Isabel

sleuth

sleuth

Livin' Like Thanksgivin'
Originally posted by IM4Change
I'm in the same boat. I've had tons of trees removed this year, but my lot is just like yours, trees everywhere. If it is the tree in the front, I think it could nip your house, but that is it. You want a new car, so just park your car near the tree, that should soften the fall. :shrug:

The winds are 150-200 MPH, so I don't think there is much anyone can do but hope it dies down. If we do not get a direct hit, we will still get tons of rain, so the best advice I can think of is clean your gutters and put your lawn furniture away. We still have 4-5 days that could change everything.
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I'm not worried so much about the tree in front. I lost one of the two dead ones in front last week while I was out of town - it fell the other way.

The one I'm worried about is right behind the house. It's on a hillside and I'm downhill. It's standing pretty much straight up so it'll probably fall downhill. The only scenarios I can hope for is that it doesn't fall, or that if it does, it falls alongside the house instead of on it.

As for gutters, I need a ladder. :shrug: Anybody want to bring a big ladder over one evening this week and let me borrow it... or help me?
 
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Kizzy

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Weather says it looks like it is tracking towards the chesapeke bay 800 am friday
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I have a question.

Who is going to bail out and not go to work if it hits?

I'll be the first to answer. :howdy: ME

My office was built by the lowest bidder.
 
Otter

Otter

Nothing to see here
Haven't read the whole thread and sorry if someone else has made this point, but one thing to note is that the coastal ocean has been abnormally cold this year and will sap the strength of the storm before it makes landfall. My feeling, if Isabel continues the predicted track, is it will be cat 2 or lower at best(nothing to sneeze at, still very dangerous). Another thing to note, the new british computer model has been right on with the predicted track, it was pointing towards the bay 24 hrs before the other computer models(they were predicting a hit at the Flordia/Georgia border).
 
Hessian

Hessian

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Tips...

For some of you folks who never endured the ice storm down here...
I wish I had---
a) Stock piled water in the tub so I could flush the toilet.
b) Had a battery support for my sump pump.
c) fixed my downspouts
d) Moved my vehicle out from under my trees
e) cleaned up my basement before hand
f) Stock a bunch of ice-bottles in the Freezer.

That's from numerous floods and several outages...:frown:
Bis Spater
 
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Kimmy

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5 Day Forecast

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3 Day Forecast

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Kimmy

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I know that it is too early to get worried about the hurricane. But I have a bad feeling about this one. Call me crazy but I just do. It was jumping in Wal-Mart today with people getting supplies.
 
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TWLs wife

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Originally posted by Kimmy
I know that it is too early to get worried about the hurricane. But I have a bad feeling about this one. Call me crazy but I just do. It was jumping in Wal-Mart today with people getting supplies.
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Thank God I have food storage & water. So if anything happens:getdown:
 
Bertha Venation

Bertha Venation

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Originally posted by IM4Change
I have a question.

Who is going to bail out and not go to work if it hits?
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Yours truly. My truly wonderful boss briefly became an irrational, unreasonable shrew w/ the weather problems I had last winter (she, the inconvenienced one, lives 8 mi. from the office in Alexandria, and I don't think she gets the concept of commuting from Waldorf to DC). Still, I don't care how shrill she gets. I will not risk my life to go to freakin' work.

My god... listen to me.... That law firm does not pay me enough to worry like this!

Where's the tequila . . . :bandit:
 
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Kain99

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I'll tell ya this! If the storm tracks this way the kids will be home and so will I! :wink: Really....
 
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TWLs wife

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Originally posted by Bertha Venation
Yours truly. My truly wonderful boss briefly became an irrational, unreasonable shrew w/ the weather problems I had last winter (she, the inconvenienced one, lives 8 mi. from the office in Alexandria, and I don't think she gets the concept of commuting from Waldorf to DC). Still, I don't care how shrill she gets. I will not risk my life to go to freakin' work.

My god... listen to me.... That law firm does not pay me enough to worry like this!

Where's the tequila . . . :bandit:
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Girl take care for yourself first.:biggrin:
 
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