Not exactly. I have water lines, telephone lines and gas lines all running within 5 feet of the base of the tree, plus my asphalt driveway (the tree curves right over my driveway, which means its impossible for me to drop it without tearing up my driveway, therefore, leaving it up to a professional to take care of).
I live in sugarland by highway 90 and dariyashford should I be woried at all about high winds or extreme flooding? I live in a 2 story townhome
I think the storm will be specifically targeting two story townhomes so be on the safe side and move to your neighbors nicer 3 bed room place or go ahead and slum it with your lonely 1 bed room neighbors. [edit].. or do you have three bed rooms already? The storm is really just looking to kill poor people.
I live on the coast line, and work over the water. My office over looks the ship channel, and the building is actually on stilts. Should I stay home and get fired, or come to work and die?
I've lived through a few, they suck and bad stuff can happen. But just bow up and do the best you can. It's the price you pay for living in this little slice of heaven. If if comes close, I think people will move en' mass. I think we will have to live through one to remind ourselves the proper level of response really is in 2009+. It's been a generation. I don't know myself at this point.
Behad, why do you have to work?? Ok, I read that during a hurricane or tornado, you're supposed to take place in a restroom or a closet in the center of your house. My 1 story house has a big living room with high ceilings in the center and the restrooms/closets are on sides of the house so are we gonna die? I'm half serious and joking. I've been through a category 2 hurricane in Florida and we were up and around in the house in Orlando. The windows weren't even boarded up. Maybe that house was built up to hurricane standards.
Why does'nt God just go ahead and send us to hell in a handbasket? And i just moved back here from Tucson. Lord have mercy!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html Hurricane Ike has grown into a very large and powerful Category 2 hurricane. At 2 pm EDT, the Hurricane Hunters found maximum winds had increased to 100 mph. This increase in winds was a reaction to the 10 mb drop in pressure noted in the past 12 hours. The most recent pressure measured--958 mb at 3:09 pm EDT--was actually a 1 mb increase from the 10 am reading, indicating that Ike's intensity has likely leveled off for now. Visible satellite loops show that Ike has ingested some dry air from the west, which is visible as a spiral dark streak that wraps into the core of the storm. The small 11-mile diameter eye occasionally pops into view, and is exhibiting the unusual behavior of orbiting around in a large circle within the hurricane. Hurricane Wilma of 2005--the strongest hurricane on record--exhibited this behavior during its intensification phase, as well. However, Wilma was not sucking in dry air at the time, and Ike is not likely to approach Wilma's ferocity. Track forecast for Ike The latest 12Z (8am EDT)) computer models are in even less agreement than the previous set of runs. There has been a northward shift in several models, most notably the GFDL, which now has Ike making landfall at Galveston as a strong Category 3 hurricane. With a trough of low pressure expected to turn Ike northwestward close to landfall time, slight variations in the timing of this trough among the models is causing a large spread in landfall locations. Given the recent trend in the models to take Ike farther north, I would expect more of the models in future runs may be joining the GFDL in predicting a Galveston landfall. The cone of uncertainty still covers the entire Texas coast, and residents of southwestern Louisiana are also at risk.
