Hurricane Isabel?

[MysticalMom]

Those bastards, are they trying to suggest that there is something genetically wrong with Maryland men?

Only if they're Irish.

 

[vraiblonde]

The ice storm of February 16 1993 was the worst thing I've seen. The trees were falling so fast it almost sounded like a war zone. I lost power for five days. I dread another ice storm far more than a hurricane.

I was one of the few that had electricity, so my townhouse turned into a refugee point so my friends could get a hot meal and take a shower. I also had my Jeep at the time, so I was able to make store runs and drive hospital personnel to work.

It was pretty wild.

 

[willie]

Isabel is the worst tropical storm we've seen here in the fifteen years I've been here. I lost power for three days. As I recall, there were two deaths in MD from Isabel, but they were some boneheads who ran their generator inside their house.

Yes we can be affected. The risk of serious damage is low.

The ice storm of February 16 1993 was the worst thing I've seen. The trees were falling so fast it almost sounded like a war zone. I lost power for five days. I dread another ice storm far more than a hurricane.

Actually, it was 1994. There was a nasty storm in March of 1993 but it didn't compare to the tree breaker of '94.

 

[czygvtwkr]

The only thing we are past due on is an accurate weather forecast.

Seriously we have one bad thunderstorm (Isabel) and people will talk about it for years. You are far more likely to be killed in a wreck on 235 than suffer any damage from a hurricane in southern maryland.

 

[bayangel_1]

rain rain rain

yes it was a bad storm but........... the part i liked the most as people <myself included> suffered with no power for 2 weeks but the fair was up and running... and when i asked smeco how could the fair have power and rides are running but i cant even get a drink of water out of my sink,,, they said the county and smeco makes alot of money from the fair so its imporant that the power works for them.... only in southern maryland

 

[sleuth]

Yeah yeah. And Bird Flu is going to kill us all.

I heard the same thing but I'll believe it when it happens.

Whatever happened to West Nile Virus... wasn't that supposed to be like the next Bubonic plague or something?

 

[sleuth]

I would think a tsunami or nuclear meltdown at Calvert Cliffs is the worst of somd's worries.

I would think that, at least in a tsunami, Somd would be protected by the eastern shore to some extent. It'd have to be a tsunami headed straight up the bay to really do damage.

So Calvert Cliffs. there you go. Take your potassium, keep your boat ready to skedaddle if there's a meltdown.

 

[MMDad]

I would think a tsunami or nuclear meltdown at Calvert Cliffs is the worst of somd's worries.

I would think that, at least in a tsunami, Somd would be protected by the eastern shore to some extent. It'd have to be a tsunami headed straight up the bay to really do damage.

So Calvert Cliffs. there you go. Take your potassium, keep your boat ready to skedaddle if there's a meltdown.

You don't know much about nukes, do you? Or tsunamis? What do you want potassium for in case of a meltdown?

 

[sleuth]

You don't know much about nukes, do you? Or tsunamis? What do you want potassium for in case of a meltdown?

Hell if I know. I was using

I did read once that high doses of potassium would help protect some of the vital organs in the minutes/hours following a nuclear meltdown... Is that a myth?

And as far as tsunamis, go, I also read there was an island in the Canaries that many fear could experience a massive landslide at any given moment and cause a several meter's high wave to shoot across the Atlantic...

Here's what I found with a (very) quick google search - obviously the sources could be suspect:
http://www.huttoncommentaries.com/ECNews/GntWavesHitAtlantic.html
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/29/1910241&from=rss
http://www.benfieldhrc.org/CentreNews/press releases/tsunami.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5652141/

And here's a couple about the potassium:
http://www.aquatechnology.net/Nuclear_fallout.html
http://www.opcpure.com/html_files/Dr_ James Howenstine -- Why You Should Buy Potassium Iodide Now

 

[01mds10]

i live down in st marys city, we got hit pretty hard from hurricane isabel. i have close to 3 acres of land, i think we lost about 25+ trees in are front yard alone. put it this way, before we had plenty of shade in the front of our house, now you can see my house from the road.
isabel is a joke, if you been through katrina. you have nothing to worry about. hell my neighbor was on his bob cat plowing through trees that fell in his driveway, in the middle of the storm. with a case of beer by his side. i was outside walking around during the storm..

i have lived here for 16 years, the only 2 storms that i can recall taht were bad was the ice storm in 94 and isabel..

 

[penguin6]

When I lived in DC and a storm hit the Bay, I could barely tell. It was just like another heavy rain storm and I wasn't too phased by it all.

But now that I have a waterfront place on the Bay, I track just about every storm coming toward the US. Isabel was not pretty to us (lost some of the roof, some land and trees) but a few miles inland it was pretty different.

I guess it really depends on where you are living. On the water is going to definitely feel the hurricanes (and tropical storms) and have to deal with it while people a few miles inland are just moaning about the rain. Heck, last year Tropical Storm Cindy & Dennis, eventhough they entered the US in the Gulf Coast, were no picnic here where I live with some incredibly strong winds and waves over my seawall. Of course the folks inland a bit hadn't a clue it was the remnants of a storm.