Well...we made it. Minor damage on the coast. All the weather elements came together and Floyd moved off the coast. After two days of preparing (and I don't mean food, etc) I am exhausted. This farm in so picked up and clean that it looks like we have moved. But the inside of the house is a distaster with kennels stacked up for the critters, porch furniture, etc. I do a lot of pot gardening and we moved in over 40 large pots...these pots are two and three feet in diameter full of dirt and small trees, flowers, veggies. We moved then in under the porch roof and the potted weeping willows we put in one of the screen porches. Over all it was an excercise in hard labor. I have no intentions of "undoing" any of it until I see where our new friend 'Gert' is going to go. In the meantime Floyd is headed for CRITT and OLD GIT. I know they must be working their butts off. Critt, you better consider getting out of there. Looks to be another Hugo. LOve and prayers with all of our friends to the north.

Taz

-- Taz (Tassie@aol.com), September 15, 1999

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It's been very interesting on the TeeVee here in the Carolinas. Mass (millions) evacuation. Cars were bumper-to-bumper on the interstate (I-26). Shots of stores being emptied and generators, generators, generators! Store cleaned out on the coast, so stores all into West Carolina's were shipping them down to the coast. Many people actually were driving hundreds of miles inland to get a gennie, some to bring back now and some to bring back later.

Newscasters were talking about flashlights, batteries, candles, water, etc. Preparing...all kinds of "key" words we y2k Preppies talk about daily.

The shot of the cars going five miles an hour down the Interstate made it very CLEAR that NYC, LA and all major cites inbetween will flood the roads with cars pre-2000 - heading anywhere (to the country).

Not a pretty picture.

-- dw (y2k@outhere.com), September 15, 1999.

PS: This hurricane (another one a-comming) is one of the "X-Factors" that I have been predicting as a BIG wake-up call. The other is next Thursday (Sept 23rd/24th) when it's 99 days and counting till...

-- dw (y2k@outhere.com), September 15, 1999.

'The shot of the cars going five miles an hour down the Interstate made it very CLEAR that NYC, LA and all major cites inbetween will flood the roads with cars pre-2000 - '

People will not pick up and move unless they preceive clear and present danger...otherwise, more would have left the coastlines earlier and the roads would not have been jammed. . .

And just as in this case, where do they go? If there is no family, what are ya gonna do? camp out along the interstate? I actually heard a newscaster telling people to bring sleeping bags, food, etc. cause there were no rooms left within a two state area. And the shelters were already crammed full. If the rain had been worse in Florida as the folks drove out it would have been much worse on the road than sticking it out at home. I noted folks heading out of SC this morning were already in the rain zone.

-- Shelia (Shelia@active-stream.com), September 15, 1999.

Taz, I'm glad that I'm not the only one who spent the last two days boarding-up and picking the yard clean!! :) I'm with you, this place looks like no one lives here. (From the outside!) My house is also packed and what I couldn't get into the house, I took to the back 10 acres where it couldn't hurt anything if it were to fly around. Then last but not least, I sat up most of the night to see if Floyd was going to turn. At least the family is safe and the kids are loving the day out from school.... Glad to here that your ok also. Last night was kind of spoky though. All I could hear was the sound of the wind and the branches breaking in the woods. I'm with you about undoing things. I'll wait and see what else if coming across the Atlantic. Enjoy the mild weather while it is here! It won't last long.

Best wishes! God bless you and keep you,

Cache (A friend told me that you live nearby.)

-- Cache (cache@magicnet.net), September 15, 1999.

I've already put in to head for the Carolinas (I did three months in Dade county, FL, after Andrew as a relief worker and then a carpenter) if it gets bad. Who knows, maybe I'll drop by and see Old Git and Critt and whoever else is around if I end up nearby. ;-) (That's a HUGE 'if' but hey...)

Anybody got a spot of clean floor for a roving disaster-relief type looking for a flat spot to snooze? [vbg]

The insane...

-- OddOne (mocklamer_1999@yahoo.com), September 15, 1999.

Do you all have a place to run to?

georgia peach

-- georgia peach (the.patch@worldnet.att.net), September 15, 1999.