Too soon to tell on Hanna...stop the fear-mongering, NDN.

This stuff is getting ridiculous.

there are 2 more with possibilities behind hanna and 1 over by mexico lol better be prepared for those ones too. i think i am going to put all my shutters up, stock up with a bunch of beer and ice cream and take off from work till november and hibernate in my house. hmm i wonder how much beer i should buy?

no none of the belgian bud, its to bad too cause i really liked the bud light lime. going to find my hibernating supplies...

Mint chocolate chip ice cream, too. It even tastes good melted.

Well that explains the hot, humid, still nights recently. We are now stuck between two storm systems.

Now if we can get just the edges of one or the other it should cool us off enough to avoid the worst of whatever may come next.

There is a chance we could be in 2 cones at the same time. What would that be like? A black hole,a vortex? Will my watch run backwards? This may have been how the 5 planes in Flight 19 disappeared.
At the signpost ahead, next stop the Twilight Zone.

Actually swampbuggy that scenario does exist, its just not very likley right now. We will only know as time goes on and we get a better idea of the tracks these storms will take. One of the issues is that the size of the storm, its diameter and strength means that even though they could be hundreds of miles apart they can still interact with each other. Its very rare to get a double hurricane but it has happened before.
Being prepared is good, sticking your head in the sand (posts #1 & #2) is an option but not a good one. Am I ready? Nope, but I will be.

bubs - I still have leftover supplies from Fay. I bought a bunch of beer and spaghettios. I was the most prepared person on my block.

oh hey spaghettios and beer are good!! lol i was probably the worst prepared on my block, i had beer and that was about it!!! thats why now with all these storms that are out to get us, i am going into hibernation with the beer and not coming out till November.

Firehauck is right, None of the predictors have it going to Florida:

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/...

I recently found this site and love it - it has numerous spag models, radar from sites potentially affected, including swiftmud. Not for dial-up users. Scroll down about half way for Hanna

http://www.bearpawsweather.com/tropical/

for the folks who get repeated incensed by every hurricane story on the NDN website, here's a brief primer in the economics of publishing. Websites get paid at a particular rate called a CPM by which advertisers pay for every 1,000 page impressions viewed by website visitors. More page views = more dollars. So relax. The NDN isn't doing these stories to drive business to 7-11 and Home Depot. They aren't doing it to incite fear or to anger the regular cadre of NDN commenters who would evidently rather be hit by surprise by a storm than to ever read a story about one. It's just finances, people. The NDN publishes these stories because news and updates about active storms are extremely search-engine friendly and draw Web traffic by the tens of thousands per hour from all over the globe.

I'm just somewhat concerned because all the spaghetti map tracks show it reaching some point and then suddenly turning radically (some of them in our general direction).

I know it's still a ways off and a lot can happen, but still worth monitoring.

they are probably looking at this
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/...
and reading what Jeff "The Master" Masters is saying

How about they both come together in the state of Florida....then you will have the Perfect Storm. Florida will then break off and float away!
Come on people....they just like to scare us!

gatorsean: thanks for the link. This site is a nice collection of information from many sources. I liked his disclaimer that he was not a meteorologist and that one should rely on the NHC.

Pauls the spaghetti tracks do this odd thing toward the end of many time lines. The meteorologists at the NHC analyze the tracks and use this information to extrapolate a track. Don't get too hung up on these models.

Accuweather and Weatherunderground have real meteorologists to help decipher information. The discussion section per each storm on the NHC site is also very helpful.

"Perfect Storm 2"?!? What if Gustav & Hannah met just West of SWFLA!?! Look out New Orleans! Who was it that predicted New Orleans to be "water world" by the year 2030? Move Mardi Gras to Tampa!

Let me guess....deport the storms???

Not a bad idea flbutterly...deport the storms to Mexico, because the lake floating into my living room can't take anymore.

Excuse me as I go an adjust my sandbags.

bring on the storms, we need the "pick me up"