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Chosen of Moradin
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
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 Posted - 29 Aug 2006 : 13:07:33
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Well, take care, furry friend! 
And use the "day off" to write more realmslore.  |
Dwarf, DM, husband, and proud of this! :P
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 29 Aug 2006 : 13:11:30
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
And I resurrect this thread yet again! This time tomorrow morning, we'll have Tropical Storm Ernesto parked overhead... It's no big deal. I'm just hoping it works out to be a day off! 
Either way, keep your head down, my furry friend. |
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
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Posted - 29 Aug 2006 : 14:15:02
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
And I resurrect this thread yet again! This time tomorrow morning, we'll have Tropical Storm Ernesto parked overhead... It's no big deal. I'm just hoping it works out to be a day off!
Either way, keep your head down, my furry friend.
And the aforementioned fur dry. |
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
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Chosen of Moradin
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
1120 Posts |
Posted - 31 Aug 2006 : 17:16:13
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Hey, welcome back, Wooly! 
It´s good to see you walking in the halls of the keep, well and safe. Take a mug of dwaarven beer. Alaundo is paying.
I expect that everything was well with Ernesto... |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 31 Aug 2006 : 17:58:03
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| They originally were talking about 50-60 mph winds, and up to 6 inches of rain. But then Ernesto weakened... Though half the county was closed down, what we had amounted to a normal summertime rainy day. So it was a wash. |
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Chosen of Moradin
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
1120 Posts |
Posted - 31 Aug 2006 : 19:07:18
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| Well, that is better, considering that the other option was stay in the wrong side of Talos wrath. |
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monknwildcat
Learned Scribe
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2008 : 19:10:35
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*waves wod of thwead necwomancy*
Congrats on dodgin Talos whath, Wupeht!  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2008 : 19:34:53
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*laughs*
I thought about digging up this thread again, because of Tropical Storm Fay, which I was just out and about in. But then I decided that a tropical storm wasn't worth the effort... Though the local newsies would have you believe otherwise, and have been acting like it's a major hurricane. 
My storm preparations: I told my fiancée that, depending on the weather, I would drive her to and from work. And that's it.
It started raining late last night, and has rained pretty much since then. It's not a heavy rain, though -- more light to moderate. It's a lighter rainfall than most of our summer thunderstorms. There's been some wind, enough to blow down some branches and scatter a lot of leaves, but not a lot more. I did get knocked around a bit driving my fiancée's SUV on A1A, which is right next to the beach, and the traffic lights were really swaying, too -- but we've seen that before, without a tropical storm being involved.
Looking at the current projection, it appears that the bulk of the storm will be passing right over us later tonight and tomorrow morn. But since it's not even a Cat One, I'm not really worried about it. I'm paying attention more to stay informed than anything else. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2008 : 19:42:55
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| You know, I was just reading thru this entire thread... It's kind of ironic. In the first post, I was really worried about losing all of my stuff to wind and rain. And instead, I lost it all last year to fire. Life sure works out strange, sometimes. |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3563 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2008 : 20:57:18
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
You know, I was just reading thru this entire thread... It's kind of ironic. In the first post, I was really worried about losing all of my stuff to wind and rain. And instead, I lost it all last year to fire. Life sure works out strange, sometimes.
If I were you, I would store in waterproof containers all the stuff you have replaced! |
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monknwildcat
Learned Scribe
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2008 : 21:51:33
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Yep, I'm with you, RW.
Just consider the ambient, tropical humidity without the storms! Layered gallon freezer-bag Ziplocs, culminating in their Big Bags.
Then again, I'm a bit OCD. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2008 : 22:10:57
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I just got home from picking up my fiancée -- she works in a home improvement place, beachside, and they just closed it down. The place has taken some wind damage, and it was really slow, anyway.
The rain has gotten worse. At times, the visibility was absolute crap. And streets are starting to flood, too.
Other than that, though, we're still doing fine. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 20 Aug 2008 : 18:26:50
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This dang storm... It's slowed down considerably. It was supposed to be well past us by now, but the eye is still fairly close. It's been raining pretty much continuously since late Monday night. So streets are flooding, and it's getting hard to go anywhere. In part of Satellite Beach (where I was living up until a few months ago), the sewers are overwhelmed. They've been backing up in areas, and officials there are asking that water use be limited to just personal hygiene, because of it.
Our hot tub, which is on our back porch, is within minutes of overflowing. And the rain keeps coming!  |
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monknwildcat
Learned Scribe
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - 20 Aug 2008 : 18:40:07
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Beshaba's bossom and Talos' testes, you need a hurricane party! My friend from Miami swears they're the best way to enjoy Floridian weather.
Keep an eye out for Rinonalyrna! She mentioned she was going to FL and may just float past you!
Here's hoping you have a waterproof hamsterball.... |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
France
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 20 Aug 2008 : 21:29:30
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Originally posted by Fillow
Wooly !
few months after the damages to your home !!
Aren't you a Beshaba's worshipper ?
My home was never damaged. Last year's loss was a storage unit where all my stuff was. I thank Lurue it wasn't my home. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 21 Aug 2008 : 06:13:01
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| It's still really windy, but the storm has finally moved away. The continuous rain finally stopped around late afternoon, after dropping 25-30 inches of rain in about 36 hours. Once the rain finally let up, a lot of the flooding I was seeing -- and took pics of -- was gone within a couple of hours. It's worse in some areas, though... One part of town, they were going in with rafts to get people out, and power to that area was shut down for safety reasons. |
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monknwildcat
Learned Scribe
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - 21 Aug 2008 : 14:27:12
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| I'm glad to see you've managed to avoid the worst of it, Wooly. Any plans to relocate out of the hurricane zone? |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 21 Aug 2008 : 15:32:23
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Originally posted by monknwildcat
I'm glad to see you've managed to avoid the worst of it, Wooly. Any plans to relocate out of the hurricane zone?
Not any time soon... We just bought this house.
Really, this area isn't that much of a hurricane zone. From 1988 until 2004, I only went thru a handful of hurricanes -- and the worst was a Cat 2. 2004 was a fluke (I don't know of any other hurricane that looped like Jeanne did). We've only had one hurricane and this tropical storm, since then -- and because of the slow speed of this tropical storm, I think it's dumped more rain than the hurricane did.
Between the barrier islands and ocean currents, this area rarely gets hit -- that's why Cape Canaveral is here. I've seen a lot of hurricanes that looked like they were going to hit, only to veer off (usually to the north by a significant amount) while still a day or so away.
Fay didn't even approach this coast -- it made landfall on the other side of the state, and came across. That was what Charlie did in 2004. And unless they are moving fast, tropical storms/hurricanes lose a lot of strength when moving over land. |
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Edited by - Wooly Rupert on 21 Aug 2008 15:32:55 |
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
France
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monknwildcat
Learned Scribe
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - 21 Aug 2008 : 21:39:09
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::in a British accent::
TS Fay, how dirty states get clean! |
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kysus
Learned Scribe
USA
106 Posts |
Posted - 21 Sep 2008 : 22:58:56
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| Wooly i just want to say i know what u go through with those hurricanes, I live in Louisiana and actually stayed on the northshore for Katrina and luckly nothing bad happened where i was at, though this latest one gustav managed to take a few of my D&D books with it including some of my old forgotten realm novels and game books. curse these dreaded storms!!! |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2008 : 02:35:40
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Originally posted by kysus
Wooly i just want to say i know what u go through with those hurricanes, I live in Louisiana and actually stayed on the northshore for Katrina and luckly nothing bad happened where i was at, though this latest one gustav managed to take a few of my D&D books with it including some of my old forgotten realm novels and game books. curse these dreaded storms!!!
Hurricanes suck. I'm glad I've never had anything worse than 7 days without power result from one. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 04 Oct 2016 : 18:32:09
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Dang it, it looks like I have to resurrect this one again... 
It's looking like we're going to catch at least part of Matthew as it passes by. It was projected to be comfortably far away, as of yesterday, but it's now projected to come a lot closer. I'm hoping it goes back to further away, but we shall see.
When I started this thread, I was just a single guy living in a crappy apartment. My wife and I were still a couple months from our first date... Now we have a house and a 5 year old son -- that makes this routine a lot scarier than it has been on past occasions.
I will keep y'all updated. |
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Delwa
Master of Realmslore
USA
1268 Posts |
Posted - 04 Oct 2016 : 21:06:42
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| Best wishes, Immortal Hamster. Stay safe, and may Tymora guard and bless you and yours. |
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Fellfire
Master of Realmslore
1965 Posts |
Posted - 04 Oct 2016 : 22:03:53
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| Looks like FL might get slammed. I would sacrifice a goat for Talos if I were you. Good luck. |
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
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Posted - 05 Oct 2016 : 02:09:33
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| Best wishes indeed. I hope it all turns out for the least bad. |
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Alaundo
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