[Coco] Yet another hurricane....

[Aaron Banerjee]

Tony,
   Good luck.  That last one sort of turned Richmond VA into a lake.  I
got really lucky.  Hopefully, this one will mystically poop out -- wishful
thinking.  That's a lot of hurricanes in one year...
          - Aaron Banerjee

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, tonym wrote:

> Well....got half the hurricane panels up tonight, got the generator
> yesterday, waited in line 2 hours to fill the cars up, and fill up 3
> 5-gallon gas cans, already got bottled water, canned food, etc...
> 
> 
> The anxiety of waiting is the worst part of these damn things.
> Then, they take like 6-10 hours to pass.
> 
> 
> Hopefully, I have prepared well.
> 
> To anyone else in hurricane alley, good luck.
> We may need it with this one. She's packing a serious punch, and almost
> twice as large as Andrew, packing almost the same winds, and hasn't hit the
> warm gulf waters yet.
> 
> 
> Tony 
> Pembroke Pines, FL (20 minutes north of Miami, 20 minutes west of Ft Lauderdale)
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "tonym" <tonym at compusource.net>
> Reply-To: <tonym at compusource.net>
> Date:  Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:26:42 -0400
> 
> >I REALLY don't like the looks of THIS one, though.
> >
> >125MPH winds, over 250 miles wide (are of strong winds),945mb pressure, and it hasn't even hit the warm gulf waters yet.
> >
> >Yikes!
> >
> >Tony 
> >Miami, FL
> >---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> >From: Aaron Banerjee <spam_proof at worldnet.att.net>
> >Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> >Date:  Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:56:20 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >>All,
> >>   Greetings from lovely Virgina where currently there are tornados
> >>slightly to the south of us and a hurricane coming through in about an
> >>hour.  I still think they should have named the last two (which also
> >>arrived pretty much at the same time) "Bonnie and Clyde" instead of
> >>"Bonnie and Charlie"...
> >>   We have a new person at work.  I actually got to tell him that "my
> >>computer is older than you are" (he was born 1982).  Apparantly, the
> >>concept of storing data on a regular cassette tape is amazing to some
> >>people.  I couldn't help but tell him that cocos were alive and well, but
> >>now we save to CD instead of cassette -- but you can use a normal CD
> >>player (just as you could have used a normal (e.g.
> >>non-"computer-compatible") cassette player...)  I think he may have
> >>believed me.  Actually, it's far more likely he thought I was nuts...
> >>   Well, time to shut down the computers until the power comes back on...
> >>                   - Aaron
> >>
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