Greetings to all,

The 2009 Hurricane Season starts tomorrow!!!

I'll be setting HurCon 5 at 0001 tonight!

Unfortunately, I won't be able to accomplish the required tasks until I get home in another week. Getting all of my self assigned task completed will be a #1 priority when I get home.

A friendly reminder to all: no american town or city has more than 3 days of supplies on hand at any moment!!!

You know, I often wonder why the National Weather service has such a long hurricane season. I mean, I guess they have some need to run the hurricanes via the weather control grids to test them out, but do they need so much time and so many tests?

I don't think much of this so-called Nationalized Weather "Service" at all.

Why I just called the National Weather "Service" again to point out that they keep running rain events on my days planned for outdoor activities - what kind of "service" is that. They hung up on me again for some reason.

They are telling you to stay home and rest your back Martin.

I have yet to see a hurricane in San Diego during hurricane season -- we could use the rain.

It's always earthquake season though, whenever they hit they're right on schedule

i sort of recall that that in the 50's when i was a kid that storms like that were not news untill they wiped out a town/city someplace..now we hear about them while they are still thunderstorms off Africa---but people still get knocked out by them and can't figure out why!!??--

They'll have a better estimate of the 2009 season in September

The 2009 Hurricane Season has been predicted to be at or below normal in the Atlantic basin. With that thought in mind, I begin to dilligently check ALL preps and service equipment, both mine and that which belongs to the Urban Search and Rescue Team locally. The 2009 season is the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Floyd, the single most destructive storm to strike NC to date in terms of monetary loss. The 1999 season likewise was predicted to be below average.

Laissez le bon temps rouler!!!


Happy Hurricane Season to you,
Happy Hurricane Season to you,
Happy Hurricane Season, dear wiiildmaaan,
Happy Hurricane Season toooo yooooou!

I'm with you, it's lock and load time, (or time to finish up locking and loading).

Note of reassurance: even though you're not able to get all your self-required tasks done as you want to, I'll wager you're still light years ahead of the rest of us...

I've been nagging my co-workers on a weekly basis, but most of them haven't done diddly squat. This is after Gustav plunged us into darkness for weeks on end last year. (I was only out for about 5 days but there were folks in outlying areas down for several weeks).

I want to beat them with a stick sometimes, and remind them that they are not going to rely on me. I've told them preemptively that they are S.O.L.

Rain and Thunderstorms for casted here for the next 3 days. Would be nice if a fluke snow flurry came in... but I doubt it.

Prepare guys! (Like this even needs to be said here.)

As some may remember, I recently moved from the "relative safety" of high ground in the city to a barrier island that will be under 20 feet of water in any major hurricane.

As part of my preps I determined that by June 1 I would have reviewed my insurance policies. As a part of this review, I discovered that my renter's policy would not have paid if my house was washed away by a storm surge. As housefire and storm surge are the two most likely reasons for me to lose all of my worldly possessions, this was unacceptable.

About $175 later, I now have flood insurance, and feel comfortable that if I need to leave in a hurry with my wife, kids, and a few treasured possessions as a cat 5 storm heads up the coast, the rest of my stuff will be replaced by a nice fat insurance check.

It actually felt pretty good to write that check. . . I'd recommend that everyone sit down with an agent and review their insurance at least one a year. It would be awful to discover you didn't have the coverage you thought you had after you had filed a claim. (and no, I don't sell P&C insurance)