Here comes Ivan

**travelinman** · September 9th, 2004, 04:03 PM

Ture, almost all storm that pass south of Cuba do not hit Florida.

But GL is there now.

Cagliostro · September 9th, 2004, 04:06 PM

Charley passed south of Cuba.

**Euclid** · September 9th, 2004, 07:56 PM

So many hurricanes...I think the world is coming to an end!

**reason** · September 10th, 2004, 03:18 AM

Just as a kind suggestion, after work tommorow, pack up your dogs and few necessities and head north to someplace like Atlanta. From there play it by ear. Fill up your car with gas right now.

Florida is no place to be right now. Either is a trailer.

**travelinman** · September 10th, 2004, 03:19 AM

Cuba has mountains in excess of 6,000 feet. If Ivan stays on the projected course, it will rip itself apart going over Cuba.

Glad I don't smoke Havanas

**gae** · September 10th, 2004, 03:26 AM

Check out current and historical storm patterns in the Florida tropics:

http://www.local6.com/hurricanes/index.html#

Click on "track the storm" on the left bar. You can overlap storm patterns and follow their path. Central Florida got nailed with Charley and Francis (see where they cross).

Cagliostro · September 10th, 2004, 03:27 AM

I topped off my tank with gas yesterday and had to look to find a station with gas, most are still dry from Frances. I'm waiting to see what develops by Saturday before making any kind of evacuation plans.

I buy a convertible again and every weekend since (with the exception of one) we don't just have rainy weather but freaking hurricanes!!!

Cagliostro · September 10th, 2004, 11:38 AM

In one of the many news articles about this unusually active hurricane season it explained that although abnormally active, it is still within "normal" parameters. They take into account hurricane activity from the past 100 yrs and it said that there have been other very active seasons too. This one seems all the more abnormal because of the recent period of no activity at all for Florida basically since Andrew in 1992. And while this has been more active than usual, experts say it does not constitute some dramatic climatic change or necessary trend.