Will you be prepared? 2006 Dangerous Weather

[Marty]

According to Sylvia Browne.........this is going to be a horrific year for all sorts of serious damaging weather, much worse than 2005. Hurricanes, tornados, flooding and fires, you name it. You may not believe in her, but I do believe the weather is going to be bad too.

What precautions will you take for you and your family and animals?

I'd love a storm cellar built. Lots of people up here have them built right into the side of the hills.

If we have to leave here in a hurry, we do have a route to get out of here.

We can head south to Florida to my step-son's house or north to Kentucky to Jerry's family farm.

Our trailer is large enough to pull all the horses if we jam them all in but it would be tight, but do-able.

 

[CAM]

We have always been fortunate that we don't get weather that is too strange around here other than the occasional hail storm to knock you out.

: Good to be prepared though for sure. I bet you are used to that being from Florida.

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[tifflunn]

Marty- where can we see these predictions?

Is it best to leave animals in stalls or out in pasture when Tornatos threaten?

 

[mountain_waif]

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[FFFoxyGal]

OHHHH How scary :new_shocked: ,......I wonder if her prediction is for Canada as well,.......

Ive NEVER experienced a Tornado,..nor do I EVER want too

 

[Magic]

Sounds like some scary stuff on the way like the past years huh? I am so glad that we don't live in an area where hurricanes or tornados are common. Not likely to flood either here or at our new place, as we are on higher ground with good drainage. Fires.... eeeks. I guess that the best thing I can do for that is keep a wide dirt area all around my barn (which is a BarnMaster, steel with a zero percent fire-spread rating) and hope for the best. I have two good-sized horse trailers, so I could haul all my horses away if I needed to.

I keep a supply of water on hand in case of emergency, as well as a supply of food for people, dogs and cats, and the horses.

I guess the best thing one can do is imagine the worst that can happen, and have a plan ahead of time, and have contingency plans as well. And HOPE that Sylvia is WRONG-- I'd hate to see such devastation happen again to so many people...

 

[journey]

Well I have lived through tornados, one last year that they called straight line winds..HAHA straight line my tush!

During bad weather, we halter and tag the horses if they get loose, along with out outside dog, we have a safe place in our house to go to, but there is a county south of us, Lawrence County, they are a breeding ground for tornados, there are several people out there that sell storm shelters, never needed one here yet. We are safe tucked away in our closet or in the bathroom.

Marty, I believe in Sylvia.. and I believe she is right about 2006.

 

[JMS Miniatures]

I saw that eposiode Marty. I belive her. For one thing she was sure right about the tornados.

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[Marty]

We've been through tropical depressions and hurricanes and tornados and flooding in Florida and never evacuated yet. OK I take that back, just once we had to leave our homes and go to the community center for a night.

Up here we don't flood, all the water pours down off the mountains and does flood the valleys, and tornados are not seen usually in my particular county of Tennessee. We are usually protected by being on a mountain, but being between the mountains so they don't usually land up here. We've had up to 80 mph winds though when I thought that the trees were going to land on our house, or better yet, blow this place away but no such luck. Actually our safest place is the barn at this point!!! We do loose power though, sometimes for days that have turned into as many as weeks during winter ice storms.

Hey Journey we went through Lawrenceburg after a bad hunk of storms and that place was freggin under stupid water! It ran inside my truck doors!!!!!!

 

[Magic]

Marty, what do you do when you don't have power for days or longer?

I'm considering getting a generator so we could at least run our well pump for water (I can store enough water for the people, dogs and cats, but not for twenty-some horses for days on end!) and to run our heater if it's winter or just cold outside. brrr!!!

 

[Kathy2m]

It is a gamble you take to put your horses out or leave them in. After Andrew they treated horses for punctures and lacerations due to flying debris, but then if your not sure if your barn is not strong enough the roof can collapse on them, We always braid luggage tags into their tails for IDs.

 

[The Dynamic Duo]

I believe it and my family wil have evacuation bags packed since we live in Houston.

 

[small herd]

I don't believe in Sylvia Browne. Where I live we do not have danderous weather.

 

[HJF]

I've heard that our tornado season in Kentucky is going to be really bad this spring. I hope it's not true though..but I do have a feeling it's true because of the crazy weather we are/have been having.

 

[journey]

Hey Journey we went through Lawrenceburg after a bad hunk of storms and that place was freggin under stupid water! It ran inside my truck doors!!!!!!

Lawrenceburg floods everytime it rains, it sits below river level. Roads wash away down there just about every time it rains.. That place is a mess.

 

[bfogg]

While we don't get a lot of hurricanes etc in New Hampshire, however we lose power a LOT, so we hae been saving up for a generator and now we are ready to buy we went looking this last weekend. I am picky and like my creature comforts so getting one to run furnace, pump, fridg,t.v. lights and stove.

Its about 1700.00 but will more than pay for inself in aggravation I figure. being old yankees we have a wood stove in cellar, gravity feed water into barn, lanterns, batteries, and camp stove,and food put by so we make out fine but a generator makes life easier.

One of my daughters laughs at us because we always have to have things prepared just in case.

however that comes from knowing you have to take care of yourselves, younger generation seems to feel someone will have to take care of them, we had no one.

So maybe its a generational thing????

Hope we never have to use these things but they are there.

Have a good one,

Bonnie

 

[Horsefeathers]

Well, we heard at the beginning of the year they are predicting another record breaking hurricane season with at least 9 major storms... (according to the national hurricane centers). During Rita, we were without power for 3 weeks (longer in someplaces). We do have a generator now, and am so glad, as last time we didn't and had to wait in 3-4 hour lines to get one. They are invaluable... knowing what I do now, I would rather have one and not need it, than to need it and be without... As far as evacuating the horses, we will be taking the minis, and will have to make arrangements for the big horses, or leave them behind... (the latter, I'm trying to avoid, but our trailer isn't big enough...)

Chris

 

[shminifancier]

We have already had more then TWICE the amount of tornadoes for this time of year. As it is still rather early in the storm season. Ouch....