| RMagic |
| (Registered User) |
| Fri Sep 10 2004 01:43 PM |
Re: WV Loops
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If the course holds true and Venice through Tampa take a direct hit, it might be the $60 BILLION question. :-(
-Bev
You're exactly right. My husband is in construction here in Tampa and we were just talking about that. If the eye comes up the bay like they're forecasting now, we're in so much trouble. Frances caused a huge flooding problem and she was weak by the time she got here. Most of downtown is built to pre-Andrew codes, and all the electric is underground. During Charley they shut down the entire downtown power grid to avoid storm surge problems, although I'm not entirely sure that will completely alleviate the problem. I'm really frightened to think of what a hurricane this size can do to a major metropolitan area.
my parents live in evacuation level 3 in south tampa. During Frances water came within about 4 blocks of their house. If Ivan were to give a direct hit....i think everyone can just kiss the city of tampa goodbye.
The thing that really upsets me tho....is all the yuppies in south tampa that think the city has some kind of silver bullet. The night before we evacuated for Charley (i was down from UF b/w semesters at the time), the idiots were throwing PARTIES throughout the area. It's just ridiculous...