Fearless Freak Forecast - Emily Edition

[digitaldiscipline]

For those of you who like, as NPR put it in their interview of a handful of 10 year olds yesterday in preparation for the new HP book, "Wild speculation," here's the way-in-advance Emily Edition of the FFF.



Not feeling too confident about the strength projection, since the fast movement is throwing me off. Might build up beaucoup strength and whomp ass there, a'la Gilbert (which only had the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded in the western hemisphere), since it's taking a similar track. I expect it to blow out a fair bit after that landfall, maybe all the way down to TS if it's a prolonged overland segment, but to get a little more organized in the western gulf, and make things wet and messy from Galveston up to the TX/LA border, and maybe as far east as Baton Rouge.

Maybe a second FFF edition for this one will make an appearance this weekend.

Comments

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

You're not making me feel any better. Must go shopping tonight for water jugs, among other things.

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

But then again, we _could_ use some rain.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Mmm... Jugs. ;-)

Really, all you need to worry about is bottled water (1 gal per day you expect to be stranded, if at all), food that doesn't need electricity (pop tarts, fruit, etc), candles, and batteries. Make sure you've got girly hygeine products, I suppose.

Everything else is pretty much either extreme-isolation preparedness, or just overkill. if you want to put plywood over the windows, go with 3/4", or at least 5/8" stuff, and use screws (rather than nails), because that makes taking it down easier.

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I just now actually _thought_ about the plywood thing, and while I would absolutely use screws (or something more reusable)...I don't have anything to screw into for most of them. All my windows have metal frames and 10 of the 18 are in brick facade, and the ones that aren't are fairly well sheltered already, just from the way the house is built. I could do masonry anchors and the like, but...eurgh. PITA! I need new windows anyway, so let 'em break and let insurance buy new ones! (um. right. need to ponder this one, since I'm not thrilled by the prospect of a hurricane _in my house_.)