Hurricane Frances: How Did You Fare?
<div class="IPBDescription">Tell your tales heeyah!</div> I thought it would be interesting to hear from those who felt Frances' wrath.
I live in NE Florida and although she passed 150 miles to our west we STILL felt 60-70mph winds. As a result, rain fell in copious amounts and hundreds of trees were felled, resulting in widespread power outages. My home survived with no structural damage but yard debris was the worst I've seen (it took me a week to clean my yard about 85% and I put a pile of yard waste to the curb 15' deep, 12' wide, and 10'wide - it will probably take them 3 or 4 weeks to pick it all up).
I was without power for 91 hours and living in Florida air conditioning is a necessity, not a luxury. But I missed my computer the most ... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> I wound up closing my windows as humidity climbed to 86% inside and sleeping was nearly impossible. The worst "damage" came the day after - Labor Day.
The time was 5:45pm, and a break in the weather enabled me to go out back and rake yard debris off my elevated walkway that winds down towards the river. A very high flood tide had the river 1/3 of the way up my back yard so some of the walkway was of course under water. As I got to the final stretch of walkway that was dry, a swarm of yellowjackets came up out of nowhere and attacked me. Long story short it looked just like the classic cartoon where a black swarm cyclones around you as you run off. Seems the exceptionally high tide had flooded them from their original location and they were relocating.
I ran to the house to hose them off (hootin' and hollerin the whole time in excruciating pain) and THEN had to get naked as they were all inside my clothes. I dropped my wet clothes and ran inside to shower off, then called 911 and was rushed to the ER. I suffered from 50+ bee stings and was treated for an allergic reaction, although my primary care physician said in my follow-up visit that I actually did not. 8-1/2 days later a lot of the wounds still hurt like hell and I'm going to have some nasty scars. Oh yeah, the hive was terminated last Friday to the tune of $135.00!
I survived Frances. Charley missed us, and Ivan will too. Such is life in the bikini state. I do realize we have been most fortunate through all this. <i>Let's hear YOUR story!</i>
I live in NE Florida and although she passed 150 miles to our west we STILL felt 60-70mph winds. As a result, rain fell in copious amounts and hundreds of trees were felled, resulting in widespread power outages. My home survived with no structural damage but yard debris was the worst I've seen (it took me a week to clean my yard about 85% and I put a pile of yard waste to the curb 15' deep, 12' wide, and 10'wide - it will probably take them 3 or 4 weeks to pick it all up).
I was without power for 91 hours and living in Florida air conditioning is a necessity, not a luxury. But I missed my computer the most ... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> I wound up closing my windows as humidity climbed to 86% inside and sleeping was nearly impossible. The worst "damage" came the day after - Labor Day.
The time was 5:45pm, and a break in the weather enabled me to go out back and rake yard debris off my elevated walkway that winds down towards the river. A very high flood tide had the river 1/3 of the way up my back yard so some of the walkway was of course under water. As I got to the final stretch of walkway that was dry, a swarm of yellowjackets came up out of nowhere and attacked me. Long story short it looked just like the classic cartoon where a black swarm cyclones around you as you run off. Seems the exceptionally high tide had flooded them from their original location and they were relocating.
I ran to the house to hose them off (hootin' and hollerin the whole time in excruciating pain) and THEN had to get naked as they were all inside my clothes. I dropped my wet clothes and ran inside to shower off, then called 911 and was rushed to the ER. I suffered from 50+ bee stings and was treated for an allergic reaction, although my primary care physician said in my follow-up visit that I actually did not. 8-1/2 days later a lot of the wounds still hurt like hell and I'm going to have some nasty scars. Oh yeah, the hive was terminated last Friday to the tune of $135.00!
I survived Frances. Charley missed us, and Ivan will too. Such is life in the bikini state. I do realize we have been most fortunate through all this. <i>Let's hear YOUR story!</i>
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or is a yellowjacket another name for a wasp/bee/hornet in the US?
I wasn't there personally, but one of the people in my class' flight was delayed about 5 days because of the hurricane, and she was in florida. No idea what it was like though.
or is a yellowjacket another name for a wasp/bee/hornet in the US?
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A yellowjacket is it's own breed, less than 1/2" long and very aggressive. They build their nests in the ground normally (the hive that was terminated was the size of a cantelope).
But uh yea, good luck with cleaning up all the mess Frances left and hope nobody was hurt...
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Its so unfair, were i live in the uk, i get about half an inch of snow every two years. I want to make snow men / sledge / throw snow balls at the elderly <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> its just not fair <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I heard on the news there was another one coming after Ivan...
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I have lived in the midwest (Iowa, snow drifts covering telephone poles and winter temps to -30), northeast (upstate NY, bitter damp cold and not the blizzards I saw in Iowa), Korea (very similar to northeastern US weather), and Florida.
I'd much rather put up with Florida's 3 H's (heat, humidity, and hurricanes) than that damn cold and snow any day! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->