Just be patient...I will eventually show up!!!
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/tcpages/FLOSSIE.php
Carol
If you don't hear from me....
I thought that stupid thing was supposed to lose its force by the time it got to you. Is it still a cat. 4?
Jeez, they could at least have given it some kind of more exotic/ ominous name, like Fabia or Felice. Who wants to get caught in Tropical Storm Flossie? Flossie was one of my SPCA adopted cats original name. We changed it with a quickness. If you'd like to follow suit, Carol, we could all start calling this storm Hurricane Vampire Bat Princess, like we did "our" Flossie. That sounds a little more in line, don't you think?
Seriously, put a heavy weight, like say The General, on anything that could blow away, and hunker down.
Love,
M
Keep in touch, Carol! Let us know how it's going!
Karen
Any hoyas that are in pots should be tied down to the ground (can you see where my priorities for you are?)
I hope Hurricane Vampire Bat Princess loses her steam before tomorrow!!!
Be safe and take care Carol.
Lourdes =)
I am taking all hanging hoyas down from trees, the house, the shade house etc..... It is slated (suspected) to lose force once it hits colder water...but.... ????? Right now the eye is calculated to pass 75 miles to the south. Yes, I like it...Hurricane Vampire Bat Princess!!!! Bob doesn't even think we need to do anything until, maybe 10 mins before it is supposed to hit. No, I am not nervous or anything....
Oh, that's a "guy" thing, I'm afraid.
I'd be pulling things down out of trees too, if I were you.
Are the animals sensing anything is up?
I hope Hurricane Vampire Bat Princess takes a sharp turn and heads in the other direction. Hopefully, all of your landscaping misses the high winds and stays intact. You have a lot of hoyas to take down and figure out a safe place for. Take care and stay safe, much alohas going your way,
Karen
Carol,
Stay safe (and your plants too of course! and the animals!)
Gabi
Carol, I lived in the same location that i'm in now back in 1989 when hurricane Hugo made landfdall just 45 minutes south of here. It was a cat. 5 until jus tbefore making landfall when it was downgraded to a cat.4.
I live almost exactly 1 mile inland from the Atlantic and we had sustained winds of 135MPH from about 11pm until the wee hours of the morning. Trust me do not wait till the last mintue to get yourself prepaired for this thing. We didnt evacuate as ordered but stayed in our home rode it out but boy was it a rough ride!!!
Batten down anything and everything that needs it regardless of the forecast. Hurricanes have a mind of their own and can and often do shift course or gain /loose strength just before making landafll and you dont want to get caught with your pants down.
If it were me i'd rather take the time and do what needs to be done and know in the end that I was as prepaired as I possibly could have been should it come your way. Yeah if it doesnt head your way you'll end up saying @#$% I did all this work for nothing but it really isnt worth risking it!!!
dmichael
Hurricane location predictions can and usually are off by or within 100 miles. Having lived at the coast, I know it is VERY easy to get too comfortable and think nothing will happen, especially after living thru a few false alarms. So don't take chances, ever.
I know some shelters accept pets, will they take you in if you show up with a truckload of hoyas too?
That's why I didnt leave. If the cats and dogs and plants dont go. I dont go!!!!
Yikes...I will have to take a photo of the Greenhouse....not one more lizard could fit in there!!!!!
Carol when Katrina came though I'm 60 miles N. of New Orleans and it was rough here. Batten down and seek shelter. Be safe!!!
Jeri
Lots of prayers going up from here for your safe riding out of this thing. Do what needs to be done for maximum safety and we will all be keeping our fingers crossed that it passes you by or fizzles out.
Marcy
Thanks, everyone. Tomorrow afternoon we should know more.
It is really funny: It is'nt until I watch the weather on the NEWS or see diagrams of storms that I am aware of living on one of the most isolated chain of islands in the world! We are simply another rock in the ocean and at the mercy of whatever SHE (Mother Nature) has to sling at us!!! The last hurricane fizzled out about 200 miles south of us.... Hoping for the same!
What do you mean about the lizards in the greenhouse? Do they know something is coming and seek shelter?
Carol, I'm wishing you the best of luck for you and your loved ones to get though Vampire Bat Princess unscathed. If some of the hoyas don't, I'm sure that the storm will throw so many of their seeds around, you'll have to spend the rest of your life IDing the new hoya growth that will pop up everywhere.
Christine
Carol, prayers being sent for the safety of you and your family. HOLD ON, GIRL......
Jen...if they are smart they will!!!!
Here's hoping for a fizzle.....from Pass Christian, Mississippi - Mother Nature seems to like to land in our town!
Camille and Katrina!
The price we pay to live in beautiful places. Take care.
Oh Carol, I got that funny feeling in my stomach when I clicked on your link,I keep getting told whats a matter with you? Don't you watch your weather? Thinking if I ignore the tv they won't come here !! LOL it will be a year this November we have moved back in the house...You are in my thoughts and prayers!!
Stay Safe!!
Dianne
I just read on yahoo that there was an earthquake in Hawaii last night - a 5.3?
I heard about the earthquake on Good Morning America, also - Stay Safe, Carol! Keep in touch!
Karen
I'm waaaaay out of my territory here (don't even know what a Hoya is), but found you on the membership list for Hawaii. Being a veteran of 55 years of Florida 'canes I just wanted to wish you and your plants well. THEN I heard about the earthquake!!!!! Mother Nature seems to have PMS and taking it all out on you! LOL
Anyway.....as we say over on the Weather Forum...
Hang on Sloopy!!
Pati
We are all thinking of you Carol. May the Lord keep you and your family safe.
Patti
Amen!!!
Larry
This message was edited Aug 14, 2007 12:28 PM
Well...it is something living out here on an ALIVE piece of rock!!! Yes, 5.4 earthquake...only about 10 miles away but 2 miles deep!!! It got our attention and knocked out internet!!!
Hurricane Flossie SO FAR is skirting us and we are only getting Tropical Storm winds and gobs of rain...no chance of flooding here !!! It is raining now, the pressure is getting low and we can cut the humidity with a knife. We walked around the property and I could hear the hoyas singing in the Greenhouse!!!! They love this humidity!!!
Carol
Hopefully mine will be singing soon as well. I unloaded a ton of tropicals off on another plant loving friend of mine yesterday and am in the process of moving all omy hoyas to the BIG house!!
For some reason growing them in the gh that they are currently in I only get a ton of growht on them but not much in the way of flowers. The few hoyas that I already had in the big gh bloom like crazy SO!! I have spent the day rerarranging the half dozen tropicals that I kept and moving all of my hoyas to their new home. My old hoya house will now be my new cactus house and the old cactus house will be a storage building.
This will also help out with my heating costs which are basically off the charts.I got some numbers from my gas company today just to see how much I used this past winter and at what cost. I heat from Dec. til the second week of March by then it is warm enough here to shut the heat off. So that's a period of 14 weeks in which I used 400G's of gas at a cost of $1200.00.
Carol send some of that rain to S.C. we need it badly!!!!
dmichael
We should get 10-15" today with the storm...wish I could send it off!!!
David, have you ever looked into solar energy? I was thinking about it and wondering if it would be something that could work in a greenhouse
Passive Solar can work...but just so far... Full on Solar is expensive to setup!!! But at 1200$ a pop, it might be worth it!!!
Carol
Carol, glad you are only getting rain so far. I am hoping that the rabid vampire bat princess decides to head in another direction. I can imagine the wake up call you got from the earthquake. It is times like these that makes one realize how insignificant we are in the face of mother nature.
Stay safe with your DH and animals. My thoughts and prayers are going your way.
Karen
Thanks Karen...we are very insignificant in the BIG picture, aren't we!!
Carol,
Keeping up with you, you are in our prayers.
Judy
I would imagine full on solar is expensive - I am assuming you mean $1200 a panel, not for the whole system - but in the long run I am sure it pays for itself. Another thing I have to put on my list of things to research.
And thus endeth the lesson for today....
Flossie veered south when she got to us (there is urban legend that the mountains keep hurricanes away)...we got gentle rain and no wind.
Relief!!!
Carol