I've made a few posts on this on another thread but thought I'd start one here rather than hijack that thread.
As of now, Isaac's projected path is west of us here with landfall sometime late Tuesday or early Wednesday as a strong Cat 1 or weak Cat 2. But the eastern most path would put us in the right side of it (the right front side of a hurricane is where the most violent winds and strongest tornadic activity is) The western most path would leave us with just strong winds, rain, and thunderstorms here in the Panhandle. Of course the projections change evry 6 hours when new data is available from the Hurricane Hunter aircraft (a squadron of AF c-130s based on the Mississippi coast that does nothing but fly into hurricanes collecting data for NOAA.
Thursday and yesterday I bought most of my supplies: canned goods for a week, dog food, paper towels and paper plates, etc; and made sure I have 3 weeks supply of Rx meds. I bought 2 cases of half liter bottles of water (24 bottles per case) and stacked most of them into the empty spaces in the freezer (they'll help preserve the cold there are in an ice chest should I lose power) and I'll fill another 3 gallon water cooler as well as a 48 quart ice chest and the guest bathtub before it hits. I'll also wash the last load of clothing and dishes at the last moment. I'll continue to top off my gas tank every day (and I have 4 jerry cans I'll fill tomorrow if the projection looks like a hit close to here for a total of another 20 gallons) I have a half gallon of Coleman fuel but don't anticipate needing it as I have a gas stove; the gas mains are underground and the gas company maintain emergancy generators to keep the gas flowing (we've never lost gas supplies yet in my lifetime, even after the big hits when elect. was out for 3 weeks)
I'll update here every day unless/until I lose electricity and will update again immediately when electricity is restored.
As of now, Isaac's projected path is west of us here with landfall sometime late Tuesday or early Wednesday as a strong Cat 1 or weak Cat 2. But the eastern most path would put us in the right side of it (the right front side of a hurricane is where the most violent winds and strongest tornadic activity is) The western most path would leave us with just strong winds, rain, and thunderstorms here in the Panhandle. Of course the projections change evry 6 hours when new data is available from the Hurricane Hunter aircraft (a squadron of AF c-130s based on the Mississippi coast that does nothing but fly into hurricanes collecting data for NOAA.
Thursday and yesterday I bought most of my supplies: canned goods for a week, dog food, paper towels and paper plates, etc; and made sure I have 3 weeks supply of Rx meds. I bought 2 cases of half liter bottles of water (24 bottles per case) and stacked most of them into the empty spaces in the freezer (they'll help preserve the cold there are in an ice chest should I lose power) and I'll fill another 3 gallon water cooler as well as a 48 quart ice chest and the guest bathtub before it hits. I'll also wash the last load of clothing and dishes at the last moment. I'll continue to top off my gas tank every day (and I have 4 jerry cans I'll fill tomorrow if the projection looks like a hit close to here for a total of another 20 gallons) I have a half gallon of Coleman fuel but don't anticipate needing it as I have a gas stove; the gas mains are underground and the gas company maintain emergancy generators to keep the gas flowing (we've never lost gas supplies yet in my lifetime, even after the big hits when elect. was out for 3 weeks)
I'll update here every day unless/until I lose electricity and will update again immediately when electricity is restored.
