We need to get this group GOING!

[Mutley]

C'mon people! We have tornado season, hurricane season, crazy earthquakes, and much much more! Lets get excited!

[Mutley]

1. For your viewing pleasure. (pic heavy)

[smirkymonkey]

2. I agree! I thought there would be more than a few

weather nerds on this board. Climate change is a big issue these days.

I'm on vacation, or I would write more, but will when I get back next week.

Kick! :kick:

[Mutley]

3. maybe we need to advertise.

make a post in the Lounge, GD, GDP, and our various state forums. Perhaps people just don't know about us.

[Baclava]

4. When people die - they will come...

Weather is only interesting to the masses when disaster strikes...

It's the short-attention-span sitcom...watch the people tell their stories of woe...and scramble to get the hell outta Dodge.

Unless you happen to be in the middle of the shit when it happens...

Then it loses the fun factor...

[Mutley]

5. That is certianly true.

But I find it hard to believe that out of 70,000+ members that only 6 or 7 of us are weather freaks. We just need to reach the rest.

[Boomer]

6. We're around

But I've been getting my weather news fixes on the Science forum. Just found the Weather group a few days ago.

[Mutley]

10. Welcome to the Weather Group!

[FloridaPat]

23. I just heard about you folks from the general discussion groups.

Sounds like a good place to cry on people's shoulders.

[HeeBGBz]

27. Welcome, FloridaPat

Feel free to use us as a sounding board. I personally am in a snit that we didn't get hardly any storm here after days of hype and hoopla.

I guess it would get old after about the 5th hit, though.

[FloridaPat]

29. Where do you live? We'll send all our hurricanes to your place.

4 of them last year was enough. Funny thing that it hasn't hit the housing market. People are moving in droves down here. I can imagine what it costs to heat a home up north last winter.

[HeeBGBz]

32. I just moved to the MS gulf coast

Got here last Thursday.

[halobeam]

24. I didn't know about this group until your post today

Thanks... I'll be here often, can't stay away. Storms amaze me, although I'm completely chicken shit when I'm in one. Figure that out and then let me know why LOL!

I'm on LI, NY exactly 7 miles from Jones Beach, still in the same town though (wantagh). Our flood lines in a Cat.3 Hurricane go exactly one mile south. Seeing the size of Dennis, completely covering FL, I wouldn't think we'd be able to handle it well if it were here. We are WAY smaller than FL. Lakes, inlets, canals EVERYWHERE... A CAT 4 would destroy us.

The New England Hurricane of 1926 (I believe that was the year) was a killer. Literally. The Shinnecock canal used to be a town. Many people drowned. The way I figure it is we are way past due. How long before we are blasted... I wonder.

[HeeBGBz]

28. Welcome, halobeam

Hurricanes in NY seem oddly placed. I'm surprised they make it up there at all.

[halobeam]

31. Well, now let's hope that remains true.

Looks like Emily could be a contender.

edit: btw..thanks for the welcome... glad to talk to other nuts about the weather LOL sorry, no offense, I'm just nuts so I figure most people are too.

[frictionlessO]

8. Start posting about this group in the hurricane threads...

Some pretty good weather junkies on this site.

[Mutley]

11. Thats a good idea.

Thanks!

[merh]

7. I've been posting!

If you post, they will come. :shrug:

Or so I hope.

[Mutley]

13. I hope too.

:hi:

[HeeBGBz]

9. I just moved from Missouri to Gulfport, MS

I'm having to use my daughter's computer so I have limited posting ability.

Wondering if I'm going to have to take shelter at the VA.

Hopefully, my computer will be up today so I can post some pictures. I'll be heading to the beach in a little while.

[Mutley]

12. Be careful out there!

[merh]

14. Welcome to the Coast.

Hopefully Dennis will not come this way :scared:

[HeeBGBz]

15. Are you here too, merh?

I feel like a freshwater fish in a saltwater town.

[Mutley]

16. How's it going there?

I haven't turned on my TV or checked the weather at all. Has Dennis hit yet?

[HeeBGBz]

17. Not til tomorrow

Blue sky, sunny day today. A few thunderheads rising up, but they look like typical afternoon thunderstorm clouds.

[Mutley]

18. Be safe today HeeBGBz!

Let us know how you do!!!

[HeeBGBz]

19. So far so good

Gulfport at 8 am today.

[Mutley]

20. Not too bad yet.

Don't stay on that beach for too long, though!

[MoonRiver]

21. I just discovered this group while looking for info on Dennis!

I'm so happy to have found it. Weather is one of my obsessions!
:bounce:

[HeeBGBz]

25. Welcome MyPetRock!

It's my obsession too. Or one of them.

[MoonRiver]

33. Thanks HeeBGBz!

I'm happy that Dennis was a dud and not the menace he initially looked like. It's disturbing though that such a storm is happening so early into hurricane season. Scary portent of potential weather to come?

[Mutley]

34. Welcome to the club!

I'm glad you found us! :hi:

[FloridaPat]

22. I had enough excitement last year to last a life time. I want to be bored.

I still haven't cleaned up from last year. I only have 3 trees chopped up out of 30+ that came down. Hoping to sell all this wood and pay off my mortgage.

[HeeBGBz]

26. I guess I find that surprising

On the news reports, I didn't realize so many folks still had debris everywhere. I figured it had all been cleaned up.

[FloridaPat]

30. They still don't have all the roofs fixed! There are homes with

blue roofs everywhere. Plus a lot of people got new roofs that didn't show damage after the hurricanes.

And we've been warned to expect trees to fall down for another year or two. The storms "moved" a lot of trees that didn't fall down when the big storms came through. So now their root system is not intact and a big wind of any type could bend them over.

[TexasLady]

35. just found this today

look forward to visiting

Texas has tornadoes and hurricanes, so always been interested/!

[HeeBGBz]

36. Hi TexasLady!

Welcome!

You aren't in very southern Texas, are you?

[rabid_nerd]

37. YAY! A weather group

Cool

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