fun working
 

looks like ill be in Tampa working tomorrow .............. I guess I'll bring the beer and the women ........... any pixies up for a hurricane party ???????
I know I'm not ......... well if everything is cool I will keep you posted from Tampa end of all this ......... tess hang in there I hope everything turns out for the best
as I do for everyone in FL ......................
PF I love the rule I completely agree ................ if I can't get back to you all tomorrow I will get on someone PC somewhere and try to keep you all posted ................... Take care all .............. Stay safe :grope:

Oh for goodness sake...all I was thinking of, at the moment, is Frances...and of course we need a world wide map! TY for opening up the venue Sharni!

Are you up for that PF?

How is everyone so far? Hurricane check!

Damn, this is a slow movin motha!

I'm agreein' with the rest PF, great idea. Once again you're right there in a pinch with an idea to help. My first thought this morning was to check and see what's going on. My thoughts and prayers are there with you folks. Take care and keep us posted.

Our thoughts are with you all!! Please know that I for one will be praying for all our Florida and S.E. US Pixies to ride this storm out with minimal or no damage and, so very hopefully, minimal loss of life! Thank you PF for all the work you have put into the map to let us know where all our friends are and I do hope, again, you all ride it out OK!

Good Morning :) I made it through the night. We have a very long day ahead of us. The worst for Central Florida is still on the way. But so far I have power and my internet. :)

Keep up the prayers everyone. I will check in for as long as I am able to.

TinglingTess,

To you and all the Floridian Pixies - hang in there!

Keep your heads down and your blood alcohol levels up.

Lil, when you read this, Marian and I have a bottle of mudslide in the fridge to celebrate

all our pixies friends safety.

I stayed up till 5am listening to the trees blowing. I love it as long as we don't lose power and I have to hear the women in my family bitch. :rolleyes: :D

The sun is out and it looks oddly like just another day....I'd have no idea what was to come if it were not for seeing the trees swaying. We never have breezes in early September. It's coming, I can feel it now.

well gettign about 40mph gusts
watching some boats being swung around here and there
some tree damage .......... was with out power for about 5 hours already ............ a roof is blown off a drs office in town and several other homes with roofs damaged ........... and some trees down across the road and agaist houses .......... and the worst yet to come ............
this is a slow moveing storm which sucks cause you want to get on with your life and cant till its gone
and I am stuck at home now till atleast tues............... work finnally closed ........... and didnt tell no one except management so every one was standing outside of work in Tampa .waiting to get in ........... with winds going crazy pouring rains and no one showed to unlock the doors .......... so someone is going to hear about it ...... but they were out there for atleast 2 hrs then desided to go home ........ no calls to tell them we were supposed to be closed ........... (such a lovely place to work huh) ........... anyways before i loose power again ...... winds are picking up here ............. this is whitetiger reporting to you live from the beach on the west coast ........ everyone stay safe PLEASE

Like Lilith said up there......the weather is never this beautiful and bearable unless a storm is coming. I heard last night it should hit my area around Monday afternoon, but not as bad as it is right now.

I am thinking of you guys!

Sitting here looking out the window at the trees whipping, huge gust come suddenly and then stop. Its raining hard, blowing in every direction. The worst will be 2pm our time. We are very lucky to still have our power.

Please keep praying that Tess doesn't lose power. That is what scares me the most. :D

pics from the storm
 

the part of the antenna in the first pic almost speared me ......
i will send as many pics as i can
till i have no more power

more pics

even more
these are nothing yet but my help you compair as the storm worsens

Hoping and praying everyone is safe. ...Glad ya did'nt get speared whitetiger! ......Take care all!!!

just a lot of winds and rainfall here in Jacksonville. A very gloomy, very windy day ahead. The rain is pounding on my windows.
I think I slept harder last night than I have in a long time, I think it was the wind and rain that did it, nothing like a storn to make you sleep hard.
I have been watching the news and so far we are doing ok here.
This storm is moving too slow and stalling too much, it is going to cause more damage this way :-(

Great Job, PF!!! as you work your way up the east coast, ya can stick me on the nc map when ya get to it.....love the way your mind works, hun.


Hang on tight pixies....you're all in my thoughts and prayers..... :grope:

Update
 

That sounds exactly like the forecasting methods I was asking about. ^^^ A little science and technology and you recall these events at the bank instead of the graveyard.

Those are super pics whitetiger. When they are from real people, of your places, of your life, they are more meaningful than any sensational news photo. Thanks for sharing and I’ll be looking for the “after pics”.
(You hear that Cheyanne? :rolleyes: “AFTER PICS!” ) lol


That has to be part of the total project I’ve been avoiding. lol http://www.pixies-place.com:81/foru...ead.php?t=21983
I’m hoping we can do it at a more leisurely pace after Frances has gone…….. or maybe only the same pressure that got me going, will have the interest of members. We’ll see. ;)

Here is our latest & greatest map of Pixies with life jackets.

Ummmm....
 

Not sure if I should mention this, part of me says I shouldn't but I guess I ought to...

But Hurricane Ivan, currently east of the Windward Isles, looks like it might track over Florida as well. I really hope it doesn't... :(

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphic...IF/051508W5.gif

It's ok, some of us keep an eye on the African sattelites too! I knew it was there but you gotta deal with one at a time :p

Thanks to PF for his work on charting the location of our Pixie family in Florida and to WhiteTiger for those great pictures. Just be careful all of you in Florida. Lots of prayers around here for all of you and all the folks there in Florida.

Ivan, Ivan stay away ...
Don't come on another day!

Just to let you know, I just got a call from studmuffin and tess....they have lost their cable, so no internet, they are okay and said the eye is to hit them in about an hour.

I will check with them soon and let you all know..

You guys are all on my mind!

:spank: < were gettign our butts beaten lol

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Be safe!!!!

It is gorgeous here literally beach going weather...feels so damn freaky!

even more

this sucks lol < still ready for the hurricane party

sorry guys and gals just love to take pictures of all this stuff
so if i send out to many just tell me to stop ok

driving around the neighborhood

Well since it was nice still I decided to take my little guy for a walk. We stopped to check on all the baby cows in the pasture cause he was worried how they would weather the storm. We stayed too long and experienced some strong gusts of wind blowing stuff about, then the first rain squall started. :p Can you say "wet t-shirt"? :p Luckily a neighbor saw us and gave us a lift!

It's dark now and it's knocking fresh young limbs form trees. Ok I'll admit it....I don't like this.

Yeah, just saw the news and was worried about you Lilith. Mr. IWM said "well Tallahassee is feeling it now"..... hope you're safe!!!

No more wet t contests lady!

I have the next door's branches rubbing the main power line to my house. That's why my lights are blinking...It's gonna come down I fear. Ugh!

My thoughts and prayers are with you all...

PF your map idea is fantastic, thank you!!!

*hugs & kisses*

How strong are the winds, Lil? I think your little guy is the sweetest for worrying about the animals. :lurv:


The only time the dog didn't like being out for a walk was several years ago in Newfoundland when the winds were 140 km/hr. We're a rock in the North Atlantic so the ocean tends to temper it for us. We get extreme winds but they're blown out to sea more often than not. (PF is going to kill me for trying to explain the way I think of weather without his assistance :D)

No clue Steph...this is just the tiny baby squalls. Suddenly I realize all the things I should have done, bought, prepared. There is nothing at the grocery store but hotdogs buns. No soft drinks nor batteries, nothing useful. Most of the ice has been purchased. I started trying to freeze milk jugs and tupperware containers filled with water, just in case.

Currently my kids are playing scavenger hunt.....Find me anything that we can use if the power goes out, the one who finds the most stuff wins:p

What is so very freaky is that it comes in bands, so it's crazy, then calm, crazy, then calm. My birds are going nuts and the dogs are hunkered down in their dog palace (most people build dog houses but not Mr. Lil :D), the cats are being cats and basically unphased by it all :p

We'll be fine but I don't do well without creature comforts, must be the Domme in me. My idea of roughing it is a hotel with no room service :p

If we get a nasty one I'll try to take pics too! ((((((((((much love))))))))