold temperatures--You couldn't pay us any amount of money to ever live in Colorado--We were in Denver in Mid-May and there were zero signs of spring, and we froze our azz lol--My mother grew up there and never went back.... except for once in the summertime lol
 
  • #26
My grandson just left for his last Coast Guard patrol in Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao areas and other points, he will return end of October then be out for good in November.

There is no amount of money that could get me to live in the part of the world where the hurricanes are a threat. Scary business, Mother Nature and the weather.

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--lol, well most hurricanes are only scary to wimps and scaredy cats--They are fantastic experiences, absolutely unforgettable and tremendously exciting--and always warm--sure beats those endless icy bitterly cold blizzards you had last year--We were at the beach here,playing tennis, and golf while you were stuck in your snowbound house for weeks just staring at the frozen earth,as I remember you stated last January--that has to be more than a little depressing
 
  • #27
--lol, well most hurricanes are only scary to wimps and scaredy cats--They are fantastic experiences, absolutely unforgettable and tremendously exciting--and always warm--sure beats those endless icy bitterly cold blizzards you had last year--We were at the beach here,playing tennis, and golf while you were stuck in your snowbound house for weeks just staring at the frozen earth,as I remember you stated last January--that has to be more than a little depressing

I'm with ya there PH!!! I absolutely cannot stand those long long long dreary gray northern winters. Talk about acute depression!!!

Month after month after month of getting up every morning in the dark, going to work in the dark, only after scrapping all the frost and/or snow off the windshields, and then coming home after work, in the dark, to spend another 5 or 6 boring as hell hours stuck in the house because there isn't too much to do outside in 30 degree weather.

I'll take my chances with the hurricances any old time!
 
  • #28
Wellll, struggling for breath while drowning is not a pleasant way to die either.

The Eskimos, took their elderly out to a frozen area and left them to freeze slowly to death, a rather quiet and gentle way to go.

IF you donut like the weather in Colorado, all you do is wait ten minutes. To watch and experience all four seasons in one day is rather fun, I like it.

Snow melts fast after a single day of a bad snow storm here. One mile closer to the sun and heaven. Many forget that I was raised in Michigan 'Home of black ice til springtime' country.

Depression can occur anytime of the year in any temperature, example Owen Wilson.

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  • #29
I agree with Peter and Poco.

I will brave a caine over the cold any day!
 
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  • #31
--lol, well most hurricanes are only scary to wimps and scaredy cats--They are fantastic experiences, absolutely unforgettable and tremendously exciting--and always warm--sure beats those endless icy bitterly cold blizzards you had last year--We were at the beach here,playing tennis, and golf while you were stuck in your snowbound house for weeks just staring at the frozen earth,as I remember you stated last January--that has to be more than a little depressing
I lived in Colorado for the majority of my life and now for the past few years I have been living in "hurricane country". For me personally, I'll take my chances with hurricanes, because I absolutely hate cold weather and snow. But I would never say hurricanes are only scary to wimps and scaredy cats, or that they are fantastic experiences. If my cousin and his wife did not have a healthy fear of hurricanes and evacuate, they might not have been here to enjoy their new house they had to rebuild after Charley destroyed their old one and all of their possessions when it went through Punta Gorda a few years ago.
 
  • #32
Well then Im a wimp and a scaredy cat! I have been around a few hurricanes but Rita really wiped our town out.
 
  • #33
At last look, Felix was beginning to look a little ragged, and the pressure came up some. There's a chance that it could break down a little.
 
  • #34
Eyewall replacement - winds are now down to 145 mph - Category Four Hurricane
 
  • #35
My grandson just left for his last Coast Guard patrol in Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao areas and other points, he will return end of October then be out for good in November.

There is no amount of money that could get me to live in the part of the world where the hurricanes are a threat. Scary business, Mother Nature and the weather.

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Camper, I'll be praying that your grandson' will be safe!

xxxxxxxxxxoooooooo
mama
:blowkiss:
 
  • #36
So its weakening? I wonder why. hmm Im glad though
 
  • #37
  • #38
I'm with ya there PH!!! I absolutely cannot stand those long long long dreary gray northern winters. Talk about acute depression!!!

Month after month after month of getting up every morning in the dark, going to work in the dark, only after scrapping all the frost and/or snow off the windshields, and then coming home after work, in the dark, to spend another 5 or 6 boring as hell hours stuck in the house because there isn't too much to do outside in 30 degree weather.

I'll take my chances with the hurricances any old time!

I hear yah Poco! I live in a place where we have exactly what you are talking about! I'm with you...someday I will retire on the gulf coast.
 
  • #39
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HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 35 MILES...55 KM...FROM
THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 105
MILES...165 KM.

FELIX IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE 5 TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN
NICARAGUA AND MUCH OF HONDURAS...WITH POSSIBLE ISOLATED MAXIMUM
AMOUNTS OF 20 INCHES. THESE RAINS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LIFE-
THREATENING FLASH FLOODS AND MUD SLIDES.

REPEATING THE 200 AM EDT POSITION...14.3 N...81.9 W.
MOVEMENT TOWARD...WEST NEAR 17 MPH.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...150 MPH.
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...940 MB.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/205025.shtml?3day?large#contents
 

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