Running 2012 Hurricane Thread

[Armchair_QB]

The first hurricane of the year is named after this guy:

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/hurricanes/story/2012-05-25/hurricane-bud-mexico/55210542/1

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

For the Pacific storms.

In the Atlantic, we've already had Alberto and Beryl. (although both only made tropical storm status).

 

[mjslovin91]

I'm heading to the east coast, specifically coastal Maryland, soon to begin an internship. I'm a lifelong Midwesterner and I've dealt with tornadoes, but never a hurricane. How likely is it I'll encounter a tropical storm or hurricane over the summer out there?

 

[Armchair_QB]

I'm heading to the east coast, specifically coastal Maryland, soon to begin an internship. I'm a lifelong Midwesterner and I've dealt with tornadoes, but never a hurricane. How likely is it I'll encounter a tropical storm or hurricane over the summer out there?

There's a better chance you'll be attacked by a pack of rabid beavers.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Maybe you'll get some tropical (not hurricane) force winds once? When the storms get within a few hundred miles of the coast, the waves up and down the east coast get really fun to be in, if you're a good (better than just capable) swimmer. So if Bermuda is getting thrashed, or even grazed or just threatened, you'll have a blast playing in the ocean in Maryland.

 

[podunk press]

Irene grazed the area last year. One of the trees in my backyard may never recover.

Maryland tends to get glancing blows from tropical storms and hurricanes.

 

[trifectarich]

Maybe you'll get some tropical (not hurricane) force winds once? When the storms get within a few hundred miles of the coast, the waves up and down the east coast get really fun to be in, if you're a good (better than just capable) swimmer. So if Bermuda is getting thrashed, or even grazed or just threatened, you'll have a blast playing in the ocean in Maryland.

Yes, you need to be prepared. When weather forecasters are suggesting that everyone within a mile of the coast evacuates because of 8-foot waves and a storm surge, do the right thing: Grab your surfboard and go enjoy.

 

[Football_Bat]

Bring it, *******!

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

If it comes ashore in the USA as a tropical storm or Cat 1, good. We need the rain. Anything else, no thank you.

 

[Bubbler]

If it comes ashore in the USA as a tropical storm or Cat 1, good. We need the rain. Anything else, no thank you.

Yep. I would love for that bad boy to be a Cat 1 and head due north up the Mississippi to give us a day or two of soaking rain.

 

[YGBFKM]

Maybe you'll get some tropical (not hurricane) force winds once? When the storms get within a few hundred miles of the coast, the waves up and down the east coast get really fun to be in, if you're a good (better than just capable) swimmer. So if Bermuda is getting thrashed, or even grazed or just threatened, you'll have a blast playing in the ocean in Maryland.

Given the electrical-grid infrastructure in the region, a LITTLE wind and rain likely means losing power for at least three days.

 

[User 1019]

Bring it, *******!

I'll trade you that for the "120 Days of Wind."

 

[Steak Snabler]

What makes me nervous is that here on the Central Gulf Coast (between Houston and Pensacola), we haven't had one AT ALL since 2008. Given the cycle of the last 30 or so years, we're about due:

1979 — Frederic (Mobile/Pensacola)
1985 — Elena (Mississippi Coast)
1992 — Andrew (cut across to Louisiana after it blasted south Florida)
1998 — Georges (Mississippi Coast)
2004 — Ivan (Mobile/Pensacola)
2005 — Katrina and Rita (New Orleans/Mississippi Coast & southwestern Louisiana)
2008 — Gustav and Ike (southwestern Louisiana & Galveston)

 

[dixiehack]

Hello $4 a gallon.

 

[Steak Snabler]

I was living in Tuscaloosa when Gustav hit in 2008. Gas shot up to $5 a gallon there because it was right on the hurricane evacuation route. I had to carry my own gas in five-gallon cans to the Alabama at Georgia game because there was a shortage in Atlanta.

 

[Amy]

This is my second year living through a hurricane season in Florida. I was extremely worried about it last year and by June had stocked up on all kinds of crap - much to the amusement of all my long time Florida resident friends.

Of course, the irony was that the big hurricane that at one point was predicted to hit shore right around West Palm ended up veering north and doing a **** load of damage where I lived a few years ago - Glastonbury, CT. I never in a million years would have worried about hurricanes while living outside of Hartford.

I am going to get a generator one of these years. I'm still worried about getting through a hurricane.

 

[Tarheel316]

Hello $4 a gallon.

Oh yeah. Any chance the oil companies get to jack up prices, they'll take it.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Hello $4 a gallon.

More like "Hello again."

 

[BTExpress]

I am going to get a generator one of these years. I'm still worried about getting through a hurricane.

Much depends on when your house was built.

After 1992, fine.

Before 1992, not so fine.

 

[Football_Bat]

I was living in Tuscaloosa when Gustav hit in 2008. Gas shot up to $5 a gallon there because it was right on the hurricane evacuation route. I had to carry my own gas in five-gallon cans to the Alabama at Georgia game because there was a shortage in Atlanta.

I believe a lot of that had to do with Ike hitting Houston. Turns out the Houston refineries distributed gas to the Southeast while other parts of the country were served by refineries elsewhere and were unaffected.