Well, I'm getting ready to get hit by Isaac

Best of luck, stay on high ground and let us know on the other side how you came out.

Yeah best of luck.
New Jersey just had it's one year anniversary of two unusual events for our area: first we had the effects of a 5.5 magnitude earthquake that happened in Virginia (yeah the one that messed up the Washington Monument in D.C.), I spent a lot of my life in California and had my share of quakes, this one was pretty good. Then two days later the heavy bands of Hurricane Irene - it was a bit off shore from us but we got the big spiral galaxy bands thru our area that spawned a bunch of tornadoes. We luck out and only had about 12 inches of rain in 28 hours...

Be careful out there...

Tiger

I see where Isaac was officially upgraded to a Cat 1 a little while ago with winds at 75 and climbing. Looks like it's on a dead straight path to the mouth of the Mississippi, with predicted storm surge of 6'-12'. They should be calling this one Son of Katrina which hit 7 years ago tomorrow.

Under the circumstances, I think you made the right purchase decision. The grill will always be there.

Good luck, and stay safe.

The outer edge of Isaac just brushed us here in central Florida. Best of luck to you! Stay safe.

DLS...it's interesting. The eye of Katrina came through more east than Isaac will (assuming it continues it's current path) and therefore New Orleans was to the west side of the eye. Katrina was not a big wind event but the failure of a flood wall doomed the city.

Isaac appears to be coming in such that the city will be to the east of the eye and that is not good. Both scenarios bring a big wall of water with it. Ask our Mississippi neighbors about that.

This storm is moving too slow and will drop a lot of water and if New Orleans is on the east side of the eye when it comes through the wind will not be friendly to us.

I hate that it is just sitting out there gaining strength.

Thanks for everyone's concern. And yes, I'll get the pellet grill at another time.

Good luck to everyone! Stay safe. Living in California we deal with the earthquakes pretty frequently. I think I would take those over the storms you all face. I even work in a high rise building.

Hope all works out well, and send a little of that rain inland, North preferably. We are well over 10" short of rainfall this summer and we'll be cooking this weekend, oh well!

In my haste to relay my story of last year to ya I do want to affirm my good wishes to you and your family and neighbors.
Keep us posted when you can.

Good luck & God Speed!

Thanks everyone. Every area of the Country has its own natural disaster elements to cope with. We are brothers and sisters in arms in that regard.

Winds starting to pick up now. Rain bands are coming through too. It's going to be a long 36 hours or so. I hope I get some sleep.

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Originally posted by Chacahoula Tiger:
Thanks everyone. Every area of the Country has its own natural disaster elements to cope with. We are brothers and sisters in arms in that regard.

Winds starting to pick up now. Rain bands are coming through too. It's going to be a long 36 hours or so. I hope I get some sleep.

Tiger - I was looking at the NHC site a few minutes ago, and their interactive tracking map. I noticed that, if the current path holds steady, the eye will cut across Lake Salvador and pass about 10 miles west of where you are in Luling. Time to hunker down.

Good luck.

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Originally posted by dls:

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Originally posted by Chacahoula Tiger:
Thanks everyone. Every area of the Country has its own natural disaster elements to cope with. We are brothers and sisters in arms in that regard.

Winds starting to pick up now. Rain bands are coming through too. It's going to be a long 36 hours or so. I hope I get some sleep.

Tiger - I was looking at the NHC site a few minutes ago, and their interactive tracking map. I noticed that, if the current path holds steady, the eye will cut across Lake Salvador and pass about 10 miles west of where you are in Luling. Time to hunker down.

Good luck.

Thanks. And yes, it looks like we're in the line of fire for this one. Amazing I still have power right now. It won't be long before we lose power. This is probably the last post from me until much later.

I just wish this thing would just get on with it and move on through. Looks like it is getting a little more organized too.

Note from a survivor:

charge all your mobile devices. When Irene went thru Jersey in 2011 I had my iPhone charged and was able to see live radar feeds that told me when we needed to go in our basement.

Hey everyone.....just an update. My family and property made out well. Thanks for your concern.

That's great news Tiger!

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Originally posted by Chacahoula Tiger:
Hey everyone.....just an update. My family and property made out well. Thanks for your concern.

Glad to hear you made it through. I've been through a few myself, the biggest being Andrew a few years ago in Miami. Once you get through, you quit feeling thankful, and start being concerned others who weren't so fortunate. It's pretty humbling.

Glad you made it ok, I was sure worrying about you - when those storms move that slow the rain can be the worst part.

Isaac is now gently passing thru Arkansas and giving us a much needed rain. Hopefully this will put a dent in our drought conditions.

Oh. I think it'll put a dent in your drought Wheeelz.

Hope all is well with you.

THere's a lot of folks could use that rain, too bad more of Texas and Oklahoma and the Central Plains didn't get any.

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Originally posted by dls:

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Originally posted by Chacahoula Tiger:
Hey everyone.....just an update. My family and property made out well. Thanks for your concern.

Glad to hear you made it through. I've been through a few myself, the biggest being Andrew a few years ago in Miami. Once you get through, you quit feeling thankful, and start being concerned others who weren't so fortunate. It's pretty humbling.

These storms have a way of humbling you, no doubt. Isaac sat on top of us for a LONG time and dumped a sh** load of rain. While the New Orleans city proper did fine, a few outlying areas south of the city and west of the city had water surge ruin their property. A good friend of mine that lives in Laplace, La flooded. I helped him for the last 2 days pull carpet, cut wall board, etc. To watch a grown man shed tears is hard to watch. That being said, he has his family and health and thank goodness; flood insurance.

As I said earlier, all parts of the country have their own natural disasters to cope with. God-speed to everyone and thanks for keeping us in your prayers over the last week.

If parts of the states north of us benefited from the rain Isaac dropped on them, then good for them too. I'm glad some good came out of it.

I'm west of Mobile and we got 13.5 inches of rain. No bad winds, just mainly very wet.

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I'm west of Mobile and we got 13.5 inches of rain. No bad winds, just mainly very wet.

I hope you made out ok? Any surge issues in Mobile Bay?