That time of year

Camper is packed and ready to go on short notice this time of year; every year.

But we have had our storm for this year with close to 30 inches of rain in 36 hours just a few weeks ago.
Lots of people still not back in their homes due to flooding.

So it's time for someone else to step up and take it on the chin for the group.




You guys that live near the coast stay safe.
We can put another season behind us if we can only make about 4 or 5 more weeks

good luck to you..it wss terrible,,we watched it on the news,,devastating,,glsd your ok

Your last line kind of reminds me of a line from Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"- "the searchers all say they (would)'ve made White Fish Bay if they'd put 15 more miles behind her". But that's Great Lakes history, a long ways from the Gulf.

Local weather man here said earlier this summer it may well take a tropical storm/hurricane to break this drought. I think he was correct. At least we haven't been washed away. Best of luck to you.

Glad you and your family are OK.

Being from the middle of the country, I just cannot imagine what it's like to deal with hurricane season along any of the coastal states.

It was a pain in the butt when I was in Marine Corps aviation stationed at both MCAS Cherry Point, NC and MCAS Beaufort, SC.

A hurricane would start up in the Caribbean. We'd have to put X's on all the windows with masking tape, fly all the airplanes that would fly inland, stack all the planes that wouldn't fly in a hangar, move everything else into a hangar, nail everything else down that there wasn't room for in a hangar, etc. Then the hurricane would change direction and go somewhere else.

You'd just get everything undone and back to normal when another hurricane would start up and you'd do it all over again.

I also went through a major typhoon when I was at Atsugi, Japan. ("Hurricane" and "typhoon" are synonymous, usage depends on what part of the planet you're on).

Once at Cherry Point, a major hurricane went right over the top of us. It was just like they say, it blew like hell from one direction for a day, then was dead calm for a couple of hours while the eye went over, then it started up from the opposite direction.

A high school classmate of mine once flew on the hurricane hunter airplanes that flew into the eye of the storm. And people thought I was crazy for racing stock cars.

What a lot of people didn't know was she was doomed before that. The Edmund was rivited together when they would go through a storm they would pick up buckets full of rivit heads. When she sank there was another ship following right behind her in radio contact. The captain of the Edmund radioed that his railing was down and he was taking on solid water not white or spray. that ment the ship was broke in the middle hence the railing down and was so low in the water it was solid. went down so fast the captain of the other ship saw the lights and then they were gone.

Over here near Lafayette we didn't get quite as much but a lot of people are still flooded.we really can't take any more rain.much less a wind event!

It didn't sink in to me how bad it was down there until I watched this weeks This Week In Louisiana Agriculture.
TWILA

The "Edmund Fitzgerald" was also loaded heavier than the ship was originally designed for too. The increase the cargo capacity several years before. The entire wreck could easily be avoided if the captain had sought save harbor over plowing trough the bad weather. HE was known for being stubborn about pushing to make deliveries even if it was riskier then needed to be.

I have read several books about the wreck and it seems that human error was the biggest factor in the wreck.

Some say the waves that evening on Superior were 25-28 ft and that the some of the ship's cargo hatches were not sealed to be watertight and some lids were loose. The waves came over the top of cargo hatches every few seconds then the ship had wave water go down inside cargo hold with the iron pellet cargo. The normal height of the cargo lids was 12 ft over waterline ,I believe. Storms come up quickly and leave no room for human error in Superior.

I was attending Advanced Undersea Weapons School in Key West in 1960 when Hurricane Donna, (a class V) hit. It knocked out the water pipe that extended 150 miles from Miami to supply the only fresh water to the Keys. We were on water rations(no showers, only enough for washing face and cooking), for several months. But then it prepared me for when I later served on a WWII submarine!! LOL! Two days later, I volunteered for a working party up the keys and witnessed first hand the total devastation in some areas. My point is that I have seen the worst that a hurricane can do, so I take warnings seriously.