Cone Of Death Is Back!

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Arghhhhhh!! Run for your life! Stock up the fridge, buy plywood, batteries, bottled water, flashlights, dog food, booze, uhhh, did I forget anything?

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[Passages]

You forgot milk and toilet paper.

 

[Jaxfishgyd]

Fully prepared for it to hit anyplace but N.Florida......

 

[Genesis]

Let me grab the handles on that thing and give it a bit of a SPIN!

 

[Angela]

This wasn't supposed to happen this year!!! WHERE'S MY EL NINO?????

If we get it, they think it will only be a tropical storm. I think I can weather that in the slip. Fortunately, Pascal is just across the dock from me.

I gave up my hurricane hole when I left Rickenbacker and moved to Dinner Key - it came with my dockage at Rickenbacker. I'm gonna miss that, but I don't miss "living in the Gulfstream" and cleaning up all the broken stuff every weekend.

 

[Passages]

If we get it, they think it will only be a tropical storm. I think I can weather that in the slip. Fortunately, Pascal is just across the dock from me.

I gave up my hurricane hole when I left Rickenbacker and moved to Dinner Key - it came with my dockage at Rickenbacker. I'm gonna miss that, but I don't miss "living in the Gulfstream" and cleaning up all the broken stuff every weekend.

Just wondering how much wind is safe in your slip? Can you ride out a CAT 1?

 

[Pete]

You Florida folks are probably going to get some help over the next week with storms. I am leaving tomorrow for an 8 day road trip, and if the past is any indication of the future, all tropical storms will take a turn for eastern North Carolina during that period, with land fall projected between Wrightsville Beach and Cape Hatteras. So, odds are on your side, at least for the next week.

Pete

 

[Mike36c]

Bad news: I'm dead center in the Death Cone. Good news: I can't remember ANY storm that arrived at a location predicted 5 days prior. Cheers!

 

[Angela]

Just wondering how much wind is safe in your slip? Can you ride out a CAT 1?

Pascal rode out Wilma here...not a scratch. I understand Wilma was a Cat 2, though many say she was a Cat 3 - I don't know for sure. I don't know if you knew, but I'm in a different marina than when you were last here. Admittedly, at Rickenbacker, a TS would have been hell in my slip, but they always moved Sanctuary to a spot in the back where boats survived Andrew with minimal damage. I would slept through everything back there, except for that one time when I ripped a cleat out of the dock and had to go out and rearrange things.

 

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Oops, sorry, path already changed!

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[Pascal]

YAAAAWWWWWNNNNN

Ana is barely keeping her act together and Bill's 11am package indicates increased chances for it to curve out to sea.

hmmm... Angela... I AM counting on YOU to check on my boat if Bill comes close, I'm flying up to Nantucket on wed morning

 

[Angela]

YAAAAWWWWWNNNNN

Ana is barely keeping her act together and Bill's 11am package indicates increased chances for it to curve out to sea.

hmmm... Angela... I AM counting on YOU to check on my boat if Bill comes close, I'm flying up to Nantucket on wed morning

Rut-roh......pucker factor just went "high." My insurance is paid; is yours? Gee, Dinner Key certainly doesn't have the support network Rickenbacker gave me! Not only are you going to abandon me for my first storm in this unprotected slip, I got no Gil, no George, no Jay, no Roberto, no Munchie, no JJ....

If we're going to get a piece of Bill and it's a Cat 3 or more...where are your keys? I'll fly Ed down and we'll be leaving.

 

[Angela]

Let me grab the handles on that thing and give it a bit of a SPIN!

Don't make fun of Mother Nature...see, now you've just bought yourself some Claudette.

 

[Pascal]

Claudette is actually a good thing... no winds and a lot of much needed rain...

Billy is fish food... 5 days is too far to be sure but the current trend is good.

 

[fissioneng]

Billy's trend is good? Not if your Hatt is in NC or Virginia! The Isabel sting is still pretty memorable here.

 

[Genesis]

Claudette can come and bite me. She's gonna rain on me - oh boo hoo

 

[Traveler 45C]

Its really nice in Pensacola right now, nice breeze blowing, quiet. Hope it stays that way through the night.

 

[Pascal]

Billy's trend is good? Not if your Hatt is in NC or Virginia! The Isabel sting is still pretty memorable here.

looks more and more like Bill is goign to recurve out to sea... Bermuda is still at risk but it looks unlikely that it will affect the east coast...

 

[Genesis]

It was a wittle wainy and windy.

Nothing worse than an average afternoon thunderboomer.

 

[SeaEric]

Billy's trend is good? Not if your Hatt is in NC or Virginia! The Isabel sting is still pretty memorable here.

Oh no! My boat is only insured for what I paid for it, which is triple its ACV right now. I wonder where I stored those old, frayed storm lines from 6 years ago?
I sure wouldn't want my nice new braided lines to get "hurt" in a storm.