I am about to go through Hurricane Isaac

[sgtmcboom]

I am in southwest florida and theres a storm coming that has already killed 3 people. I lived through hurricane Charley I hope this will not be as bad. I have preps and around 30 gals of water for 2 people so I should be ok.

[nell67]

Good luck to you ,stay safe

[1stimestar]

Good luck. Check in when it's over.

[hunter63]

Keep your head down.....let us know....Stay safe......

[BENESSE]

Best of luck...hope it runs out of steam before it gets to your house.

[sgtmcboom]

yeah I hope it does as well. I have my preps ready. Coming to realize the things I am lacking. D batteries are sold out everywhere down here right now. So I will use my gas lanterns instead of electric lanterns if I really need them. With Charley I was without power for 10 days.

[balendor]

good luck stay safe

[crashdive123]

From all of the forecasts that are out currently, you should be fine. It'll blow a bit and dump a bunch of rain, but if it stays far enough out in the Gulf I do believe it could hit the Pensacola area at Cat 3 strength.

[canid]

Please, for gosh's sake, tell me you remembered the coffee and cocoa mix. It's easy to forget the little things that make a stressful time a little more comfortable, but that's an absolute life necessity.

Stay safe.

[jake abraham]

stay safe I hope it blows over with no damage

[wtrfwlr]

I hope it skips all you guys down there on the coast and does no damage at all. I want it to save up all the rain though and bring it to Arkansas! We need it in the worst way, not the damage part just the several days of rain part please!

[Highhawk1948]

Good Luck. I am up in Central Florida and hopefully won't get to much wind and rain. We are prepared, If electric goes out we plan to live in the Horse Trailer with the generator running at night.

[crashdive123]

Not sure how the Keys are doing, but the Panhandle area, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana coasts need to stay alert. We're getting the outer bands of Issac now in Jax. Don't expect too much here other than rain and a nice breeze. Still gotta pay attention though.

[Rick]

Bread, milk and eggs. Just sayin'......Stay safe.

[doug1980]

Got all our preps done now just waiting. Looks like it will hit further West than they initially thought but we could still be near the center. Luckily we are 30 miles inland. Worst part of any storm like this is the aftermath. Days or weeks without utilities sucks. No A/C with an infant and two year old recovering from surgery will not be fun.

[crashdive123]

Doug - box fans and a generator make things much more tolerable.

[crashdive123]

I imagine Batch has got his hands full right about now. Stay safe my friend.

[doug1980]

Don't have box fans but we do have a generator and some ocilating fans. Shouldn't be as bad as Andrew was in '92 so I'm not too concerned. Still not looking forward to it though.

[Batch]

We went hunting. My dad and Sean went up Friday and I went up Saturday. Friday night it stormed something fierce. with a lightning show that was off the chain and rains that collapsed my Pro Guide Series ez up canopy. The weather was perfect all day Saturday. We usually hunt the open of archery at Corbett and its is usually 15 degrees hotter and no breeze and mosquitoes like you never want to see. This storm made it much more bearable. We had rains starting around 4 AM and only one lightning bolt while we were still out there today.

Lots of car wrecks on the way home. Probably the only stupid part about going out this weekend was driving in the rain with people that just can't drive.


Red skies at night... Maybe not as accurate as they say. LOL

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The ride out. The water is actually down a good 10" from where it should be.

[Batch]

This was this morning. I had already broken camp. I can usually break camp in about 10 minutes. I went for a ride to another camp that had a stinking passion vine growing on it last time we were out. I wanted to see the condition of the vine. I got caught in the bands coming through. I had to turn around to keep dry because it was a driving rain. So I just pulled a u-turn and parked and let it rain. Neither Sean nor I required rain gear to get the camp broke and all things loaded. We also unloaded everything at our warehouse with out getting wet.

I have dedicated rain gear in the UTV and in my truck. I did use my truck rain jacket to open the warehouse. But, then I hung it on a chair in front of a fan to dry while we backed in the trailer and hung the tents and other things that got packed wet.

I am a big fan of rain. Just keep the lightning. LOL Our typical weather this time of year gives us much more intense thunderstorms in the afternoon then this storm every produced.