Ayyyy - stay safe, Val. Does this damn thing have a name?

Yes I can say PLYWOOD. F.U.C.? OPPPPS.... NO ES FACIL. Oh well, time for shopping , alot of beers and Blockbuster Video.

"El patio de mi casa, es particular;
llueve y se moja, como los demas!"

Damn! This means it's going to rain all freakin' weekend. Buckle up.

And Mora, I think this one's gonna be "Katrina".

I ordered aluminum shutters for my house on June 30 right after the budget-busting shed my wife wanted -- a structure, I might add that would make several underpass dwellers very happy to habitate in -- was paid for. The guys told me it would be 12 to 16 weeks for delivery of the shutters. Katrina is arriving at the start of week 9 of that schedule. Oh well. Plywood it is!

BTW, Val, batten down the hatches at ManCamp™ -- wouldn't want any errant grills and beer bottles flying around Miami-Dade County...

home depot stock is in my mutual fund, maybe its not all bad..

daniel, you evil capitalist!!!! Raking in the big bucks at the cost of others misfortunes!!! You should be ashamed of yourself.

/sarcasm

hey, you gotta eat somehow..

well you guys have to deal with the hurricnes for a few months.
I have to get ready for the aproaching winter season.
snow,ice,freezing rain,slippery roads,5 below zero and the wind blowing cutting you face...shit
and thats for 6 long months.

So, you barricade yourself in with stockpiles of food and drink. Sounds like indoor mancamp debauchery to me. Do we get a stormcam?

And this my friends is the first reason why Virginia is better than Miami.

Kathleen, debauchery the old-fashioned way: no electricity!

George, so it's a theme party, La Habana?

Ok, if it's a hurricane I take back all my party comments. Be safe all of you.

God is apparently tired of swinging at me and missing.

Does anyone remember the 1926 Cuban Hurricane that knocked down the Maine Monument?

I guess it's Miami's turn after missing all the action last season. Be careful all. Storm watchers may enjoy this site run by weather enthusiasts on Florida's east coast: http://flhurricane.com/

For everyone's sakes, I hope it stays weak and passes quickly!

I'm surprised no one's blamed me yet for this one.

Unless this thing makes a drastic shift to the north, looks like Hurricane Warnings will go up at 11 PM for all of SE Florida. Still has a ways to go before becoming a hurricane, though, so hopefully it won't be more than a Category 1.

When people ask why I left Florida, this is the first thing I think of.

MAT...1926 was way before my time, however, I don't remember ever hearing about a hurricane knocking down the Maine Monument...I do remember in the mid 60's while the Revolution was still young, that the eagle on top of the monument (representing the USA) was knocked down by no other than FIDELITO CASTRO RUIZ~~
This information I can give to you as an eye witness, since I lived accross the street from the Maine Monument. I can still remember the eagle coming down just like the statue of Sadam Hussein did in Iraq.

Carmen: The Maine Monument had to be constructed twice and inaugurated twice. The first eagle was knocked down from its pedestal by an act of Nature; the second eagle was ordered toppled by a "Desnaturalizado." But, yes, the Hurricane of 1926, the worst in Cuban history, destroyed the first Maine Monument. You can find pictures of the devastation in the "Libro Conmemorativo del Monumento al Maine" which was published as a souvenir for Spanish-American-War veterans when the second (and identical) Maine Monument was inaugurated in 1928.

The eagle that Castro ordered toppled in the early 1960s, is kept, with its wings clipped, at the "Museum of the Revolution" housed in the former Presidential Palace. One day, of course, the bronze eagle will be restored to its perch atop the Maine Monument. But let it be positioned so that it is flying toward the sea and away from Cuba.

M.A.T.
Thank YOU for the information....I wondered what happened to that poor eagle that was taken down like a wounded bird!!