Gustav

fiddle-fart · Veteran Member

Bob;
Are you gonna be in the path of Gustav.

I seen on the weather channel that you could be in harms way.
Be careful

Mike

KurtS · Senior Member

If figures a tropical depression would get a Scandinavian name.

(laughing at myself here)
Just look disinterested, and Gustav will leave.

Seriously though...I hope everyone will be safe.

Bob P · Site Admin

Right now, Gustav is predicted to hit in Louisiana, but any time it enters the Gulf of Mexico, I watch it very, very carefully. They have been known to make very sporadic and weird directional changes. Keep your fingers crossed!

fiddle-fart · Veteran Member

Fingers, eyes

and a prayer or 2 for those in harms way

Mike

Dick · Expert Member

" And above all, your legs"! Don't want to get caught with your pants down! Remember Katrina!
Dick

Gabe · Senior Member

This storm is going to be real bad, no matter were it hits. If Gustav hits New Orleans, LA... you can say goodbye to all of the work and effort since Katrina.

KurtS · Senior Member

Yeah...I shouldn't be joking about this at all. It's already hit bad in the Caribbean and people have died.

fiddle-fart · Veteran Member

I think FEMA was right when they wanted to move New Orleans about 35 -40 miles further inland ( after Katrina ) and made the present place a landfill.

eagames · Expert Member

Last eves monsoon was almost like a hurricane here in Az LOL!!!!

Big wind:

http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/2008/08/29/20080829storms0829-ON.html

Smashed the new 8 million $ practice ASU dome stadium:

http://www.kpho.com/news/17333878/detail.html

Damaged airport:

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2008/08/25/daily59.html

KurtS · Senior Member

That sounds serious too! Shocked

Not the time to be out in the desert with possible flash floods and cacti like cholla blowing around.

Dick · Expert Member

I don't think you should worry much about Gustav. The satellite maps indicate that it could be driven more to the Mexico/US border areas. Hanna is the one to watch. The weather channel gives one interpretation, but I don't think they are very accurate. That lower beranch of the high pressure system that they indicate, may become an "upper level low, or low aloft" as some call it. That will tend to drive Gustav more to the SW, and bring Hanna in the front door! I am not a "weather-guesser", but I can read maps. Speaking of the desert, and flying cholla cacti, those are what we "desert-rats" use for cherios. The "barrel cactus", or Bisnaga", as it is called in Mexico, makes some very tasty candy!
Dick

Dick · Expert Member

Coop, with the storm and rain that you got the other night, are you okay? I just got word of it, and whatit did to the indoor practice area for ASU. I know you are quite a way from Tempe, but the rain could have affected you, and my sister, nearby. Lose your power?
Dick

eagames · Expert Member

Dick,

I'm sure you have seen the monsoons here, the one last eve was very strange.

I heard a rumble and thought someone was tuning up a Harley so I looked outside. The horizon was flashing blue - green - white - black then repeating constantly. Soon after rain and wind hit then hail. Strange to see hail when it was 94 degrees earlier. I have a dry wash that goes through my yard, it's 4 feet deep and 10 feet wide, it sounded like a torrent.

Today I looked to see that my fences were all still up but a lot of branches everyplace.
Some nearby stores are still closed with no power.
I see less damage than I expected.

Bob P · Site Admin

I've been watching the weather in Arizona as well. I know a little bit about the monsoons, but all of yesterdays storms seemed to be moving southwest. Is that common Ed? I saw all the pictures coming out of there where people thought their cars were jet skis or something. When will people realize that their vehicle can be a personal death trap rather that a personal water craft. How sad that folks just don't listen.

I am feeling a little bit better about Gustav right now, but certainly not relieved. It seems the east side of the storm will most likely expand. We wouldn't get the eye wall, but certainly some wind and rain damage if that happens. Even though Katrina hit in Louisiana, we had some very rough weather here, almost 300 miles away.
My daughter and her family and I are very ready for this bad boy. We will keep an eye out for him.

Dick · Expert Member

Ed, I have lived in AZ from '27, to 2000, off, and on. It is my Permanent place of residence. I currently live in CA, but who knows when, or if I return to my "homeland". I was thinking of a word to describe some of the thunderstorms I have seen, and went thru: Cloudburst! then you have a pownpour, that will make one think twice before venturing out doors. In the desert areas, one does NOT go very far from high ground. One never knows when the "little wash one is in, will become a raging torrent that takes cars like they were nothing, and anyone inside, is at very high risk of being buried in that samr car! I have seen electrical storms there, that equal any I have seen in Mexico. At night, they light up the night sky to the point that you can read a newspaper. That is fact! The nice thing about one of those storms, is it usually is up in the clouds. No bolts of lightning. Sw AZ is very well known for this type of storms, or used to be, some 50 years ago. It is all part of the great Sonora Desert. Just noticed, I'm on page three alrady. sorry,
Dick