Coffee thread for the 9th month of 2017

[Scattered Thumbs]

I think you mean 2004 ...4 Hurricanes battered the state of Florida

Charlie Cat. 3 hit the west coast and roared thought the center of the State.  Followed by Frances & Jeanne  finally IVAN.

Charlie, Frances & Jeanne were direct hits in Central Florida with the eyes crossing the same real-estate  26 miles SW west of my location... 

THIS one will cross that T  as it tracks straight up the center of the State.....Atlanta GA. is now threatened.

THIS one is way worse  we will get the EYE wall yet again 

The roads are parking lots ....People evacuating the Key's & S. Fla....now are being chased out of State ...

Florida Turnpike, I-95 & 1-75 are reversed as South Bound lane are closed  to run NORTH bound.

Hope you'll be safe pardner. Hang in there.

[Capt Quirk]

Right you are Major, it was Ought 4. I guess the reason Ought 5 sticks in my mind, was all the aftermath. We lived in Palm Bay when Charles, Francis and Jeanne hit. We got through the first one ok, lost roofing and fencing in the second, got flooded out with the third. When the mold started, we were treking up to a hotel in Titusville to stay, because it was the only room. Me, the wife, two kids, two dogs, bird, lizard. Going back and forth twice a day, taking the wife to work, kids to school, and working on fixing the house. One of the housekeepers let one of my dogs out of the room. They kicked us out, saying it "escaped".

We got a really small 2 room apartment in Melbourne after that, and the wife's daughter decided to bring her kid and join us. Lost the best dog I ever had then.

The news only shows the immediate damage, never what happens during the year immediately after.

[litl rooster]

I remember Ivan but not directly effected by it. Isabelle left me without power for 10 days. I hauked water from the farm and ice from town. We survived. But nothing like what is happened and what is going too. ..

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[Major 2]

Spent the day putting  up plywood    ...first my precut fitted on my place ...easy

Others no so..... one moron had a little home light duty 6volt screw driver ....bought drywall screws ...for his CBS block house 

About 5 ish called for help....  I had some Tap-cons and an 18 volt hammer drill ...he's covered ...I'm beat to death. 

 

[litl rooster]

You'd da man! I am sure your neighbor won't forget. ..

I learned you need to keep a few of them 18volt batteries around, and charged. 

[litl rooster]

Morning coffee and water is on

[Capt Quirk]

Best of luck to you Major, and anybody else in the path. Talking about plywood, it was right around the Ought 4 hurricane season, one of my wife's coworkers had their precut plywood set out. They were getting ready to put it up before the storms hit, but got sidetracked by something. When they got back to the task, their plywood was gone. Turned up on the neighbor's house... and of course, it didn't fit quite right. Times like this brings out the animals, don't it?

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Thanks fer the coffee.

I broke down and bought two new 19.2v batteries for my Craftsman drill on Thursday.

'Tis 64 and partly sunny. High of 68.

Slim

[litl rooster]

Need to buy a couple new batts myself. The one i have are getting some age.
M


Got 5 panels up today and some ground prep. Need to stop since i work over night starting at 1900hrs.. l
Will get back on it Monday weather permitting.

[Good Troy]

I hope all are safe, sound and dry during the hurricane.
Keep us posted.  Knee mails are being sent.

[Good Troy]

It was a beautiful day on the coastal plain...seems to be like this after a hurricane!
I went to the range and played with some toys.  My Spencer Carbine is still giving me fits, and hopefully, I'll get some help on the Spencer Shooting Society Forum.  My Winchester '94 in 38-55 (Legendary Frontiersman Model) still shoots well.  And, my new (to me) Uberti Deluxe High Wall in 38-55 was awesome!  Off a sand bag, I got a 1-1/2" five-shot group at 50 yards, with three of the shots within 3/4"!  I've got to order more bullets and get this thing to shooting out to 300 yards!

[litl rooster]

.38-55 is a caliber i always thought i'd like.

[litl rooster]

With you on the knee mail GT... watching the morning news now- appears we are now on the track of the Tropical storm that will come with Irma on Monday night. Nothing like Florida and the Islands are experiancing

Hope all our pards and families are safe.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are ready.

'Tis 50 and sunny. High of 69.

Slim

[litl rooster]

Were as preparred as we can be here.  I will stop for cat food and chicken feed on way home in morning.  Rain has moved in to south east corner of Alabama and southern Georgia this evening.

[El Peludo]

I'm holding all of you in danger's path in my heart and thoughts; I pray you come through without much trouble.

[El Peludo]

.38-55Win; love the old ca'tridges.  I have five Model 94 rifles, one each in .25-35, .32-40. .38-55, .30 Win., and .32 Win. Spec.  I was playing with my Henry repro, in .44-40, and the 94s in .38-55 and .32 WS one day on a range with berms at 200 and 300 yards.  Had some metal 5 gal. buckets out there that had been used for hod, and they had dried cement/concrete built up on the insides, and dribbles all down the outsides, weighed about 25 ponds or so, and I set some up at 200 and 300, and started plinking; the .44-40 was stoked with both black powder and some in smokeless, .32 was all smokeless, and the 38 was black.  Short tale is, the 44 and 38 had trajectories like a rainbow, but once the range was sorted out they hit like a hammer.  The .44s would rock those buckets, and once in a while, knock one over at 200; the .38s just whacked everything, and even at 300, the cement would fly, and the buckets would roll.  Was a  fun day.

[Major 2]

Getting REAL ....Tornados to east of us ....3.5" rain so far ..none stop ....unusual to have lightening , but this one has a lot ! 
Wind @ 55 ....expect  80-90 MPH....

Standing water, and flooding has begun in areas  ...still 130 miles south of us .....

still have power.... Satellite TV intermittent....     

[Capt Quirk]

Getting REAL ....Tornados to east of us ....3.5" rain so far ..none stop ....unusual to have lightening , but this one has a lot ! 
Wind @ 55 ....expect  80-90 MPH....

Standing water, and flooding has begun in areas  ...still 130 miles south of us .....

still have power.... Satellite TV intermittent....     

You know you are in real trouble, when Jim Cantore shows up in your town. Find something to hold onto, and be safe.

[litl rooster]

Coffee is up




Watching the weather coverage and the rain