<p>[Hurricane</a> IKE](<a href=“POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE SEAN”>POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE SEAN)</p>
<p>Ugh. Was hoping this one would not enter the Gulf.</p>
<p>Me too. I am imagining what will happen if this one takes aim at New Orleans again. Will the residents pack up and evacuate again, just a week or so after getting back home? (I know if it threatens they <em>should</em>, but will they actually do it?)</p>
<p>The name of this discussion, well, I thought we were taking a trip down memory lane…with all the politics that is.</p>
<p>Sadly, with the hurricanes already this year reminding us how far our DS may be a year from now, we’ve taken all the SE schools off the table. I can’t imagine how I’d feel sitting in California watching these models predict potential chaos where my child living far from home and family.</p>
<p>cpeltz, I take it your S will not be applying to California schools, then, what with the big one that will send California into the ocean coming any day (year, century) now? :D</p>
<p>cnp, my oldest friend lives just outside of NO. Ike is category 3 already (down from 4, and not expected to weaken), and when it hits the warm waters of the Gulf… yeah, I can well imagine that at least some will evacuate. I’m sure my friend will if Ike is headed her way, even though she just got home.</p>
<p>I’m glad Josephine dropped back to just a tropical depression; hope it weakens further.</p>
<p>lol, overseas! I should have put IKE in caps in the title, I suppose.</p>
<p>We’re getting hit with Hanna now; mainly a (heavy) rain event, and some wind. S and I secured all the lawn furniture last night, probably for naught. I hope the power doesn’t go out; when Isabel came through, it took a week for the power to be restored.</p>
<p>Ike and all of his ilk–Sarah Palin’s fault.</p>
<p>Owlice, we obviously have our share of natural disasters in California, we just don’t have the fear of knowing they’re coming! Seriously though, a lot of it is the distance he’d be from family if trouble hit. Hope you and yours are safe through what looks to be a tough season.</p>
<p>cpeltz, I know; was just teasing you. I’ve been in two earthquakes, fortunatenly both mild, and one of them right here in Maryland! (The other was in Mexico City.) And yes, the distance’s the thing; I’d be worried sending S to California.</p>
<p>And thanks. I think Hanna will not do anything serious here (though Annapolis and parts of Alexandria and DC will likely flood). We do see reports of a police car floating downstream at the moment.</p>
<p>Ike, I am worried about, for the Gulf coast. They don’t need it!!</p>
<p>Hindoo, you’re wicked!! :D</p>
<p>I was looking at Josephine a few days ago … and it was similar to and close to the path of the 1938 Hurricane … the big one in New England against which all other New England storms are measured. Good that it’s weakening!</p>
<p>I knew you were joking!</p>
<p>My S is looking at the northeast, and it seems like the effects of hurricanes can be felt even that far north. Is there no safe place any more? :)</p>
<p>cpeltz, I’d say Missouri, but it’s due for a BIG earthquake, and flooding and tornadoes are a concern. Alaska’s got moose, Hawaii’s got volcanoes, Maine has winter, Washington (state) has rain… hmmm… looks like nowhere’s safe anymore!</p>
<p>I laughed when a few minutes ago a newscaster said that Hanna would head back out to sea and then make landfall again “in the Long Island Sound.” How does it make landfall in a sound?! :D</p>
<p>We’re greeting the edge of Hanna at this very moment–on that little spit of land at the bottom of NJ, about a half mile from Del. Bay. Lots of wind and rain, but not scary, yet. Downgraded from T. Storm, so we’re not expecting it to be bad.</p>
<p>DS is in a car on his way back to NOLA as I type. So, I textpaged him that if !@#$^%* Ike stays on its current path, he (DS) might possibly get a week of school in before being evacuated again. But then he could be home for DH’s ankle surgery or play chauffeur for DH. Trying to think positively…</p>
<p>Still raining here, but we’ve had little wind from Hanna.</p>
<p>jym, sorry to read about your H’s ankle! Ouch! </p>
<p>I just talked to my friend in NOLA; she got home Thursday. No flooding for her house from Gustav, and yay for that. Some damage to siding, but nothing she and her H can’t fix (and will tomorrow), and some tree debris in the yard. They got back on Thursday, after finding out on Wednesday that their community had electricity. They are leaving pretty much everything where it is – up – and watching Ike closely.</p>
<p>Hanna just showed up big time. Lots of wind and rain.</p>
<p>And, a leaking roof. Dang.</p>
<p>I have relatives in the South who say to me, “How can you live in New England with all that cold and snow?” To which I say, “Snow melts… eventually. But if a hurricane or tornado takes the roof off my house, it won’t grow back.” And we don’t really have earthquakes, or mudslides, or wildfires. At least not often. So I guess I can put up with our long, dreary, non-existent “spring”…</p>
<p>Oog! garland, sorry about the leaking roof! I can’t help with the roof, but would you like a cookie? SlithyTove posted a recipe for amaretto chip cookies a few days ago, so that’s what I have in the oven now. </p>
<p>Hanna is over here; the sky is brightening. I haven’t been out to see whether there’s actually any blue showing, but the weather has rapidly improved to the point where I’m considering hauling the kid away from the computer so we can go upright the swing frame. (We upended it last night to prevent it from being caught and carried from the wind.)</p>
<p>The good thing is that this storm is moving fast and speeding up as it goes. Hope you don’t get too much of a pounding from it.</p>
<p>When my son was young he was extremely phobic. Whether it was about having a heart attack or people he loved dying or a huge one was natural disasters. One day he was about 8 or 9 he came and said he wanted to move to Detroit. We asked why, plus how had he ever even hear of Detroit. He said he thought it would be good since he thought they didn’t have any natural disasters in Detroit. He also pronounced it with a heavy accent on the De.</p>
<p>For what it is worth, the largest earthquakes ever in the US all happened in Alaska… and the New Madrid earthquake was as large as any that ever occurred in California… </p>
<p><a href=“Search | Infoplease”>http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0193595.html</a></p>
<p>We have our quakes on a regular basis rather than in a big bang!!!</p>
<p>The new madrid quake is one worth googling… quite a story - from Wikipedia</p>
<p>"Based on the effects of these earthquakes, it can be estimated that they had a magnitude of 8.0 on the Richter scale. As a result of the quakes, large areas sank into the earth, new lakes were formed (notably Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee), and the Mississippi River changed its course, creating numerous geographic exclaves, including Kentucky Bend, along the state boundaries defined by the river.</p>
<p>Some sections of the Mississippi River appeared to run backward for a short time. Sandblows were common throughout the area, and their effects can still be seen from the air in cultivated fields. Church bells were reported to ring in Boston, Massachusetts and sidewalks were reported to have been cracked and broken in Washington, D.C.[1] There were also reports it toppled chimneys in Maine."</p>
<p>To get back to the original topic - I don’t like Ike either… and certainly hope it turns into a Gustav…</p>
<p>Good luck to all in the Southeast</p>