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Hortensis

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40. You live a bit closer to nature than some.

Sun Sep 9, 2018, 06:00 PM

Sep 2018

Here inland, supermarkets make food available.

Seriously, my daughter lives on the edge of tornado alley. They were going to put a shelter under their garage, instead they built an "outdoor room." It's beautiful and gotten good use, 150 guests got to admire it at a recent party, but! Grandma wants a cramped little hole in the ground.

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Florence Forecast To Become A Major Hurricane; Risk To The East Coast Is Rising [View all] liberal N proud Sep 2018 OP

First thing, check the beer supply Jersey Devil Sep 2018 #1

Stocked up today liberal N proud Sep 2018 #2

Fill up the bathtub with water the day before it hits. joshcryer Sep 2018 #3

Why not buy and fill 5 gallon jugs? nt Blue_true Sep 2018 #6

Bathtub is a big 50-100 gallon "jug." joshcryer Sep 2018 #7

Don't forget the 40 gallons in your safeinOhio Sep 2018 #8

Wow. Good for you. PCIntern Sep 2018 #44

And, Washing hands & whatever! I don't have a bathtub so I bought Cha Sep 2018 #14

Is bathtub where you hide from tornadoes? unc70 Sep 2018 #15

That is true enough. joshcryer Sep 2018 #16

Moonshine is more compact Lochloosa Sep 2018 #4

I don't drink beer. Blue_true Sep 2018 #5

Your favorite pastries malaise Sep 2018 #9

I guess that I have a problem. Blue_true Sep 2018 #22

You can toast in the grill malaise Sep 2018 #25

Yep. Forgot that. Pan toast over the grill. Blue_true Sep 2018 #31

A small propane grill or a coal pot work fine malaise Sep 2018 #33

Buy Coors, Bud or Miller... They're not beer :-D TheBlackAdder Sep 2018 #10

Lol. Nt BootinUp Sep 2018 #11

No thanks, I never got into drinking pee. nt Blue_true Sep 2018 #23

Charging and loading up the Kindles Hortensis Sep 2018 #27

The kindle sounds good. Charge your husband by the shot for the hard liquor, though. nt Blue_true Sep 2018 #32

Lol. He gets sick as a dog with much more than one drink. Hortensis Sep 2018 #35

Preparations not just for the coast unc70 Sep 2018 #12

Looking more like NC this morning malaise Sep 2018 #19

Latest model runs look bad unc70 Sep 2018 #20

European model forecast? OneGrassRoot Sep 2018 #45

Try tropical tidbits.com unc70 Sep 2018 #46

The last forecast I saw at 11 PM EST had the cone over the entirety of ENC and into SC ooky Sep 2018 #13

Looking at the spaghetti models one has a worst case stall over NC. joshcryer Sep 2018 #17

Luckily, Trump and his crack team of emergency responders is on it... unitedwethrive Sep 2018 #18

Makes me feel safer knowing... jcgoldie Sep 2018 #28

And don't forget Hurricane Olivia is about to slam into Hawaii krispos42 Sep 2018 #21

It's that upper level high fooking up everything. peekaloo Sep 2018 #24

Florence is now a hurricane malaise Sep 2018 #26

Depending on your layout, consider draining a foot or so from your pool, if you have one. dameatball Sep 2018 #29

System in Gulf has 20% chance of forming Gothmog Sep 2018 #30

It's affecting our South-West right now but we haven thunder and lightning in Kingston malaise Sep 2018 #34

Congrats on SOME rain. Hortensis Sep 2018 #36

Isaac is heading our way according to the experts malaise Sep 2018 #37

Yes. Thank goodness for modern surveillance. Hortensis Sep 2018 #38

We have come a long way re hurricane warnings malaise Sep 2018 #39

You live a bit closer to nature than some. Hortensis Sep 2018 #40

I can understand their decision until a tornado draws near malaise Sep 2018 #41

Exactly. Hortensis Sep 2018 #42

We have more hurricane threats than hurricanes. The last really big one was Gilbert, 30 years ago malaise Sep 2018 #43