-sigh- Hurricane Season...

Another Floridian here....Tampa bay area of Florida. Boy oh boy this summer should be a wild one..hence my comment by my user name...lol. And today is my birthday....what a combo...my birthday and start of hurricane season...woohoo.

I hope everyone stays safe and they aren't as bad this year.

I know one thing. I can't take the stress of it again if it's like it was last year and we didn't even have any damage. I can only imagine how it was for others that did have damage. Anyone got any Xanex?

My father lives in Florida (Vero), and his house was hit by two of the hurricanes last year. He still hasn't had all of the repairs completed because the contractors are so backed up. He was told they probably wouldn't get there until October. He is very worried about the forecasts for this year. As KBlaix pointed out one of the worst parts is being without electricity for so long after the hurricanes (three weeks after the first hurricane and two and a half after the second hurricane).

My father's girlfriend lives in Vero also and she lost everything. She is still homeless, living between my father's house and a friends. They say she "might" be able to move in her new re-built place sometime in Oct/Nov, so she gets to go through another hurricane season, with a half built home. If she does happen to get hit again, I don't think what's there will stand up to it, so she could be back to square one. :eek:

Us on the other hand, still have not finished the repairs on our home from the last one, so we are not sure our house can take another hit, also.

Worry is all I do now, when it comes to hurricane season and the weather the last few days has not helped. The last 3 mornings we have been woken up to BAD thunder storms, 3" of rain in a hour. Plus our power went out, also, no power, no water around here. :( . The good side, I guess, is we have been able to leave the windows open and still be cool, with all the rain, sense our air went down this week. :mad: :mad: I have to find some good some where. lol But the rain is just a reminder of whats yet to come. :(

Husband says if we get hit again, we are moving. Fingers crossed we don't get hit, I love living in Florida and don't ever what to move back up north, again.

TS Arlene is giving us a crappy weekend. :( I've been in a cruddy mood all week because of this horrible weather.
They're syaing tornado watch is in effect and that Arlene could turn into our first hurricane. She's right next door to us too. :(


UGH. I hate Florida, I hate Florida, I hate Florida.
We're my sunshine? I'd much rather be in the sweltering hot heat than have trees crashing into my windows. Guess you can never win in this state.

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Thank gosh we haven't heard any thunder or lightning yet... Nala would be terrified sick. :(

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Originally posted by Kfamr
Guess you can never win in this state.

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I know I know, couple weeks ago, we where hot and dry, now after a week and a half of rain everyday..........I live in a swamp!!

And now with hurricane season here and with this first storm already, I'm almost to the point that I don't want to watch the weather any more. The choices are going to be HOT HOT HOT, Rain Rain Rain or Wind Wind............ HURRICANE!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek:

I'm sorry that some of my fellow Florida PT'ers got hit so hard last summer with hurricanes. We were lucky I guess. We had no damage to our house and no trees fell down. A few branches came down, in fact one large one is still up in the tree, we can't get it down, too high up and too big. Our yard was flooded and some people in our neighborhood took quite a beating. We were lucky and I hope this year is the same. When we closed on the house last year it was on Friday, August the 13th, the day Charley came through. What a day that was!! Thank god I had everything with the insurance policies all set up and in effect. Best wishes to everyone in FL and hope this summer is not as severe. Just to let everyone know, the Bay area is in a flood watch until tomorrow sometime. I work in a flood evacuation zone, yay for me.

I live in the highest point in my county, so if we flood.. basically most of Florida is SOL!

Gosh I hate this. I don't think i'll be able to sleep tonight. I can hear the winds picking up. They say my area is under wath until 8 in the morning.

We're under watch until 3pm tomorrow. Sucks. But, it does make for good sleeping weather. I can't wait to get home and get some!

I'm at work right now and we are right by TIA which is by the water. It's pretty windy out there now, well more gusty winds. Last summer we had to shut down work a couple of times because of the hurricanes and our flood zone status.

You poor guys down in Florida.:( I hope you get a bit of a break from the hurricanes this year.