Ala. Georgia and the Carolinas folks...heads up.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Suddenly we have Tropical Storm Karen in teh Gulf...no mention of it yesterday on my weather page.

[seabeyond]

1. new orleans? i have a son there and he promised to get out if need be. nt

[tkmorris]

2. Shouldn't need to

This storm has little chance of being very strong at landfall. Probably a moderate tropical storm, certainly not more than a Cat 1 hurricane. Put all the lawn furniture away and hunker down inside for a bit is all that should be required.

[seabeyond]

4. i have experienced earthquakes, blizzards, lightening and tornados, not hurricanes yet.

thanks.

[Savannahmann]

8. Hurricanes are the best natural disaster to endure

First, you get days, perhaps weeks of warning. No such luck on Tornados, fires, or earthquakes.

Second, you have plenty of time to evacuate if possible, or to find a safe place to ride it out. No scrambling for a doorframe (earthquake) or a depression in the earth (tornado when no underground facility is available).

So in some ways, Hurricanes are the best. The obvious disadvantage is that the damage is always widespread, and if the storm is even relatively bad, catastrophic. Entire communities will be wiped out, and then lost in the flood of wiped out communities.

[seabeyond]

9. agreed. and i prefer earthquakes to tornadoes, too. isnt that funny. but, i hear you. nt

[RebelOne]

12. True. At least you have days warning in case of hurricanes.

I grew up in South Florida and have experienced many hurricanes. Now I live in North Georgia in what is known as tornado alley. There are only a few minutes warning in the case of a tornado. I have never been directly hit by one, but there have been many close calls. The only time I have been affected by one was last summer when a couple of tornadoes blew through very close to me and knocked out the power for three days.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Well, as the graphic shows.........

no projection into Louisiana.
A tropical storm should not be that much of a problem even if it did hit NO.

However, what with weather forecasts being so off the mark the last few years
and these storms being so erractic
it pays to check the forecast every day.

[seabeyond]

5. the university is really aware of this concern and i am pretty confident that they will be on top of

things. but, i appreciate it.

[Savannahmann]

6. I cheat

I use an app on my phone to track it, and anytime there is an update I get a notice. So no storms, no updates. This storm popped up, and you're right it isn't going to be bad, and so did the alert.

This summer was a cooler one, which means we'll be hearing about it for a decade or more while the Rethugs swear up and down that this one cooler summer totally disproves Global Climate Change. If it was a hot summer, they would all swear it was a fluke and nothing can be learned from a fluke. But I digress.

The cooler summer made it improbable that a really severe storm would get cranked up. By July I saw the signs and told the Wife that this year wouldn't be bad, and we should be fine. From this, the most I expect are some severe thunderstorms, like we never get those in Georgia anyway. It looks like we dodged the bullet this year as far as hurricanes go.

[seabeyond]

7. our summer was much cooler here in the panhandle also. extreme in heat in the northwest though.

i left texas to the northwest to get away from the heat. i ran into temperatures that were significantly higher than what i was running away from.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. I am bearing in mind the possibility of a slow moving tropical storm

In the past, those have created massive flooding, since they dump so much water.
Luckily, my area is not susceptible to flooding, but I sure pitied poor Tenn. a few years ago.

[NightWatcher]

11. Glad I didn't have to go to the ship in Mobile Bay

Looks like they'll be rocking and rolling on anchor for a couple of days