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Hurricane Matthew Heading for Florida, Carolinas

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 05 2016, @07:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the be-prepared dept.

takyon writes:

Hurricane Matthew is a Category 4 major hurricane that is expected to hit the east coast of the U.S.:

With the Category 4 hurricane expected to brush up to the US East Coast later this week after its deadly assault on the Caribbean, state officials warned residents and visitors to start preparing for some miserable times. Up to 1 million people could face evacuation in South Carolina. Matthew is an "extremely dangerous" storm, Florida Gov. Rick Scott said, one that made landfall in western Haiti on Tuesday morning. It then headed over eastern Cuba with winds of 140 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center, before losing some of its force. The Bahamas are next. The forecast is that Matthew will ride along the US coast from Florida through the North Carolina Outer Banks from Thursday evening through Saturday. It could make landfall at any point and all areas should be on guard.

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  • (Score: 2) by tynin on Thursday October 06 2016, @01:45AM

    by tynin (2013) on Thursday October 06 2016, @01:45AM (#410913) Journal

    My window shutters came with my house, some 14 years ago, and I've never known what make/model, if you will, that they are. The nice thing about the corrugated steel is even though i'll have 4 to 5 pieces of it per window and sliding glass door, they all stack perfectly with each other and take only the height of the tallest sliding glass door and are perhaps 1 foot wide, the corrugation is around 2" deep, and it is something between 10 and 12 gauge, so it ends up being a thin long stack of metal that takes up vanishingly little space. There are fixed screw mount points in the exterior wall on the top and bottom of each of the windows. You basically slide them in place and tightened them down.

    I tried rebuilding my jenny in time. Had it for 10 years, and haven't turned it on in 4 years... ::self defeating facepalm:: I thought I had it repaired and working, for about 20 seconds I did... and now it won't catch anymore. Le sigh. I should have another chance before noon tomorrow to try to do another parts run.

    It'll be my 5 year old sons first hurricane. He is concerned but excited. It's rather cute.

    Likely last bedtime with AC for a week+... First world problems! Heh.

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