From: Dr.X@null (Dr.X)
"Steveo" wrote in message
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heh-heh... I'll have to admit I made a very

stupid decision to stay. When they said it was

cat 2 and heading north and to evacuate here

in Pinellas county, I stayed. I live in what they

call "Zone A", the first to evac., lowest

elevation.




You're down there in Kool Aid's area. I'm down with some of the
southside radios, but in north Pinellas.



My reasoning was that I have never seen a

hurricane head in a straight path north.



Elena did in '85 after doing some loops


It will

always curve off to the right once it has a

northerly direction.



Most of them seem to gravitate toward Texas or other panhandle states.


Also I feel that my building

can withstand cat 2, especially since it would

curve off just south of us and we wouldn't take
the direct hit.

But after seeing what Charlie did, I think next

time, I'm outta here. Charlie didn't just curve

off to the right, it turned then accelerated, then
strengthened all at once. It seemed to skip cat
3 and went right to

4. That's a lot of erratic behavior all at once.

I'm thinking, it was a very short hop to get to

Punta Gorda, and in that very short time it did

all that. I'm positive that if Charlie continued

north in my direction, and did all that

strengthening in that long distance to get here,
it would have been a cat 5 and my gambling

on the weather could have been the last bet I

ever made.



A category 3 from a direct hit is equal to one hundred atomic bombs. I
believe is the announcement was made another country was dropping 100 A
bombs on our city, it would be a ghost town and everyone would have been
clawing over each other to evacuate. Ahh, the undermining of mutha'
nature's power..



Yep. Next time, I'm seeking higher ground and
better shelter. I'll be taking pictures of the

storm from over thata-way ----.

-Dr.X (getting a little OT ;-)




You and me both. You can caravan with us as we head to South Beach for
the next one.


-
(Well I'm glad you were ok, Dr.X. It seems to me that a mobile home is
one of the last places I'd want to be in those circumstances. I've seen
what a tornado does to them..shredded like they went thru a wood
chipper.
Hope Twist is ok.)


Do you know what handle he uses, what freq?
Maybe I can yell for him. I can talk to Tampa

anytime from St. Pete.

-Dr.X


I'm in North Pinellas. What's your home frequency? Send me an email and
tell me if you don't want to display it on the group.