Hurricane Earl

Yep - I live just inland of Cape Hatteras on the Pamlico Sound I'll be pre-flighting the gen set after work and filling everything we own with fuel, gas, diesel, propane. Earl has a lot of fwd. speed and thats a good thing, he should be throwing everything around Thursday nite / Friday morning as a cat 3.

Been there & done that in '04. Will be watching and sending you guys prayers..

john

My homeowners just jumped 12% last month, my insurance company needs a hurricane. They told me it's because we're in a high risk area. We haven't had anything really since Fran and Floyd. A friend of mine that works for another company told me that some inland companies were backing out on buying out policies, that's why they're raising prices. In 10 years, my insurance is a little over double what it used to be (before the 12% increase). Now the talk is that the insurance companies are wanting to start a $3,000 deductible just for wind damage.

i am no where near getting hit by it...but it is affecting the weather big time...forecast high for saturday is 59 in northern MI...huh??

Actualy Steve, your weather is going to determine whether Earl goes east of most of us or more directly over us. They seem to be favoring a more eastern path but we could still see some nasty wind and the coast will see some big waves. Or your system stalls and we get clobbered. At least hurricanes waited until after the reunion.

Sorry guys, I didn't mean to play weather guru. What I meant was that this freakin cold, Labor Day weekend weather is coming in from the west on it's own. Hopefully it will head east (great name for a band) with some power, and help you Easterners out.