There's a HURRICANE coming, we are CLOSED, Go away!

[PepperElf]

I'm glad everyone's getting out of the area for the hurricane. I was in Isabella but my boss didn't want to make an official decision on when to let us go until he heard from his bosses... not enough balls to make his own decisions.

So... didn't leave work until the day before the storm hit. Ended up staying there with the cat. Thankfully I was over 4 miles away from the waterfront with a forest & other buildings in the way... and wasn't too close to the forest either. Only suckage was no power for a week and a dying cell phone. When it was safe to drive and shops were re-opening, I got myself a car charger.

And off topic: the "Great mot" - they don't directly say "Refurb/resell" on the bag, but they do say that a portion of the proceeds go to schools participating in the motorola race to recycle school collection program. can put up to 3 phones in a bag.

Haven't done it myself yet cos i want to blank out my old verizon phone data first, and my spare tracfone went to sis in case they lose one of theirs.

[Arm]

Why does he need a phone? One of two things will happen:

He stays behind. Even odds he drowns (we all cheer for the gene pool chlorine). If he survives, he still has no phone service, as the TOWERS will be offline. Nobody who can look at a balance sheet is going to leave the cell towers powered up during a cat 5 hurricane. The signal wouldn't carry anyway, and there's an excellent chance that the towers themselves will get knocked over or otherwise damaged. They may be brought back online following the storm, assuming they can be checked remotely for damage. IF the towers come back online after the hurricane passes, WHO is he going to call? Emergency services are suspended, and everyone else was smart enough to leave town.

OR....

He evacuates.
He can buy a phone wherever he winds up, that's far enough out of the path to have stores that are, you know, OPEN.

[Evil Queen]

Hurricanes make me ever so glad I live on the praries... and far faaaaar north of Tornado Alley.

Don't you live in Canadaland? Are there ever Hurricanes in Canada?


After this, I am Sooooo moving back to the desert; this hurricane shit is too damned stressful for me.

[Arm]

Don't you live in Canadaland? Are there ever Hurricanes in Canada?


After this, I am Sooooo moving back to the desert; this hurricane shit is too damned stressful for me.

I kinda like hurricanes...

...but I live above sea level

I used to live in south florida. Most of the houses there that're built up to code can take it. concrete walls, concrete tiles on the roof. Big storms are awesome.

[Evil Queen]

I like Thunderstorms. They're so awesome. So colourful (we'd have purple lightning when I lived in TN and I'd only seen the harmless Green Lightning once, a long, long time ago in Florida), so relaxing....