are YOUUUUUUUUU REEAAADDDYYYYY!?!?!?!?!?!

[cyrus buelton]

My neighbor came by to borrow some gas.  I gave him 5 gallons but told him to seriously, next time be prepared.  

His wife brought us cupcakes after power was restored and he bought a Honda generator just like mine.  It amazed me how many people left their houses after 48 hours.  My street was like a ghost town.

How do you borrow gas?

It's not like you are returning it.

It's like people go "Can I borrow a cigarette?"


No way would I leave my house in the event of a massive power outage.

that is prime time to get robbed.

[akmnstr]

How do you borrow gas?

It's not like you are returning it.

It's like people go "Can I borrow a cigarette?"


No way would I leave my house in the event of a massive power outage.

that is prime time to get robbed.

Sometimes when the power is out it is because there is a hurricane just outside the door.  That might be a good time to be somewhere else when the power is out.   

[cyrus buelton]

Sometimes when the power is out it is because there is a hurricane just outside the door.  That might be a good time to be somewhere else when the power is out.   

I still wouldn't leave my house for very long.

Sure, maybe during the height of the storm, but not after it moves out.

My brother stayed in Cayman during Ivan the Terrible. If you have ever been to GC, he lived by the Turtle Farm.

All the turtles got washed out to sea that night 

[Speedbag]

I'm all set. 

[fastwin]

My wife and I had our honeymoon in Grand Cayman just 13 months after Ivan kicked it's ass. We stepped off the plane and everyone in the airport was talking about the tropical depression to the south. Tropical depression? What tropical depression? Our wedding was outside so we were totally focused on the weather in our home town, not the weather near GC. Boom! It went from a tropical depression to Cat 5 hurricane in like two days!! I'm drawing a damn blank on the name of it now! It was mid-October 2005. We got hammered by the outer bands but the main surge went straight into the Cozumel/Cancun, Mexico area. It kicked their butt big time!

Lots of HARD rain, 50+mph wind gusts and I have never seen a place shut down so damn fast. All the boats moved out, the beaches were shut down as well as the airport (we were stuck for good!!) and most all the restaurants closed. We spent our honeymoon in our room (with pina coladas from the bar) watching TV (on one of the few stations we could get) trying to see where the hurricane was going. We'd call friends at home and have them pull up stuff about it on their computers.

The locals were totally freaked out and I don't blame them after what Ivan did to them! Half the windows on GC were still covered with plywood over a year later. We even saw copies of coffee table books for sale in gift shops that documented the damage. Scary shit but it all passed us by with very little damage. Like my wife says, we are owed a beach honeymoon do over! Next time I'm watching the damn weather. I had no idea the hurricane season runs through October! Don't get many hurricanes here in North Texas!

[cyrus buelton]

My brother won't even really speak of his 3 days after the hurricane passed and even very little during the mass of the storm.

They were fortunate to have stocked up on canned goods and water, so they were fine on that, but the destruction and general disorder is not something he will even begin to talk about. I don't even think he took any pictures.

He was more pissed off that when he drove his Rocky to the airport, someone stole the car battery (they aren't cheap down there).

They finally got a flight out and a local friend got his vehicle back to his apartment for him.

The dumbass thing about him is.........the med school arranged a charter jet for all students to get back to the states and he declined, as well as his roommates as they thought it would "miss."

they were sure wrong.

They finished that semester in Maine. I can't remember the town, but he said the weather sucked and it was expensive.

Can't imagine it would be more expensive than GC..........


Sorry about your honeymoon.

I hope you took a second one

[fastwin]

Naw, we're still waiting on the do-over. Went to Panama City Beach, FL in August 2007 but I had four crushed neck vertebrae and was in a neck brace. You can imagaine how much fun I had. Besides, it was a terrible heat and humidity wave at the time. The heat index was over 115-116 during the day. Hell, it was 105+ heat index at 8:30 in the morning! Did I mention the 30 yards of seaweed in the water? Locals say something stirred the shit up in the Gulf and just like the current oil slick it heads for the beach! If you wanted to swim you had to fight through 30 yards of seaweed to get to the clear water. It wasn't the kind of do-over we were looking for. She's still looking at beach vacations... I say screw it and that's why we head for the family cabin in the mountains of New Mexico. Mule deer, black bear, trout fishing, pine trees, 40 degree lows, 70 degree highs... make the beast with two backs the beach! Just bad juju for us.

[cyrus buelton]

Dude, I hope your marriage is going better than your vacations together!!!!

A hurricane and then a neck brace in 110 degree weather?

[fastwin]

The party never stops. And yes the marriage is surviving vacations and broken necks quite nicely. I'm just avoiding coastal areas for a few years.

[cyrus buelton]

I'm just avoiding coastal areas for a few years.

Your picking the wrong time of the year to visit such areas!!!

Caribbean vacations from late July - October can be hit/miss in an awful way.

Gotta go further south to Aruba or somewhere.


i.e. we got lured into a family vacation last year in hilton head, SC in make the beast with two backsing may.


1. It rained for 8 straight days
2. I was stuck inside with my Mom (she just found out I got two more tattoos. That was a nasty VM she left me)
3. It was 55 degrees
4. My wife and I had to sleep in separate beds (my parents vacation home has a master bedroom, one with a "den" and queen bed which middle brother/wife and daughter got, and then the other two bedrooms have twin beds which my eldest brother and his wife, along with Tiff and I got)

I could go on and on about how awful that was.

[fastwin]

Ugh, the only missing from that nightmare was me and my bad beach vacation juju.

We've had good luck with the NM mountain cabin thing. Even the stiches in the head of my 13 year old step son's friend that went with us (not 2 hours after we got there, after driving 12 hours straight) didn't even faze us. Classic dumb kid shit. He threw a dictionary sized rock in the air to hit a football my step son had thrown to him. Ahhh, he got a first hand lesson in gravity. It came back down just as fast as it went up and he was too goofy and slow to get out of it's way. Bingo! Direct hit in the head. Bleed like someone turned on a faucet. Head dings do that. Trip into town to the med clinic, painful "pain killer" shots to the head and four stitches... priceless. Even the pesky black bears hanging out in the driveway on the last night was kinda cool. Wife and kiddos were freaked out a little. All the jokes I made about rubbing honey in their hair and locking them outside if they didn't behave was starting to take effect!! Had to drive the bears away a couple of times banging pots and pans. Got up at 4:00am to hit the bathroom... yep, they were still there. I think they were trying to break into my Suburban and steal the stereo. Made loading up the next morning an exercise in watching my 6:00! Didn't need any bear surprises the last hour we were there.

Yep, cabin trips good, beach trips bad. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[cyrus buelton]

Dude, possibly the worst week of marriage I have ever encountered. My wife can't stand my Mom and I together as she nitpicks everything about my life. Why aren't you a doctor like brother #2, why aren't you a lawyer like brother #1, blah blah blah. I could go on.


That's a great story about your cabin trip.

At least they gave him a numbing shot, last time my Dad stitched me, he just cleaned the wound and stitched away. It make the beast with two backsing was awful.


bwaaaaaaaaaa


I didn't know bears were in the car audio theft business.


So in the topic of the thread.........how could you have been ready for said bear encounter trying to jack your stock Delco stereo?

[lethe]

Dude, possibly the worst week of marriage I have ever encountered. My wife can't stand my Mom and I together as she nitpicks everything about my life. Why aren't you a doctor like brother #2, why aren't you a lawyer like brother #1, blah blah blah. I could go on.


That's a great story about your cabin trip.

At least they gave him a numbing shot, last time my Dad stitched me, he just cleaned the wound and stitched away. It make the beast with two backsing was awful.


bwaaaaaaaaaa


I didn't know bears were in the car audio theft business.


So in the topic of the thread.........how could you have been ready for said bear encounter trying to jack your stock Delco stereo?

bears are very ticklish, if you tickle the bear it will run away

[cokey]

[cokey]

i don't know though.. scary night...