Hurricanes Are a Total Ugh

FORECASTED TRACK OF HURRICANE IVAN

• Saturday, September 11 - 11 a.m. - Happiness! Stupid Ivan's track is shifting ever westward into the Gulf. Good news for me; bad news for the Panhandle.
  
• Friday, September 10 - 11 p.m. - Not much different than the 5 p.m. track; maybe a little more to the west.
  
• Friday, September 10 - 5 p.m. - This is a little better, it's heading more west into the Gulf of Mexico. But only a little.
  
• Friday, September 10 - 11 a.m. - See the line that says "8 AM Tue"? That's pointing directly where I live.

I am so over this hurricane nonsense. The National Hurricane Center is now predicting that Ivan will make a direct hit on the Tampa Bay area - where I live, yo - as a strong Category 4 storm overnight on Monday. But you know what? That's exactly what they said about Charley, and it turned while I was taking a nap.

SO I'M NOT FALLING FOR THIS AGAIN!!

Actually, yes I am. People here are already going batshit crazy. There's long lines for gasoline - at the places that still have any gasoline - and the stores are being emptied of nonperishables as I type. I will be subsisting on tuna fish, crackers and water if things get bad.

I'm going to keep updating this entry with the forecast tracks as they're released by the NHC. I'll link them at the top of the entry and change the date.

Posted by Highwaygirl on September 11, 2004 11:43 AM to the category Stuff About Me