Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

early, but something to look at

Sorry Ron but I don't think we will have hurricanes this year although we could use a few to get the construction industry working again.

After so many hurricanes hit Florida, they're now great at fixing the damage.

In 6 months, you wouldn't know a major 'cane ever came through, and the craftsmen will again be chasing around for gutter hustlin' jobs. You can hear them in Lowes talking about how slow things are.

We had 5 hurricanes and the work went down, we had to many out of towners suck up the work and leave with the money, that and all the illegals that came and stayed

margaritaman wrote:Sorry Ron but I don't think we will have hurricanes this year although we could use a few to get the construction industry working again.

I'm certainly not wishing for one, but isn't September usually the worst month?

You can't really spend a lot of time looking at storms that are still that far away. The ones we really have to worry about this time of year are things that blow up from the Caribbean. Those early Atlantic storms usually go south of us. The late season storms are the ones that will button hook in the Gulf and whack the west coast.

... but you never know for sure.

What is your hurricane plan for the boat Ron? Do you have a humongus anchor for that starboard corner?

Looks more likely this one is coming to Florida. Maybe just a TS.

I just saw that today myself. If they were that far wrong in 24 hours, it will probably move again. This could end up being a fish storm.

This time of the year you just have to be ready for anything and hope nothing happens. I do have my generator hookup ready to go but I don't have the propane kit installed yet. I guess I have a project next week.

I did finally get all of that plumbing done and we are putting my wife's flower bed back together as soon as I get off my lazy ass today.

Now it is Tropical Storm Irene, and it looks likely that we will get something from it late next week.

GregF wrote:
What is your hurricane plan for the boat Ron? Do you have a humongus anchor for that starboard corner?

Hurricane Plan...check





Humongus anchor...check

That track pretty much gets us off the hook. As long as it comes in south or east of us we don't usually get it that bad. The scary one comes up into the Gulf and then hooks west. That is the one that brings the surge and that nasty north east side stuff.

You can still have a lot of excitement but it is not "wash away a few barrier islands" bad

That looks like the right anchor

Haul it out about 60-70 feet from the dock and drag it back until it hooks up.
That should keep you off the patio. You can put it back out front with Gaspar when the storm passes.

Looks like we are in the clear Greg, but northeast Florida and coastal Georgia might get a lashing

That is what I expected would happen. They usually peg these things too far west in the early plots. That is why I am a lot more nervous when it is plotted to go around Key West and curve north. That is the one that slams us from the Gulf side.

Charlie was a good example. That one was going right up the coast and it was only a question about where it would turn. It came in just north of me but we were sitting in the North East corner for several hours.



This is a 40' mango tree laying on my screen cage.

Ouch. That looks expensive. Homeowners insurance dosen't usually cover bird cages does it?